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 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

Smaglik, P., 2001. US structural genomics effort needs physicists for success: Nature, 410, p. 723–724.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, A.E. and Helenius, A., 2004. How viruses enter animal cells: Science (New York, N.Y.), 304, p. 237–242.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gess, R.W., Coates, M.I. and Rubidge, B.S., 2006. A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa: Nature, 443, p. 981–984.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chavarria, J.A., Malin, P., Catchings, R.D. and Shalev, E., 2003. A look inside the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield through vertical seismic profiling: Science (New York, N.Y.), 302, p. 1746–1748.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murray, A., 2015. The Complete Software Project Manager: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Handler, A., Kennelly, J. and Peacock, N. (Eds.), 2011. Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive and Perinatal Outcomes: The Evidence from Population-Based Interventions: Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Álvarez, P., Hernández, S., Fabra, J. and Ezpeleta, J., 2016. Cost Estimation for the Provisioning of Computing Resources to Execute Bag-of-Tasks Applications in the Amazon Cloud. In: Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 12th International Conference, GECON 2015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Altmann, J.,, Silaghi, G.C., and Rana, O.F., eds.) Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 65–77.

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. Imagining Strange New Lifeforms Could Help Us Discover Our Own Origins: 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, 2001. Vehicle Safety: Technologies, Challenges, and Research and Development Expenditures for Advanced Air Bags: U.S. Government Printing Office GAO-01-596.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Diorio, C.A., 2010. The silent scream of Medusa: Restoring, or re-storying, her voice [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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Sex Doll: New York Times,, p. C14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2001; Smith and Helenius, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Helenius, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Chavarria et al., 2003)

About the journal

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