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

Hails, R. S. (2002). Assessing the risks associated with new agricultural practices. Nature 418, 685–688.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, W., and Yuan, D. (2014). Mesoporous carbon originated from non-permanent porous MOFs for gas storage and CO2/CH4 separation. Sci. Rep. 4, 5711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naundorf, B., Wolf, F., and Volgushev, M. (2006). Unique features of action potential initiation in cortical neurons. Nature 440, 1060–1063.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nóbrega, M. A., Zhu, Y., Plajzer-Frick, I., Afzal, V., and Rubin, E. M. (2004). Megabase deletions of gene deserts result in viable mice. Nature 431, 988–993.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Isobe, K., Watanabe, W., and Itoh, K. (2013). Functional Imaging by Controlled Nonlinear Optical Phenomena. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rondo-Brovetto, P., and Saliterer, I. eds. (2011). The University as a Business?. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

A chapter in an edited book

Aalbers, M. B. (2013). “How Do Mortgage Lenders Influence Neighbourhood Dynamics? Redlining and Predatory Lending,” in Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics: New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research, eds. M. van Ham, D. Manley, N. Bailey, L. Simpson, and D. Maclennan (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 63–85.

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

Fang, J. (2014). Bone-House Wasp Protects Nest With Ant Corpses. IFLScience.

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 (2011). Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Potential Duplication in Federal Teacher Quality and Employment and Training Programs. 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

Nistal França, F. J. (2017). Nondestructive Evaluation of Southern Pine Lumber. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.

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

Nordland, R., and Kanter, J. (2016). Turkey and E.U. Near Breaking Point in Talks on Membership. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hails, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Hails, 2002; Wang and Yuan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Yuan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Nóbrega et al., 2004)

About the journal

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