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

Gregersen, P.K. Genetics. A Genomic Road Map for Complex Human Disease. Science 2014, 343, 1087–1088.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bodner, S.; Paine, C. When Peer Review Fails. Nature 2000, 407, 129–130.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ballester, G.E.; Sing, D.K.; Herbert, F. The Signature of Hot Hydrogen in the Atmosphere of the Extrasolar Planet HD 209458b. Nature 2007, 445, 511–514.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

She, J.; Han, Z.; Kim, T.-W.; Wang, J.; Cheng, W.; Chang, J.; Shi, S.; Wang, J.; Yang, M.; Wang, Z.-Y.; et al. Structural Insight into Brassinosteroid Perception by BRI1. Nature 2011, 474, 472–476.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hetherington, S. How to Know; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2011; ISBN 9781118083178.

An edited book

Family Formation in 21st Century Australia; Heard, G., Arunachalam, D., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2015; ISBN 9789401792783.

A chapter in an edited book

Sahoo, D.; Jain, J.; Iyer, S.; Dill, D. A New Reachability Algorithm for Symmetric Multi-Processor Architecture. In Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis: Third International Symposium, ATVA 2005, Taipei, Taiwan, October 4-7, 2005. Proceedings; Peled, D.A., Tsay, Y.-K., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; pp. 26–38 ISBN 9783540292098.

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

Andrews, R. What Actually Causes A Supervolcanic Eruption? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-actually-causes-supervolcanic-eruption/ (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 Inventory Management: Problems in Accountability and Security of DOD Supply Inventories; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1986;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yang, S.J. Adapting Korean Cinderella Folklore as Fairy Tales for Children. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 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

Haikalis, G. Don’t Rehab La Guardia Airport. Close It. New York Times 2015, A25.

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
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