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:

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

Lipton, P. (2005) Testing hypotheses: prediction and prejudice. Science 307, 219–221

A journal article with 2 authors

Fitch, W.T. and Hauser, M.D. (2004) Computational constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate. Science 303, 377–380

A journal article with 3 authors

Deller, A.T. et al. (2009) Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B. Science 323, 1327–1329

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Martínez-Sansigre, A. et al. (2005) The obscuration by dust of most of the growth of supermassive black holes. Nature 436, 666–669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elias, H.-G. (2009) Macromolecules, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Pernul, G. et al., eds. (2015) Computer Security -- ESORICS 2015: 20th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Vienna, Austria, September 21-25, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, 9327, Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Jensen, M.H. et al. (2008) Dynamical Genetic Regulation. In Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales (Skjeltorp, A. T. and Belushkin, A. V., eds), pp. 61–81, Springer Netherlands

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

Taub, B. (2016) Tarantula Venom Helps Reveal How We Sense Pain. IFLScience. [Online]. [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 (1993) Airport Improvement Program: Allocation of Funds From 1982 to 1992, 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

Reynolds, P.E. (2012) Learning the Ropes: A Grounded Theory Study of Children Crossing Cultures. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Hartocollis, A. (2015) Latest Economic Lifeline Is a Leafy OneNew York Times, A14

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 Biotechnology
Abbreviation	Trends Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	0167-7799
ISSN (online)	1879-3096
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering