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

McGill, B. J. (2006). Ecology. A renaissance in the study of abundance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5800), 770–772.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mishra, S. K., & Hoon, M. A. (2013). The cells and circuitry for itch responses in mice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6135), 968–971.

A journal article with 3 authors

Volpe, G., Volpe, G., & Gigan, S. (2014). Brownian motion in a speckle light field: tunable anomalous diffusion and selective optical manipulation. Scientific reports, 4, 3936.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kanungo, M., Lu, H., Malliaras, G. G., & Blanchet, G. B. (2009). Suppression of metallic conductivity of single-walled carbon nanotubes by cycloaddition reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5911), 234–237.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pederson, L. D. (2015). Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Monrose, F., Dacier, M., Blanc, G., & Garcia-Alfaro, J. (Eds.). (2016). Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 19th International Symposium, RAID 2016, Paris, France, September 19-21, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9854). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bartroff, J., Lai, T. L., & Shih, M.-C. (2013). Group Sequential Design of Phase II and III Trials. In T. L. Lai & M.-C. Shih (Eds.), Sequential Experimentation in Clinical Trials: Design and Analysis (pp. 77–100). New York, NY: 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 Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, July 25). Climate Pressures Favor Seal Moms With Higher Genetic Variation. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/climate-pressures-favor-seal-moms-higher-genetic-variation/. 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. (1991). Student Financial Aid: Education Can Do More to Screen Schools Before Students Receive Aid (No. HRD-91-145). 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

Belic, B. (2005). Complement Verb Variation in Present-Day Serbian (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Haberman, M., & Landler, M. (2017, July 13). In Paris, Trump Stands by His Son and Praises Macron. New York Times, p. A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGill 2006).
This sentence cites two references (McGill 2006; Mishra and Hoon 2013).

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

Two authors: (Mishra and Hoon 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kanungo et al. 2009)

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

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