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

Walsh C (2001) correction: Enabling the chemistry of life. Nature 411:824

A journal article with 2 authors

Simakov DSA, Pérez-Mercader J (2013) Noise induced oscillations and coherence resonance in a generic model of the nonisothermal chemical oscillator. Sci Rep 3:2404

A journal article with 3 authors

Jin F-F, Boucharel J, Lin I-I (2014) Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones intensified by El Niño delivery of subsurface ocean heat. Nature 516:82–85

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dong J, Liu J, Kang G, et al (2014) Pushing the resolution of photolithography down to 15nm by surface plasmon interference. Sci Rep 4:5618

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Talbot DB (2012) Frequency Acquisition Techniques for Phase Locked Loops. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Karanika-Murray M, Biron C (eds) (2015) Derailed Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being: Confessions of Failure and Solutions for Success, 1st ed. 2015. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Atapattu S, Tellambura C, Jiang H (2014) Performance Measurements. In: Tellambura C, Jiang H (eds) Energy Detection for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio. Springer, New York, NY, pp 41–62

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

Andrew E (2015) Scientist At Work: Searching For Tiny Neutrinos In The South Pole’s Thick Ice. In: IFLScience. 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 (2006) Transportation Research: Opportunities for Improving the Oversight of DOT’s Research Programs and User Satisfaction with Transportation Statistics. 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

Emale JM (2010) An examination of how conglomerates impact small-medium enterprises in their relationship. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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 (2016) Ambassador Ali. New York Times F14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walsh 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Walsh 2001; Simakov and Pérez-Mercader 2013).

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

Two authors: (Simakov and Pérez-Mercader 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dong 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