How to format your references using the Trends in Analytical Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 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]

R. Jayawardhana, Astronomy. Unraveling brown dwarf origins, Science. 303 (2004) 322–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Garrett, J.J.C. Rosenthal, RNA editing underlies temperature adaptation in K+ channels from polar octopuses, Science. 335 (2012) 848–851.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L.K. Nielsen, T. Bjørnholm, O.G. Mouritsen, Fluctuations caught in the act, Nature. 404 (2000) 352.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Ahumada, D.C. Slusarski, X. Liu, R.T. Moon, C.C. Malbon, H.-Y. Wang, Signaling of rat Frizzled-2 through phosphodiesterase and cyclic GMP, Science. 298 (2002) 2006–2010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.E. Silvia, Dynamic Economic Decision Making, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

S. Markidis, E. Laure, eds., Solving Software Challenges for Exascale: International Conference on Exascale Applications and Software, EASC 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2-3, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.U.H. Joardder, A. Karim, C. Kumar, R.J. Brown, Effect of Porosity on Drying Kinetics and Food Properties, in: A. Karim, C. Kumar, R.J. Brown (Eds.), Porosity: Establishing the Relationship between Drying Parameters and Dried Food Quality, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 47–64.

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 Trends in Analytical Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, What Do You See - Albert Einstein Or Marilyn Monroe?, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/which-do-you-see-albert-einstein-or-marilyn-monroe/ (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, Restructured Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School Program in Urban Areas, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Turpin-Padberg, Effects of Elementary Teacher Preparation and Support on Retention, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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]

B. Brantley, Whistling a Happy Tune in a Perverse Universe, New York Times. (2017) C7.

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	Trends in Analytical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Trends Analyt. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0165-9936
Scope	Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy