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

Ferrari G. Physics. Dynamics of a cold quantum gas. Science. 347(6218), 127 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Krishnaswamy VR, Korrapati PS. Role of dermatopontin in re-epithelialization: implications on keratinocyte migration and proliferation. Sci. Rep. 4, 7385 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong J, Yang G, McHaourab HS. Structural basis of energy transduction in the transport cycle of MsbA. Science. 308(5724), 1023–1028 (2005).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Arzy S, Seeck M, Ortigue S, Spinelli L, Blanke O. Induction of an illusory shadow person. Nature. 443(7109), 287 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calvello AA. Environmental Alpha. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Leal Filho W, Muthu N, Edwin G, Sima M, editors. Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives: Approaches, Methods and Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sakka MA, Defude B. Scalability Issues in Designing and Implementing Semantic Provenance Management Systems. In: Data Management in Cloud, Grid and P2P Systems: 5th International Conference, Globe 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 5-6, 2012. Proceedings. Hameurlain A, Hussain FK, Morvan F, Tjoa AM (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 49–61 (2012).

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 A. Peer-Reviewed Paper On EmDrive To Be Published In December [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/rumored-emdrive-paper-suggests-the-controversial-thruster-actually-works/.

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. NASA: Human Space Exploration Programs Face Challenges. 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

Pratt JE. Investigating educational systems, leadership, and school culture: A holistic approach. (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

Poniewozik J. The Rise of Surreality TV. New York Times, C1 (2017).

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

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