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

Chan, M. A. (2015). PLANETARY SCIENCE. The martian lake chronicles. Science 350, 167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bilder, D., and Perrimon, N. (2000). Localization of apical epithelial determinants by the basolateral PDZ protein Scribble. Nature 403, 676–680.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kovalenko, M. V., Scheele, M., and Talapin, D. V. (2009). Colloidal nanocrystals with molecular metal chalcogenide surface ligands. Science 324, 1417–1420.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yen, W.-C., Chen, Y.-Z., Yeh, C.-H., He, J.-H., Chiu, P.-W., and Chueh, Y.-L. (2014). Direct growth of self-crystallized graphene and graphite nanoballs with Ni vapor-assisted growth: from controllable growth to material characterization. Sci. Rep. 4, 4739.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheinfeld, R. (2009). Busting Loose from the Business Game. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Friedrich, G., Helmert, M., and Wotawa, F. eds. (2016). KI 2016: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 39th Annual German Conference on AI, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 26-30, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kotsia, I., Guo, W., and Patras, I. (2012). “Higher Rank Support Tensor Machines,” in Advances in Visual Computing: 8th International Symposium, ISVC 2012, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 16-18, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part II Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. G. Bebis, R. Boyle, B. Parvin, D. Koracin, C. Fowlkes, S. Wang, et al. (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 31–40.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Why The Causes Of Cancer Are More Than Just Random ‘Bad Luck.’ 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 (1981). Comments on H.R. 5103, Mineta letter. 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

Gerhart, T. (2013). Convex optimization techniques and their application in hyperspectral video processing.

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

Baker, L. (2005). Can a City Grow Quickly And Stay Simple? New York Times, 119.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bilder and Perrimon, 2000; Chan, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bilder and Perrimon, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Yen et al., 2014)

About the journal

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