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

Niven, Jeremy E. 2012. “Behavior. How Honeybees Break a Decision-Making Deadlock.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6064): 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frieda, Kirsten L., and Steven M. Block. 2012. “Direct Observation of Cotranscriptional Folding in an Adenine Riboswitch.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6105): 397–400.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burslem, D. F., N. C. Garwood, and S. C. Thomas. 2001. “Ecology. Tropical Forest Diversity--the Plot Thickens.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5504): 606–607.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zanin, Massimiliano, Joaquín Medina Alcazar, Jesus Vicente Carbajosa, Marcela Gomez Paez, David Papo, Pedro Sousa, Ernestina Menasalvas, and Stefano Boccaletti. 2014. “Parenclitic Networks: Uncovering New Functions in Biological Data.” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 5112.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mesterton-Gibbons, Mike. 2007. A Concrete Approach to Mathematical Modelling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zentes, Joachim. 2012. Strategic Retail Management: Text and International Cases. Edited by Dirk Morschett and Hanna Schramm-Klein. 2nd ed. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag.

A chapter in an edited book

Torres, Antoni, and Catia Cillóniz. 2015. “Diagnosis and Classification of Pneumonia.” In Clinical Management of Bacterial Pneumonia, edited by Catia Cillóniz, 39–56. 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, Danielle. 2016. “Is The Red Wine Compound Resveratrol A Miracle Drug For Infertility and Ageing?” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1989. Motor Vehicle Safety: Passive Restraints Needed to Make Light Trucks Safer. RCED-90-56. 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

Anderson, Dianna. 2004. “Chamber Music in Early Piano Study: A Guide to Repertoire.” Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Lee, Linda. 2009. “Low-Upkeep Gardens, but Not Dirt Cheap.” New York Times, September 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Niven 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Niven 2012; Frieda and Block 2012).

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

Two authors: (Frieda and Block 2012)
Three authors: (Burslem, Garwood, and Thomas 2001)
4 or more authors: (Zanin et al. 2014)

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