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

Quinn, H. ‘No Conflict between SLAC and Japan’s KEK. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’. Nature 404, no. 6779 (13 April 2000): 701.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liotta, L. A., and E. C. Kohn. ‘The Microenvironment of the Tumour-Host Interface’. Nature 411, no. 6835 (17 May 2001): 375–79.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Andy C. Y., F. Petruccione, and Jens Koch. ‘Perturbative Approach to Markovian Open Quantum Systems’. Scientific Reports 4 (8 May 2014): 4887.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chen, Feng, Hao Hong, Sixiang Shi, Shreya Goel, Hector F. Valdovinos, Reinier Hernandez, Charles P. Theuer, Todd E. Barnhart, and Weibo Cai. ‘Engineering of Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Remarkably Enhanced Tumor Active Targeting Efficacy’. Scientific Reports 4 (30 May 2014): 5080.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nagasawa, Mitsuru. Physical Chemistry of Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Advances in Chemical Physics. Advances in Chemical Physics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Nedjah, Nadia, and Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, eds. Fuzzy Systems Engineering: Theory and Practice. Vol. 181. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Izu, Tetsuya, Takeshi Shimoyama, and Masahiko Takenaka. ‘How to Forge a Time-Stamp Which Adobe’s Acrobat Accepts’. In Cryptography and Coding: 11th IMA International Conference, Cirencester, UK, December 18-20, 2007. Proceedings, edited by Steven D. Galbraith, 54–72. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

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, Elise. ‘Researchers Have Developed A Stretchable Loudspeaker’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 16 July 2015. Accessed. 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-have-developed-cool-stretchable-loudspeaker/.

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. Public Transportation: Use of Contractors is Generally Enhancing Transit Project Oversight, and FTA is Taking Actions to Address Some Stakeholder Concerns. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 14 September 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maafi, Nasim. ‘Assessment of Volatile Metabolites for In Situ Detection of Fungal Decay of Wood’. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 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

Baker, A. L., and Benjamin Mueller. ‘A Shooting, the Hospital and Then, Months Later, a Homicide’. Editorial. New York Times, 7 May 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference H. Quinn, ‘No Conflict between SLAC and Japan’s KEK. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’, Nature 404, no. 6779 (13 April 2000): 701..
This sentence cites two references H. Quinn, ‘No Conflict between SLAC and Japan’s KEK. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’, Nature 404, no. 6779 (13 April 2000): 701; L. A. Liotta and E. C. Kohn, ‘The Microenvironment of the Tumour-Host Interface’, Nature 411, no. 6835 (17 May 2001): 375–79..
This sentence cites four references H. Quinn, ‘No Conflict between SLAC and Japan’s KEK. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’, Nature 404, no. 6779 (13 April 2000): 701; L. A. Liotta and E. C. Kohn, ‘The Microenvironment of the Tumour-Host Interface’, Nature 411, no. 6835 (17 May 2001): 375–79; Andy C. Y. Li, F. Petruccione, and Jens Koch, ‘Perturbative Approach to Markovian Open Quantum Systems’, Scientific Reports 4 (8 May 2014): 4887; Feng Chen et al., ‘Engineering of Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Remarkably Enhanced Tumor Active Targeting Efficacy’, Scientific Reports 4 (30 May 2014): 5080..

About the journal

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