How to format your references using the Trames citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trames. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Krimsky, Sheldon (2011) “Beware of gifts that come at too great a cost”. Nature 474, 7350, 129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kidner, Catherine A. and Robert A. Martienssen (2004) “Spatially restricted microRNA directs leaf polarity through ARGONAUTE1”. Nature 428, 6978, 81–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Castelnovo, C., R. Moessner, and S. L. Sondhi (2008) “Magnetic monopoles in spin ice”. Nature 451, 7174, 42–45.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sideris, Paul J., Ulla Gro Nielsen, Zhehong Gan, and Clare P. Grey (2008) “Mg/Al ordering in layered double hydroxides revealed by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy”. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321, 5885, 113–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guochao, Qian, Tang Shuyu, Zhao Min, and Jing Chun (2014) The Environment and Landscape in Motorway Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Serneels, Bert and Michiel Steyaert, eds. (2008) Design of High Voltage xDSL Line Drivers in Standard CMOS. (Analog Circuits and Signal Processing Series). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Koster, Andrew, Fernando Koch, and Ana L. C. Bazzan (2014) “Incentivising Crowdsourced Parking Solutions”. In Jordi Nin and Daniel Villatoro, eds. Citizen in Sensor Networks: Second International Workshop, CitiSens 2013, Barcelona, Spain, September 19, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, 36–43. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Cham: 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 Trames.

Blog post

Davis, Josh (2016) New Strain Of “Super” Gonorrhea Could Be Resistant To All Antibiotics. Available online at <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-strain-of-super-gonorrhea-could-be-resistant-to-all-antibiotics/>. Accessed 30.10.2018.

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 (2014) Credit Cards: Marketing to College Students Appears to Have Declined. GAO-14-225. Washington, DC: 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

Djajalaksana, Yenni M. (2011) A National Survey of Instructional Strategies Used to Teach Information Systems Courses: An Exploratory Investigation. Doctoral dissertation. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Weber, Bruce (2016) “Henry Worsley, a British Adventurer Trying to Cross Antarctica, Dies at 55”. New York Times A24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Krimsky 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kidner and Martienssen 2004; Krimsky 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kidner and Martienssen 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sideris et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Trames
ISSN (print)	1406-0922
ISSN (online)	1736-7514
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