How to format your references using the Human Resource Management Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Resource Management 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Clary, D. C. (2005). 'Chemistry. Geometric phase in chemical reactions', Science (New York, N.Y.), 309: 5738, 1195–1196.
A journal article with 2 authors
Tulin, A., & Spradling, A. (2003). 'Chromatin loosening by poly(ADP)-ribose polymerase (PARP) at Drosophila puff loci', Science (New York, N.Y.), 299: 5606, 560–562.
A journal article with 3 authors
Ebel, C., Mariconti, L., & Gruissem, W. (2004). 'Plant retinoblastoma homologues control nuclear proliferation in the female gametophyte', Nature, 429: 6993, 776–780.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Sanford, E., Roth, M. S., Johns, G. C., Wares, J. P., & Somero, G. N. (2003). 'Local selection and latitudinal variation in a marine predator-prey interaction', Science (New York, N.Y.), 300: 5622, 1135–1137.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Gage, L. J. (2008). Hand-Rearing Wild and Domestic Mammals: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
An edited book
Wilde, A. A. M., & Tintelen, J. P. van (Eds.). (2014). Founder mutations in inherited cardiac diseases in the Netherlands: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum.
A chapter in an edited book
Dörfler, P., Sick, M., & Coutu, A. (2013). 'High-Frequency Vortex Phenomena', In M. Sick & A. Coutu (eds), Flow-Induced Pulsation and Vibration in Hydroelectric Machinery: Engineer’s Guidebook for Planning, Design and Troubleshooting (pp. 111–127), London: 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 Human Resource Management Journal.

Blog post
Luntz, S. (2014, September 11). 'Scientists Trace Jewish History Using DNA', IFLScience, IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dna-traces-jewish-history/.

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. (1973). Contract Award Protest, 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
Salifu, A. (2008). Names that prick: Royal praise names in Dagbon, northern GhanaDoctoral dissertation, , Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

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
Stewart, J. B. (2017, April 6). 'Bewitched by the Tesla Story', New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clary, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Clary, 2005; Tulin & Spradling, 2003).

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

  • Two authors: (Tulin & Spradling, 2003)
  • Three authors: (Ebel, Mariconti, & Gruissem, 2004)
  • 6 or more authors: (Sanford, Roth, Johns, Wares, & Somero, 2003)

About the journal

Full journal titleHuman Resource Management Journal
AbbreviationHum. Resour. Manag. J.
ISSN (print)0954-5395
ISSN (online)1748-8583
ScopeOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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