How to format your references using the Trends in Neurosciences citation style

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

Gwynne, P. (2013) Microbiology: There’s gold in them there bugs. Nature 495, S12-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Kastan, M.B. and Bartek, J. (2004) Cell-cycle checkpoints and cancer. Nature 432, 316–323

A journal article with 3 authors

Veizer, J. et al. (2000) Evidence for decoupling of atmospheric CO2 and global climate during the Phanerozoic eon. Nature 408, 698–701

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Amelung, F. et al. (2000) Widespread uplift and “trapdoor” faulting on Galápagos volcanoes observed with radar interferometry. Nature 407, 993–996

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Al-Malah, K.I.M. (2016) Aspen Plus®, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hooper, G., ed. (2016) Heritage and Tourism in Britain and Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan UK

A chapter in an edited book

Hoeyer, K. (2016) Denmark at a Crossroad? Intensified Data Sourcing in a Research Radical Country. In The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data (Mittelstadt, B. D. and Floridi, L., eds), pp. 73–93, Springer International Publishing

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 Neurosciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) Snowball Earth: New Study Shows Antarctic Climate Even Gripped The Tropics. 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 (1999) Education and Care: Early Childhood Programs and Services for Low-Income Families, 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

Gomez, S. (2012) Support group for caregivers coping with their child diagnosed with autism: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Gustines, G.G. (2012) Where the Artists Have SuperpowersNew York Times, BU1

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 Neurosciences
Abbreviation	Trends Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0166-2236
ISSN (online)	1878-108X
Scope	General Neuroscience