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

Collins, M. O. (2009). ‘Cell biology. Evolving cell signals’. Science (New York, N.Y.). 325 (5948): 1635–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hunter, C. A. and Mayers, P. C. (2001). ‘Knot tied around an octahedral metal centre’. Nature. 411 (6839): 763.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wake, H., Lee, P. R. and Fields, R. D. (2011). ‘Control of local protein synthesis and initial events in myelination by action potentials’. Science (New York, N.Y.). 333 (6049): 1647–51.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kawakami, K., Dunn, E., Karmali, F. and Dovidio, J. F. (2009). ‘Mispredicting affective and behavioral responses to racism’. Science (New York, N.Y.). 323 (5911): 276–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wystup, U. (2006). FX Options and Structured Products. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Dedecker, J. (2007). Weak Dependence: With Examples and Applications. P. Doukhan, G. Lang, L. R. José Rafael, S. Louhichi, and C. Prieur (eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Peng, R.-H., Xiong, A.-S., Xue, Y., Fu, X.-Y., Gao, F., Zhao, W., Tian, Y.-S. and Yao, Q.-H. (2010). ‘A Profile of Ring-hydroxylating Oxygenases that Degrade Aromatic Pollutants’. In: D. M. Whitacre (ed.). Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 206. New York, NY: Springer, pp. 65–94.

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

Taub, B. (2016). Stoned Lab Rats Become Too Lazy For Tests, Study Finds. 24 August 2016. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stoned-lab-rats-become-too-lazy-tests/ (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 (2003). Trends in Federal and State Capital Investment in Highways. 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

Hoch, V. A. (2014). The Effects of Systematic Reinforcement on Academic Performance in Precision Teaching: An Investigation of Acquisition, Retention, and Endurance. Doctoral dissertation. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Gorman, J. (2017). ‘Dance Moves Only for Males’. New York Times. 16 January: D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Collins 2009; Hunter and Mayers 2001).

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

Two authors: (Hunter and Mayers 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kawakami 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