How to format your references using the The History of the Family citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The History of the Family. 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

Baraniuk, R. G. (2011). More is less: signal processing and the data deluge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 717–719.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giardina, C. P., & Ryan, M. G. (2000). Evidence that decomposition rates of organic carbon in mineral soil do not vary with temperature. Nature, 404(6780), 858–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Denholm, I., Devine, G. J., & Williamson, M. S. (2002). Evolutionary genetics. Insecticide resistance on the move. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5590), 2222–2223.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hart, A. W., Baeza, N., Apelqvist, A., & Edlund, H. (2000). Attenuation of FGF signalling in mouse beta-cells leads to diabetes. Nature, 408(6814), 864–868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, W. L., Marn, M. V., & Zawada, C. C. (2010). The Price Advantage. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Link, A. N., & Scherer, F. M. (Eds.). (2005). Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield: The Economics of R&D, Innovation, and Technological Change. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Murthy, D. N., Baik, J., Wilson, R., & Bulmer, M. (2006). Two-Dimensional Failure Modeling. In H. Pham (Ed.), Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics (pp. 97–111). 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 History of the Family.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, December 19). Scientists Confirm World’s Largest Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly From Below. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-confirm-worlds-largest-ice-sheet-is-melting-rapidly-from-below/

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. (1987). FAA’s Air Traffic Controller Staffing Standards (T-RCED-88-8). 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

Birtler, E. R. (2014). Group therapy and knowledge of neuroplastic principles: The impact of health literacy on client locus of control in a therapy setting [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Phillips-Sandy, M. (2013, December 28). Follow Me, Follow My Mom. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baraniuk, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Baraniuk, 2011; Giardina & Ryan, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Giardina & Ryan, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Hart et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	The History of the Family
Abbreviation	Hist. Fam.
ISSN (print)	1081-602X
ISSN (online)	1873-5398
Scope	History Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science