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

Laming, J. Martin, ‘Astronomy. More supernova surprises’ in Science (New York, N.Y.), cccxxix, no. 5999 (2010), pp 1604–1605

A journal article with 2 authors

Maillard, Ivan and Alan R. Saltiel, ‘Metabolism: Inflammation keeps old mice healthy’ in Nature, dxxviii, no. 7580 (2015), pp 44–46

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiedemann, Nils, Chris Meisinger and Nikolaus Pfanner, ‘Cell biology. Connecting organelles’ in Science (New York, N.Y.), cccxxv, no. 5939 (2009), pp 403–404

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Vitousek, P. M., T. N. Ladefoged, P. V. Kirch, A. S. Hartshorn, M. W. Graves, S. C. Hotchkiss, S. Tuljapurkar and O. A. Chadwick, ‘Soils, agriculture, and society in precontact Hawai’i’ in Science (New York, N.Y.), ccciv, no. 5677 (2004), pp 1665–1669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Manuele, Fred A., Advanced Safety Management Focusing on Z10 and Serious Injury Prevention (Hoboken, NJ, 2007)

An edited book

Finkbeiner, Matthias (ed.), Special Types of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment, Dordrecht, 2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Hillhouse, Joel and Rob Turrisi, ‘Motivations for Indoor Tanning: Theoretical Models’ in Carolyn J. Heckman and Sharon L. Manne (eds), Shedding Light on Indoor Tanning (Dordrecht, 2012), pp 69–86

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

Andrew, Elise, ‘Modifying Mosquitoes To Stop Transmission Of Dengue Fever’ in IFLScience (2015) (https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/modifying-mosquitoes-stop-transmission-dengue-fever/) (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

Public Transportation: Use of Contractors is Generally Enhancing Transit Project Oversight, and FTA is Taking Actions to Address Some Stakeholder Concerns, by Government Accountability Office, GAO-10-909 (Washington, DC, 2010)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jackson, Renae Angelique, ‘Musculoskeletal Injuries in California Ocean Lifeguards’ (Doctoral dissertation thesis, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2017)

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

Leland, John, ‘“Weird Isn’t In Right Now”’ in New York Times, 8 Sept. 2017, p. MB1

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