How to format your references using the Terra Nova citation style

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

Forbes, P., 2005. Poetry and science: greatness in little: Nature, 434, p. 320–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Warneken, F. and Tomasello, M., 2006. Altruistic helping in human infants and young chimpanzees: Science (New York, N.Y.), 311, p. 1301–1303.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore, G.W.K., Holdsworth, G. and Alverson, K., 2002. Climate change in the North Pacific region over the past three centuries: Nature, 420, p. 401–403.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jia, D., Jurkowska, R.Z., Zhang, X., Jeltsch, A. and Cheng, X., 2007. Structure of Dnmt3a bound to Dnmt3L suggests a model for de novo DNA methylation: Nature, 449, p. 248–251.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Courant, R. and McShane, E.J., 1988. Differential and Integral Calculus: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bowers, E.P., Geldhof, G.J., Johnson, S.K., Hilliard, L.J., Hershberg, R.M., Lerner, J.V. and Lerner, R.M. (Eds.), 2015. Promoting Positive Youth Development: Lessons from the 4-H Study: Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

de Winter, M., 2014. Subjectificating Socialisation for the Common Good: The Case for a Democratic Offensive in Upbringing and Education. In: Civic Learning, Democratic Citizenship and the Public Sphere (Biesta, G.,, De Bie, M., and Wildemeersch, D., eds.) Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, p. 55–70.

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 Terra Nova.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Read My Lips: Truly Empathic Robots Will Be A Long Time Coming: IFLScience,.

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, 2002. Space Surveillance Network: Appropriate Controls Needed Over Data Access: U.S. Government Printing Office GAO-02-402RNI.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spillman, S.A., 2014. Is More Always Better: Comparing the Effects of Single and Multiple Learning Channels on Academic Performance [Doctoral dissertation]: University of South Florida.

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

Cowen, T., 2014. Rebalancing the Population Scales: New York Times,, p. BU5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Forbes, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Forbes, 2005; Warneken and Tomasello, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Warneken and Tomasello, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Jia et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Terra Nova
Abbreviation	Terra Nova
ISSN (print)	0954-4879
ISSN (online)	1365-3121
Scope	Geology