How to format your references using the Trends in Cell Biology citation style

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

Sampat, B.N. (2010) Lessons from Bayh-Dole. Nature 468, 755–756

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, H. and Bunn, H.F. (2001) Signal transduction. How do cells sense oxygen? Science 292, 449–451

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, J. et al. (2009) Total synthesis of (+)-11,11’-dideoxyverticillin A. Science 324, 238–241

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Stevenson, S. et al. (2000) A stable non-classical metallofullerene family. Nature 408, 427–428

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Manuele, F.A. (2007) Advanced Safety Management Focusing on Z10 and Serious Injury Prevention, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Comyn-Wattiau, I. et al., eds. (2016) Conceptual Modeling: 35th International Conference, ER 2016, Gifu, Japan, November 14-17, 2016, Proceedings, 9974, Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Mali, K.P. et al. (2016) Strengthening Forest Resource Valuation and Accounting System: A Case of Forest Resources of Kerala, India. In Nature, Economy and Society: Understanding the Linkages (Ghosh, N. et al., eds), pp. 87–112, 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 Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) Methane Detected On Mars Could Have Come From Curiosity. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/methane-detected-mars-may-not-be-martian/. [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 (2000) Information Technology: INS Needs to Better Manage the Development of Its Enterprise Architecture, 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

Kemp, L.S. (2013) Perspective processing in language comprehension: Embodied efffects depend on the pronoun. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly, M. (1993) Clinton, Off and Running, Sees the Sun Rise on ’93New York Times, 18

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 Cell Biology
Abbreviation	Trends Cell Biol.
ISSN (print)	0962-8924
ISSN (online)	1879-3088
Scope	Cell Biology