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

Humphries, C.: Screening: Testing times. Nature. 488, S8-9 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Bannard, O.M., Cyster, J.G.: Immunology. When less signaling is more. Science. 336, 1120–1121 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wardle, D.A., Nilsson, M.-C., Zackrisson, O.: Fire-derived charcoal causes loss of forest humus. Science. 320, 629 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Getz, G., Höfling, H., Mesirov, J.P., Golub, T.R., Meyerson, M., Tibshirani, R., Lander, E.S.: Comment on “The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers.” Science. 317, 1500 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stevens, B.A., Roediger, E.: Breaking Negative Relationship Patterns. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2016)

An edited book

Rocha, Á., Correia, A.M., Adeli, H., Reis, L.P., Mendonça Teixeira, M. eds: New Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Abtew, W., Melesse, A.: Vapor Pressure Calculation Methods. In: Melesse, A. (ed.) Evaporation and Evapotranspiration: Measurements and Estimations. pp. 53–62. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2013)

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

Fang, J.: New Flying Dino Had Four Wings And Longest Known Feathers

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: Protest Against Rejection of Bid. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1973)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Conill, A.L.: Dosimetric consequences of the parotid glands using CT-to-CBCT deformable registration during IMRT for late stage head and neck cancers, (2015)

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

Robertson, C.: No Stranger to Flooding, One Town Suffers Again, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Humphries 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bannard and Cyster 2012; Humphries 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bannard and Cyster 2012)
Three or more authors: (Getz et al. 2007)

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