How to format your references using the Journal of Labor Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Labor 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

Gibson S (2009) Journal club. An organic chemist highlights an ingenious way to make radiotracers. Nature 457:515

A journal article with 2 authors

Jimenez R, Haiman Z (2006) Significant primordial star formation at redshifts z approximately 3-4. Nature 440:501–504

A journal article with 3 authors

Furey ML, Pietrini P, Haxby JV (2000) Cholinergic enhancement and increased selectivity of perceptual processing during working memory. Science 290:2315–2319

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Romano F, Trasatti E, Lorito S, et al (2014) Structural control on the Tohoku earthquake rupture process investigated by 3D FEM, tsunami and geodetic data. Sci Rep 4:5631

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iyengar SS, Parameshwaran N, Phoha VV, et al (2010) Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lin F, Patel Z (eds) (2014) ENT Board Prep: High Yield Review for the Otolaryngology In-service and Board Exams. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Alkobaisi S, Vojtěchovský P, Bae WD, et al (2008) The Truncated Tornado in TMBB: A Spatiotemporal Uncertainty Model for Moving Objects. In: Bhowmick SS, Küng J, Wagner R (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications: 19th International Conference, DEXA 2008, Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 33–40

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 of Labor Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) Future Of Groundbreaking Mission To Deflect An Asteroid Uncertain. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-impact-mission-may-have-been-cancelled/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988) ADP Modernization: IRS’ Progress on the Electronic Filing System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Samel C (2014) Imagination and negotiation: Motivations for Cambodian women to marry Cambodian American men. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 C (2007) Three Win Grant to Start Online Paper. New York Times WE5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Jimenez and Haiman 2006; Gibson 2009).

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

Two authors: (Jimenez and Haiman 2006)
Three or more authors: (Romano et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Labor Research
Abbreviation	J. Labor Res.
ISSN (print)	0195-3613
ISSN (online)	1936-4768
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Strategy and Management