How to format your references using the International Organization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International 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

Savage, Neil. 2011. Early detection: Spotting the first signs. Nature 471 (7339): S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farmer, Marcus E., and Phil S. Baran. 2015. Organic chemistry: A cure for catalyst poisoning. Nature 524 (7564): 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Yali V., Jinfei Ni, and Craig Montell. 2013. The molecular basis for attractive salt-taste coding in Drosophila. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6138): 1334–1338.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cooper, O. R., D. D. Parrish, A. Stohl, M. Trainer, P. Nédélec, V. Thouret, J. P. Cammas, et al. 2010. Increasing springtime ozone mixing ratios in the free troposphere over western North America. Nature 463 (7279): 344–348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taber, Douglass F. 2006. Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Harris, Don, ed. 2009. Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: 8th International Conference, EPCE 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009. Proceedings. Vol. 5639. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aadland, Kristin. 2016. The Performative Relation Between Storyteller, Story, and Children. In Learning across Contexts in the Knowledge Society, edited by Ola Erstad, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Åsa Mäkitalo, Kim Christian Schrøder, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, and Thuridur Jóhannsdóttir, 61–84. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 Organization.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. How Yersinia Pestis Evolved its Ability to Kill Millions via Pneumonic Plague. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-yersinia-pestis-evolved-its-ability-kill-millions-pneumonic-plague/>. Accessed 30 October 2018.

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. Continuing Professional Education Study: Budget Analysts in the Federal Government, GS-560 Series. 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

Mullis, Joseph. 2009. The impact of the media on public opinion of the police. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gorman, James. 2016. Nowhere to Run: Outside Refuges, Cheetahs Face Outsize Threats. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	International Organization
Abbreviation	Int. Organ.
ISSN (print)	0020-8183
ISSN (online)	1531-5088
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Law Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations