How to format your references using the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology. 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]

H.A. Michael, Geochemistry. An arsenic forecast for China, Science 341 (2013) 852–853.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.A. Gibbs, D.L. Nelson, Human genetics. Primate shadow play, Science 299 (2003) 1331–1333.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W.R. Turner, M. Oppenheimer, D.S. Wilcove, A force to fight global warming, Nature 462 (2009) 278–279.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.A. Theobald, N.S. Oxtoby, M.A. Phillips, N.R. Champness, P.H. Beton, Controlling molecular deposition and layer structure with supramolecular surface assemblies, Nature 424 (2003) 1029–1031.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.W. Davidson, V.P. Prasher, M.P. Janicki, Mental Health, Intellectual Disabilities, and the Aging Process, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

P.F. Hudson, H. Middelkoop, eds., Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe, Springer, New York, NY, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Wang, J. Zhang, Z. Peng, J. Zhan, Q. Wang, Study on Efficiency and Effectiveness of KSORD, in: G. Dong, X. Lin, W. Wang, Y. Yang, J.X. Yu (Eds.), Advances in Data and Web Management: Joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and 8th International Conference, on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, Huang Shan, China, June 16-18, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 6–17.

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 Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, 5 Dinosaur Myths You Probably Thought Were True, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/video-5-dinosaur-myths-you-probably-thought-were-true/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Guaranteed Student Loans: Analysis of Insurance Premiums Charged by Guaranty Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Rahmani, On the calculation of time-domain impulse-response of systems from band-limited scattering-parameters using wavelet transform, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2017.

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]

R. Cyran, G. Hay, China’s Allure in Drug Research, New York Times (2011) B2.

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	Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology
Abbreviation	J. Trace Elem. Med. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0946-672X
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Medicine Inorganic Chemistry