How to format your references using the Frontiers in Epigenomics citation style

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

Tutu, D. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. My genome. Science 331, 689.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones, M. K., and Liu, X. (2009). Archaeology. Origins of agriculture in East Asia. Science 324, 730–731.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behringer, D. C., Butler, M. J., and Shields, J. D. (2006). Ecology: avoidance of disease by social lobsters. Nature 441, 421.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Toyama, Y., Peralta, X. G., Wells, A. R., Kiehart, D. P., and Edwards, G. S. (2008). Apoptotic force and tissue dynamics during Drosophila embryogenesis. Science 321, 1683–1686.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seyfried, T. N. (2012). Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nešetřil, J. (2012). Sparsity: Graphs, Structures, and Algorithms., ed. P. Ossona de Mendez. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Andreeva, E., Mennink, B., and Preneel, B. (2011). “Security Reductions of the Second Round SHA-3 Candidates,” in Information Security: 13th International Conference, ISC 2010, Boca Raton, FL, USA, October 25-28, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, eds. M. Burmester, G. Tsudik, S. Magliveras, and I. Ilić (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 39–53.

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 Frontiers in Epigenomics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016). There’s No Such Thing As An Alpha Male. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/theres-no-such-thing-as-an-alpha-male/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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 (1997). NASA: Major Management Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Steigner, T. (2008). A study of cross -border takeovers: Examining the impact of national culture on internalization benefits, and the implications of early versus late -mover status for bidders and their rivals. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Sisario, B. (2016). Beyoncé, With 9 Grammy Nods, Will Face Off Against Adele. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tutu, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Jones and Liu, 2009; Tutu, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Jones and Liu, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Toyama et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Epigenomics
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)