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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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
Macilwain, C.: World view: Save British science, again. Nature. 467, 269 (2010)
A journal article with 2 authors
Ghezzi, I., Ruggles, C.: Chankillo: a 2300-year-old solar observatory in coastal Peru. Science. 315, 1239–1243 (2007)
A journal article with 3 authors
Monteggia, L.M., Malenka, R.C., Deisseroth, K.: Depression: the best way forward. Nature. 515, 200–201 (2014)
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Fletcher, S.P., Dumur, F., Pollard, M.M., Feringa, B.L.: A reversible, unidirectional molecular rotary motor driven by chemical energy. Science. 310, 80–82 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Casadella, V., Liu, Z., Uzunidis, D.: Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2015)
An edited book
Eddahbi, M., Essaky, E.H., Vives, J. eds: Statistical Methods and Applications in Insurance and Finance: CIMPA School, Marrakech and Kelaat M’gouna, Morocco, April 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)
A chapter in an edited book
Cai, K., Haris, M., Singh, A., Li, L.Z., Reddy, R.: Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Magnetization Transfer (BOLDMT) Effect. In: Welch, W.J., Palm, F., Bruley, D.F., and Harrison, D.K. (eds.) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXXIV. pp. 31–37. Springer, New York, NY (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
Davis, J.: Limb Regeneration Might Have Been The Original State For All Four-Legged Animals, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/limb-regeneration-might-have-been-original-state-all-four-legged-animals/

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: Improper Use of Federal Student Aid Funds for Lobbying Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1982)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Asare, K.B.: Understanding the Transformational Leadership Practices of Colleges of Education Principals, (2016)

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
Vecsey, G.: Back in Queens, Johnson Is Full of Memories and Statistics, (2013)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ghezzi and Ruggles 2007; Macilwain 2010).

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

  • Two authors: (Ghezzi and Ruggles 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Fletcher et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal for Labour Market Research
AbbreviationJ. Labour Mark. Res.
ISSN (print)1614-3485
ISSN (online)1867-8343
ScopeOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Industrial relations
Economics and Econometrics

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