How to format your references using the Industrial Relations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Industrial Relations. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Pardoll, D.M. 2001. ‘Immunology. Stress, NK receptors, and immune surveillance’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 (5542): 534–536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turgeon, S.C. and Creaser, R.A. 2008. ‘Cretaceous oceanic anoxic event 2 triggered by a massive magmatic episode’. Nature 454 (7202): 323–326.

A journal article with 3 authors

McLeod, P., Reed, N. and Dienes, Z. 2003. ‘Psychophysics: how fielders arrive in time to catch the ball’. Nature 426 (6964): 244–245.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Eggert, D., Naumann, M., Reimer, R. and Voigt, C.A. 2014. ‘Nanoscale glucan polymer network causes pathogen resistance’. Scientific reports 4: 4159.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh, S.A. and Rahman, M.A. 2010. An Introduction to Wavelet Modulated Inverters. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rios, P. de M. 2014. Symbol Correspondences for Spin Systems. edited by Eldar Straume . Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Esch, H. 2012. ‘Foraging Honey Bees: How Foragers Determine and Transmit Information About Feeding Site Locations’. In Honeybee Neurobiology and Behavior: A Tribute to Randolf Menzel, , edited by C. Giovanni Galizia, Dorothea Eisenhardt and Martin Giurfa, pp. 53–64. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Industrial Relations.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2015. Elon Musk Says We Could Terraform Mars By Dropping Thermonuclear Bombs On It. IFLScience. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/space/elon-musk-says-we-could-terraform-mars-dropping-thermonuclear-bombs-it/ on 30 October 2018. 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. 1994. State Department: Problems in Compiling List of Countries Restricting Longshore Activities. Washington, DC: 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

Hylton, J.K. 2016. Scatter; Or, A Series or Minor Inconveniences. Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana. pp.

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

Barron, J. 2016. ‘Commuters Catch a Tune, and Then the Bus Home’. New York Times: A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pardoll 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Pardoll 2001; Turgeon and Creaser 2008).

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

Two authors: (Turgeon and Creaser 2008)
Three authors: (McLeod, Reed and Dienes 2003)
4 or more authors: (Eggert et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Industrial Relations
ISSN (print)	0019-8676
ISSN (online)	1468-232X
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