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

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

Paddock, S. (2002) Tech.Sight. Optical sectioning--slices of life. Science 295, 1319–1321

A journal article with 2 authors

Backwell, P.R.Y. and Jennions, M.D. (2004) Animal behaviour: coalition among male fiddler crabs. Nature 430, 417

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Ent, F. et al. (2001) Prokaryotic origin of the actin cytoskeleton. Nature 413, 39–44

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Yang, L. et al. (2013) Characterization of GM events by insert knowledge adapted re-sequencing approaches. Sci. Rep. 3, 2839

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akcoglu, M.A. et al. (2009) Analysis in Vector Spaces, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Guger, C. et al., eds. (2014) Brain-Computer Interface Research: A State-of-the-Art Summary 3, Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Gigengack, F. et al. (2015) Further Developments in PET Motion Correction. In Motion Correction in Thoracic Positron Emission Tomography (Jiang, X. et al., eds), pp. 75–80, 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 Pharmacological Sciences.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016) The US Government Is Preparing To Approve A Private Mission To The Moon. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-us-government-is-preparing-to-approve-a-private-mission-to-the-moon/. [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 (1984) Use of Department of Education Title III Grant Funds by the International Institute of the Americas of World University, 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

Williamson, C.L. (2012) Hispanic female undergraduates perception of nursing as a career choice: A phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Koblin, J. (2017) Elena Ferrante Series Is Coming to HBONew York Times, C2

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 Pharmacological Sciences
Abbreviation	Trends Pharmacol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0165-6147
ISSN (online)	1873-3735
Scope	Pharmacology Toxicology