How to format your references using the Australian Journal of International Affairs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Journal of International Affairs. 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 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

Marx, Vivien. 2014. “Cancer Treatment: Sharp Shooters.” Nature 508 (7494): 133–138.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, Don L., and Scott D. King. 2014. “Geology. Driving the Earth Machine?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6214): 1184–1185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, Douglas R., Lorenzo Galluzzi, and Guido Kroemer. 2011. “Mitochondria and the Autophagy-Inflammation-Cell Death Axis in Organismal Aging.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6046): 1109–1112.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Imai, S., C. M. Armstrong, M. Kaeberlein, and L. Guarente. 2000. “Transcriptional Silencing and Longevity Protein Sir2 Is an NAD-Dependent Histone Deacetylase.” Nature 403 (6771): 795–800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Birinyi, Laszlo. 2013. The Master Trader. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vazquez, Rafael. 2008. Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows: Boundary Stabilization and State Estimation. Edited by Miroslav Krstic. Systems&Control: Foundations&Applications. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu, Wenbing, and Liyun Zha. 2016. “Theoretical Aspects of Polymer Crystallization.” In Controlling the Morphology of Polymers: Multiple Scales of Structure and Processing, edited by Geoffrey R. Mitchell and Ana Tojeira, 101–143. 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 Journal of International Affairs.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “Sauropods’ Tooth-Like Backbones May Have Helped Them Grow Long Necks.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sauropods-toothlike-backbones-may-have-helped-them-grow-long-necks/.

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. 2008. National Airspace System: DOT and FAA Actions Will Likely Have a Limited Effect on Reducing Delays during Summer 2008 Travel Season. GAO-08-934T. 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

Edwards, George. 2010. “Effects of At-Home Reading Activities and Parental Involvement on Classroom Communication Arts Assessments: Focus on the High School Level.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University.

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

Patterson, Mary J. O. 2012. “Nature in All Its Lushness, From an Urbanite’s Mind.” New York Times, May 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Marx 2014; Anderson and King 2014).

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

Two authors: (Anderson and King 2014)
Three authors: (Green, Galluzzi, and Kroemer 2011)
4 or more authors: (Imai et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of International Affairs
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Int. Aff.
ISSN (print)	1035-7718
ISSN (online)	1465-332X
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations