How to format your references using the The History of the Family citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The History of the Family. 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	Download the output style file
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

Cluver, L. (2011). Children of the AIDS pandemic. Nature, 474(7349), 27–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasare, C., & Medzhitov, R. (2005). Control of B-cell responses by Toll-like receptors. Nature, 438(7066), 364–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolf, S. M., Annas, G. J., & Elias, S. (2013). Point-counterpoint. Patient autonomy and incidental findings in clinical genomics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6136), 1049–1050.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Bell, S. D., Botting, C. H., Wardleworth, B. N., Jackson, S. P., & White, M. F. (2002). The interaction of Alba, a conserved archaeal chromatin protein, with Sir2 and its regulation by acetylation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5565), 148–151.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller, R. E. (1999). Optimization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ohtsu, M. (Ed.). (2005). Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics III: Industrial Applications and Dynamics of the Nano-Optical System (Vol. 96). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Weiss, S. M., Indurkhya, N., & Zhang, T. (2015). Finding Structure in a Document Collection. In N. Indurkhya & T. Zhang (Eds.), Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining (pp. 97–118). Springer.

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 The History of the Family.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015, September 14). 10,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Unearthed In Washington State. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1994). Default Rates at HBCUs (HEHS-94-97R). 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

Lenz, R. M. (2017). Iron, Arsenic, and Elevated Salinity in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer of Louisiana [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Eldred, S. M., Kovaleski, S. F., & Sisario, B. (2017, April 7). Unsolved Mysteries, in Purple. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cluver, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cluver, 2011; Pasare & Medzhitov, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Pasare & Medzhitov, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bell et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	The History of the Family
Abbreviation	Hist. Fam.
ISSN (print)	1081-602X
ISSN (online)	1873-5398
Scope	History Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science