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

Baulcombe, D. (2004) RNA silencing in plants. Nature 431, 356–363

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, S. and Bryant, D.A. (2011) The tricarboxylic acid cycle in cyanobacteria. Science 334, 1551–1553

A journal article with 3 authors

Tobie, G. et al. (2006) Episodic outgassing as the origin of atmospheric methane on Titan. Nature 440, 61–64

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Deville, S. et al. (2006) Freezing as a path to build complex composites. Science 311, 515–518

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sauter, M. (2013) 3G, 4G and Beyond-Bringing Networks, Devices and the Web Together, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Collins, M.J. (2010) Pro Project Management with SharePoint 2010, Apress

A chapter in an edited book

Arnay, R. et al. (2009) Detection of Non-structured Roads Using Visible and Infrared Images and an Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm. In Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2008) (Krasnogor, N. et al., eds), pp. 37–47, 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

Andrew, E. (2015) The Martian: A Perfect Balance Of Scientific Accuracy And Gripping Fiction. 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 (1990) Congressional Relations Activities, 1950-1983: Smith Blair, Charles E. Eckert, Martin J. Fitzgerald, and L. Fred Thompson, 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

Roediger, E. (2015) Relaxation Skills Training for Elementary Aged Children. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2003) A Homecoming for Balanchine; City Ballet Shows St. Petersburg That a Master’s Art Is Still AliveNew York Times, E1

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