How to format your references using the Australian Journal of International Affairs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Journal of International Affairs. 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 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

Glass, L. 2001. “Synchronization and Rhythmic Processes in Physiology.” Nature 410 (6825): 277–284.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kriwacki, Richard W., and Mi-Kyung Yoon. 2011. “Cell Biology. Fishing in the Nuclear Pore.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6038): 44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chalancon, Guilhem, Kai Kruse, and M. Madan Babu. 2012. “Cell Biology. Reconfiguring Regulation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6072): 1050–1051.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Qin, Nan, Xiaojuan Tan, Yinming Jiao, Lin Liu, Wangsheng Zhao, Shuang Yang, and Aiqun Jia. 2014. “RNA-Seq-Based Transcriptome Analysis of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Biofilm Inhibition by Ursolic Acid and Resveratrol.” Scientific Reports 4 (June 2014): 5467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dal Pont, Jean-Pierre, and Catherine Azzaro-Pantel. 2014. New Approaches to the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cotta, Carlos, Simeon Reich, Robert Schaefer, and Antoni Ligęza, eds. 2008. Knowledge-Driven Computing: Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Computations. Vol. 102. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Emigh, Rebecca Jean, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed. 2016. “Regionalism, Nationalism, and the Italian Censuses.” In Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States: How Societies and States Count, edited by Dylan Riley and Patricia Ahmed, 83–113. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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 Journal of International Affairs.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Ford Has Made All Its Hybrid And Electric Car Patents Available To Competitors.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 29. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/fords-hybrid-and-electric-car-patents-are-now-available-other-automakers/.

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. Natural Gas Regulation: Pipeline Transportation Under FERC Order 436. RCED-87-133BR. 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

Flynn, Mary Josephine. 2013. “Lifeguard Employability Skills.” 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

Grynbaum, Michael M. 2017. “Fox News May Add Ingraham and Move Up Hannity.” New York Times, September 12, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glass 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Glass 2001; Kriwacki and Yoon 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kriwacki and Yoon 2011)
Three authors: (Chalancon, Kruse, and Babu 2012)
4 or more authors: (Qin et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of International Affairs
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Int. Aff.
ISSN (print)	1035-7718
ISSN (online)	1465-332X
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations