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

Rochmyaningsih, D., 2015. Focus on political Islamic groups to boost science. Nature 518, 457.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bahr, K., Simpson, F., 2002. Electrical anisotropy below slow- and fast-moving plates: paleoflow in the upper mantle? Science 295, 1270–1272.

A journal article with 3 authors

Betrouche, M., Maamache, M., Choi, J.R., 2013. Novel characteristics of energy spectrum for 3D Dirac oscillator analyzed via Lorentz covariant deformed algebra. Sci. Rep. 3, 3221.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo, L., Liang, P., Zhou, X., Gao, X., 2014. Novel mutations and mutation combinations of ryanodine receptor in a chlorantraniliprole resistant population of Plutella xylostella (L.). Sci. Rep. 4, 6924.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brillson, L.J., 2016. An Essential Guide to Electronic Material Surfaces and Interfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Barafort, B., O’Connor, R.V., Poth, A., Messnarz, R. (Eds.), 2014. Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement: 21st European Conference, EuroSPI 2014, Luxembourg, June 25-27, 2014. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Barneva, R.P., Brimkov, V.E., 2009. Digital Geometry and Its Applications to Medical Imaging, in: Tavares, J.M.R.S., Jorge, R.M.N. (Eds.), Advances in Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: Methods and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 77–92.

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. NY Court Will Decide If Chimps Qualify For Legal Personhood [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, 1990. Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain (No. NSIAD-90-142). 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

Bannister, R.M., 2017. To What Extent Are the Grade Configurations of Middle/High Schools and High Schools Related to Student Engagement? (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Saslow, L., 2006. Suffolk and Nassau Fight Voting Machine Change. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rochmyaningsih, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bahr and Simpson, 2002; Rochmyaningsih, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bahr and Simpson, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Guo 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