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

Pogue, B.W., 2014. Technology: ultrafast imaging takes on a new design. Nature 516, 46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simmons, S.F., Brown, K.L., 2006. Gold in magmatic hydrothermal solutions and the rapid formation of a giant ore deposit. Science 314, 288–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scott, B.A., Avidan, M.S., Crowder, C.M., 2002. Regulation of hypoxic death in C. elegans by the insulin/IGF receptor homolog DAF-2. Science 296, 2388–2391.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maggio, I., Holkers, M., Liu, J., Janssen, J.M., Chen, X., Gonçalves, M.A.F.V., 2014. Adenoviral vector delivery of RNA-guided CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease complexes induces targeted mutagenesis in a diverse array of human cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 5105.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knowles, R., 2012. 200 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Wohlers, T.E., 2016. Setting Sail into the Age of Digital Local Government: Trends and Best Practices, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Public Administration and Information Technology. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Vitiello, M.S., 2014. Terahertz Photonic Devices, in: Corsi, C., Sizov, F. (Eds.), THz and Security Applications: Detectors, Sources and Associated Electronics for THz Applications, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 91–111.

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. What Happens When A Man In A Mentos Suit Jumps Into A Tank Of Diet Coke? [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, 1996. NASA Chief Information Officer: Opportunities to Strengthen Information Resources Management (No. AIMD-96-78). 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

Duncan, E.A., 2017. Environmental controls of black abalone body temperature determine risks of thermal stress and disease (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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by, 2005. Arts, Briefly; New Home for Private Art. New York Times E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pogue, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Pogue, 2014; Simmons and Brown, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Simmons and Brown, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Maggio 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