How to format your references using the Rethinking History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rethinking History. 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	Download the output style file
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

Adami, Christoph. 2006. “Evolution. Reducible Complexity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5770): 61–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blander, J. Magarian, and Ruslan Medzhitov. 2004. “Regulation of Phagosome Maturation by Signals from Toll-like Receptors.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5673): 1014–1018.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nykypanchuk, Dmytro, Helmut H. Strey, and David A. Hoagland. 2002. “Brownian Motion of DNA Confined within a Two-Dimensional Array.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5583): 987–990.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xu, Hanni, Yidong Xia, Kuibo Yin, Jianxin Lu, Qiaonan Yin, Jiang Yin, Litao Sun, and Zhiguo Liu. 2013. “The Chemically Driven Phase Transformation in a Memristive Abacus Capable of Calculating Decimal Fractions.” Scientific Reports 3 (February): 1230.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle, Walter. 2009. Wasseranalysen - Richtig Beurteilt. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Alvarez-Gaumé, Luis, Michelangelo Mangano, and Emmanuel Tsesmelis, eds. 2012. From the PS to the LHC - 50 Years of Nobel Memories in High-Energy Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zheng, Rong, and Cunqing Hua. 2016. “Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandit.” In Sequential Learning and Decision-Making in Wireless Resource Management, edited by Cunqing Hua, 41–57. Wireless Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Rethinking History.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. “Svalbard Seed Vault Accepts 50,000 New Samples, Just In Case Doomsday Arrives.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/svalbard-seed-vault-accepts-50000-new-samples-just-in-case-doomsday-arrives/.

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. 1983. Better Use of Information Technology Can Reduce the Burden of Federal Paperwork. GGD-83-39. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kalavacherla, Raja S. 2017. “DFT Study of the Improved Performance of Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Gold-Copper Alloy in a PEM Fuel Cell.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Loomis, George. 2012. “Changing the Formula at the Salzburg Festival.” New York Times, August 24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Adami 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Adami 2006; Blander and Medzhitov 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Blander and Medzhitov 2004)
Three authors: (Nykypanchuk, Strey, and Hoagland 2002)
4 or more authors: (Xu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rethinking History
Abbreviation	Rethink. Hist.
ISSN (print)	1364-2529
ISSN (online)	1470-1154
Scope	History