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

Wilcove, D. S. (2005). Ecology. Rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Science 308, 1422–1423.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruud, J., and Brüning, J. C. (2015). Metabolism: Light on leptin link to lipolysis. Nature 527, 43–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verhulst, E. C., Beukeboom, L. W., and van de Zande, L. (2010). Maternal control of haplodiploid sex determination in the wasp Nasonia. Science 328, 620–623.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

van Borkulo, C. D., Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., Blanken, T. F., Boschloo, L., Schoevers, R. A., et al. (2014). A new method for constructing networks from binary data. Sci. Rep. 4, 5918.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maudlin, T. (2011). Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Breusch, S. (2005). The Well-Cemented Total Hip Arthroplasty: Theory and Practice. , ed. H. Malchau Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dijksma, A., Luger, A., and Shondin, Y. (2006). “Minimal Models for $$ \mathcal{N}_\kappa ^\infty $$ -functions,” in Operator Theory and Indefinite Inner Product Spaces: Presented on the occasion of the retirement of Heinz Langer in the Colloquium on Operator Theory, Vienna, March 2004 Operator Theory: Advances and Applications., eds. M. Langer, A. Luger, and H. Woracek (Basel: Birkhäuser), 97–134.

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). Earth Was Bombarded By Huge Meteorites Constantly Until 3 Billion Years Ago. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/earth-was-bombarded-huge-meteorites-constantly-until-3-billion-years-ago/ [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 (2008). Physical Infrastructure: Challenges and Investment Options for the Nation’s Infrastructure. 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

Nelson, J.-M. C. (2008). The effect of class size on a teacher’s job satisfaction in a southeastern urban LEA.

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. (2013). Rhythmic Gymnastics Judges Cleared. New York Times, B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilcove, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Wilcove, 2005; Ruud and Brüning, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ruud and Brüning, 2015)
Three or more authors: (van Borkulo 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)

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