How to format your references using the The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth 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

Rochmyaningsih, Dyna. “Focus on Political Islamic Groups to Boost Science.” Nature 518, no. 7540 (February 26, 2015): 457.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clift, Peter D., and Jerzy Blusztajn. “Reorganization of the Western Himalayan River System after Five Million Years Ago.” Nature 438, no. 7070 (December 15, 2005): 1001–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanada, Ken-Ichi, Jonathan W. Yewdell, and James C. Yang. “Immune Recognition of a Human Renal Cancer Antigen through Post-Translational Protein Splicing.” Nature 427, no. 6971 (January 15, 2004): 252–56.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kamal, A., A. Almenar-Queralt, J. F. LeBlanc, E. A. Roberts, and L. S. Goldstein. “Kinesin-Mediated Axonal Transport of a Membrane Compartment Containing Beta-Secretase and Presenilin-1 Requires APP.” Nature 414, no. 6864 (December 6, 2001): 643–48.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marteel-Parrish, Anne E., and Martin A. Abraham. Green Chemistry and Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2013.

An edited book

Caravenna, Francesco. Probabilità: Un’introduzione Attraverso Modelli e Applicazioni. Edited by Paolo Dai Pra. Vol. 67. UNITEXT. Milano: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Broda, Sabine, Sílvia Cavadas, Miguel Ferreira, and Nelma Moreira. “Deciding Synchronous Kleene Algebra with Derivatives.” In Implementation and Application of Automata: 20th International Conference, CIAA 2015, Umeå, Sweden, August 18-21, 2015, Proceedings, edited by Frank Drewes, 49–62. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

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 Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “When It Comes To Mental Health, Parents Shouldn’t Worry Who Their Children Are Friends With.” IFLScience. IFLScience, August 20, 2015.

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. “Contract Pricing: Subcontractor Prices Overstated on AN/TSQ-111 Communications Contract.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, August 22, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Jekanowski, Elizabeth C. “District Leadership and Systemic Inclusion: A Case Study of One Inclusive and Effective School District.” Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2017.

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

Murphy, Mary J. O. “For St. Patrick’s Day Parade 1855, Snow on the Clover.” New York Times, March 11, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Abbreviation	J. Imp. Commonw. Hist.
ISSN (print)	0308-6534
ISSN (online)	1743-9329
Scope	History Development Political Science and International Relations