How to format your references using the Historical Materialism citation style

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

Kamien, Randall D. 2003, ‘Physics. Topology from the bottom up’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, 5613: 1671–73.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, Charles R. and Zuzanna S. Siwy 2007, ‘Chemistry. Learning nature’s way: biosensing with synthetic nanopores’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 317, 5836: 331–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Kelin, Yan Hu, and Jiangheng He 2012, ‘Deformation cycles of subduction earthquakes in a viscoelastic Earth’, Nature 484, 7394: 327–32.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arlinghaus, Robert, Steven J. Cooke, Felicia C. Coleman, Will F. Figueira, Jeffrey S. Ueland, and Larry B. Crowder 2005, ‘Global Impact of Recreational Fisheries’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 307, 5715: 1561–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gu, Xinxin, Ning Jiang, Kan Ji, Huiyu Li, Xinhong Qiu, Weiliang Li, Xuejun Ji, Hongwei Du, Bingbing Sheng, and Hai Huang 2017, Self-Healing Control Technology for Distribution Networks, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Lam, Chi-Ming, and Jae Park (eds.) 2016, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region Vol. 29, . Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

LeBlanc, Marc-André and Jim Pickett 2014, ‘Advocating for Rectal Microbicides and Safe Lubricants’, in Biomedical Advances in HIV Prevention: Social and Behavioral Perspectives, edited by Lisa A. Eaton and Seth C. Kalichman, New York, NY: Springer: 53–65.

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 Historical Materialism.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen 2015, ‘Evidence Suggests Mars Was Cold and Icy, Not Warm and Wet’, IFLScience, IFLScience, available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/icy-mars-theory-strikes-back/.

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 1980, Comments on H.R. 7689, , U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, Natasha A. 2017, ‘Mobile Apps for Cognitive Restructuring: A Review and Comparative Analysis’, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Hartman, Susan 2015, ‘Love, Redeployed’, New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Historical Materialism
ISSN (print)	1465-4466
ISSN (online)	1569-206X
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