How to format your references using the British Journal of Industrial Relations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Industrial Relations (BJIR). 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Doudna, J. (2015). ‘Perspective: Embryo editing needs scrutiny’. Nature. 528 (7580): S6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leibfarth, F. A. and Hawker, C. J. (2011). ‘Chemistry. Mechanically throwing a reaction into reverse’. Science (New York, N.Y.). 333 (6049): 1582–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanash, S. M., Pitteri, S. J. and Faca, V. M. (2008). ‘Mining the plasma proteome for cancer biomarkers’. Nature. 452 (7187): 571–9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rieger, M. A., Hoppe, P. S., Smejkal, B. M., Eitelhuber, A. C. and Schroeder, T. (2009). ‘Hematopoietic cytokines can instruct lineage choice’. Science (New York, N.Y.). 325 (5937): 217–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shelby, A. M. and McKune, C. M. (2014). Small Animal Anesthesia Techniques. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Banerjee, M. and Krishna, S. N. (eds.) (2015). Logic and Its Applications: 6th Indian Conference, ICLA 2015, Mumbai, India, January 8-10, 2015. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Imbs, D. and Raynal, M. (2009). ‘Software Transactional Memories: An Approach for Multicore Programming’. In: V. Malyshkin (ed.). Parallel Computing Technologies: 10th International Conference, PaCT 2009, Novosibirsk, Russia, August 31-September 4, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 26–40.

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 British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). Even Nicotine-Free E-Cig Vapor Damages Lung Cells. 27 May 2015. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/even-nicotine-free-e-cig-vapor-damages-lung-cells/ (accessed30 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 (1987). ADP System: Patent Office’s Contract Renegotiation Behind Schedule. 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

Holloway, L. R. (2013). Synthesis and investigation of novel dinitrosyl-Iron complexes of chelated Bis-phosphine ligands: Potential nitric oxide delivery compounds. Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Lipton, E., Barringer, F. and Walsh, M. W. (2012). ‘Flood Insurance, Already Fragile, Faces New Stress’. New York Times. 13 November: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Doudna 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Doudna 2015; Leibfarth and Hawker 2011).

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

Two authors: (Leibfarth and Hawker 2011)
Three or more authors: (Rieger et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Industrial Relations
Abbreviation	Br. J. Ind. Relat.
ISSN (print)	0007-1080
ISSN (online)	1467-8543
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Management of Technology and Innovation Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management