How to format your references using the History of the Human Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for History of the Human Sciences. 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

Socha, J. J. (2002) ‘Gliding flight in the paradise tree snake’, Nature 418: 603–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phillpot, S. R. and Sinnott, S. B. (2009) ‘Materials science. Simulating multifunctional structures’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 1634–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., Lidz, A. and Hernquist, L. (2008) ‘Numerical simulations unravel the cosmic web’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 52–5.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Courbet, S., Gay, S., Arnoult, N., et al. (2008) ‘Replication fork movement sets chromatin loop size and origin choice in mammalian cells’, Nature 455: 557–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner, H. (2015) Project Management 2.0. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cheng, J. and Bent, J. P., eds. (2016) Endoscopic Atlas of Pediatric Otolaryngology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sjölander, A. E., Boström, K. W. and Ögren, K. (2010) ‘Framing Chemical Risks in Sweden and Poland: Journalists’ Narratives and Media Texts’, in J. Eriksson, M. Gilek and C. Rudén (eds.) Regulating Chemical Risks: European and Global Challenges. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 45–69.

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 of the Human Sciences.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016) Huge Galaxy Cluster Discovered By Citizen Scientists, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/huge-galaxy-cluster-discovered-by-citizen-scientists/.

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 (1982) Improving COBOL Application Can Recover Significant Computer Resources. 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

Wolfe, C. J. (2012) ‘Dimensions of Purchasing Social Responsibility in Sustainable Supply Chain Organizations’. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ, Northcentral University.

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

Koblin, J. (2017) ‘Netflix Lets Viewers Pick the Plot’, New York Times, 20 June, page B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Socha, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Phillpot and Sinnott, 2009; Socha, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Phillpot and Sinnott, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Courbet et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	History of the Human Sciences
Abbreviation	Hist. Human Sci.
ISSN (print)	0952-6951
ISSN (online)	1461-720X
Scope	History History and Philosophy of Science