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

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

Katz DL. Perspective: Obesity is not a disease. Nature. 2014;508(7496):S57.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jetz W, Rahbek C. Geographic range size and determinants of avian species richness. Science. 2002;297(5586):1548–1551.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Borys NJ, Shafran E, Lupton JM. Surface plasmon delocalization in silver nanoparticle aggregates revealed by subdiffraction supercontinuum hot spots. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2090.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Nóbrega MA, Zhu Y, Plajzer-Frick I, et al. Megabase deletions of gene deserts result in viable mice. Nature. 2004;431(7011):988–993.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

[1]

Gupta SC, Prasad S, Aggarwal BB, editors. Anti-inflammatory Nutraceuticals and Chronic Diseases. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Braune N, Braune J. Erich Fromm’s Socialist Program and Prophetic Messianism, in Two Parts. In: Miri SJ, Lake R, Kress TM, editors. Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm’s Thought. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014. p. 59–91.

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 Vaccines.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Let’s Call It: 30 Years Of Above Average Temperatures Means The Climate Has Changed [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/let-s-call-it-30-years-above-average-temperatures-means-climate-has-changed/.

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. Information Technology: U.S. Postal Service Needs to Strengthen System Acquisition and Management Capabilities to Improve Its Intelligent Mail Full Service Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009. Report No.: GAO-10-145. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hantgan A. Aspects of Bangime Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2013.

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]

Stewart JB. Major Hurdle Awaits A Corporate Tax Cut. New York Times. 2017 Aug 3;B1.

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 Vaccines
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Vaccines
ISSN (print)	1476-0584
ISSN (online)	1744-8395
Scope	Molecular Medicine Immunology Drug Discovery Pharmacology