How to format your references using the Human Studies citation style

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

Bourzac, K. (2015). Batteries: 4 big questions. Nature, 526(7575), S105.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dawkins, M. S., & Woodington, A. (2000). Pattern recognition and active vision in chickens. Nature, 403(6770), 652–655.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, J.-E., Chen, J., & Lou, Z. (2008). DBC1 is a negative regulator of SIRT1. Nature, 451(7178), 583–586.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Demers, G., Griffin, G., De Vroey, G., Haywood, J. R., Zurlo, J., & Bédard, M. (2006). Animal research. Harmonization of animal care and use guidance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5774), 700–701.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheremisinoff, N. P. (2013). Industrial Gas Flaring Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bonakdarpour, B., & Petit, F. (Eds.). (2016). Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems: 18th International Symposium, SSS 2016, Lyon, France, November 7-10, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 10083). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Barga, R., Fontama, V., & Tok, W. H. (2015). Integration with R. In V. Fontama & W. H. Tok (Eds.), Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (pp. 81–101). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 Human Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 12). What Happens When You Mix Molten Lead And Coca-Cola? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/molten-lead-and-coca-cola-creates-science-art/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1997). Air Traffic Control: Immature Software Acquisition Processes Increase FAA System Acquisition Risks (No. AIMD-97-47). 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

Virchez Azuara, A. (2015). A human resource perspective on the development of workforce agility (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2003, January 9). The Czar Didn’t Sleep Here. New York Times, p. F1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bourzac 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bourzac 2015; Dawkins and Woodington 2000).

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

Two authors: (Dawkins and Woodington 2000)
Three or more authors: (Demers et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Studies
Abbreviation	Hum. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0163-8548
ISSN (online)	1572-851X
Scope	Philosophy Sociology and Political Science