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]

Macilwain C. What matters for science is who runs the country. Nature. 2012;488(7413):559.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rothenberg KH, Terry SF. Human genetics. Before it’s too late--addressing fear of genetic information. Science. 2002;297(5579):196–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dobson DP, Meredith PG, Boon SA. Simulation of subduction zone seismicity by dehydration of serpentine. Science. 2002;298(5597):1407–1410.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Zhang X, Qin J, Xue Y, et al. Effect of aspect ratio and surface defects on the photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanorods. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4596.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sab K, Lebée A. Homogenization of Heterogeneous Thin and Thick Plates. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Anagnostopoulos CD, Nihoyannopoulos P, Bax JJ, et al., editors. Noninvasive Imaging of Myocardial Ischemia. London: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Caccavale F, Iamarino M, Pierri F, et al. Model-based Control. In: Iamarino M, Pierri F, Tufano V, editors. Control and Monitoring of Chemical Batch Reactors. London: Springer; 2011. p. 89–120.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Record Breaking “Supermoon” Is The Biggest Seen In 68 Years [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-this-months-recordbreaking-supermoon-isnt-all-that-super/.

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. Federal-Aid Highways: FHWA Has Improved Its Risk Management Approach, but Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Project Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009. Report No.: GAO-09-751. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pappa DM. A Study of Various Process Factors in the Scale Up of a High Shear Granulated Product [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2002.

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]

Leland J. Dance Moves, Everywhere. New York Times. 2017 Apr 7;MB8.

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