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

Brodholt, J. P. 2000. “Pressure-Induced Changes in the Compression Mechanism of Aluminous Perovskite in the Earth’s Mantle.” Nature 407 (6804): 620–622.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kraehenbuhl, Jean-Pierre, and Max Corbett. 2004. “Immunology. Keeping the Gut Microflora at Bay.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5664): 1624–1625.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coplan, Paul M., Mark Mitchnick, and Zeda F. Rosenberg. 2004. “Public Health. Regulatory Challenges in Microbicide Development.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5679): 1911–1912.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tsai, A. P., J. Q. Guo, E. Abe, H. Takakura, and T. J. Sato. 2000. “A Stable Binary Quasicrystal.” Nature 408 (6812): 537–538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Misra, Sudip, and Sumit Goswami. 2017. Network Routing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kimmel, Ron, Reinhard Klette, and Akihiro Sugimoto, eds. 2011. Computer Vision – ACCV 2010: 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Queenstown, New Zealand, November 8-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part IV. Vol. 6495. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Miyashita, Hiroshi. 2016. “A Tale of Two Privacies: Enforcing Privacy with Hard Power and Soft Power in Japan.” In Enforcing Privacy: Regulatory, Legal and Technological Approaches, edited by David Wright and Paul De Hert, 105–122. Law, Governance and Technology Series. 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 The Australian Library Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2016. “Hard Evidence: Spanking Could Lead To Health Problems, Antisocial Behavior.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/hard-evidence-spanking-could-lead-health-problems-antisocial-behavior/.

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. 1988. Use of Civilian Agencies’ Aircraft for Passenger Transportation. T-GGD-88-52. 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

Huff, Hannah Katherine. 2013. “Thumb Twiddle Glossolalia: The Soumage.” 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

Pilon, Mary. 2013. “Drug-Testing Company Tied to N.C.A.A. Stirs Criticism.” New York Times, January 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brodholt 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brodholt 2000; Kraehenbuhl and Corbett 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kraehenbuhl and Corbett 2004)
Three authors: (Coplan, Mitchnick, and Rosenberg 2004)
4 or more authors: (Tsai et al. 2000)

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