How to format your references using the SA Journal of Human Resource Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for SA Journal of Human Resource Management (SAJHRM). 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

Mank, J. E. (2009). Journal club. An evolutionary biologist compares genomic complexity to modern art. Nature, 461(7265), 701.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaramillo, F., & Destouni, G. (2015). Local flow regulation and irrigation raise global human water consumption and footprint. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6265), 1248–1251.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pearson, D. G., Parman, S. W., & Nowell, G. M. (2007). A link between large mantle melting events and continent growth seen in osmium isotopes. Nature, 449(7159), 202–205.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zheng, J.-J., Zhao, X., Zhao, Y., & Gao, X. (2013). Two-dimensional carbon compounds derived from graphyne with chemical properties superior to those of graphene. Scientific Reports, 3, 1271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakus, G. J. (2007). Quantitative Analysis of Marine Biological Communities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rehm, G., & Uszkoreit, H. (Eds.). (2012). The Danish Language in the Digital Age. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fontijne, D., & Dorst, L. (2011). Reconstructing Rotations and Rigid Body Motions from Exact Point Correspondences Through Reflections. In L. Dorst & J. Lasenby (Eds.), Guide to Geometric Algebra in Practice (pp. 63–78). Springer.

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 SA Journal of Human Resource Management.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, August 5). FDA Approves First 3D-Printed Drug. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1977). Collection Efforts Not Keeping Pace With Growing Number of Defaulted Student Loans (CD-77-1). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burke, K. (2012). Big Five personality traits and astrology: The relationship between the Moon variable and the NEO PI-R [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, June 3). Youth Retreats as Women’s Draw Highlights an Age of Thirtysomethings. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mank, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Jaramillo & Destouni, 2015; Mank, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Jaramillo & Destouni, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	SA Journal of Human Resource Management
ISSN (print)	1683-7584
ISSN (online)	2071-078X
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