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

Bland, P.A. Astronomy. Small-Scale Observations Tell a Cosmological Story. Science 2008, 320, 61–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

De Francesco, R.; Migliaccio, G. Challenges and Successes in Developing New Therapies for Hepatitis C. Nature 2005, 436, 953–960.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shimojo, S.; Kamitani, Y.; Nishida, S. Afterimage of Perceptually Filled-in Surface. Science 2001, 293, 1677–1680.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huizinga, E.G.; Tsuji, S.; Romijn, R.A.P.; Schiphorst, M.E.; de Groot, P.G.; Sixma, J.J.; Gros, P. Structures of Glycoprotein Ibalpha and Its Complex with von Willebrand Factor A1 Domain. Science 2002, 297, 1176–1179.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, M.; Cutler, T.J. Haematology Nursing; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.: West Sussex, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781118702949.

An edited book

Inner Solar System: Prospective Energy and Material Resources; Badescu, V., Zacny, K., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319195681.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharma, S.; Gupta, R.; Dugar, G.; Srivastava, A.K. Impact of Application of Biofertilizers on Soil Structure and Resident Microbial Community Structure and Function. In Bacteria in Agrobiology: Plant Probiotics; Maheshwari, D.K., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 65–77 ISBN 9783642275142.

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

Andrew, E. Nine Surprising Facts About Breasts You Probably Didn’t Know (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 Department of Energy: Oil and Natural Gas Research and Development Activities; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith, K.M. Meanings of “Design” in Instructional Technology: A Conceptual Analysis Based on the Field’s Foundational Literature. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University: Bloomington, IN, 2008.

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.; Fisher, I. President Puts Saudis at Core Of Peace Effort. New York Times 2017, A1.

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
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