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Books and journal articles should be referred to in the text by the authors name and year of publication, e.g. (May and Phillips 1992) or May and Phillips (1992). Where reference is made to more than one work published by the same author in a single year, a suffix, a, b, etc. should follow the date, thus: (Smith 1989a), (Smith 1989b).

Please ensure that all citations in the text are listed in full in the reference list, and vice versa.

A full reference list should be included at the end of the paper using the following convention:

Article in journal:
Levine, E.L., Ash, R.A. and Bennett, N. (1980). Exploratory comparative study of four job analysis methods. Journal of Applied Psychology, 65, pp. 524-535.

Book:
Neter, J., Kutner, M.H., Nachtsheim, C.J. and Wasserman, W. (1996). Applied Linear Regression Models. Homewood, IL: Irwin.

Chapter in book:
O’Reilly, C., Snyder R. and Boothe J. (1993). Effects of executive team demography on organizational change. In Humber, G. and Glick, W. (eds), Organizational Change and Redesign: Ideas and Insights for Improving Performance, 2nd edn. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 147-175.