How to format your references using the Australian Feminist Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Feminist Studies. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Korb, Judith. 2014. “Engineering. Robots Acting Locally and Building Globally.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6172): 742–743.

A journal article with 2 authors

You, J. Q., and Franco Nori. 2011. “Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics Using Superconducting Circuits.” Nature 474 (7353): 589–597.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weisbuch, Max, Kristin Pauker, and Nalini Ambady. 2009. “The Subtle Transmission of Race Bias via Televised Nonverbal Behavior.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5960): 1711–1714.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mendes, Rodrigo, Marco Kruijt, Irene de Bruijn, Ester Dekkers, Menno van der Voort, Johannes H. M. Schneider, Yvette M. Piceno, et al. 2011. “Deciphering the Rhizosphere Microbiome for Disease-Suppressive Bacteria.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6033): 1097–1100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagare, Digambar M. 2011. Electric Power Generation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Godbole, Prasad, Duncan T. Wilcox, and Martin A. Koyle, eds. 2016. Consent in Pediatric Urology. Handbook Series of Consent in Pediatric Surgical Subspecialities. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gentile, N. A. 2008. “Implicit Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Simulations of Four Test Problems.” In Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation, edited by Frank Graziani, 135–150. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Timothy J. Barth, Michael Griebel, David E. Keyes, Risto M. Nieminen, Dirk Roose, and Tamar Schlick. 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 Australian Feminist Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Can Gene Editing Provide a Solution to Global Hunger?” IFLScience, IFLScience, July 6. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/can-gene-editing-provide-solution-global-hunger/.

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. 2009. Global Positioning System: Significant Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Widely Used Capabilities. GAO-09-670T. 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

Nguyen, Jonathan. 2012. “Adherence to Medications among Vietnamese Americans 65 Years of Age and Older.” 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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Asked to Switch Positions, Mets’ Cabrera Asks to Switch Teams.” New York Times, June 24, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Korb 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Korb 2014; You and Nori 2011).

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

Two authors: (You and Nori 2011)
Three authors: (Weisbuch, Pauker, and Ambady 2009)
4 or more authors: (Mendes et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Feminist Studies
Abbreviation	Aust. Fem. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0816-4649
ISSN (online)	1465-3303
Scope	Gender Studies