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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Siegel J (2005) Chemistry. Inventing the nanomolecular wheel. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310(5745): 63–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lane J and Bertuzzi S (2011) Research funding. Measuring the results of science investments. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331(6018): 678–680.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lykotrafitis G, Rosakis AJ and Ravichandran G (2006) Self-healing pulse-like shear ruptures in the laboratory. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5794): 1765–1768.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rao P, Hayden MS, Long M, et al. (2010) IkappaBbeta acts to inhibit and activate gene expression during the inflammatory response. Nature 466(7310): 1115–1119.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle M (2016) Ionic and Electrochemical Equilibria. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Perrone G, Bruccoleri M and Renna P (eds) (2005) Designing and Evaluating Value Added Services in Manufacturing E-Market Places. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Guo-hao D, Hua L, Jian-Xia L, et al. (2014) Parallel Solver for Hypersonic Flow Based on Block-Structured Grid. In: Li K, Xiao Z, Wang Y, et al. (eds) Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: 25th International Conference, ParCFD 2013, Changsha, China, May 20-24, 2013. Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 37–53.

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 E (2014) Genetic Analysis Reveals Human Role in Moa’s Extinction. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genetic-analysis-reveals-human-role-moa’s-extinction/ (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 (2008) DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Marine Corps System Acquisition Needs to Be Better Justified, Defined, and Managed. GAO-08-822, 28 July. 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

LaPorte M (2017) Depression and Rumination as a Predictor for Types of Substances Abused. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Kelly D (1994) Some Bad Role Models. New York Times, 3 April.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Siegel, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lane and Bertuzzi, 2011; Siegel, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lane and Bertuzzi, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Rao et al., 2010)

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