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. Lavé, Earth science: Landscape inversion by stream piracy, Nature 520 (2015) 442–444.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Shneiderman, J. Preece, Public health. 911.gov, Science 315 (2007) 944.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Tang, C.D. Schwieters, G.M. Clore, Open-to-closed transition in apo maltose-binding protein observed by paramagnetic NMR, Nature 449 (2007) 1078–1082.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. de Jonge, Y. Lamy, K. Schoots, T.H. Oosterkamp, High brightness electron beam from a multi-walled carbon nanotube, Nature 420 (2002) 393–395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Pommier, A. Gravouil, A. Combescure, N. Moës, Extended Finite Element Method for Crack Propagation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Ramos, ed., Electrokinetics and Electrohydrodynamics in Microsystems, Springer, Vienna, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Miyazaki, T. Yamashita, H. Taira, A. Suzuki, The Biological Function of Cauxin, a Major Urinary Protein of the Domestic Cat (Felis catus), in: J.L. Hurst, R.J. Beynon, S.C. Roberts, T.D. Wyatt (Eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11, Springer, New York, NY, 2008: pp. 51–60.

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 Trends in Analytical Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, New Ways Are Needed To Make Cannabis Use Safer, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-ways-are-needed-to-make-cannabis-use-safer/ (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, Federal Facilities: Alternative Land Uses Could Save Water at Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. Rajendran, Assessment of upper extremity strength, power, and flexibility characteristics of college-aged male and female students, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

A.E. Kramer, In Georgia, a Claim Russia Is Making More Advances, New York Times (2008) A8.

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