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]

Pusey PN. Physics. Freezing and melting: action at grain boundaries. Science. 2005;309(5738):1198–1199.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ostriker JP, Steinhardt P. New light on dark matter. Science. 2003;300(5627):1909–1913.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thornalley DJR, Elderfield H, McCave IN. Holocene oscillations in temperature and salinity of the surface subpolar North Atlantic. Nature. 2009;457(7230):711–714.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Christoph J, Chebbok M, Richter C, et al. Electromechanical vortex filaments during cardiac fibrillation. Nature. 2018;555(7698):667–672.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

MacIsaac B, Langton R. Gas Turbine Propulsion Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Mori K, editor. The Olfactory System: From Odor Molecules to Motivational Behaviors. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Naglik JR, Hube B. Secreted Candida Proteins: Pathogenicity and Host Immunity. In: Ashbee R, Bignell EM, editors. Pathogenic Yeasts. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 97–120.

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]

Andrews R. NASA Finds Young Volcano On Mars That Outlived The Dinosaurs. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Aviation Security: TSA Has Made Progress Implementing Requirements in the Aviation Security Act of 2016. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017. Report No.: GAO-17-662. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Brawley K. A nutrition and physical activity curriculum for pregnant women [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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]

Simonson J. Nothing Is Free. New York Times. 2017 Sep 25;A23.

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