How to format your references using the French Historical Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for French Historical 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

Alvarez, Michael. “System-Ready Scientists.” Nature 447, no. 7144 (May 31, 2007): 612.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berman, Francine, and Vint Cerf. “Science Priorities. Who Will Pay for Public Access to Research Data?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341, no. 6146 (August 9, 2013): 616–17.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roseboom, Warrick, Takahiro Kawabe, and Shin’ya Nishida. “The Cross-Modal Double Flash Illusion Depends on Featural Similarity between Cross-Modal Inducers.” Scientific Reports 3 (December 6, 2013): 3437.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lourens, Lucas J., Appy Sluijs, Dick Kroon, James C. Zachos, Ellen Thomas, Ursula Röhl, Julie Bowles, and Isabella Raffi. “Astronomical Pacing of Late Palaeocene to Early Eocene Global Warming Events.” Nature 435, no. 7045 (June 23, 2005): 1083–87.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toutain, Laurent, and Ana Minaburo. Local Networks and the Internet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Zentes, Joachim. Strategic Retail Management: Text and International Cases. Edited by Dirk Morschett and Hanna Schramm-Klein. 2nd ed. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Hines, Melissa. “Gonadal Hormone Influences on Human Neurobehavioral Development: Outcomes and Mechanisms.” In Multiple Origins of Sex Differences in Brain: Neuroendocrine Functions and Their Pathologies, edited by Donald W. Pfaff and Yves Christen, 59–69. Research and Perspectives in Endocrine Interactions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

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 French Historical Studies.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. “Scientists Find Evidence of Spin Symmetry in Atoms.” IFLScience. IFLScience, August 22, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-find-evidence-spin-symmetry-atoms/.

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. “Highway Projects: Some Federal and State Practices to Expedite Completion Show Promise.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 6, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown, Caitlin Elizabeth. “Sources for the Reevaluation of George Frederick Root’s Career: The Autobiography & a Secular Cantata.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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

Pilon, Mary. “Texas Association Criticized for Ruling on Jewish Team.” New York Times, March 1, 2012.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	French Historical Studies
Abbreviation	Fr. Hist. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0016-1071
Scope	History