How to format your references using the The Australian Library Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Australian Library Journal. 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

Davis, Andrew M. 2009. “Astronomy. Early Solar System Chronology.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5943): 951–952.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zoncu, Roberto, and David M. Sabatini. 2011. “Cell Biology. The TASCC of Secretion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6032): 923–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, Hong Koo, George W. Hanson, and David A. Geller. 2013. “Chemistry. Are Gold Clusters in RF Fields Hot or Not?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6131): 441–442.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Punckt, C., M. Bölscher, H. H. Rotermund, A. S. Mikhailov, L. Organ, N. Budiansky, J. R. Scully, and J. L. Hudson. 2004. “Sudden Onset of Pitting Corrosion on Stainless Steel as a Critical Phenomenon.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5687): 1133–1136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sab, Karam, and Arthur Lebée. 2015. Homogenization of Heterogeneous Thin and Thick Plates. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Beichel, Reinhard R., and Milan Sonka, eds. 2006. Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis: Second International ECCV Workshop, CVAMIA 2006 Graz, Austria, May 12, 2006 Revised Papers. Vol. 4241. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Neidig, Jörg. 2013. “Hardware Requirements for Digital Product Memories.” In SemProM: Foundations of Semantic Product Memories for the Internet of Things, edited by Wolfgang Wahlster, 59–72. Cognitive Technologies. 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 The Australian Library Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Rare Glimpse: Satellites Catch The Birth Of Two Volcanic Islands.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rare-glimpse-satellites-catch-birth-two-volcanic-islands/.

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. 2008. Electronic Government: Additional OMB Leadership Needed to Optimize Use of New Federal Employee Identification Cards. GAO-08-292. 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

Gowda, Vinita. 2009. “Pollination Biology and Inter-Island Geographical Variation in the Mutualistic Heliconia (Heliconiaceae)-Hummingbird (Trochilidae) Interaction of the Eastern Caribbean Islands.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Romero, Simon, and Julie Bosman. 2017. “As Waters Took Mother, a Child Held on to Life.” New York Times, August 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davis 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Davis 2009; Zoncu and Sabatini 2011).

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

Two authors: (Zoncu and Sabatini 2011)
Three authors: (Kim, Hanson, and Geller 2013)
4 or more authors: (Punckt et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Australian Library Journal
Abbreviation	Aust. Libr. J.
ISSN (print)	0004-9670
ISSN (online)	2201-4276
Scope	Library and Information Sciences