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

Feagin, R., 2009. Journal club. A coastal ecologist sees the hidden effects of hurricanes: Nature, 461, p. 319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vanderschuren, L.J.M.J. and Everitt, B.J., 2004. Drug seeking becomes compulsive after prolonged cocaine self-administration: Science (New York, N.Y.), 305, p. 1017–1019.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hosseini, P., Wright, C.D. and Bhaskaran, H., 2014. An optoelectronic framework enabled by low-dimensional phase-change films: Nature, 511, p. 206–211.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Waks, E., Inoue, K., Santori, C., Fattal, D., Vuckovic, J., Solomon, G.S. and Yamamoto, Y., 2002. Secure communication: quantum cryptography with a photon turnstile: Nature, 420, p. 762.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

West, B.J. and Griffin, L.A., 2005. Biodynamics: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vieira, B.C., Salgado, A.A.R. and Santos, L.J.C. (Eds.), 2015. Landscapes and Landforms of Brazil: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Banichuk, N.V. and Neittaanmäki, P., 2010. Optimal Design of Beams and Plates with Uncertainties. In: Structural Optimization with Uncertainties, Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (Neittaanmäki, P., ed.) Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, p. 37–53.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Algae Blooms Alter Nitrogen And Phosphorus Cycles In Lakes To Their Benefit: 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, 2009. Transportation Research: The Department of Transportation Has Made Progress in Coordinating and Reviewing Its Research Activities: U.S. Government Printing Office GAO-09-361T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Steinberg, J., 2015. The Social Construction of Beauty: Body Modification Examined Through the Lens of Social Learning Theory [Doctoral dissertation]: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Hodgman, J., 2016. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman: New York Times,, p. MM20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feagin, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Feagin, 2009; Vanderschuren and Everitt, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Vanderschuren and Everitt, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Waks et al., 2002)

About the journal

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