How to format your references using the Human Relations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Relations. 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

Guikema SD (2009) Engineering. Infrastructure design issues in disaster-prone regions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323(5919): 1302–1303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gin DL and Noble RD (2011) Chemistry. Designing the next generation of chemical separation membranes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332(6030): 674–676.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hamilton VE, Christensen PR and Bandfield JL (2003) Planetary science: Volcanism or aqueous alteration on Mars? Nature 421(6924): 711–2; discussion 712-3.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Long JA, Young GC, Holland T, et al. (2006) An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins. Nature 444(7116): 199–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maksoud MA (2017) Quick Reference to Dental Implant Surgery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chadwick D and Zhao G (eds) (2005) Public Key Infrastructure: Second European PKI Workshop: Research and Applications, EuroPKI 2005, Canterbury, UK, June 30 - July 1, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Almejalli K, Dahal K and Hossain MA (2008) Real Time Identification of Road Traffic Control Measures. In: Fink A and Rothlauf F (eds) Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 63–80.

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 Human Relations.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Meet Viserion And Drogon: The New Ant Species Named After The Game Of Thrones Dragons. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-viserion-and-drogon-the-new-ant-species-named-after-the-game-of-thrones-dragons/ (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 (1989) Air Traffic Control: Voice Communications System Continues to Encounter Difficulties. IMTEC-89-39, 1 June. 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

Yamada M (2008) The role of the TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE2 (TIR2) gene in auxin synthesis in Arabidopsis. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Jenks S (2017) A New Work Perk (for Pets). New York Times, 7 June.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guikema, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gin and Noble, 2011; Guikema, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gin and Noble, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Long et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Relations
Abbreviation	Hum. Relat.
ISSN (print)	0018-7267
ISSN (online)	1741-282X
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management General Social Sciences