How to format your references using the Epigenetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Epigenetics. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

O’Neill LAJ. Immunology. After the toll rush. Science 2004; 303:1481–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickens M, Goldstrohm A. Molecular biology. A place to die, a place to sleep. Science 2003; 300:753–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lekic V, French SW, Fischer KM. Lithospheric thinning beneath rifted regions of Southern California. Science 2011; 334:783–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Campbell BA, Campbell DB, Chandler JF, Hine AA, Nolan MC, Perillat PJ. Radar imaging of the lunar poles. Nature 2003; 426:137–8.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Ccps. Guidelines for Combustible Dust Hazard Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Del Bo A, Bignami DF, editors. Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Revitalization in Multan City: A Multidisciplinary Italian–Pakistani Project. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Benedetti R, Piersimoni F, Postiglione P. Advanced Methods to Design Samples for Land Use/Land Cover Surveys. In: Di Battista T, Moreno E, Racugno W, editors. Topics on Methodological and Applied Statistical Inference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 31–42.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Epigenetics.

Blog post

Andrew E. What We’ve Learned From Science This Year [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/things-science-has-taught-us-year/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Head Start: Undercover Testing Finds Fraud and Abuse at Selected Head Start Centers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Green EI. Caregiver wellness: An inquiry of health risks among frontline direct caregivers of the elderly and disabled. 2009;

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Hubbard B. Saudi Prince Is Executed for Murder. New York Times2016; :A9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Epigenetics
Abbreviation	Epigenetics
ISSN (print)	1559-2294
ISSN (online)	1559-2308
Scope	Cancer Research Molecular Biology

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