How to format your references using the Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

V. Marx, Biology: The big challenges of big data, Nature 498 (2013) 255–260.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Schreiber, D.A. Rowley, Cancer. Quo vadis, specificity?, Science 319 (2008) 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.K. Mal, M. Fujiwara, Y. Tanaka, Photocontrolled reversible release of guest molecules from coumarin-modified mesoporous silica, Nature 421 (2003) 350–353.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.B. Alley, H.J. Horgan, I. Joughin, K.M. Cuffey, T.K. Dupont, B.R. Parizek, S. Anandakrishnan, J. Bassis, A simple law for ice-shelf calving, Science 322 (2008) 1344.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Ahmad, Sourcebook of ATM and IP Internetworking, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

C. Malgrange, Symmetry and Physical Properties of Crystals, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.D. Isabelle, N.Z. Valle, Engineering, in: N.Z. Valle (Ed.), Inspiring STEM Minds: Biographies and Activities for Elementary Classrooms, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2016: pp. 103–122.

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 Environmental Analytical Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, New Report On GE Crops Avoids Simple Answers – And That’s The Point, Study Members Say, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, University Funding: Information on the Role of Peer Review at NSF and NIH, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Roberts, Use of Stay Interviews as a Retention Tool for Key Talent, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2017.

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

[1]

M. Pilon, Rhythmic Gymnastics Judges Cleared, New York Times (2013) B14.

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 Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Tren. Environ. Anal. Chem.
ISSN (print)	2214-1588
Scope	Analytical Chemistry Environmental Chemistry