How to format your references using the Irish Historical Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Irish Historical Studies (IHS). 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

Rowan, Rob, ‘Coral bleaching: thermal adaptation in reef coral symbionts’ in Nature, cdxxx, no. 7001 (2004), p. 742

A journal article with 2 authors

Heinze, Stanley and Uwe Homberg, ‘Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect’ in Science (New York, N.Y.), cccxv, no. 5814 (2007), pp 995–997

A journal article with 3 authors

de Mel, Suresh, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff, ‘One-time transfers of cash or capital have long-lasting effects on microenterprises in Sri Lanka’ in Science (New York, N.Y.), cccxxxv, no. 6071 (2012), pp 962–966

A journal article with 11 or more authors

McDaniell, Ryan, Bum-Kyu Lee, Lingyun Song, Zheng Liu, Alan P. Boyle, Michael R. Erdos, Laura J. Scott, et al., ‘Heritable individual-specific and allele-specific chromatin signatures in humans’ in Science (New York, N.Y.), cccxxviii, no. 5975 (2010), pp 235–239

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young, Susan and Jessica Bramham, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults (Oxford, UK, 2012)

An edited book

Wang, Weijun, Yanhui Li, Zhao Duan, Li Yan, Hongxiu Li and Xiaoxi Yang (eds), Integration and Innovation Orient to E-Society Volume 1: Seventh IFIP International Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E2007), October 10–12, Wuhan, China (IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, Boston, MA, 2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Shan, Jun Zhang, Zhaohui Peng, Jiang Zhan and Qiuyue Wang, ‘Study on Efficiency and Effectiveness of KSORD’ in Guozhu Dong, Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang, Yun Yang and Jeffrey Xu Yu (eds), Advances in Data and Web Management: Joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and 8th International Conference, on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, Huang Shan, China, June 16-18, 2007. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007), pp 6–17

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 Irish Historical Studies.

Blog post

Davis, Josh, ‘Dramatic Jump Of Global Temperature In 2016 Has Shocked Scientists’ in IFLScience (2016) (https://www.iflscience.com/environment/dramatic-jump-of-global-temperature-in-2016-has-shocked-scientists/) (30 Oct. 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

Truck Safety: Information on Driver Training, by Government Accountability Office, RCED-89-163 (Washington, DC, 1989)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frias-Martinez, Vanessa, ‘Behavior-based admission and access control for network security’ (Doctoral dissertation thesis, Columbia University, New York, NY, 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

Greenhouse, Linda, ‘Roberts Dissent Reveals Strain Beneath Court’s Placid Surface’ in New York Times, 23 Mar. 2006, p. A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Irish Historical Studies
Abbreviation	Ir. Hist. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0021-1214
Scope	History