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

Boyd, R.W. (2015) Nuclear physics: Neutrons with a twist. Nature 525, 462–464

A journal article with 2 authors

Watrin, E. and Peters, J.-M. (2007) Molecular biology. How and when the genome sticks together. Science 317, 209–210

A journal article with 3 authors

Palm, N.W. et al. (2012) Allergic host defences. Nature 484, 465–472

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Brummelkamp, T.R. et al. (2003) Loss of the cylindromatosis tumour suppressor inhibits apoptosis by activating NF-kappaB. Nature 424, 797–801

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bielecki, T.R. et al. (2011) Credit Risk Frontiers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kravets, A. et al., eds. (2014) Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: 11th Joint Conference, JCKBSE 2014, Volgograd, Russia, September 17-20, 2014. Proceedings, 466, Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Cheung, S. et al. (2006) Detecting Disruptive Routers in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks: 5th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2006, Ottawa, Canada, August 17-19, 2006. Proceedings (Kunz, T. and Ravi, S. S., eds), pp. 19–31, Springer

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

Fang, J. (2014) Zombifying Fungus Recognizes the Brain of its Favorite Host. IFLScience. [Online]. [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 (2001) Space Station: Inadequate Planning and Design Led to Propulsion Module Project Failure, 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

Nixon, H.A. (2015) Defining Principals: The Seen and the Unseen. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards Five and Six. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Pennington, B. and Belson, K. (2017) Panthers’ Newton Stands Out in a Quieter Week of Player ProtestsNew York Times, D7

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