How to format your references using the Contemporary British History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary British History. 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

Kaiser, Roman. “Flowers and Fungi Use Scents to Mimic Each Other.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, no. 5762 (February 10, 2006): 806–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kanan, Matthew W., and Daniel G. Nocera. “In Situ Formation of an Oxygen-Evolving Catalyst in Neutral Water Containing Phosphate and Co2+.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321, no. 5892 (August 22, 2008): 1072–75.

A journal article with 3 authors

Toope, Stephen J., Chorh Chuan Tan, and Nina V. Fedoroff. “Science in Asia. Improving Asia-Pacific Science Collaboration.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, no. 6077 (April 6, 2012): 38–39.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fixler, J. B., G. T. Foster, J. M. McGuirk, and M. A. Kasevich. “Atom Interferometer Measurement of the Newtonian Constant of Gravity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315, no. 5808 (January 5, 2007): 74–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackenzie, A. Fiona D. Places of Possibility. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Hamadi, Youssef, and Marc Schoenauer, eds. Learning and Intelligent Optimization: 6th International Conference, LION 6, Paris, France, January 16-20, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 7219. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Gómez, Africa, and David H. Lunt. “Refugia within Refugia: Patterns of Phylogeographic Concordance in the Iberian Peninsula.” In Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins and Conservation of European Biodiversity, edited by Steven Weiss and Nuno Ferrand, 155–88. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007.

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 Contemporary British History.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. “Watch The Moment A Herd Of Bison Are Returned To Canada’s Oldest National Park.” IFLScience. IFLScience, February 8, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-the-moment-a-herd-of-bison-are-returned-to-canadas-oldest-national-park/.

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. “Distance Learning: Opportunities Exist for DOD to Capitalize on Services’ Efforts.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 18, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tafoya, Armando. “Impact of HIV/AIDS Stigma on Seropositive Latinos along the United States-Mexico Border.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

Sisario, Ben, Alexandra Alter, and Sewell Chan. “Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining the Boundaries of Literature.” New York Times, October 13, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary British History
Abbreviation	Contemp. Br. Hist.
ISSN (print)	1361-9462
ISSN (online)	1743-7997
Scope	History Development Safety Research Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations