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]

Smaglik P. The waiting game. Nature. 2004;428(6979):235.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lukas D, Clutton-Brock TH. The evolution of social monogamy in mammals. Science. 2013;341(6145):526–530.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yoshimura Y, Dantzker JLM, Callaway EM. Excitatory cortical neurons form fine-scale functional networks. Nature. 2005;433(7028):868–873.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Jung A, Maier R, Vartanian J-P, et al. Recombination: Multiply infected spleen cells in HIV patients. Nature. 2002;418(6894):144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fortey RA, Bruton DL. Lower Ordovician Trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen. Norway: The Lethaia Foundation; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Hermans R, editor. Head and Neck Cancer Imaging. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Balakrishnan N, Cramer E. Progressive Type-I Censoring: Basic Properties. In: Cramer E, editor. The Art of Progressive Censoring: Applications to Reliability and Quality. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 115–124.

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]

Andrew D. The Perils Of A Life In Isolation [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-perils-of-a-life-in-isolation/.

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. Research Fleet Modernization: NOAA Needs to Consider Alternatives to the Acquisition of New Vessels. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994. Report No.: RCED-94-170. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nguyen MS. Solid families: Community-based program for pregnant and parenting adolescents [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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]

Berkon B. Jewish Player’s Card From 1914 Provokes a $125,000 Dispute. New York Times. 2016 Dec 18;D5.

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