How to format your references using the Labor History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Labor History. 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

Ellsworth, William L. “Injection-Induced Earthquakes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341, no. 6142 (July 12, 2013): 1225942.

A journal article with 2 authors

Michalakis, Yannis, and Denis Roze. “Evolution. Epistasis in RNA Viruses.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, no. 5701 (November 26, 2004): 1492–93.

A journal article with 3 authors

Long, Jane C. S., Frank Loy, and M. Granger Morgan. “Policy: Start Research on Climate Engineering.” Nature 518, no. 7537 (February 5, 2015): 29–31.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Moore, Harry, Katerina Dvoráková, Nicholas Jenkins, and William Breed. “Exceptional Sperm Cooperation in the Wood Mouse.” Nature 418, no. 6894 (July 11, 2002): 174–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Makower, Timothy. Touching the City. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

Aartsengel, Aristide van. A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation: Concepts, Processes, Implementation. Edited by Selahattin Kurtoglu. Management for Professionals. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Wiederhold, Brenda K., and Stéphane Bouchard. “Fear of Flying (Aviophobia): Efficacy and Methodological Lessons Learned from Outcome Trials.” In Advances in Virtual Reality and Anxiety Disorders, edited by Stéphane Bouchard, 65–89. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2014.

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 Labor History.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. “The Biggest Mistake In The History Of Science.” IFLScience. IFLScience, December 20, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-biggest-mistake-in-the-history-of-science/.

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. “Better Cash Management Can Reduce the Cost of the National Direct Student Loan Program.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 27, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robinson, Laura M. “Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy to Examine Exciton Dynamics in II-VI Semiconductor Nanostructures.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2001.

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

Vecsey, George. “Long-Suffering Saints Fans Could Use Some Good Times.” New York Times, January 31, 2010.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Labor History
Abbreviation	Labor Hist.
ISSN (print)	0023-656X
ISSN (online)	1469-9702
Scope	History Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management