How to format your references using the Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine. 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

Smaglik P (2003) Visions of Europe’s future. Nature 421, 557.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jamison DT and Sandbu ME (2001) Global health. WHO ranking of health system performance. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, 1595–1596.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun A, Lauher JW and Goroff NS (2006) Preparation of poly(diiododiacetylene), an ordered conjugated polymer of carbon and iodine. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312, 1030–1034.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vaillancourt FH, Yeh E, Vosburg DA, et al. (2005) Cryptic chlorination by a non-haem iron enzyme during cyclopropyl amino acid biosynthesis. Nature 436, 1191–1194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hamad WY (2017) Cellulose Nanocrystals. Cellulose Nanocrystals; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

Yang X-S and Koziel S (eds.) (2011) Computational Optimization and Applications in Engineering and Industry. Computational Optimization and Applications in Engineering and Industry; Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 359; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Harnesk D and Lindström J (2012) Materializing Organizational Information Security. In Keller, C., Wiberg, M., Ågerfalk, P. J., et al. (eds.), Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 76–94.

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 Reviews in Molecular Medicine.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Acceptance Of Same-Sex Relationships In America Almost Quadruples In Under 25 Years. Acceptance Of Same-Sex Relationships In America Almost Quadruples In Under 25 Years. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/acceptance-of-same-sex-relationships-in-america-almost-quadruples-in-under-twenty-five-years/ Accessed October 30, 2018.

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

Government Accountability Office (2005) Aviation Security: Flight and Cabin Crew Member Security Training Strengthened, but Better Planning and Internal Controls Needed. Aviation Security: Flight and Cabin Crew Member Security Training Strengthened, but Better Planning and Internal Controls Needed; GAO-05-781; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hoscoe BT (2014) Assistive technology and the promotion of inclusion for special needs children in public schools: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Cunningham J (2017) Spotting Celebrities on His Lunch Break. Spotting Celebrities on His Lunch Break. New York Times 2017, A18.

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 Reviews in Molecular Medicine
ISSN (online)	1462-3994
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