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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Keller, E.F. A Clash of Two Cultures. Nature 2007, 445, 603.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turner, S.L.; Ray, A. Modification of CO2 Avoidance Behaviour in Drosophila by Inhibitory Odorants. Nature 2009, 461, 277–281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poot-Salazar, A.; Hernández-Flores, Á.; Ardisson, P.-L. Use of the SLW Index to Calculate Growth Function in the Sea Cucumber Isostichopus Badionotus. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5151.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Raj, L.; Ide, T.; Gurkar, A.U.; Foley, M.; Schenone, M.; Li, X.; Tolliday, N.J.; Golub, T.R.; Carr, S.A.; Shamji, A.F.; et al. Selective Killing of Cancer Cells by a Small Molecule Targeting the Stress Response to ROS. Nature 2011, 475, 231–234.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, H.K. PACS and Imaging Informatics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471654780.

An edited book

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge; Grasswick, H.E., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011; ISBN 9781402068348.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwartz, D.; Haider, A. Studying Surgical Disparities: It’s Not All Black and White. In Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research; Dimick, J.B., Greenberg, C.C., Eds.; Success in Academic Surgery; Springer: London, 2014; pp. 47–61 ISBN 9781447147176.

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

Hale, T. Thousands Of Dying Fish Flood A Canal In New York Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/thousands-of-dying-fish-flood-a-canal-in-new-york/ (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 Space Communications: Better Understanding of Scheduling System Limitations Needed; 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

Rees, C.L. A Systems-Level Investigation into the Genetic Determinants of Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 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

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr.; Palmer, E. Although Divided, Jury Delivers Guilty Verdict in 2015 Murder of Police Officer. New York Times 2017, A22.

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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