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

Adam, David. 2002. “Field Trials Excluded from UK Crop Appraisal.” Nature 420 (6915): 453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Solomon, Joseph H., and Mitra J. Hartmann. 2006. “Biomechanics: Robotic Whiskers Used to Sense Features.” Nature 443 (7111): 525.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seidel, Hannah S., Matthew V. Rockman, and Leonid Kruglyak. 2008. “Widespread Genetic Incompatibility in C. Elegans Maintained by Balancing Selection.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5863): 589–594.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tomatsu, K., K. Nakatsuji, T. Iimori, Y. Takagi, H. Kusuhara, A. Ishii, and F. Komori. 2007. “An Atomic Seesaw Switch Formed by Tilted Asymmetric Sn-Ge Dimers on a Ge (001) Surface.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5819): 1696–1698.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Masujima, Michio. 2005. Applied Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Dörr, Oliver, and Kirsten Schmalenbach, eds. 2012. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: A Commentary. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Martins, Valéria Farinazzo, Tereza Gonçalves Kirner, and Claudio Kirner. 2015. “Subjective Usability Evaluation Criteria of Augmented Reality Applications.” In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 7th International Conference, VAMR 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, edited by Randall Shumaker and Stephanie Lackey, 39–48. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. “What’s Causing This Mysterious Sleeping Sickness In A Village In Kazakhstan?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mystery-village-s-sleeping-sickness-may-have-been-solved/.

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. 2012. Higher Education: Improved Tax Information Could Help Pay for College. GAO-12-863T. 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

Kutash, Mary. 2015. “The Relationship Between Nurses’ Emotional Intelligence and Patient Outcomes.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Brantley, Ben. 2017. “John Leguizamo in Nutty Professor Mode.” New York Times, March 28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adam 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Adam 2002; Solomon and Hartmann 2006).

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

Two authors: (Solomon and Hartmann 2006)
Three authors: (Seidel, Rockman, and Kruglyak 2008)
4 or more authors: (Tomatsu et al. 2007)

About the journal

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