How to format your references using the Epigenomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Epigenomics. 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

Check E. BSE in human tissues fires debate on patient disclosure. Nature. 419(6905), 326 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

Schaff DP, Richards PG. Repeating seismic events in China. Science. 303(5661), 1176–1178 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell RN, Kilian TM, Evans DAD. Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time. Nature. 482(7384), 208–211 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Keller A, Rackwitz J, Cauët E, et al. Sequence dependence of electron-induced DNA strand breakage revealed by DNA nanoarrays. Sci. Rep. 4, 7391 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J.G. Upton G. Categorical Data Analysis by Example. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Markidis S, Laure E, editors. Solving Software Challenges for Exascale: International Conference on Exascale Applications and Software, EASC 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2-3, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu X-G, Pang R-P, Zhou L-J, Wei X-H, Zang Y. Neuropathic Pain: Sensory Nerve Injury or Motor Nerve Injury? In: Translational Research in Pain and Itch. Ma C, Huang Y (Eds.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 59–75 (2016).

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 Epigenomics.

Blog post

Carpineti C. A Few Awesome Facts About Your Own Body That You Probably Didn’t Know [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-few-awesome-facts-about-your-own-body-that-you-probably-didnt-know/.

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. Second-Year Implementation of the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act in the Department of Education. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hernandez K. Life skills education for at-risk youth at Soledad Enrichment Action Charter High School: A grant proposal. (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

Saslow L. Filling the Child Care Breach. New York Times, NJ3 (2008).

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	Epigenomics
Abbreviation	Epigenomics
ISSN (print)	1750-1911
ISSN (online)	1750-192X
Scope	Cancer Research Genetics