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

Nestler EJ. Epigenetics: Stress makes its molecular mark. Nature. 2012 Oct;490(7419):171–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Quellmalz ES, Pellegrino JW. Technology and testing. Science. 2009 Jan;323(5910):75–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee H, Cheng Y-C, Fleming GR. Coherence dynamics in photosynthesis: protein protection of excitonic coherence. Science. 2007 Jun;316(5830):1462–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peña M, Bonatti LL, Nespor M, Mehler J. Signal-driven computations in speech processing. Science. 2002 Oct;298(5593):604–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanby M. No God, No Science? Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Nin J, Villatoro D, editors. Citizen in Sensor Networks: Second International Workshop, CitiSens 2013, Barcelona, Spain, September 19, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Aydogan-Duda N. Business Environment, Innovation Culture, and Technology Clusters in Developing Countries. In: Aydogan-Duda N, editor. Making It to the Forefront: Nanotechnology—A Developing Country Perspective. New York, NY: Springer; 2012; pp 41–6.

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 Engineer Chickens With Dinosaur Snouts [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 May

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. Final Certification of TAP Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stephens T. The evolution of transformative communication patterns in 1-to-1 computing classrooms. 2012

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

Kenigsberg B. Deep Into the Wild With Jane Goodall. New York Times. 2017 Oct;C8.

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

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