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

Bayry, Jagadeesh. ‘Journal Club. An Immunologist Applauds a Protein That Prunes Intolerant White Blood Cells’. Nature 456, no. 7220 (20 November 2008): 285.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhao, Zhouzhou, and Ellen M. Arruda. ‘Materials Science. An Internal Cure for Damaged Polymers’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344, no. 6184 (9 May 2014): 591–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bushey, Daniel, Giulio Tononi, and Chiara Cirelli. ‘Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis: Structural Evidence in Drosophila’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, no. 6037 (24 June 2011): 1576–81.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Olson, L. E., J. T. Richtsmeier, J. Leszl, and R. H. Reeves. ‘A Chromosome 21 Critical Region Does Not Cause Specific Down Syndrome Phenotypes’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, no. 5696 (22 October 2004): 687–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guillaume, Philippe. Music and Acoustics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2006.

An edited book

Gao, Changqing, ed. Robotic Cardiac Surgery. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Achilleos, Achilleas P., Marita Thoma, Georgia M. Kapitsaki, Christos Mettouris, and George A. Papadopoulos. ‘An Automation Component for Cross-Platform, Context-Aware Applications Development’. In Modeling and Using Context: 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2015, Lanarca, Cyprus, November 2-6,2015. Proceedings, edited by Henning Christiansen, Isidora Stojanovic, and George A. Papadopoulos, 63–76. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

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. ‘Australia’s Right Whales Are Recovering After Whaling Bans, But There Are Still Worrying Signs’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 11 November 2015. Accessed. 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/australia-s-right-whales-are-recovering-after-whaling-bans-there-are-still/.

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. ADP Budget: Potential Reductions to Army Automation Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 20 November 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lauterbach, Jeffrey Robert. ‘Golf in the Collective: Playing in Liminal Space’. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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

Billard, Mary. ‘Scouting Report’. Editorial. New York Times, 15 July 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference Jagadeesh Bayry, ‘Journal Club. An Immunologist Applauds a Protein That Prunes Intolerant White Blood Cells’, Nature 456, no. 7220 (20 November 2008): 285..
This sentence cites two references Jagadeesh Bayry, ‘Journal Club. An Immunologist Applauds a Protein That Prunes Intolerant White Blood Cells’, Nature 456, no. 7220 (20 November 2008): 285; Zhouzhou Zhao and Ellen M. Arruda, ‘Materials Science. An Internal Cure for Damaged Polymers’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 344, no. 6184 (9 May 2014): 591–92..
This sentence cites four references Jagadeesh Bayry, ‘Journal Club. An Immunologist Applauds a Protein That Prunes Intolerant White Blood Cells’, Nature 456, no. 7220 (20 November 2008): 285; Zhouzhou Zhao and Ellen M. Arruda, ‘Materials Science. An Internal Cure for Damaged Polymers’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 344, no. 6184 (9 May 2014): 591–92; Daniel Bushey, Giulio Tononi, and Chiara Cirelli, ‘Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis: Structural Evidence in Drosophila’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, no. 6037 (24 June 2011): 1576–81; L. E. Olson et al., ‘A Chromosome 21 Critical Region Does Not Cause Specific Down Syndrome Phenotypes’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, no. 5696 (22 October 2004): 687–90..

About the journal

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