How to format your references using the Contemporary British History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary British 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	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

Sarewitz, Daniel. “Reproducibility Will Not Cure What Ails Science.” Nature 525, no. 7568 (September 10, 2015): 159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pueyo, Salvador, and Roger Jovani. “Comment on ‘A Keystone Mutualism Drives Pattern in a Power Function.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5794 (September 22, 2006): 1739; author reply 1739.

A journal article with 3 authors

Della Negra, M., P. Jenni, and T. S. Virdee. “Journey in the Search for the Higgs Boson: The ATLAS and CMS Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338, no. 6114 (December 21, 2012): 1560–68.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mahara, Yasunori, Tomoko Ohta, Hideki Ogawa, and Atsushi Kumata. “Atmospheric Direct Uptake and Long-Term Fate of Radiocesium in Trees after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.” Scientific Reports 4 (November 20, 2014): 7121.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bintliff, John. The Complete Archaeology of Greece. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

Sauer, Heinrich, Ajay M. Shah, and Francisco R. M. Laurindo, eds. Studies on Cardiovascular Disorders. Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Duhovnik, Jože, Ivan Demšar, and Primož Drešar. “Extrusion.” In Space Modeling with SolidWorks and NX, edited by Ivan Demsar and Primož Drešar, 97–134. 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 Contemporary British History.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Dog Born Without Front Limbs Given 3D Printed Legs.” IFLScience. IFLScience, December 17, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/dog-receives-3d-printed-prosthetic-legs/.

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. “Truck Safety: States’ Progress in Testing and Licensing Commercial Drivers.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 12, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tabone, Brenda. “Knowledge and Awareness of the Female Athlete Triad among Female Collegiate Athletes at California State University, Long Beach.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. “Bad Math and a Coming Public Pension Crisis.” New York Times, July 9, 2015.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary British History
Abbreviation	Contemp. Br. Hist.
ISSN (print)	1361-9462
ISSN (online)	1743-7997
Scope	History Development Safety Research Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations