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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Sönnichsen C (2011) Physics. Detecting intruders on the nanoscale. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, 1389–1390.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leslie NR and Brunton VG (2013) Cell biology. Where is PTEN? Science (New York, N.Y.) 341, 355–356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson ME, Hsu M and Conboy IM (2008) Imbalance between pSmad3 and Notch induces CDK inhibitors in old muscle stem cells. Nature 454, 528–532.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han J-H, Kushner SA, Yiu AP, et al. (2007) Neuronal competition and selection during memory formation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, 457–460.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dubil R (2011) Financial Engineering and Arbitrage in the Financial Markets. Financial Engineering and Arbitrage in the Financial Markets; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 2011.

An edited book

Corbeil D (ed.) (2013) Prominin-1 (CD133): New Insights on Stem & Cancer Stem Cell Biology. Prominin-1 (CD133): New Insights on Stem & Cancer Stem Cell Biology; Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Vol. 777; Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

van de Kaa DJ (2011) On the Societal Impact of Modern Contraception. In Beets, G., Schippers, J., te Velde, E. R. (eds.), The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies: Late Fertility and its Consequences, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 49–60.

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

Andrew E (2015) The Rate Of Deforestation In Cambodia is Alarming. The Rate Of Deforestation In Cambodia is Alarming. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rate-deforestation-cambodia-alarming/ 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 (2008) Electronic Government: Additional OMB Leadership Needed to Optimize Use of New Federal Employee Identification Cards. Electronic Government: Additional OMB Leadership Needed to Optimize Use of New Federal Employee Identification Cards; GAO-08-292; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rivera A (2010) A post analysis of an advanced access appointment model. 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

Brantley B (2017) Sam Shepard, Roaming Utterly Wild. Sam Shepard, Roaming Utterly Wild. New York Times 2017, C2.

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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