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

Carmeliet P (2001) Biomedicine. Clotting factors build blood vessels. Science 293:1602–1604

A journal article with 2 authors

Gweon H, Schulz L (2011) 16-month-olds rationally infer causes of failed actions. Science 332:1524

A journal article with 3 authors

Karlson RH, Cornell HV, Hughes TP (2004) Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient. Nature 429:867–870

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Duman-Scheel M, Weng L, Xin S, Du W (2002) Hedgehog regulates cell growth and proliferation by inducing Cyclin D and Cyclin E. Nature 417:299–304

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cortada JW (2014) The Essential Manager. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Au M-H, Miyaji A (eds) (2015) Provable Security: 9th International Conference, ProvSec 2015, Kanazawa, Japan, November 24-26, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Onyimadu O, Nakata K, Wilson T, et al (2014) Towards Sentiment Analysis on Parliamentary Debates in Hansard. In: Kim W, Ding Y, Kim H-G (eds) Semantic Technology: Third Joint International Conference, JIST 2013, Seoul, South Korea, November 28--30, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 48–50

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 (2014) Spectacular GoPro Footage Of Polar Bears Searching For Ice. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spectacular-gopro-footage-polar-bears-searching-ice/. 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 (2011) Job Access and Reverse Commute Program: Progress Made in Using Funds and Stakeholder Views on Proposed Program Changes. 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

Shockley C (2010) Mental health parity law: A policy analysis. 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

Markoff J (2016) Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carmeliet 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Carmeliet 2001; Gweon and Schulz 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gweon and Schulz 2011)
Three or more authors: (Duman-Scheel et al. 2002)

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