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

Elvis M (2014) Astronomy: Cosmic triangles and black-hole masses. Nature 515(7528): 498–499.

A journal article with 2 authors

Georgescu RE and O’Donnell M (2007) Structural biology. Getting DNA to unwind. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317(5842): 1181–1182.

A journal article with 3 authors

den Boer SPA, Baer B and Boomsma JJ (2010) Seminal fluid mediates ejaculate competition in social insects. Science (New York, N.Y.) 327(5972): 1506–1509.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vigne J-D, Guilaine J, Debue K, et al. (2004) Early taming of the cat in Cyprus. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304(5668): 259.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parke RD (2013) Future Families. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

de Magistris M (2016) Circuiti: Fondamenti Di Circuiti per l’Ingegneria (ed. G Miano). 2a ed. 2016. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Van de Poel K, Vanagt E, Schrimpf U, et al. (2013) Special Challenges in Medical Communication. In: Vanagt E, Schrimpf U, and Gasiorek J (eds) Communication Skills for Foreign and Mobile Medical Professionals. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 105–132.

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

Carpineti A (2016) New Breakthrough In Athletic Wearable Technology. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-breakthrough-athletic-wearable-tech/ (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 (2004) Space Shuttle: Costs for Hubble Servicing Mission and Implementation of Safety Recommendations Not Yet Definitive. GAO-05-34, 19 November. 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

Brown LT (2009) Identifying potential co-repressors associated with dexamethasone-induced repression of the MUC5AC gene. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kishkovsky S (2004) A Rock Telethon in Russia, Echoing the Mood of 9/11. New York Times, 9 September.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elvis, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Elvis, 2014; Georgescu and O’Donnell, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Georgescu and O’Donnell, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Vigne et al., 2004)

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