How to format your references using the History of the Human Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for History of the Human Sciences. 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

Rice, M. (2006) ‘Physics. Superconductivity with a twist’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 314: 1248–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lambert, J. D. and Nagy, L. M. (2002) ‘Asymmetric inheritance of centrosomally localized mRNAs during embryonic cleavages’, Nature 420: 682–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Horváth, J., Szalai, I. and De Kepper, P. (2009) ‘An experimental design method leading to chemical Turing patterns’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 324: 772–5.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Charlson, R. J., Seinfeld, J. H., Nenes, A., et al. (2001) ‘Atmospheric science. Reshaping the theory of cloud formation’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 292: 2025–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani, G., Laporte, G. and Musmanno, R. (2005) Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mazzeo, A., Bellini, R. and Motta, G., eds. (2008) E-Government Ict Professionalism and Competences Service Science. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

El Miedany, Y. (2016) ‘PROMs for Rheumatoid Arthritis’, in Y. El Miedany (ed.) Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Rheumatic Diseases. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 101–20.

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 of the Human Sciences.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014) Ring of Stellar Fire Surrounds 12-Billion-Year-Old Galaxy, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/ring-stellar-fire-surrounds-12-billion-year-old-galaxy/.

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 (2008) Aviation Safety: FAA Has Increased Efforts to Address Runway Incursions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mayo, J. (2010) ‘Rates and factors associated with child maltreatment recurrence for children from birth to 5 years of age in Ventura County’. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Qiu, L. (2017) ‘On What He Really Said, and Whom He Is Blaming for It’, New York Times, 24 March, page A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Rice, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Lambert and Nagy, 2002; Rice, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lambert and Nagy, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Charlson et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	History of the Human Sciences
Abbreviation	Hist. Human Sci.
ISSN (print)	0952-6951
ISSN (online)	1461-720X
Scope	History History and Philosophy of Science