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

Elbaum, Michael. 2006. “Materials Science. Polymers in the Pore.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 (5800): 766–767.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ford, Richard, and Eugene H. Spafford. 2007. “Computer Science. Happy Birthday, Dear Viruses.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5835): 210–211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Xiao-Long, Lan-Feng Liu, and Wu-Ming Liu. 2013. “Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Tunable Topological States in 3d Transition Metals Doped Silicene.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 2908.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Darwin, K. Heran, Sabine Ehrt, José-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos, Nadine Weich, and Carl F. Nathan. 2003. “The Proteasome of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Is Required for Resistance to Nitric Oxide.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 302 (5652): 1963–1966.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, Sharon K., and Mitchell M. Handelsman. 2009. Ethics for Psychotherapists and Counselors. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Hodler, J., G. K. von Schulthess, R. A. Kubik-Huch, and Ch L. Zollikofer, eds. 2014. Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2014–2017: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Jun. 2009. “Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval.” In Advances in Information Retrieval: 31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. Proceedings, edited by Mohand Boughanem, Catherine Berrut, Josiane Mothe, and Chantal Soule-Dupuy, 4–16. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2017. “First Commercial Airlock To Be Installed On The ISS In 2019.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-commercial-airlock-to-be-installed-on-the-iss-in-2019/.

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. 2016. Railroad Financing: Stakeholders’ Views on Recent Changes to the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program. GAO-16-714R. 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

Fischer, David. 2012. “Psychology and People Living with Hiv/Aids: A Critical Review of the Literature.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Barron, James. 2017. “Juliana Koo, 111; Wrote Life Story at 104.” New York Times, June 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elbaum 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Elbaum 2006; Ford and Spafford 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ford and Spafford 2007)
Three authors: (Zhang, Liu, and Liu 2013)
4 or more authors: (Darwin et al. 2003)

About the journal

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