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

Reichhardt, T. (2000). NASA ponders termination of gamma-ray observatory. Nature, 403(6767), 232.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roesner, S., & Aggarwal, V. K. (2012). Organic chemistry: reactions at the end of a tether. Nature, 487(7405), 48–49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mellman, I., Coukos, G., & Dranoff, G. (2011). Cancer immunotherapy comes of age. Nature, 480(7378), 480–489.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, W.-L., Watauchi, S., Miller, V. L., Cava, R. J., & Ong, N. P. (2004). Dissipationless anomalous Hall current in the ferromagnetic spinel CuCr2Se4-xBrx. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5664), 1647–1649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer-Moore, D., & Moore, M. (2012). Destructive Myths in Family Therapy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Møller, V., & Huschka, D. (Eds.). (2009). Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge: Advances in Quality-of-Life Studies, Theory and Research (Vol. 35). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng, L. P., & Toh, T. L. (2015). Mathematical Problem-Solving Using Real-World Problems. In Y. H. Cho, I. S. Caleon, & M. Kapur (Eds.), Authentic Problem Solving and Learning in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Singapore and Beyond (pp. 57–71). Singapore: 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. (2014, December 4). Ice Tsunami: What The Hell Is Happening In This Video? Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-ice-crawl-out-lake/

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. (1987). Department of Transportation: Enhancing Policy and Program Effectiveness Through Improved Management (No. RCED-87-3S). 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

Catalini, M. (2012). Intrinsic rewards increase job performance within an organization (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Vanderwoude, M. (2016, July 17). Precious Scents on Father’s Day. New York Times, p. A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reichhardt, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Reichhardt, 2000; Roesner & Aggarwal, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Roesner & Aggarwal, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2004)

About the journal

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

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