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 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

Hansson, G.K. (2007) Medicine. LIGHT hits the liver. Science 316, 206–207

A journal article with 2 authors

Lazio, T.J.W. and LaRosa, T.N. (2005) Astronomy. At the heart of the Milky Way. Science 307, 686–687

A journal article with 3 authors

Nelson, W.A. et al. (2013) Recurrent insect outbreaks caused by temperature-driven changes in system stability. Science 341, 796–799

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Néda, Z. et al. (2000) The sound of many hands clapping. Nature 403, 849–850

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gerardi, M.H. (2003) Settleability Problems and Loss of Solids in the Activated Sludge Process, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Erdmann, V.A. et al., eds. (2015) RNA and DNA Diagnostics, Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Bakas, N.A. and Ioannou, P.J. (2013) On a Dynamical Mechanism Underlying the Intensification of Tropical Cyclones. In Advances in Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics (Helmis, C. G. and Nastos, P. T., eds), pp. 21–26, 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) Bald Eagles Make A Comeback. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bald-eagle-numbers-rebounding-not-completely-safe-yet/. [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 (2000) SBA Loan Monitoring System: Substantial Progress Yet Key Risks and Challenges Remain, 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

Douet, C. (2010) The influence of an overseas trip to France on high school students studying French, four years after graduation. 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

Saslow, L. (2009) Nassau and Union in Deal to Avoid LayoffsNew York Times, LI2

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