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

Lewin, H.A. (2009) Genetics. It’s a bull’s market. Science 324, 478–479

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Z.L. and Song, J. (2006) Piezoelectric nanogenerators based on zinc oxide nanowire arrays. Science 312, 242–246

A journal article with 3 authors

Bailor, M.H. et al. (2010) Topology links RNA secondary structure with global conformation, dynamics, and adaptation. Science 327, 202–206

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Eisenberg, D. et al. (2000) Protein function in the post-genomic era. Nature 405, 823–826

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Panek, W. and Wentworth, T. (2010) Mastering Microsoft® Windows® 7 Administration, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Scarabino, T. et al., eds. (2006) Emergency Neuroradiology, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Bhansali, A. et al. (2016) Childhood Cushing’s Syndrome. In Clinical Rounds in Endocrinology: Volume II - Pediatric Endocrinology (Aggarwal, A. et al., eds), pp. 109–129, Springer India

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

Davis, J. (2015) Scientists Develop Enzyme That Can Convert Any Blood Into Universal Donor Type. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-edge-closer-being-able-change-blood-types/. [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) Space Station: Cost Control Problems Continue to Worsen, 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

McGowan, H.C. (2008) The military experience: Perceptions from senior military officers’ wives. 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

Hodara, S. (2015) Escaping the Past, or Embracing It Before It FadesNew York Times, WE9

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