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 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

Rocha, Benedita. ‘Comment on “Thymic Origin of Intestinal Alphabeta T Cells Revealed by Fate Mapping of RORgammat+ Cells”’. Science 308.5728 (2005): 1553; author reply 1553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Möller, Karin, and Thomas Bein. ‘Chemistry. Pores within Pores--How to Craft Ordered Hierarchical Zeolites’. Science 333.6040 (2011): 297–98.

A journal article with 3 authors

Magnuson, J. J., C. Safina, and M. P. Sissenwine. ‘Ecology and Conservation. Whose Fish Are They Anyway?’ Science 293.5533 (2001): 1267–68.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Salzberg, S. L., O. White, J. Peterson, and J. A. Eisen. ‘Microbial Genes in the Human Genome: Lateral Transfer or Gene Loss?’ Science 292.5523 (2001): 1903–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Werner, Marion. Global Displacements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

Lagerlund, Henrik, ed. Forming The Mind: Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment. Vol. 5 of Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Kidd, Elizabeth, and Perry Grigsby. ‘The Use of Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging for Image-Guided Therapy’. Pages 41–48 in Gynecologic Radiation Therapy: Novel Approaches to Image-Guidance and Management. Edited by Akila N. Viswanathan, Christian Kirisits, Beth E. Erickson, and Richard Pötter. 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. ‘Stark IPCC Climate Report Shows The Time For Talking Is Over’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 3 November 2014.

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. Review of a Contract for Mobile Radio Sets for the Army. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 12, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cook, Emilee J. ‘Older Americans Act of 1965, Title III: A Policy Analysis’. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

Chumsky, Susan. ‘Two Legacies, Now Home to Roost’. New York Times, 10 October 2013.

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