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

Brumfiel, Geoff. “Antihydrogen: Holding up a Mirror to Physics’ World View.” Nature 420, no. 6917 (2002): 731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez, Fernando, and Brian Taylor. “Mantle Wedge Control on Back-Arc Crustal Accretion.” Nature 416, no. 6879 (March 28, 2002): 417–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goes, Saskia, Fabio A. Capitanio, and Gabriele Morra. “Evidence of Lower-Mantle Slab Penetration Phases in Plate Motions.” Nature 451, no. 7181 (February 21, 2008): 981–84.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Headon, D. J., S. A. Emmal, B. M. Ferguson, A. S. Tucker, M. J. Justice, P. T. Sharpe, J. Zonana, and P. A. Overbeek. “Gene Defect in Ectodermal Dysplasia Implicates a Death Domain Adapter in Development.” Nature 414, no. 6866 (2001): 913–16.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guzinski, Jaroslaw, Haitham Abu-Rub, and Patryk Strankowski. Variable Speed AC Drives with Inverter Output Filters. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

Lee, Sukhan, Il Hong Suh, and Mun Sang Kim, eds. Recent Progress in Robotics: Viable Robotic Service to Human: An Edition of the Selected Papers from the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics. Vol. 370. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Isabelle, Aaron D., and Nataly Z. Valle. “Engineering.” In Inspiring STEM Minds: Biographies and Activities for Elementary Classrooms, edited by Nataly Z. Valle, 103–22. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2016.

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

Andrew, Elise. “170-Year-Old Shipwreck Beer Tastes Like Goat And Smells Of Rotting Cabbage.” IFLScience. IFLScience, March 9, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/170-year-old-shipwreck-beer-tastes-goat-and-smells-rotting-cabbage/.

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. “Tank Recovery Vehicle: Status of Program Acquisition and Full-Scale Engineering Development.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 2, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garrett, Dawn. “A Quantitative Study of STEM Goal and Role Alignment across Stakeholder Leaders in California: Advocacy for Application of a Systems Solution Approach.” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2013.

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

Novick, Susan M. “As Cheese or Chocolate, Comfort Comes Melted.” New York Times, December 29, 2013.

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