How to format your references using the Trends in Molecular Medicine citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2004) Election returns. Nature 432, 417

A journal article with 2 authors

Lefèvre, F. and Forget, F. (2009) Observed variations of methane on Mars unexplained by known atmospheric chemistry and physics. Nature 460, 720–723

A journal article with 3 authors

Sparrow, B. et al. (2011) Google effects on memory: cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science 333, 776–778

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Kienast, M. et al. (2001) Synchronous tropical South China Sea SST change and Greenland warming during deglaciation. Science 291, 2132–2134

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Swatton, P.J. (2010) Principles of Flight for Pilots, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Chawla, N. (2013) Metal Matrix Composites, (2nd ed. 2013.), Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Luna, B.Q. et al. (2014) Methods for Debris Flow Hazard and Risk Assessment. In Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance (Van Asch, T. et al., eds), pp. 133–177, Springer Netherlands

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 Molecular Medicine.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016) Man Who Fell Into Yellowstone Hot Spring Completely Dissolved Within A Day. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/man-fell-yellowstone-hot-spring-completely-dissolved-day/. [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 (1981) Review of Department of Education FY 1980 Interagency Fund Transfer Agreements, 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

Fountain, J.M. (2014) Differences in Generational Work Values in America and Their Implications for Educational Leadership: A Longitudinal Test of Twenge’s Model. 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

Vecsey, G. (2009) In Season of Defense, Recalling Swoboda’s CatchNew York Times, B19

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 Molecular Medicine
Abbreviation	Trends Mol. Med.
ISSN (print)	1471-4914
ISSN (online)	1471-499X
Scope	Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine