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

Winker, K. “Migration and Speciation.” Nature 404, no. 6773 (March 2, 2000): 36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Adams, Daniel L., and Jonathan C. Horton. “Shadows Cast by Retinal Blood Vessels Mapped in Primary Visual Cortex.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298, no. 5593 (October 18, 2002): 572–76.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, Ke, Guisheng Zhong, and Xiaowei Zhuang. “Actin, Spectrin, and Associated Proteins Form a Periodic Cytoskeletal Structure in Axons.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339, no. 6118 (January 25, 2013): 452–56.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Heath, James, Edward Ayres, Malcolm Possell, Richard D. Bardgett, Helaina I. J. Black, Helen Grant, Phil Ineson, and Gerhard Kerstiens. “Rising Atmospheric CO2 Reduces Sequestration of Root-Derived Soil Carbon.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309, no. 5741 (September 9, 2005): 1711–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klerk, Arno de. Fischer-Tropsch Refining. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2011.

An edited book

Dong, Ling. Cryptographic Protocol: Security Analysis Based on Trusted Freshness. Edited by Kefei Chen. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Evers, Sander, Arjen Hommersom, Peter Lucas, Carmen Cochior, and Paul van den Bosch. “Reasoning with Uncertainty about System Behaviour: Making Printing Systems Adaptive.” In Model-Based Design of Adaptive Embedded Systems, edited by Twan Basten, Roelof Hamberg, Frans Reckers, and Jacques Verriet, 125–58. Embedded Systems. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

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

Andrew, Danielle. “60% Of Primate Species Now Threatened With Extinction, Says Major New Study.” IFLScience. IFLScience, January 18, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/60-of-primate-species-now-threatened-with-extinction-says-major-new-study/.

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. “Highway Infrastructure: Federal-State Partnership Produces Benefits and Poses Oversight Risks.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 26, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kapatsinski, Vsevolod. “The Architecture of Grammar in Artificial Grammar Learning: Formal Biases in the Acquisition of Morphophonology and the Nature of the Learning Task.” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2009.

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

Brantley, Ben. “Time Takes the Sharp Edges Off a Femme Fatale in a David Hare Revival.” New York Times, October 24, 2016.

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