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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Lackner, K.S. Climate Change. A Guide to CO2 Sequestration. Science 2003, 300, 1677–1678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turner, B.L.; Haygarth, P.M. Biogeochemistry. Phosphorus Solubilization in Rewetted Soils. Nature 2001, 411, 258.

A journal article with 3 authors

Andrews-Hanna, J.C.; Zuber, M.T.; Banerdt, W.B. The Borealis Basin and the Origin of the Martian Crustal Dichotomy. Nature 2008, 453, 1212–1215.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Longo, E.; Cavalcante, L.S.; Volanti, D.P.; Gouveia, A.F.; Longo, V.M.; Varela, J.A.; Orlandi, M.O.; Andrés, J. Direct in Situ Observation of the Electron-Driven Synthesis of Ag Filaments on α-Ag2WO4 Crystals. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kimberlin, L.; zur Linden, A.; Ruoff, L. Atlas of Clinical Imaging and Anatomy of the Equine Head; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781118989005.

An edited book

Transactions on Edutainment IV; Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Zhang, X., Wong, K., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 6250; ISBN 9783642144837.

A chapter in an edited book

Greilich, A.; Yakovlev, D.R.; Bayer, M.; Shabaev, A.; Efros, A.L. Electron-Spin Dynamics in Self-Assembled (In,Ga)As/GaAs Quantum Dots. In Electron Spin Resonance and Related Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Structures; Fanciulli, M., Ed.; Topics in Applied Physics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp. 51–80 ISBN 9783540793649.

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

Hale, T. There’s Been An Actual Snake On A Plane Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/theres-been-an-actual-snake-on-a-plane/ (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 Research: The Small Business Technology Transfer Program; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1997;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lapizco-Encinas, G.C. Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization for Combinatorial Problems. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2009.

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

Hooper-Bui, L. A Gulf Science Blackout. New York Times 2010, A21.

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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