How to format your references using the Expert Review of Medical Devices citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Medical Devices. 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]

Triendl R. Japan sets tissue donor guidelines. Nature. 2000;404:529.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Menon S, Manning BD. Cell signalling: nutrient sensing lost in cancer. Nature. 2013;498:444–445.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Desai SA, Bezrukov SM, Zimmerberg J. A voltage-dependent channel involved in nutrient uptake by red blood cells infected with the malaria parasite. Nature. 2000;406:1001–1005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Krützfeldt J, Rajewsky N, Braich R, et al. Silencing of microRNAs in vivo with “antagomirs.” Nature. 2005;438:685–689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Block T, Eggert H, Kauschke W. Lager im Bauwesen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Tessaris S, Franconi E, Eiter T, et al., editors. Reasoning Web. Semantic Technologies for Information Systems: 5th International Summer School 2009, Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, August 30 - September 4, 2009, Tutorial Lectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Heine VM, Dooves S, Holmes D, et al. Conclusions. In: Dooves S, Holmes D, Wagner J, editors. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Brain Diseases: Understanding the Methods, Epigenetic Basis, and Applications for Regenerative Medicine. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 55–59.

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 Medical Devices.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Researchers Strap Weighted Tail to Chickens to Understand Dinosaur Movements [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-strap-weighted-tail-chickens-understand-dinosaur-movements/.

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. Improved Planning and Management of Information Systems Development Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975. Report No.: LCD-74-118. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gonzalez R. A mentoring program for Latino foster youth: A grant proposal [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]

Hodara S. Art Rooted in Matters of the Heart and the Mind. New York Times. 2015 Apr 26;CT8.

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 Medical Devices
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Med. Devices
ISSN (print)	1743-4440
ISSN (online)	1745-2422
Scope	Biomedical Engineering General Medicine Surgery