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

Swift, J. (2014). The point of it all. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6211), 882.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiens, D. A., & Snider, N. O. (2001). Repeating deep earthquakes: evidence for fault reactivation at great depth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5534), 1463–1466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boguski, M. S., Mandl, K. D., & Sukhatme, V. P. (2009). Drug discovery. Repurposing with a difference. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5933), 1394–1395.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Klausmeier, C. A., Litchman, E., Daufresne, T., & Levin, S. A. (2004). Optimal nitrogen-to-phosphorus stoichiometry of phytoplankton. Nature, 429(6988), 171–174.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, D. W. (2014). Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chai, C. S., Lim, C. P., & Tan, C. M. (Eds.). (2016). Future Learning in Primary Schools: A Singapore Perspective (1st ed. 2016.). Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Reddy, P. J., Gollapalli, K., Ghantasala, S., Das, T., Patel, S. K., Chanukuppa, V., et al. (2016). Basics of Mass Spectrometry and Its Applications in Biomarker Discovery. In S. Srivastava (Ed.), Biomarker Discovery in the Developing World: Dissecting the Pipeline for Meeting the Challenges (pp. 41–63). New Delhi: Springer India.

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, April 27). Hubble In Pictures: Astronomers’ Top Picks. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-pictures-astronomers-top-picks/. 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. (2002). Human Capital Legislative Proposals to NASA’s Fiscal Year 2003 Authorization Bill (No. GAO-03-264R). 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

Catt, B. S. (2010). The reduction of surgical errors through a development of safety culture, teamwork, and communication (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Haigney, S. (2017, August 29). Stunt Deaths Renew a Debate Over Safety. New York Times, p. C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Swift 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Swift 2014; Wiens and Snider 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wiens and Snider 2001)
Three or more authors: (Klausmeier et al. 2004)

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