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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Gnecco, E. (2009). Nanotechnology: A gentle jackhammer. Nature, 461(7261), 178–179.

A journal article with 2 authors

Labinger, J. A., & Bercaw, J. E. (2002). Understanding and exploiting C-H bond activation. Nature, 417(6888), 507–514.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berkhout, B., Das, A. T., & Beerens, N. (2001). HIV-1 RNA editing, hypermutation, and error-prone reverse transcription. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5514), 7.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rambaut, A., Robertson, D. L., Pybus, O. G., Peeters, M., & Holmes, E. C. (2001). Human immunodeficiency virus. Phylogeny and the origin of HIV-1. Nature, 410(6832), 1047–1048.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rabe, J. L., & Martorana, R. J. (2014). Alts Democratized. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hilber, N. (2013). Computational Methods for Quantitative Finance: Finite Element Methods for Derivative Pricing. (O. Reichmann, C. Schwab, & C. Winter, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Khangamwa, G. (2011). Detecting Network Intrusions Using Hierarchical Temporal Memory. In R. Popescu-Zeletin, I. A. Rai, K. Jonas, & A. Villafiorita (Eds.), E-Infrastuctures and E-Services for Developing Countries: Second International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, November 25-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 41–48). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrews, R. (2017, January 26). Gene-Editing Therapy Saves Lives Of Two Baby Girls With Leukemia. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/geneediting-therapy-saves-lives-baby-girls-leukemia/

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. (1973). Protest Against NASA Contract for Janitorial Services (No. B-178747). 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

Parker, H. A. (2017). Virtual Mate Poaching: A study of the tactics used to poach a potential mate on Social Networking Sites (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

Harris, E. A. (2014, June 5). Walking Away, Quietly. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gnecco, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gnecco, 2009; Labinger & Bercaw, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Labinger & Bercaw, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Rambaut et al., 2001)

About the journal

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