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

Stewart, L. (2014) Gerontology: Will you still need me, will you still feed me? Nature 514, S14-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Mendelson, T.C. and Shaw, K.L. (2005) Sexual behaviour: rapid speciation in an arthropod. Nature 433, 375–376

A journal article with 3 authors

Hung, C.-L. et al. (2013) From cosmology to cold atoms: observation of Sakharov oscillations in a quenched atomic superfluid. Science 341, 1213–1215

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Chow, A. et al. (2002) Dendritic cell maturation triggers retrograde MHC class II transport from lysosomes to the plasma membrane. Nature 418, 988–994

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burd, B. (2011) Java® For Dummies®, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Trecca, A., ed. (2013) Atlas of Ileoscopy: A Collection of Clinical Cases, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Paull, L. et al. (2011) A Multi-agent Framework with MOOS-IvP for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with Sidescan Sonar Sensors. In Autonomous and Intelligent Systems: Second International Conference, AIS 2011, Burnaby, BC, Canada, June 22-24, 2011. Proceedings (Kamel, M. et al., eds), pp. 41–50, 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

Andrew, E. (2015) Whether Mozart Or Madonna, Music Can Help You Recover From Surgery. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/whether-mozart-or-madonna-music-can-help-you-recover-surgery/. [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 (1991) Automobile Weight and Safety, 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

Miller, R.L. (2015) Models for the Interaction of Structured Populations and the Environment. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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) Mets Form Dream Infield, for a ChiropractorNew York Times, D2

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