How to format your references using the Journal for Labour Market Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for Labour Market 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 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

Emery, B.: Regulation of oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination. Science. 330, 779–782 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hood, L., Galas, D.: The digital code of DNA. Nature. 421, 444–448 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, J., An, J., Ting, C.S.: Interaction-induced localization of mobile impurities in ultracold systems. Sci. Rep. 3, 3147 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Karp, E.M., Eaton, T.R., Sànchez I Nogué, V., Vorotnikov, V., Biddy, M.J., Tan, E.C.D., Brandner, D.G., Cywar, R.M., Liu, R., Manker, L.P., Michener, W.E., Gilhespy, M., Skoufa, Z., Watson, M.J., Fruchey, O.S., Vardon, D.R., Gill, R.T., Bratis, A.D., Beckham, G.T.: Renewable acrylonitrile production. Science. 358, 1307–1310 (2017)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Held, G.: Virtual Private Networking. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2005)

An edited book

Liu, Z., Woodcock, J., Zhu, H. eds: Theories of Programming and Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Jifeng He on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Roumelis, G., Vassilakopoulos, M., Corral, A., Manolopoulos, Y.: The K Group Nearest-Neighbor Query on Non-indexed RAM-Resident Data. In: Grueau, C. and Gustavo Rocha, J. (eds.) Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management: First International Conference, GISTAM 2015, Barcelona, Spain, April 28-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 69–89. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 for Labour Market Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Fossilized Feces Gives Clues To Ancient Microbes

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: Motor Carrier Safety: Preliminary Information on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Efforts to Identify and Follow Up with High-risk Carriers. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2007)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Koval, B.C.: Undergraduate Students in Paraprofessional Roles and their Use of Online Social Networks, (2016)

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

Whiteside, K.: In Family’s Footsteps, Minor Takes Big Stage, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Emery 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Emery 2010; Hood and Galas 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hood and Galas 2003)
Three or more authors: (Karp et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal for Labour Market Research
Abbreviation	J. Labour Mark. Res.
ISSN (print)	1614-3485
ISSN (online)	1867-8343
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Industrial relations Economics and Econometrics