How to format your references using the Trends in Biochemical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 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

Leek, P.J. (2013) Applied physics. Storing quantum information in Schrödinger’s cats. Science 342, 568–569

A journal article with 2 authors

Reisz, R.R. and Smith, M.M. (2001) Developmental biology. Lungfish dental pattern conserved for 360 Myr. Nature 411, 548

A journal article with 3 authors

Sack, L. et al. (2002) Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning. Science 296, 1923

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Johnston, D.T. et al. (2005) Active microbial sulfur disproportionation in the Mesoproterozoic. Science 310, 1477–1479

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duckert, G.H. (2010) Practical Enterprise Risk Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jolly, A. et al., eds. (2006) Ringtailed Lemur Biology: Lemur Catta in Madagascar, Springer US

A chapter in an edited book

Aydogan-Duda, N. (2012) Education, Science and Technology in Developing Countries. In Making It to the Forefront: Nanotechnology—A Developing Country Perspective (Aydogan-Duda, N., ed), pp. 35–40, Springer

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 Biochemical Sciences.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017) Seafood Eaters May Be Ingesting Up To 11,000 Microplastic Particles A Year. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/seafood-eaters-may-be-ingesting-up-to-11000-microplastic-particles-a-year/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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

Government Accountability Office (1997) Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s 1996 Financial Statements, U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baugh, J.B. (2008) Deregulation and management strategies: A case study of Georgia System Operations Corporation. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Barneby, M.R. and Kelly, J. (1997) A Pension Gap for WomenNew York Times, 312

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 Biochemical Sciences
Abbreviation	Trends Biochem. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0968-0004
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology