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

Gewin, V. (2010). The spread of postdoc unions. Nature 467, 739–741.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin, J., and MacMillan, D. W. C. (2015). Alcohols as alkylating agents in heteroarene C-H functionalization. Nature 525, 87–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Callou, C., Samzun, A., and Zivie, A. (2004). Archaeology: a lion found in the Egyptian tomb of Maïa. Nature 427, 211–212.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dequéant, M.-L., Glynn, E., Gaudenz, K., Wahl, M., Chen, J., Mushegian, A., et al. (2006). A complex oscillating network of signaling genes underlies the mouse segmentation clock. Science 314, 1595–1598.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McLeish, B. (2010). Successful Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lea, D., and Zavattaro, G. eds. (2008). Coordination Models and Languages: 10th International Conference, COORDINATION 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 4-6, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Casarin, R., Tronzano, M., and Sartore, D. (2015). “Sovereign Risk and Contagion Effects in the Eurozone: A Bayesian Stochastic Correlation Model,” in Advances in Statistical Models for Data Analysis, eds. I. Morlini, T. Minerva, and M. Vichi (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 27–34.

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

Hale, T. (2016). Elon Musk Thinks There’s A “One In Billions” Chance We Don’t Live In A Computer Simulation. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-thinks-theres-a-one-in-billions-chance-we-dont-live-in-a-computer-simulation/ (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 (1973). Possible Extended Use of the Federal Telecommunications System by DOD. 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

Belcher, J. T. (2009). Optimism, psychological well-being, and quality of life in females with Fibromyalgia Syndrome. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Pilon, M. (2014). With Gadgetry, New York Race May Be Watched Like No Other. New York Times, D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin, 2010; Jin and MacMillan, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jin and MacMillan, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dequéant et al., 2006)

About the journal

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