How to format your references using the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia (RSWA). 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

Farrauto R J 2012. Chemistry. Low-temperature oxidation of methane. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337, 659–660

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaia R & Baur J 2008. Materials science. Adaptive composites. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319, 420–421

A journal article with 3 authors

Meindl J D, Chen Q & Davis J A 2001. Limits on silicon nanoelectronics for terascale integration. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, 2044–2049

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pace M L, Cole J J, Carpenter S R, Kitchell J F, Hodgson J R, Van De Bogert M C, Bade D L, Kritzberg E S & Bastviken D 2004. Whole-lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food webs. Nature 427, 240–243

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez A 2014. Network Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

DeMichelis C & Ferrari M, editors 2016. Child and Adolescent Resilience Within Medical Contexts: Integrating Research and Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Rai A 2013. The Possibility of Satire: Reading Pratap Narain Misra’s Brāhmaṇ, 1883–1890. Pages 65–74 in Harder H & Mittler B, editors Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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 Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia.

Blog post

Andrew D 2016. Climate Change Is Affecting All Life On Earth – And That’s Not Good News For Humanity. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-change-is-affecting-all-life-on-earth-and-thats-not-good-news-for-humanity/ [Accessed October 30, 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 1987. Social Security: State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies’ Reimbursement for the Disabled (HRD-87-36BR). 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

Lauper A R 2009. Effects of leadership training and networking opportunities on professional advancement: A quantitative study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Ratliff B 2016. Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Songwriter. New York Times AR12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Farrauto 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Vaia & Baur 2008; Farrauto 2012).

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

Two authors: (Vaia & Baur 2008)
Three or more authors: (Pace et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia
ISSN (print)	0035-922X
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