How to format your references using the Epigenomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Epigenomics. 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

Skotheim JM. Cell signaling. To divide or not to divide. Science 324(5926), 476–477 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheldon BC, Mangel M. Behavioural ecology: Love thy neighbour. Nature 512(7515), 381–382 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Czaplicka A, Holyst JA, Sloot PMA. Noise enhances information transfer in hierarchical networks. Sci. Rep. 3, 1223 (2013).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Segall P, Desmarais EK, Shelly D, Miklius A, Cervelli P. Earthquakes triggered by silent slip events on Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii. Nature 442(7098), 71–74 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duggan D. Enterprise Software Architecture and Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2012).

An edited book

Xu G. Orbits: 2nd Order Singularity-free Solutions. (2nd ed. 2013 Edition). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Mannoor MS, James T, Ivanov DV, Beadling L, Braunlin W. NEMS Capacitive Sensors for Highly Sensitive, Label-Free Nucleic-Acid Analysis. In: Nano-Net: Third International ICST Conference, NanoNet 2008, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Cheng M (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 19–25 (2009).

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 Epigenomics.

Blog post

Andrew D. ‘Why Is The Norovirus Such A Huge Problem For The NHS?’ (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-is-the-norovirus-such-a-huge-problem-for-the-nhs/.

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. Head Start: Progress and Challenges in Implementing Transportation Regulations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2006).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Altassan MA. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, (2017).

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

Rojas R. During Rikers Upheaval, the ‘Prettiest Village in Maine’ Beckoned, (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Epigenomics
Abbreviation	Epigenomics
ISSN (print)	1750-1911
ISSN (online)	1750-192X
Scope	Cancer Research Genetics