How to format your references using the Historical Materialism citation style

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

Oh, Seongshik 2013, ‘Physics. The complete quantum Hall trio’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 340, 6129: 153–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gratzer, Walter and David G. Nathan 2005, ‘Obituary: Fred S. Rosen (1930-2005)’, Nature 435, 7045: 1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

Debayle, Eric, Brian Kennett, and Keith Priestley 2005, ‘Global azimuthal seismic anisotropy and the unique plate-motion deformation of Australia’, Nature 433, 7025: 509–12.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Happel, Patrick, Kerstin Möller, Nina K. Schwering, and Irmgard D. Dietzel 2013, ‘Migrating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells swell prior to soma dislocation’, Scientific reports 3: 1806.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szylar, Christian 2013, Risk Management under UCITS III/IV, Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nesteruk, Igor (ed.) 2012, Supercavitation: Advances and Perspectives A Collection Dedicated to the 70th Jubilee of Yu.N. Savchenko, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schadendorf, Dirk, Corinna Kochs, and Elisabeth Livingstone 2013, ‘Treatment of Primary Tumor and Locoregional Disease’, in Handbook of Cutaneous Melanoma: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by Corinna Kochs and Elisabeth Livingstone, Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.: 53–77.

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 Historical Materialism.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle 2016, ‘Genetic Studies Reveal Diversity Of Early Human Populations – And Pin Down When We Left Africa’, IFLScience, IFLScience, available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genetic-studies-reveal-diversity-of-early-human-populations-and-pin-down-when-we-left-africa/.

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 2008, Environmental Satellites: Polar-orbiting Satellite Acquisition Faces Delays; Decisions Needed on Whether and How to Ensure Climate Data Continuity, , U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huynhle, Marvin 2017, ‘High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Increases Resilience against Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection in Drosophila Larvae’, Long Beach, CA: 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

Dynarski, Susan 2016, ‘왜 영재반에서는 흑인과 히스패닉 학생을 보기 힘들까?’, New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Historical Materialism
ISSN (print)	1465-4466
ISSN (online)	1569-206X
Scope