How to format your references using the International Journal of Industrial Organization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Industrial Organization. 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

Melton, L., 2005. Imaging: the big picture. Nature 437, 775–779.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyd, P.W., Mackie, D., 2008. Comment on “The Southern Ocean biological response to aeolian iron deposition.” Science 319, 159; author reply 159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williamson, C.E., Saros, J.E., Schindler, D.W., 2009. Climate change. Sentinels of change. Science 323, 887–888.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paul, P.M., Toma, E.S., Breger, P., Mullot, G., Auge, F., Balcou, P., Muller, H.G., Agostini, P., 2001. Observation of a train of attosecond pulses from high harmonic generation. Science 292, 1689–1692.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCallum, H., 2008. Population Parameters: Estimation for Ecological Models. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

List, B. (Ed.), 2009. Asymmetric Organocatalysis, Topics in Current Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gualeni, S., 2015. Playing with Puzzling Philosophical Problems, in: Zagalo, N., Branco, P. (Eds.), Creativity in the Digital Age, Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, London, pp. 59–74.

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 International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. There’s A Gene That Reverses Cellular Aging, And Now We Know How [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1973. Opportunities for Improvement in the Administration of Technical Training Activities (No. B-175773). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Green, D.J., 2010. Shoulder functional anatomy and development – Implications for interpreting early hominin locomotion (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Back of Rotation Helps Mets Get First Exhibition Win. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melton, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Boyd and Mackie, 2008; Melton, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Boyd and Mackie, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Paul et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Industrial Organization
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ind. Organ.
ISSN (print)	0167-7187
Scope	Strategy and Management Industrial relations Aerospace Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering