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]

J. Bartram, Improving on haves and have-nots, Nature 452 (2008) 283–284.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.F. Voytas, J.K. Joung, Plant science. DNA binding made easy, Science 326 (2009) 1491–1492.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Kageyama, T. Miyagoshi, T. Sato, Formation of current coils in geodynamo simulations, Nature 454 (2008) 1106–1109.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F.B. Chekeni, M.R. Elliott, J.K. Sandilos, S.F. Walk, J.M. Kinchen, E.R. Lazarowski, A.J. Armstrong, S. Penuela, D.W. Laird, G.S. Salvesen, B.E. Isakson, D.A. Bayliss, K.S. Ravichandran, Pannexin 1 channels mediate “find-me” signal release and membrane permeability during apoptosis, Nature 467 (2010) 863–867.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Courant, E.J. McShane, Differential and Integral Calculus, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1988.

An edited book

[1]

M.G. Buffone, ed., Sperm Acrosome Biogenesis and Function During Fertilization, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.I. Ban, A.A. Bica, L. Coroianu, Metric Properties of the Extended Weighted Semi-trapezoidal Approximations of Fuzzy Numbers and Their Applications, in: S. Greco, B. Bouchon-Meunier, G. Coletti, M. Fedrizzi, B. Matarazzo, R.R. Yager (Eds.), Advances in Computational Intelligence: 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2012, Catania, Italy, July 9-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part III, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 29–38.

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]

E. Andrew, Stressed Out Snake Eats Itself, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stressed-out-snake-eats-itself/ (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, Financial Management Systems: Core Financial Systems at the 24 Chief Financial Officers Act Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.T. Hayes, Musical improvisation and the creative process, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]

J.B. Stewart, Hedge Fund Math: Heads or Tails, They Win, New York Times (2016) B1.

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