How to format your references using the Neuroepigenetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuroepigenetics. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Fröbisch, J., 2011. Paleontology. On dental occlusion and saber teeth. Science 331, 1525–1528.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shields, G.A., Kasting, J.F., 2007. Palaeoclimatology: evidence for hot early oceans? Nature 447, E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ammon, C.J., Kanamori, H., Lay, T., 2008. A great earthquake doublet and seismic stress transfer cycle in the central Kuril islands. Nature 451, 561–565.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, M., Li, J., Zhang, L., Chang, S., Liu, C., Wang, J., Li, S., 2014. Auto-flotation of heterocyst enables the efficient production of renewable energy in cyanobacteria. Sci. Rep. 4, 3998.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam, M.R., Hossain, M.E., Moussavizadegan, S.H., Mustafiz, S., Abou&xKassem, J.H., 2016. Advanced Petroleum Reservoir Simulation. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Myatt, A., 2008. Pro NetBeans^TM IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Guillot, C., Taron, M., Sayd, P., Pham, Q.C., Tilmant, C., Lavest, J.M., 2011. Background Subtraction for PTZ Cameras Performing a Guard Tour and Application to Cameras with Very Low Frame Rate, in: Koch, R., Huang, F. (Eds.), Computer Vision – ACCV 2010 Workshops: ACCV 2010 International Workshops, Queenstown, New Zealand, November 8-9, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–42.

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 Neuroepigenetics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Researchers Develop Highly Effective Vaccine To Diarrhea Causing Bacterium [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-develop-highly-effective-vaccine-diarrhea-causing-bacterium/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. High-Risk Series: Student Financial Aid (No. HR-97-11). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Akiyama, K.M., 2017. Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Qiu, L., 2017. One Distorted View Of the Health Bill. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fröbisch, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fröbisch, 2011; Shields and Kasting, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Shields and Kasting, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuroepigenetics
Abbreviation	Neuroepigenetics
ISSN (print)	2214-7845
Scope	Biochemistry Biological Psychiatry Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience