How to format your references using the Tectonophysics citation style

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

Seeman, N., 2015. Use data to challenge mental-health stigma. Nature 528, 309.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koren, I., Feingold, G., 2013. Adaptive behavior of marine cellular clouds. Sci. Rep. 3, 2507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dasen, J.S., Liu, J.-P., Jessell, T.M., 2003. Motor neuron columnar fate imposed by sequential phases of Hox-c activity. Nature 425, 926–933.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wignall, P.B., McArthur, J.M., Little, C.T.S., Hallam, A., 2006. Palaeoceanography: methane release in the Early Jurassic period. Nature 441, E5; discussion E5-6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards, S.A., Hollerton, J.C., 2010. Essential Practical NMR for Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Greenberg, I., 2013. Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Rabinovich, V., Alexandrov, N., 2013. Base Station Array Examples for Communication with Vehicles, in: Alexandrov, N. (Ed.), Antenna Arrays and Automotive Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 117–138.

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 Tectonophysics.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Sauropods’ Tooth-Like Backbones May Have Helped Them Grow Long Necks [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2008. Nanotechnology: Better Guidance Is Needed to Ensure Accurate Reporting of Federal Research Focused on Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks (No. GAO-08-402). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Himschoot, A.R., 2012. Student perception of relevance of biology content to everyday life: A study in higher education biology courses (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2016. Rebooting the Dawn of Silicon Valley. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seeman, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Koren and Feingold, 2013; Seeman, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Koren and Feingold, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wignall et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Tectonophysics
Abbreviation	Tectonophysics
ISSN (print)	0040-1951
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geophysics