How to format your references using the French Historical Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for French Historical 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

Pfennig, Karin S. “Facultative Mate Choice Drives Adaptive Hybridization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318, no. 5852 (November 9, 2007): 965–67.

A journal article with 2 authors

Biju, S. D., and Franky Bossuyt. “New Frog Family from India Reveals an Ancient Biogeographical Link with the Seychelles.” Nature 425, no. 6959 (October 16, 2003): 711–14.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pettifer, Robert F., Stephen P. Collins, and David Laundy. “Quadrupole Transitions Revealed by Borrmann Spectroscopy.” Nature 454, no. 7201 (July 10, 2008): 196–99.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kimura, T., T. Goto, H. Shintani, K. Ishizaka, T. Arima, and Y. Tokura. “Magnetic Control of Ferroelectric Polarization.” Nature 426, no. 6962 (November 6, 2003): 55–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wright, David. Using Commercial Contracts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

Yeung, Daniel S. Sensitivity Analysis for Neural Networks. Edited by Ian Cloete, Daming Shi, and Wing W. Y. Ng. Natural Computing Series. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Saddik, Abdulmotaleb El, Mauricio Orozco, Mohamad Eid, and Jongeun Cha. “Computer Haptics.” In Haptics Technologies: Bringing Touch to Multimedia, edited by Mauricio Orozco, Mohamad Eid, and Jongeun Cha, 105–43. Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

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 French Historical Studies.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. “Clues To Ancient Meteor Impacts Found.” IFLScience. IFLScience, November 5, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/three-ancient-craters-proposed/.

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. “Positive Train Control: Additional Oversight Needed As Most Railroads Do Not Expect to Meet 2015 Implementation Deadline.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 4, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yang, Su Jin. “Adapting Korean Cinderella Folklore as Fairy Tales for Children.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2014.

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

Shear, Michael D., and Mark Landler. “U.S. Withholding Its Endorsement on Climate Pact.” New York Times, May 27, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	French Historical Studies
Abbreviation	Fr. Hist. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0016-1071
Scope	History