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]

R. Lähteenmäki, Finnish biotechnology--built on solid foundations, Nature 420 (2002) A34-5, A37, A39.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.S. Zaret, M. Grompe, Generation and regeneration of cells of the liver and pancreas, Science 322 (2008) 1490–1494.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Deroche-Gamonet, D. Belin, P.V. Piazza, Evidence for addiction-like behavior in the rat, Science 305 (2004) 1014–1017.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Bogdan, M.J. Molina, H. Tenhu, E. Bertel, N. Bogdan, T. Loerting, Visualization of freezing process in situ upon cooling and warming of aqueous solutions, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7414.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Lalanne, Sinusoidal Vibration, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

R. Blewett, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Gao, J. Yang, X. Zhang, Y. Jiang, Capacity Limits for a Cognitive Radio Network under Fading Channel, in: V. Casares-Giner, P. Manzoni, A. Pont (Eds.), NETWORKING 2011 Workshops: International IFIP TC 6 Workshops, PE-CRN, NC-Pro, WCNS, and SUNSET 2011, Held at NETWORKING 2011, Valencia, Spain, May 13, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 42–51.

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]

T. Hale, There Might Be Some Unwanted Guests At Your BBQ This Summer, IFLScience (2017).

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, Telecommunications: Competition Issues in International Satellite Communications, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.L. Gallegos, Spatiotemporal regulation of protein kinase C signaling: Control of normal cellular dynamics and mis-regulation in cancer, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2009.

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]

L. Saslow, Other School Districts Offered State Intervention, New York Times (2008) LI2.

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