How to format your references using the Trends in Biotechnology citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Schönenberger, C. (2013) Physics. Two indistinguishable electrons interfere in an electronic device. Science 339, 1041–1042
A journal article with 2 authors
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Becker, N.B. and Everaers, R. (2009) Comment on “Remeasuring the double helix.” Science 325, 538; author reply 538
A journal article with 3 authors
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Lyons, J.R. et al. (2009) Comment on “Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO.” Science 324, 1516;author reply 1516
A journal article with 3 or more authors
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Hennigs, J.K. et al. (2014) Fibrinogen plasma concentration is an independent marker of haemodynamic impairment in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Sci. Rep. 4, 4808

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Campbell, C.A. (2008) The One-Page Project Manager for it Projects, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
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Matwin, S. and Mielniczuk, J., eds. (2016) Challenges in Computational Statistics and Data Mining, 605, Springer International Publishing
A chapter in an edited book
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Heimrich, T. et al. (2005) Modelling and Streaming Spatiotemporal Audio Data. In On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops: OTM Confederated Internationl Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, GADA, MIOS+INTEROP, ORM, PhDS, SeBGIS, SWWS, and WOSE 2005, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 31 - November 4, 2005. Proceedings (Meersman, R. et al., eds), pp. 7–8, 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 Biotechnology.

Blog post
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Fang, J. (2015) Crushed Ants Smell Like Blue Cheese and Piña Coladas Gone Bad. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crushed-ants-smell-blue-cheese-and-pi-coladas-gone-bad/. [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
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Government Accountability Office (1991) Immigrant Education: Information on the Emergency Immigrant Education Act Program, 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
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Tucker, M.S. (2010) Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of in vitro selected artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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
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Casey, N. (2017) Peace Is New Test for Colombian Coca FarmersNew York Times, A1

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 titleTrends in Biotechnology
AbbreviationTrends Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)0167-7799
ISSN (online)1879-3096
ScopeBiotechnology
Bioengineering

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