How to format your references using the History Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for History Australia (RHAH). 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

Harberd, Nicholas P. ‘Botany. Relieving DELLA Restraint’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5614 (21 March 2003): 1853–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyman, Steven E., and Wayne S. Fenton. ‘Medicine. What Are the Right Targets for Psychopharmacology?’ Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5605 (17 January 2003): 350–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkovich, G., A. Fouxon, and M. G. Stepanov. ‘Acceleration of Rain Initiation by Cloud Turbulence’. Nature 419, no. 6903 (12 September 2002): 151–54.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pillow, Jonathan W., Jonathon Shlens, Liam Paninski, Alexander Sher, Alan M. Litke, E. J. Chichilnisky, and Eero P. Simoncelli. ‘Spatio-Temporal Correlations and Visual Signalling in a Complete Neuronal Population’. Nature 454, no. 7207 (21 August 2008): 995–99.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindl, Toni, and Rosemarie Steubing. Atlas of Living Cell Cultures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2013.

An edited book

Fabrikant, Sara Irina, Martin Raubal, Michela Bertolotto, Clare Davies, Scott Freundschuh, and Scott Bell, eds. Spatial Information Theory: 12th International Conference, COSIT 2015, Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 12-16, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Vol. 9368. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Hartlep, Nicholas D., and Daniel P. Scott. ‘High School’. In Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide: From Being Excluded to Becoming a Model Minority, edited by Daniel P. Scott, 69–79. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2016.

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 History Australia.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. ‘Woman Who Claims She Is “Allergic” To Wi-Fi Signals Given Compensation By French Court’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 1 September 2015. Accessed. 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-who-claims-she-allergic-wi-fi-signals-given-compensation-french-court/.

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. Customs Service Modernization: ACE Poses Risks and Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 15 May 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kaplan, Joseph W. ‘Not a Sonata: A Conception of Sonata-Allegro Form and a Consideration of Two Marimba Works from a Langerian Perspective’. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

Saslow, Linda. ‘Brookhaven Lab Avoids Cuts in Budget’. Editorial. New York Times, 25 March 2007.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference Nicholas P. Harberd, ‘Botany. Relieving DELLA Restraint’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5614 (21 March 2003): 1853–54..
This sentence cites two references Nicholas P. Harberd, ‘Botany. Relieving DELLA Restraint’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5614 (21 March 2003): 1853–54; Steven E. Hyman and Wayne S. Fenton, ‘Medicine. What Are the Right Targets for Psychopharmacology?’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5605 (17 January 2003): 350–51..
This sentence cites four references Nicholas P. Harberd, ‘Botany. Relieving DELLA Restraint’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5614 (21 March 2003): 1853–54; Steven E. Hyman and Wayne S. Fenton, ‘Medicine. What Are the Right Targets for Psychopharmacology?’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5605 (17 January 2003): 350–51; G. Falkovich, A. Fouxon, and M. G. Stepanov, ‘Acceleration of Rain Initiation by Cloud Turbulence’, Nature 419, no. 6903 (12 September 2002): 151–54; Jonathan W. Pillow et al., ‘Spatio-Temporal Correlations and Visual Signalling in a Complete Neuronal Population’, Nature 454, no. 7207 (21 August 2008): 995–99..

About the journal

Full journal title	History Australia
ISSN (print)	1449-0854
ISSN (online)	1833-4881
Scope