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

Dye, Christopher. 2008. “Health and Urban Living.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5864): 766–769.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hibberd, Julian M., and W. Paul Quick. 2002. “Characteristics of C4 Photosynthesis in Stems and Petioles of C3 Flowering Plants.” Nature 415 (6870): 451–454.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nielsen, Henrik, Eric Westhof, and Steinar Johansen. 2005. “An MRNA Is Capped by a 2’, 5’ Lariat Catalyzed by a Group I-like Ribozyme.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5740): 1584–1587.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Balmford, A., J. L. Moore, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, L. A. Hansen, P. Williams, and C. Rahbek. 2001. “Conservation Conflicts across Africa.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5513): 2616–2619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuehni, Rolf G. 2012. Color. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bavry, Anthony A. 2012. Indications and Techniques of Percutaneous Procedures: Coronary, Peripheral, and Structural Heart Disease. Edited by Dharam J. Kumbhani. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.

A chapter in an edited book

Vardeman, Stephen, and Robert Kasprzyk. 2012. “Applied Statistical Methods and the Chemical Industry.” In Handbook of Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology, edited by James A. Kent, 131–154. 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. “SeaWorld Have Announced That They Are Ending Live Orca Shows.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seaworld-finally-ending-killer-whale-shows0/.

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. DISH Network Complied with the Court-Appointed Special Master’s Examination of Its Compliance with the Section 119 Statutory License. GAO-13-169R. 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

Stanford, Valerie. 2016. “Finding Theatre from within: Augusto Boal’s Games for Non-Actors in an Introduction to Acting Class.” 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

Feeney, Kelly. 2010. “Southern Barbecue, Up North.” New York Times, October 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dye 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dye 2008; Hibberd and Quick 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hibberd and Quick 2002)
Three authors: (Nielsen, Westhof, and Johansen 2005)
4 or more authors: (Balmford et al. 2001)

About the journal

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