How to format your references using the Trends in Biochemical Sciences citation style

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

Muddiman, D.C. (2011) Retrospective. John Bennett Fenn (1917-2010). Science 331, 160

A journal article with 2 authors

Tobias, S.M. and Cattaneo, F. (2013) Shear-driven dynamo waves at high magnetic Reynolds number. Nature 497, 463–465

A journal article with 3 authors

Hilgenkamp, H. et al. (2003) Physics. Flux quanta on the move. Science 302, 1159–1160

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Santagiustina, M. et al. (2013) All-optical signal processing using dynamic Brillouin gratings. Sci. Rep. 3, 1594

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wrobel, G.M. and Neil, E. (2009) International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Cossentino, M. et al., eds. (2013) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: First International Workshop, EMAS 2013, St. Paul, MN, USA, May 6-7, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, 8245, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Gaestel, M. (2006) Molecular Chaperones in Signal Transduction. In Molecular Chaperones in Health and Disease (Starke, K. and Gaestel, M., eds), pp. 93–109, 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 Biochemical Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016) World’s First 3D-Printed Plane Unveiled By Airbus. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-3dprinted-plane-unveiled-by-airbus/. [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 (1979) Science Indicators: Improvements Needed in Design, Construction, and Interpretation, 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

Friedlander, M.B. (2014) Limited Sight Distance. 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

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES (2017) Fire EscapesNew York Times, RE15

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 Biochemical Sciences
Abbreviation	Trends Biochem. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0968-0004
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology