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

Schiermeier, Q. (2003) Nobel laureate slams misconduct smear. Nature 421, 773

A journal article with 2 authors

Toth, L.J. and Assad, J.A. (2002) Dynamic coding of behaviourally relevant stimuli in parietal cortex. Nature 415, 165–168

A journal article with 3 authors

Fu, Q. et al. (2003) Active nonmetallic Au and Pt species on ceria-based water-gas shift catalysts. Science 301, 935–938

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Nakada, S. et al. (2010) Non-canonical inhibition of DNA damage-dependent ubiquitination by OTUB1. Nature 466, 941–946

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elliott, C.H. and Smith, L.L. (2010) Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies®, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Martel, A. (2016) Designing Value-Creating Supply Chain Networks, Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Hsu, Y.-C. and Chen, S.Y. (2011) Associating Learners’ Cognitive Style with Their Navigation Behaviors: A Data-Mining Approach. In Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Applications: 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV (Jacko, J. A., ed), pp. 27–34, 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

Taub, B. (2016) NASA Will Soon Let Private Companies Attach Modules To The ISS. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-soon-let-private-companies-attach-modules-iss/. [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 (2003) No Child Left Behind Act: More Information Would Help States Determine Which Teachers Are Highly Qualified, 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

Ashirgade, A. (2010) Mechanistic study of the rubber-brass adhesion interphase. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Green, L.V. (2006) Beds of StateNew York Times, 14WC15

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