How to format your references using the Medical Epigenetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medical Epigenetics. 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

Howard A. Building the bionic woman. Science. 2014 Oct;346(6206):274.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde JS, Linn MC. Diversity. Gender similarities in mathematics and science. Science. 2006 Oct;314(5799):599–600.

A journal article with 3 authors

Komarova NL, Levy DN, Wodarz D. Synaptic transmission and the susceptibility of HIV infection to anti-viral drugs. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2103.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Franco A, Geissbühler J, Wyrsch N, Ballif C. Fabrication and characterization of monolithically integrated microchannel plates based on amorphous silicon. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr;4:4597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews GG. Cellular Physiology of Nerve and Muscle. Malden, MA USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2002.

An edited book

Tveito A. Elements of Scientific Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

John L, Ramesh A. Modeling the Barriers of Humanitarian Supply Chain Management in India. In: Sahay BS, Gupta S, Menon VC, editors. Managing Humanitarian Logistics. New Delhi: Springer India; 2016; pp 61–82.

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 Medical Epigenetics.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Discover A 7-Meter-Long Dinosaur [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Sep

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. Teacher Training: Status and Participants’ Views of Delta Teachers Academy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sitterding MC. Situation awareness and the selection of interruption handling strategies during the medication administration process: A qualitative study. 2014

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

Wilson M. In Pursuit of Influence (and Muggers): Farrell’s 42 Years in Politics. New York Times. 2017 Aug;A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Medical Epigenetics
Abbreviation	Med. Epigenet.
ISSN (online)	1664-5561
Scope