How to format your references using the Frontiers in Epigenomics citation style

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

Rauchfuss, T. B. (2007). Chemistry. A promising mimic of hydrogenase activity. Science 316, 553–554.

A journal article with 2 authors

Graham, S., and Hegde, D. (2015). Intellectual Property. Disclosing patents’ secrets. Science 347, 236–237.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dominici, F., Greenstone, M., and Sunstein, C. R. (2014). Science and regulation. Particulate matter matters. Science 344, 257–259.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kao, S.-C., Wu, H., Xie, J., Chang, C.-P., Ranish, J. A., Graef, I. A., et al. (2009). Calcineurin/NFAT signaling is required for neuregulin-regulated Schwann cell differentiation. Science 323, 651–654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Imbriale, W. A. (2005). Large Antennas of the Deep Space Network. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Viigimaa, M., Vlachopoulos, C., and Doumas, M. eds. (2015). Erectile Dysfunction in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: A Guide for Clinicians. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Scardaccione, G., Scorza, F., Casas, G. L., and Murgante, B. (2010). “Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis for the Evaluation of Migration Flows: The Italian Case,” in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010: International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, March 23-26, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, eds. D. Taniar, O. Gervasi, B. Murgante, E. Pardede, and B. O. Apduhan (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 62–76.

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 Frontiers in Epigenomics.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2017). Tortoise Gets A Set Of Wheels After Injuring Legs Having Sex. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tortoise-gets-set-wheels-after-injuring-legs-having-sex/ (Accessed October 30, 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 (1993). Automating Medical Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Decena, M. (2010). What variables affect Peritoneal Dialysis growth? Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015). Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times, C29.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Rauchfuss, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Rauchfuss, 2007; Graham and Hegde, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Graham and Hegde, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kao et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Epigenomics
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)