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

Scholz CH (2000) A fault in the “weak San Andreas” theory. Nature 406:234

A journal article with 2 authors

Mello CC, Conte D Jr (2004) Revealing the world of RNA interference. Nature 431:338–342

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuwamura T, Kadota T, Suzuki S (2014) Testing the low-density hypothesis for reversed sex change in polygynous fish: experiments in Labroides dimidiatus. Sci Rep 4:4369

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Solstad T, Boccara CN, Kropff E, et al (2008) Representation of geometric borders in the entorhinal cortex. Science 322:1865–1868

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

He Z (2016) Wavelet Analysis and Transient Signal Processing Applications for Power Systems. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Simon MC (ed) (2010) Diverse Effects of Hypoxia on Tumor Progression. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Renger M, Kolfschoten GL, de Vreede G-J (2008) Challenges in Collaborative Modeling: A Literature Review. In: Dietz JLG, Albani A, Barjis J (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering I: 4th International Workshop CIAO! and 4th International Workshop EOMAS, held at CAiSE 2008, Montpellier, France, June 16-17, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 61–77

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 (2015) Why Do All Planetary Rings Follow This Elegant Mathematical Law? 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 (1992) Intermodal Freight Transportation: Combined Rail-Truck Service Offers Public Benefits, but Challenges Remain. 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

Slade SW (2010) The complexity of leading in the 21st century: A case study of a successful charter school in an urban school district. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Kishkovsky S (2004) Russian Who Killed Chechen May Get a Pardon. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scholz 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Scholz 2000; Mello and Conte 2004).

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

Two authors: (Mello and Conte 2004)
Three or more authors: (Solstad et al. 2008)

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

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