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

Ross G. Obituary: Richard Dalitz (1925-2006). Nature. 2006 Mar;440(7081):162.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iimura T, Pourquié O. Collinear activation of Hoxb genes during gastrulation is linked to mesoderm cell ingression. Nature. 2006 Aug;442(7102):568–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

Castelnovo C, Moessner R, Sondhi SL. Magnetic monopoles in spin ice. Nature. 2008 Jan;451(7174):42–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu J, Hofhuis H, Heidstra R, Sauer M, Friml J, Scheres B. A molecular framework for plant regeneration. Science. 2006 Jan;311(5759):385–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lyatkher VM, Proudovsky AM. Hydraulic Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Ergüven M, Muramatsu T, Bilir A, editors. Midkine: From Embryogenesis to Pathogenesis and Therapy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Summers JA. The Sclera and Its Role in Regulation of the Refractive State. In: Spaide RF, Ohno-Matsui K, Yannuzzi LA, editors. Pathologic Myopia. New York, NY: Springer; 2014; pp 59–74.

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

Luntz S. FDA Buries Evidence of Fraud [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Feb

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. Transportation Security Administration’s Processes for Designating and Releasing Sensitive Security Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fails JA. Mobile collaboration for young children: Reading and creating stories. 2009

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

Fernandez M, Pérez-Peña R, Santos F. Gunman in Texas Was F.B.I. Suspect in Jihad Inquiry. New York Times. 2015 May;A1.

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