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

Wyatt, T.D. Fifty Years of Pheromones. Nature 2009, 457, 262–263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clarke, C.F.; Allan, C.M. Biochemistry: Unexpected Role for Vitamin B2. Nature 2015, 522, 427–428.

A journal article with 3 authors

Discher, D.E.; Mooney, D.J.; Zandstra, P.W. Growth Factors, Matrices, and Forces Combine and Control Stem Cells. Science 2009, 324, 1673–1677.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pei, S.; Zhang, H.; Su, J.; Cui, Z. Ductile Gap between the Wenchuan and Lushan Earthquakes Revealed from the Two-Dimensional Pg Seismic Tomography. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6489.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carrasco, R.A.; Johnston, M. Non-Binary Error Control Coding for Wireless Communication and Data Storage; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2008; ISBN 9780470740415.

An edited book

Future Trends in Production Engineering: Proceedings of the First Conference of the German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP), Berlin, Germany, 8th-9th June 2011; Schuh, G., Neugebauer, R., Uhlmann, E., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; ISBN 9783642244902.

A chapter in an edited book

Souza, J.; Botega, L.C.; Santarém Segundo, J.E.; Berti, C.B.; de Campos, M.R.; de Araújo, R.B. Conceptual Framework to Enrich Situation Awareness of Emergency Dispatchers. In Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Context: 17th International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part II; Yamamoto, S., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 33–44 ISBN 9783319206172.

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

Luntz, S. Do We Really Need Oxygen For Complex Life? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/do-we-really-need-oxygen-complex-life/ (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 Federal Procurement of ADP Systems; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1971;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jones, C. Evolutionary Changes in Development Associated with a Transition in Larval Nutritional Mode in Spiralians. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Gustines, G.G.; Kepler, A.W. Not All Superheroes Are Equal (At Least the Second Time Around). New York Times 2011, C5.

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