How to format your references using the Epigenomes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Epigenomes. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Tyndall, G. Chemistry. Vibrational Excitation Can Control Tropospheric Chemistry. Science 2012, 337, 1046–1047.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melosh, H.J.; Collins, G.S. Planetary Science: Meteor Crater Formed by Low-Velocity Impact. Nature 2005, 434, 157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zheng, X.; Zhang, R.; Huang, H. Theoretical Modeling of Relative Humidity on Contact Electrification of Sand Particles. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4399.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Potočnik, A.; Krajnc, A.; Jeglič, P.; Takabayashi, Y.; Ganin, A.Y.; Prassides, K.; Rosseinsky, M.J.; Arčon, D. Size and Symmetry of the Superconducting Gap in the f.c.c. Cs3C60 Polymorph Close to the Metal-Mott Insulator Boundary. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4265.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reid, R.; Fraser-King, G.; Schwaderer, W.D. Data Lifecycles; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006; ISBN 9780470028728.

An edited book

Alber, Y. Nonlinear Ill-Posed Problems of Monotone Type; Ryazantseva, I., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2006; ISBN 9781402043956.

A chapter in an edited book

Saba, N.; Paridah, M.T.; Jawaid, M.; Abdan, K.; Ibrahim, N.A. Manufacturing and Processing of Kenaf Fibre-Reinforced Epoxy Composites via Different Methods. In Manufacturing of Natural Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites; Salit, M.S., Jawaid, M., Yusoff, N.B., Hoque, M.E., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 101–124 ISBN 9783319079431.

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 Epigenomes.

Blog post

Fang, J. First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the U.S. Confirmed Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-ebola-case-diagnosed-us-being-treated-dallas/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 U.S.-Korea Fighter Coproduction Program--the F-16 Version; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kopaygorodsky, E. Mathematical Model of Ultra-Rapid PSA. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH, 2001.

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

Vecsey, G. By Honoring Their Past, the Giants Were Duly Rewarded. New York Times 2010, B15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Epigenomes
Abbreviation	Epigenomes
ISSN (online)	2075-4655
Scope