How to format your references using the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. 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 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

Dearing, A. (2007). Enabling Europe to innovate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5810), 344–347.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helffrich, G., & Kaneshima, S. (2010). Outer-core compositional stratification from observed core wave speed profiles. Nature, 468(7325), 807–810.

A journal article with 3 authors

Noda, S., Chutinan, A., & Imada, M. (2000). Trapping and emission of photons by a single defect in a photonic bandgap structure. Nature, 407(6804), 608–610.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rim, Y. A., Yi, H., Kim, Y., Park, N., Jung, H., Kim, J., et al. (2014). Self in vivo production of a synthetic biological drug CTLA4Ig using a minicircle vector. Scientific reports, 4, 6935.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirsh, S. J. (2009). Media and Youth. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Verlinsky, Y. (2005). Practical Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. (A. Kuliev, Ed.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bryant, B., Jézéquel, J.-M., Lämmel, R., Mernik, M., Schindler, M., Steinmann, F., et al. (2015). Globalized Domain Specific Language Engineering. In B. Combemale, B. H. C. Cheng, R. B. France, J.-M. Jézéquel, & B. Rumpe (Eds.), Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages: International Dagstuhl Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, October 5-10, 2014, Revised Papers (pp. 43–69). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 12). Slave Ants And Their Masters Are Locked In A Deadly Relationship. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/slave-ants-and-their-masters-are-locked-deadly-relationship/. 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. (1980). Oversight of Federally Sponsored Research and Development (No. 113733). 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

Sanghvi, A. M. (2009). Characterization of algal biomeal for applications in food (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008, January 17). Supreme Court Rebuffs a Challenge to New York’s Way of Picking Its Judges. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dearing 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Dearing 2007; Helffrich and Kaneshima 2010).

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

Two authors: (Helffrich and Kaneshima 2010)
Three or more authors: (Rim et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal
Abbreviation	Employee Responsibilities Rights J.
ISSN (print)	0892-7545
ISSN (online)	1573-3378
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Human Factors and Ergonomics