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]

M. Cully, Public health: The politics of antibiotics, Nature. 509 (2014) S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.A. Morgan, A. Shilatifard, Medicine. (Poly)combing the pediatric cancer genome for answers, Science. 340 (2013) 823–824.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.C. Loughlin, R.D. Willows, M. Chen, In vitro conversion of vinyl to formyl groups in naturally occurring chlorophylls, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6069.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T.D. Jones, J.O. Farlow, J.A. Ruben, D.M. Henderson, W.J. Hillenius, Cursoriality in bipedal archosaurs, Nature. 406 (2000) 716–718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.A. Stocker, Analog VLSI Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

R.J. Ferry Jr., ed., Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.T. Kreutzer, K.-H. Land, How Marketing Becomes the ROI Driver Within the Company, in: K.-H. Land (Ed.), Digital Darwinism: Branding and Business Models in Jeopardy, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 129–145.

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, Invasive Toads Are Becoming Blind And Deformed On Brazilian Island, Yet Still Thrive, IFLScience. (2015).

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, Cloud Computing: Additional Opportunities and Savings Need to Be Pursued, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.A. Smith, Functional analysis of ESAT-6 and EspB, two virulence proteins secreted by the ESX-1 system in Mycobacterium marinum, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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]

G. Allen, P. Goldman, Little Restored Schoolhouse, New York Times. (2009) A31.

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

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