How to format your references using the Journal for Labour Market Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for Labour Market Research. 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

Clauset, A.: Journal club. A theoretician ponders what physics has to offer ecology. Nature. 465, 139 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hogan, B.M., Black, B.L.: Developmental biology: Diversity in the lymphatic vasculature. Nature. 522, 37–38 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lampard, G.R., Macalister, C.A., Bergmann, D.C.: Arabidopsis stomatal initiation is controlled by MAPK-mediated regulation of the bHLH SPEECHLESS. Science. 322, 1113–1116 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dai, Y., Wang, H., Yang, T., Ren, W., Zhang, Z.: Flower-like dynamics of coupled Skyrmions with dual resonant modes by a single-frequency microwave magnetic field. Sci. Rep. 4, 6153 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCurley, L.: Professional Rope Access. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Malinowska, A.B.: Advanced Methods in the Fractional Calculus of Variations. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Reiersen, L.-O., Wilson, S.: The Arctic – a Sentinel for Environmental Processes and Effects. In: Wasum-Rainer, S., Winkelmann, I., and Tiroch, K. (eds.) Arctic Science, International Law and Climate Change: Legal Aspects of Marine Science in the Arctic Ocean. pp. 15–36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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 Journal for Labour Market Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J.: Watch Live As SpaceX Relaunches One Of Its Rockets For The First Time Today, https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-spacex-relaunches-a-rocket-for-the-first-time/

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: Financial Reporting: NASA Can Improve Compliance With GAO Standards and Treasury Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sowers, P.A.: “Klanaheim”: Suburbia, civic identity, and the second Ku Klux Klan, (2012)

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

Rothenberg, B.: For Player, Time Away Pays Off in Upset, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clauset 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Clauset 2010; Hogan and Black 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hogan and Black 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dai et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal for Labour Market Research
Abbreviation	J. Labour Mark. Res.
ISSN (print)	1614-3485
ISSN (online)	1867-8343
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Industrial relations Economics and Econometrics