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 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

Bradshaw, R.A., 2013. Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012). Nature 493, 306.

A journal article with 2 authors

Spradling, A.C., Zheng, Y., 2007. Developmental biology. The mother of all stem cells? Science 315, 469–470.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kayser, M.S., Yue, Z., Sehgal, A., 2014. A critical period of sleep for development of courtship circuitry and behavior in Drosophila. Science 344, 269–274.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sachs, K., Perez, O., Pe’er, D., Lauffenburger, D.A., Nolan, G.P., 2005. Causal protein-signaling networks derived from multiparameter single-cell data. Science 308, 523–529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bailly, P., 2013. Materials and Structures under Shock and Impact. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA.

An edited book

Peña, R., Page, R. (Eds.), 2012. Trends in Functional Programming: 12th International Symposium, TFP 2011, Madrid, Spain, May 16-18, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

UNEP, 2009. Aid for Trade for Sustainable Development, in: Lombaerde, P.D., Puri, L. (Eds.), Aid for Trade: Global and Regional Perspectives: 2007 World Report on Regional Integration. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 87–98.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. New Method Could Help Estimate Time of Death for a Ten-Day-Old Corpse [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, 2009. Highway Infrastructure: Federal Efforts to Strengthen Security Should Be Better Coordinated and Targeted on the Nation’s Most Critical Highway Infrastructure (No. GAO-09-57). 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

Haug, J.J., 2010. A summer literacy intervention for struggling readers at the middle school level using strategies in comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and positive school climate to improve reading comprehension: An evaluation study (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Pilon, M., 2013. Sprinter in 1988 Olympic Scandal Denounces Doping. New York Times B18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bradshaw, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bradshaw, 2013; Spradling and Zheng, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Spradling and Zheng, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sachs et al., 2005)

About the journal

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