How to format your references using the Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. 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. Algae: The scum solution. Nature. 2011;474(7352):S15-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Holman MJ, Murray NW. The use of transit timing to detect terrestrial-mass extrasolar planets. Science. 2005;307(5713):1288–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rey PF, Coltice N, Flament N. Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics. Nature. 2014;513(7518):405–408.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Soden BJ, Wetherald RT, Stenchikov GL, et al. Global cooling after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo: a test of climate feedback by water vapor. Science. 2002;296(5568):727–730.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Islam MR, Islam JS, Zatzman GM, et al. The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Jacko JA, editor. Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Applications: 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Manfrino RB, Ortega JAG, Delgado RV. Complex Numbers. In: Gómez Ortega JA, Valdez Delgado R, editors. Topics in Algebra and Analysis: Preparing for the Mathematical Olympiad. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 75–88.

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 Molecular Diagnostics.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. US Government Says All Homeopathic Products Now Have To Admit They Don’t Work [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-government-says-all-homeopathic-products-now-have-admit-dont-work/.

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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Challenges with Partner Agency and FAA Coordination Continue, and Efforts to Integrate Near-, Mid-, and Long-term Activities Are Ongoing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010. Report No.: GAO-10-649T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cashion AT. Exploring Dielectric Absorption: Data Collection System Development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 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]

Brantley B. She Breaks the Mold, and Keeps On Giving. New York Times. 2016 Nov 21;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 Molecular Diagnostics
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn.
ISSN (print)	1473-7159
ISSN (online)	1744-8352
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Pathology and Forensic Medicine