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

Makous, Walter. 2007. “Comment on ‘Emergence of Novel Color Vision in Mice Engineered to Express a Human Cone Photopigment.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5848): 196; author reply 196.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nair, Sreelaja, and Thomas F. Schilling. 2008. “Chemokine Signaling Controls Endodermal Migration during Zebrafish Gastrulation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5898): 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ginzberg, Miriam B., Ran Kafri, and Marc Kirschner. 2015. “Cell Biology. On Being the Right (Cell) Size.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6236): 1245075.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Watanabe, Norihiko, Yi-Hong Wang, Heung Kyu Lee, Tomoki Ito, Yui-Hsi Wang, Wei Cao, and Yong-Jun Liu. 2005. “Hassall’s Corpuscles Instruct Dendritic Cells to Induce CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells in Human Thymus.” Nature 436 (7054): 1181–1185.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant, Giorgio, and Michel Broniatowski. 2016. Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jensen, Kurt, Jonathan Billington, and Maciej Koutny, eds. 2009. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency III. Vol. 5800. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pavlovic, Mirjana, and Bela Balint. 2013. “Adult Stem Cells (the Concept of VSEL-Cell).” In Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, edited by Bela Balint, 21–22. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. New York, NY: 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

Andrew, Elise. 2016. “Sensational Headlines About Dementia ‘Breakthroughs’ Are Damaging To Patients And Their Families.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/sensational-headlines-about-dementia-breakthroughs-are-damaging-patients-and-their-families/.

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. 1993. Tax Administration: Achieving Business and Technical Goals In Tax Systems Modernization. T-GGD-93-24. 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

Woodworth, Jason W. 2017. “Secure Semantic Search over Encrypted Big Data in the Cloud.” Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Malkin, Elisabeth, and Raphael Minder. 2016. “A Former Mexican Governor Is Arrested, but Not by His Own Country.” New York Times, January 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Makous 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Makous 2007; Nair and Schilling 2008).

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

Two authors: (Nair and Schilling 2008)
Three authors: (Ginzberg, Kafri, and Kirschner 2015)
4 or more authors: (Watanabe et al. 2005)

About the journal

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