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

Stephan, P. (2012) ‘Research efficiency: Perverse incentives’, Nature 484: 29–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weber, T. S. and Deutsch, C. (2010) ‘Ocean nutrient ratios governed by plankton biogeography’, Nature 467: 550–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shevenell, A. E., Kennett, J. P. and Lea, D. W. (2004) ‘Middle Miocene Southern Ocean cooling and Antarctic cryosphere expansion’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 305: 1766–70.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Thomson, N. H., Santos, S., Mitchenall, L. A., et al. (2014) ‘DNA G-segment bending is not the sole determinant of topology simplification by type II DNA topoisomerases’, Scientific reports 4: 6158.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knuth, E. (2011) Trading Between the Lines. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fritzsche, K., McDaniel, S. H. and Wirsching, M., eds. (2014) Psychosomatic Medicine: An International Primer for the Primary Care Setting. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dator, J. A., Sweeney, J. A. and Yee, A. M. (2015) ‘Communication Technology in the Extended Present and Futures’, in J. A. Sweeney and A. M. Yee (eds.) Mutative Media: Communication Technologies and Power Relations in the Past, Present, and Futures. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 107–32.

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

Andrew, D. (2016) From Neptune’s Blue Hue To Jupiter’s Red Spot: Are The Colours Of The Planets Real?, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/from-neptunes-blue-hue-to-jupiters-red-spot-are-the-colours-of-the-planets-real/.

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 (2005) Advanced Technology Program: Inherent Factors in Selection Process Are Likely to Limit Identification of Similar Research. 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

Harris, S. K. (2017) ‘Dissecting the Disappearing Act: Discussing the Dissipation of Black Male Role Models in Black Communities’. Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL, Southern Illinois University.

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

Pilon, M. (2012) ‘The One And Only: The Footprints On a Path to Gold’, New York Times, 21 April, page SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stephan, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Stephan, 2012; Weber and Deutsch, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Weber and Deutsch, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Thomson et al., 2014)

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