How to format your references using the IZA Journal of Labor Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 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

Wootton JT (2005) Field parameterization and experimental test of the neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature 433:309–312

A journal article with 2 authors

Mery F, Kawecki TJ (2005) A cost of long-term memory in Drosophila. Science 308:1148

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinoshita T, Wenger T, Weiss DS (2006) A quantum Newton’s cradle. Nature 440:900–903

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schwab SR, Pereira JP, Matloubian M, et al (2005) Lymphocyte sequestration through S1P lyase inhibition and disruption of S1P gradients. Science 309:1735–1739

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gadd K (2011) TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yin H (2009) Optical Code Division Multiple Access Communication Networks: Theory and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bunkowski L, Hedstrom A (2014) Violent Environment: Women and Frontier Coffey County, Kansas: 1855–1880. In: Farris DN, Davis MA, Compton DR (eds) Illuminating How Identities, Stereotypes and Inequalities Matter through Gender Studies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 55–69

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 IZA Journal of Labor Policy.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) 2016 Is Likely To Be The World’s Hottest Year: Here’s Why. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/2016-likely-be-world-s-hottest-year-here-s-why/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2001) DOD Information Technology: Software and Systems Process Improvement Programs Vary in Use of Best Practices. 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

Mills AD (2016) Strategic school solutions: A capacity building framework for leaders accelerating 21st century teaching and learning. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Days After “Final” Word on Draft, Clinton Faces Renewed Questions. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wootton 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Wootton 2005; Mery and Kawecki 2005).

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

Two authors: (Mery and Kawecki 2005)
Three or more authors: (Schwab et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	IZA Journal of Labor Policy
Abbreviation	IZA J. Labor Policy
ISSN (online)	2193-9004
Scope