How to format your references using the Humanities citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Humanities. 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

Crooks, R.M. Therapeutics: Detective Work on Drug Dosage. Nature 2014, 505, 165–166.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulain, A.J.; Barkay, T. Environmental Science. Cracking the Mercury Methylation Code. Science 2013, 339, 1280–1281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, M.A.; Brandt, J.; Shadmehr, R. Motor Disorder in Huntington’s Disease Begins as a Dysfunction in Error Feedback Control. Nature 2000, 403, 544–549.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smirnova, O.; Mairesse, Y.; Patchkovskii, S.; Dudovich, N.; Villeneuve, D.; Corkum, P.; Ivanov, M.Y. High Harmonic Interferometry of Multi-Electron Dynamics in Molecules. Nature 2009, 460, 972–977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, C.J. Physics of Solar Energy; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118172841.

An edited book

Ethical Leadership: Indian and European Spiritual Approaches; Chatterji, M., Zsolnai, L., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; ISBN 9781137601933.

A chapter in an edited book

Truong, T.; Palmer, M.; Bansal, N.; Bhandari, B. Size-Dependent Variations in Fatty Acid Composition and Lipid Content of Native Milk Fat Globules. In Effect of Milk Fat Globule Size on the Physical Functionality of Dairy Products; Palmer, M., Bansal, N., Bhandari, B., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 31–34 ISBN 9783319238760.

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 Humanities.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Astronaut Photographs Explosions Over Israel And Gaza From Space Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronaut-photographs-explosions-over-israel-and-gaza-space/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Federal Programs for Education of the Handicapped: Issues and Problems; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1974;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

LeBlanc, D.C. The Relationship between Information Technology Project Manager Personality Type and Project Success. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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

Brantley, B. Young Con Man as Tragic Hero. New York Times 2017, C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Humanities
ISSN (online)	2076-0787
Scope