How to format your references using the Australian Feminist Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Feminist Studies. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Mueller, Kristen L. 2013. “Antibodies. The Future Is Now. Introduction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341 (6151): 1191.

A journal article with 2 authors

Venters, Bryan J., and B. Franklin Pugh. 2013. “Genomic Organization of Human Transcription Initiation Complexes.” Nature 502 (7469): 53–58.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sherman, David H., Sachiko Tsukamoto, and Robert M. Williams. 2015. “ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. Comment on ‘Asymmetric Syntheses of Sceptrin and Massadine and Evidence for Biosynthetic Enantiodivergence.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6244): 149.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ferguson, Neil M., Derek A. T. Cummings, Christophe Fraser, James C. Cajka, Philip C. Cooley, and Donald S. Burke. 2006. “Strategies for Mitigating an Influenza Pandemic.” Nature 442 (7101): 448–452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms. 2011. Engineering Solutions for Sustainability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cosottini, Mirco, ed. 2012. Anatomia RM Dell’encefalo. Vol. 7. Imaging & Formazione. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kosec, Marija, Barbara Malič, Andreja Benčan, and Tadej Rojac. 2008. “KNN-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics.” In Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications, edited by Ahmad Safari and E. Koray Akdoğan, 81–102. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Australian Feminist Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Why I Wasn’t Excited About The Medieval Remedy That Works Against MRSA.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-i-wasn-t-excited-about-medieval-remedy-works-against-mrsa/.

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. 2011. IT Dashboard: Accuracy Has Improved, and Additional Efforts Are Under Way to Better Inform Decision Making. GAO-12-210. 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

Adaligil, Emel. 2010. “Electron Transfer through Self-Assembled Monolayers of Alkaneselenols and Alkanethiols on Mercury Electrode.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Herrman, John. 2017. “Trust Bust.” New York Times, October 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mueller 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Mueller 2013; Venters and Pugh 2013).

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

Two authors: (Venters and Pugh 2013)
Three authors: (Sherman, Tsukamoto, and Williams 2015)
4 or more authors: (Ferguson et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Feminist Studies
Abbreviation	Aust. Fem. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0816-4649
ISSN (online)	1465-3303
Scope	Gender Studies