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 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

Richard, T.L., 2010. Challenges in scaling up biofuels infrastructure. Science 329, 793–796.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kirzhner, T., Koren, G., 2014. Pairing and the phase diagram of the normal coherence length ξN(T, x) above Tc of La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO4 thin films probed by the Josephson effect. Sci. Rep. 4, 6244.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moran, N.A., McLaughlin, H.J., Sorek, R., 2009. The dynamics and time scale of ongoing genomic erosion in symbiotic bacteria. Science 323, 379–382.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, B.-H., Lee, M.J., Park, S., Oh, D.-C., Elsasser, S., Chen, P.-C., Gartner, C., Dimova, N., Hanna, J., Gygi, S.P., Wilson, S.M., King, R.W., Finley, D., 2010. Enhancement of proteasome activity by a small-molecule inhibitor of USP14. Nature 467, 179–184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thie, P.R., Keough, G.E., 2008. An Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wall, T., 2015. Slavoj Žižek: A Žižekian Gaze at Education, SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bakir, A., Chesler, G., de la Torriente, M., 2016. Using Core Motion to Save Motion Data, in: Chesler, G., Torriente, M. de la (Eds.), Program the Internet of Things with Swift for IOS. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 99–117.

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

Fang, J., 2015. How The Ankylosaur Got Its Tail [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2000. Federal Communications Commission: Competitive Bidding Procedures (No. OGC-00-69). 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

Correa, L., 2015. Urban-rural differences in overweight and obese status among adolescents (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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richard, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kirzhner and Koren, 2014; Richard, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kirzhner and Koren, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2010)

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