How to format your references using the Tyndale Bulletin citation style

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

Pain, Elisabeth. ‘Science Careers. Sustaining Forests in a Changing World’. Science 320.5882 (2008): 1514–17.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fry, Douglas P., and Patrik Söderberg. ‘Lethal Aggression in Mobile Forager Bands and Implications for the Origins of War’. Science 341.6143 (2013): 270–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morgan, Andrew D., Sylvain Gandon, and Angus Buckling. ‘The Effect of Migration on Local Adaptation in a Coevolving Host-Parasite System’. Nature 437.7056 (2005): 253–56.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Matthews, Jaymie M., Rainer Kuschnig, David B. Guenther, Gordon A. H. Walker, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Slavek M. Rucinski, Dimitar Sasselov, Werner W. Weiss, and Rainer Kusching. ‘No Stellar P-Mode Oscillations in Space-Based Photometry of Procyon’. Nature 430.6995 (2004): 51–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, Bruce R. Fundraising Law Made Easy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

Staudter, Christian. Design for Six Sigma+Lean Toolset: Implementing Innovations Successfully. Edited by Jens-Peter Mollenhauer, Renata Renata, Olin Roenpage, Clemens von Hugo, Alexis Hamalides, and Stephan Lunau. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Gosling, Patricia, and Bart Noordam. ‘How to Think Like a Scientist’. Pages 27–34 in Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond. Edited by Lambertus D. Noordam. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

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 Tyndale Bulletin.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. ‘Ants Devour Dead Gecko’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 26 May 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-devour-dead-gecko/.

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. Information Technology: OMB’s Dashboard Has Increased Transparency and Oversight, but Improvements Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 16, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Glennie, Neil T. ‘Examining Trust Factor Relationships in the Online Business-to-Consumer Environment’. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2010.

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

Kinsley, Michael. ‘Can There Be Nothing Good to Say?’ New York Times, 13 May 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Tyndale Bulletin
ISSN (print)	0082-7118
ISSN (online)	2752-7042
Scope