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

Vunjak-Novakovic G. Cardiac biology: A protein for healing infarcted hearts. Nature. 2015 Sep;525(7570):461–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chemla DS, Shah J. Many-body and correlation effects in semiconductors. Nature. 2001 May;411(6837):549–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim M, Carman CV, Springer TA. Bidirectional transmembrane signaling by cytoplasmic domain separation in integrins. Science. 2003 Sep;301(5640):1720–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chang Y-C, Liu G-Q, Liu D-Q, Fan H, Pan X-Y. Room-temperature quantum cloning machine with full coherent phase control in nanodiamond. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ko CJ, Barr RJ. Dermatopathology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Sengupta A. Fuzzy Preference Ordering of Interval Numbers in Decision Problems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Hutchinson CR. Manipulating Microbial Metabolites for Drug Discovery and Production. In: Zhang L, Demain AL, editors. Natural Products: Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2005; pp 77–93.

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

Davis J. Rising Atmospheric CO2 Has Lead To A Global “Greening” Effect [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Apr

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. Intellectual Property: Economic Arrangements Among Small Webcasters and Third Parties and Their Effect on Royalties. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ports MO. Laterally associated proteins modulate α6 integrin cleavage, a permissive process utilized during cancer metastasis. 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

Pilon M. Saudi Team Is Opened to Women. New York Times. 2012 Jun;B11.

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