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]

L. Bowman, Different directions?, Nature 426 (2003) 712.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Demaurex, D. Poburko, Cell biology. A revolving door for calcium, Science 326 (2009) 57–58.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.K. Morewedge, Y.E. Huh, J. Vosgerau, Thought for food: imagined consumption reduces actual consumption, Science 330 (2010) 1530–1533.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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R.T. Papke, J.E. Koenig, F. Rodríguez-Valera, W.F. Doolittle, Frequent recombination in a saltern population of Halorubrum, Science 306 (2004) 1928–1929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.K. Parashar, Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, United Kingdom, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

C. Rebeiro, Timing Channels in Cryptography: A Micro-Architectural Perspective, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Lepisto, Azerbaijan, in: W. Hörner, H. Döbert, L.R. Reuter, B. von Kopp (Eds.), The Education Systems of Europe, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 61–76.

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]

E. Andrew, Factory Made Blood Nearing Human Trials, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/factory-made-blood-nearing-human-trials/ (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, Air Traffic Control: Challenges Facing FAA’s Modernization Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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F. Dizon, Treatment and Return to Play of Three Runners with Bone Stress Injury and/or Other Traits of a Male-Version of the Female Athlete Triad: A Case Series, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES, The Color Red, New York Times (2017) RE12.

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