How to format your references using the Tectonics citation style

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

Cairns, B. R. (2009). The logic of chromatin architecture and remodelling at promoters. Nature, 461(7261), 193–198.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld, N., & Woese, C. (2007). Biology’s next revolution. Nature, 445(7126), 369.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friedland, J. C., Lee, M. H., & Boettiger, D. (2009). Mechanically activated integrin switch controls alpha5beta1 function. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5914), 642–644.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jackson, J. P., Lindroth, A. M., Cao, X., & Jacobsen, S. E. (2002). Control of CpNpG DNA methylation by the KRYPTONITE histone H3 methyltransferase. Nature, 416(6880), 556–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, Z. N., & Chia, M. Y. W. (2006). Broadband Planar Antennas. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Langlois, W. E. (2014). Slow Viscous Flow. (M. O. Deville, Ed.) (2nd ed. 2014). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bušić, A., & Pekergin, N. (2007). Closed Form Absorption Time Bounds. In K. Wolter (Ed.), Formal Methods and Stochastic Models for Performance Evaluation: Fourth European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2007, Berlin, Germany, September 27-28, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 33–47). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Tectonics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 21). Scientists Get Ready For The Latest Gravitational Wave Search. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1975). Ways of Increasing Productivity in the Maintenance of Commercial-Type Vehicles (No. LCD-75-421). 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

Smith, T. (2012). Outsider leadership transitions: A phenomenological study of Army Reserve General Officers (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Haberman, M., Thrush, G., Schmidt, M. S., & Baker, P. (2017, May 10). How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in Firing. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cairns, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cairns, 2009; Goldenfeld & Woese, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Goldenfeld & Woese, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jackson et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Tectonics
Abbreviation	Tectonics
ISSN (print)	0278-7407
ISSN (online)	1944-9194
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics