How to format your references using the History Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for History Australia (RHAH). 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

Marks, Tobin J. ‘Retrospective: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007)’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, no. 5822 (13 April 2007): 214.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vendruscolo, Michele, and Christopher M. Dobson. ‘Structural Biology. Dynamic Visions of Enzymatic Reactions’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5793 (15 September 2006): 1586–87.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ogawa, Yuya, Bryan K. Sun, and Jeannie T. Lee. ‘Intersection of the RNA Interference and X-Inactivation Pathways’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5881 (6 June 2008): 1336–41.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kleine, Thorsten, Herbert Palme, Klaus Mezger, and Alex N. Halliday. ‘Hf-W Chronometry of Lunar Metals and the Age and Early Differentiation of the Moon’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, no. 5754 (9 December 2005): 1671–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choi, Nak-Eon, and Jung H. Han. How Flavor Works. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

Rockman, Marcy, and Joe Flatman, eds. Archaeology in Society: Its Relevance in the Modern World. New York, NY: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Stolzenburg, Jens-Uwe, Evangelos N. Liatsikos, Thilo Schwalenberg, Tim Häfner, Minh Do, Stefan Orth, Florian Wissing, et al. ‘Miscellaneous’. In Laparoscopic and Robot-Assisted Surgery in Urology: Atlas of Standard Procedures, edited by Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg, Ingolf A. Türk, and Evangelos N. Liatsikos, 363–86. 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 History Australia.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. ‘How Claw Machines Are Rigged’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 31 August 2015. Accessed. 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/claw-machines-are-rigged-obviously/.

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. Consolidated Student Loans: Borrowers Benefit but Costs to Them and the Government Grow. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 15 June 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim, Grace. ‘Development of a Nutrition-Based Curriculum for Farm-to-School Programs for the Fourth and Fifth Grades’. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

Greenhouse, Linda. ‘Justices Explore U.S. Authority Over States on Assisted Suicide’. Editorial. New York Times, 6 October 2005.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference Tobin J. Marks, ‘Retrospective: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007)’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, no. 5822 (13 April 2007): 214..
This sentence cites two references Tobin J. Marks, ‘Retrospective: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007)’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, no. 5822 (13 April 2007): 214; Michele Vendruscolo and Christopher M. Dobson, ‘Structural Biology. Dynamic Visions of Enzymatic Reactions’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5793 (15 September 2006): 1586–87..
This sentence cites four references Tobin J. Marks, ‘Retrospective: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007)’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, no. 5822 (13 April 2007): 214; Michele Vendruscolo and Christopher M. Dobson, ‘Structural Biology. Dynamic Visions of Enzymatic Reactions’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5793 (15 September 2006): 1586–87; Yuya Ogawa, Bryan K. Sun, and Jeannie T. Lee, ‘Intersection of the RNA Interference and X-Inactivation Pathways’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5881 (6 June 2008): 1336–41; Thorsten Kleine et al., ‘Hf-W Chronometry of Lunar Metals and the Age and Early Differentiation of the Moon’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, no. 5754 (9 December 2005): 1671–74..

About the journal

Full journal title	History Australia
ISSN (print)	1449-0854
ISSN (online)	1833-4881
Scope