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

Seife, C. ‘NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: Language Affects Sound Perception’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290, no. 5499 (15 December 2000): 2051b–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanchez, Alvaro, and Ido Golding. ‘Genetic Determinants and Cellular Constraints in Noisy Gene Expression’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342, no. 6163 (6 December 2013): 1188–93.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Xiaochun, Rita Roberti, and Günter Blobel. ‘Structure of an Integral Membrane Sterol Reductase from Methylomicrobium Alcaliphilum’. Nature 517, no. 7532 (1 January 2015): 104–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kachroo, A., C. R. Schopfer, M. E. Nasrallah, and J. B. Nasrallah. ‘Allele-Specific Receptor-Ligand Interactions in Brassica Self-Incompatibility’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, no. 5536 (7 September 2001): 1824–26.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kitai, Adrian. Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Diodes: The Role of the PN Junction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

Leong, Frederick T. L., Wade E. Pickren, Mark M. Leach, and Anthony J. Marsella, eds. Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States. International and Cultural Psychology. New York, NY: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Zilan, Ruken, José M. Barceló-Ordinas, and Bülent Tavli. ‘Image Recognition Traffic Patterns for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks’. In Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet: 4th International Workshop of the EuroNGI/EuroFGI Network of Excellence Barcelona, Spain, January 16-18, 2008 Revised Selected Papers, edited by Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern, 49–59. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

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. ‘Ada Lovelace Blazed A Trail In Science – We Need More Women To Follow In Her Footsteps’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 11 October 2016. Accessed. 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ada-lovelace-blazed-a-trail-in-science-we-need-more-women-to-follow-in-her-footsteps/.

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Actions Underway But Management and Technical Weaknesses Not Yet Corrected. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 10 September 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Evans, Kory M. ‘Evolution of Craniofacial Diversity in Neotropical Electric Fishes (Gymnotiformes: Teleostei)’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. ‘World Briefing | Europe: Russia: U.S. Asylum For Blast Survivor’. Editorial. New York Times, 19 January 2005.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference C. Seife, ‘NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: Language Affects Sound Perception’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 290, no. 5499 (15 December 2000): 2051b–52..
This sentence cites two references C. Seife, ‘NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: Language Affects Sound Perception’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 290, no. 5499 (15 December 2000): 2051b–52; Alvaro Sanchez and Ido Golding, ‘Genetic Determinants and Cellular Constraints in Noisy Gene Expression’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 342, no. 6163 (6 December 2013): 1188–93..
This sentence cites four references C. Seife, ‘NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: Language Affects Sound Perception’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 290, no. 5499 (15 December 2000): 2051b–52; Alvaro Sanchez and Ido Golding, ‘Genetic Determinants and Cellular Constraints in Noisy Gene Expression’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 342, no. 6163 (6 December 2013): 1188–93; Xiaochun Li, Rita Roberti, and Günter Blobel, ‘Structure of an Integral Membrane Sterol Reductase from Methylomicrobium Alcaliphilum’, Nature 517, no. 7532 (1 January 2015): 104–7; A. Kachroo et al., ‘Allele-Specific Receptor-Ligand Interactions in Brassica Self-Incompatibility’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, no. 5536 (7 September 2001): 1824–26..

About the journal

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