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

Fuhrman, J. A. (2009). Microbial community structure and its functional implications. Nature, 459(7244), 193–199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, A., & Koehler, A. N. (2015). Drug discovery. Tying up a transcription factor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6223), 713–714.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martincorena, I., Seshasayee, A. S. N., & Luscombe, N. M. (2012). Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests an evolutionary risk management strategy. Nature, 485(7396), 95–98.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Johnson, M. W., Amin, M. H. S., Gildert, S., Lanting, T., Hamze, F., Dickson, N., et al. (2011). Quantum annealing with manufactured spins. Nature, 473(7346), 194–198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reid, G. (2011). Dyslexia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Guo, S., & Wong, L. (Eds.). (2015). Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada: Theories, Policies and Debates. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun, G., Zhao, C., & Shi, Y. (2008). Epigenetic Control of Neural Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Specification. In Y. Shi & D. O. Clegg (Eds.), Stem Cell Research and Therapeutics (pp. 69–82). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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, November 5). In Our Wi-Fi World, The Internet Still Depends On Undersea Cables. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/our-wi-fi-world-internet-still-depends-undersea-cables/

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. (1992). Aviation Research: Progress Has Been Made but Several Factors Will Affect Program Success (No. T-RCED-92-39). 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

Keels, D. (2014). An Analysis of the Correlation between Teacher Effectiveness and Student Standardized Test Scores (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

Rothenberg, B. (2016, September 1). For Player, Time Away Pays Off in Upset. New York Times, p. B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuhrman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chen & Koehler, 2015; Fuhrman, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Chen & Koehler, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al., 2011)

About the journal

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