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]

Savage N. Come into the light. Nature. 2012;483(7389):S38-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Abbott A, Gitschel U. German scientists left in the cold as Berlin rejects rescue plan. Nature. 2000;406(6797):663–664.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chaudhuri J, Khuong C, Alt FW. Replication protein A interacts with AID to promote deamination of somatic hypermutation targets. Nature. 2004;430(7003):992–998.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Hwang H-Y, Olson SK, Esko JD, et al. Caenorhabditis elegans early embryogenesis and vulval morphogenesis require chondroitin biosynthesis. Nature. 2003;423(6938):439–443.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

De Larminat P. Climate Change. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Bennedsen J, Caspersen ME, Kölling M, editors. Reflections on the Teaching of Programming: Methods and Implementations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Parzelski D, Nowak A. The Dynamics of Patterns of Commitment in Sports. In: Nowak A, Winkowska-Nowak K, Brée D, editors. Complex Human Dynamics: From Mind to Societies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 67–92.

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]

Andrews R. Elon Musk Will Quit White House Advisor Role If America Leaves Paris Agreement [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/elon-musk-quit-white-house-advisor-role-america-leaves-paris/.

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. The Lummi Indian School of Aquaculture. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977. Report No.: HRD-77-108. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rose L. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: An Exploration From Science to Soul [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2012.

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]

Brantley B. A Living Painting to Make You See. New York Times. 2017 Feb 24;C1.

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