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

Burtis, K.C. (2002) Development. Doublesex in the middle. Science 297, 1135–1136

A journal article with 2 authors

Mervis, J. and Holden, C. (2004) Great expectations on the job front. Science 304, 1829

A journal article with 3 authors

Werner, S.C. et al. (2014) The source crater of martian shergottite meteorites. Science 343, 1343–1346

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Matsuzaki, M. et al. (2004) Structural basis of long-term potentiation in single dendritic spines. Nature 429, 761–766

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chakrabarty, P. (2012) A Guide to Academia, Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

O’Connell, K.P. et al., eds. (2010) Emerging and Endemic Pathogens: Advances in Surveillance, Detection and Identification, 00, Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Palesi, M. et al. (2011) Application-Specific Routing Algorithms for Low Power Network on Chip Design. In Low Power Networks-on-Chip (Silvano, C. et al., eds), pp. 113–150, Springer US

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

Andrews, R. (2017) This Interactive Map Of Every Dinosaur Fossil Ever Found Is So Damn Cool. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/interactive-map-every-dinosaur-fossil-found-damn-cool/. [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 (1996) Emergency Relief: Status of the Replacement of the Cypress Viaduct, 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

Lancaster, G. (2014) Understanding interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among physicians, nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Wagner, J. (2017) With Colon Free and Pitchers Hurt, Mets’ Future Could Lie in Their PastNew York Times, B10

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