How to format your references using the Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Goldston D. Political climate. Nature. 2007;450(7168):333.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen X, Tung K-K. Climate. Varying planetary heat sink led to global-warming slowdown and acceleration. Science. 2014;345(6199):897–903.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rafkin SCR, Sta Maria MRV, Michaels TI. Simulation of the atmospheric thermal circulation of a martian volcano using a mesoscale numerical model. Nature. 2002;419(6908):697–699.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Meng Q, Liu J, Varricchio DJ, et al. Palaeontology: parental care in an ornithischian dinosaur. Nature. 2004;431(7005):145–146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kuus M. Geopolitics and Expertise. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Boehncke W-H, Radeke HH, editors. Biologics in General Medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Breu J, Menth M. An Improved Relevance Estimation Function for Cooperative Awareness Messages in VANETs. In: Sikora A, Berbineau M, Vinel A, et al., editors. Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 6th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2014, Offenburg, Germany, May 6-7, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 43–56.

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 Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Pharma Use Loophole To Hike Up The Price Of Drugs – So Why Doesn’t The NHS Stop It? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. High-Quality Senior Marine Corps Officers: How Many Stay Beyond 20 Years of Service? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984. Report No.: PEMD-85-1. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wenger MC. Free-choice family learning experiences at informal astronomy observing events [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2011.

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

[1]

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Apr 28;MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Clin. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1751-2433
ISSN (online)	1751-2441
Scope	General Medicine Pharmacology (medical) General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics