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

Knight D. Kinds of minds. Nature. 447(7141), 149 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Felton LM, Anthony C. Biochemistry: role of PQQ as a mammalian enzyme cofactor? Nature. 433(7025), E10; discussion E11-2 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

Cheianov VV, Fal’ko V, Altshuler BL. The focusing of electron flow and a Veselago lens in graphene p-n junctions. Science. 315(5816), 1252–1255 (2007).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kukushkin IV, Smet JH, Scarola VW, Umansky V, von Klitzing K. Dispersion of the excitations of fractional quantum Hall States. Science. 324(5930), 1044–1047 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grose M. Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Shumaker R, Lackey S, editors. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 7th International Conference, VAMR 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Chang W. Fighting Cybercrime: A KM Perspective. In: Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2010, Hyderabad, India, June 21, 2010. Proceedings. Chen H, Chau M, Li S-H, Urs S, Srinivasa S, Wang GA (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 28–30 (2010).

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

Andrew E. Scientists Discover Effective Strategy To Switch Off Autoimmunity [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-discover-effective-strategy-switch-autoimmunity/.

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. Private Enterprise, Public Responsibilities. 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

Desgens-Martin V. High prevalence of carcinoma in California sea lions Zalophus californianus: Evidence of a xenobiotic-induced carcinogenic cascade? (2014).

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

Hollander S. From the Ruins of Sarajevo to Stardom at Princeton. New York Times, D4 (2000).

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