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

Kerr, R. A. ‘PLANETARY SCIENCE: Saturn Wins Satellite Title With New Moons’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290, no. 5492 (27 October 2000): 689a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Winckler, Gisela, and Hubertus Fischer. ‘30,000 Years of Cosmic Dust in Antarctic Ice’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5786 (28 July 2006): 491.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fiske, Susan T., Lasana T. Harris, and Amy J. C. Cuddy. ‘Social Psychology. Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, no. 5701 (26 November 2004): 1482–83.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li, X. P., Q. Xia, D. Qu, T. C. Wu, D. G. Yang, W. D. Hao, X. Jiang, and X. M. Li. ‘The Dynamic Dielectric at a Brain Functional Site and an EM Wave Approach to Functional Brain Imaging’. Scientific Reports 4 (4 November 2014): 6893.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weston, Paul. Bioinformatics Software Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

Pisanski, Tomaž. Configurations from a Graphical Viewpoint. Edited by Brigitte Servatius. Birkhäuser Advanced Texts Basler Lehrbücher. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Barneva, Reneta P., and Valentin E. Brimkov. ‘Digital Geometry and Its Applications to Medical Imaging’. In Advances in Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: Methods and Applications, edited by João Manuel R. S. Tavares and R. M. Natal Jorge, 77–92. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009.

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

Fang, Janet. ‘Zombifying Fungus Recognizes the Brain of Its Favorite Host’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 26 August 2014. Accessed. 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/zombifying-fungus-recognizes-brain-its-favorite-host/.

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. Job Training: Effect of Under-Reported Unemployment Data on Grant Funding to Rural Areas. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 26 November 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Magner, Timothy Joseph. ‘Performance and Leadership in Multiplayer Online Gaming’. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2014.

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

Pols, Mary. ‘World War II Fiction: The Home Front’. Editorial. New York Times, 31 March 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference R. A. Kerr, ‘PLANETARY SCIENCE: Saturn Wins Satellite Title With New Moons’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 290, no. 5492 (27 October 2000): 689a..
This sentence cites two references R. A. Kerr, ‘PLANETARY SCIENCE: Saturn Wins Satellite Title With New Moons’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 290, no. 5492 (27 October 2000): 689a; Gisela Winckler and Hubertus Fischer, ‘30,000 Years of Cosmic Dust in Antarctic Ice’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5786 (28 July 2006): 491..
This sentence cites four references R. A. Kerr, ‘PLANETARY SCIENCE: Saturn Wins Satellite Title With New Moons’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 290, no. 5492 (27 October 2000): 689a; Gisela Winckler and Hubertus Fischer, ‘30,000 Years of Cosmic Dust in Antarctic Ice’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5786 (28 July 2006): 491; Susan T. Fiske, Lasana T. Harris, and Amy J. C. Cuddy, ‘Social Psychology. Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, no. 5701 (26 November 2004): 1482–83; X. P. Li et al., ‘The Dynamic Dielectric at a Brain Functional Site and an EM Wave Approach to Functional Brain Imaging’, Scientific Reports 4 (4 November 2014): 6893..

About the journal

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