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

Allen, P.B., 2000. Condensed-matter physics. Misbehaviour in metals. Nature 405, 1007–1008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Insel, T.R., Cuthbert, B.N., 2015. Medicine. Brain disorders? Precisely. Science 348, 499–500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yan, W., Smith, C., Cheng, L., 2013. Expanded activity of dimer nucleases by combining ZFN and TALEN for genome editing. Sci. Rep. 3, 2376.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Coufal, N.G., Garcia-Perez, J.L., Peng, G.E., Yeo, G.W., Mu, Y., Lovci, M.T., Morell, M., O’Shea, K.S., Moran, J.V., Gage, F.H., 2009. L1 retrotransposition in human neural progenitor cells. Nature 460, 1127–1131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Siebert, G., Maniatis, I., 2012. Tragende Bauteile aus Glas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Wang, Z.M. (Ed.), 2013. FIB Nanostructures, Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Balık, E., 2015. Robotic and Patient Positioning, Instrumentation, and Trocar Placement, in: Ross, H., Lee, S., Champagne, B.J., Pigazzi, A., Rivadeneira, D.E. (Eds.), Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–66.

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. Is Schizophrenia A ‘Real’ Illness? [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, 2005. Credit Reporting Literacy: Consumers Understood the Basics but Could Benefit from Targeted Educational Efforts (No. GAO-05-223). 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

Toosi, F., 2017. Decision Analysis Techniques for Adult Learners: Application to Leadership (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Ivory, D., Protess, B., Palmer, G., 2016. In American Towns, Pumping Private Profit From Public Works. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allen, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Allen, 2000; Insel and Cuthbert, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Insel and Cuthbert, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Coufal et al., 2009)

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

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