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

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

Sommeria J. Unweaving the whirls. Nature. 2001 Oct 11;413(6856):575.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan Q, Zhao Y-P. Wetting on flexible hydrophilic pillar-arrays. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:1944.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ko HW, Jiang J, Edery I. Role for Slimb in the degradation of Drosophila Period protein phosphorylated by Doubletime. Nature. 2002 Dec 12;420(6916):673–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pisitkun P, Deane JA, Difilippantonio MJ, Tarasenko T, Satterthwaite AB, Bolland S. Autoreactive B cell responses to RNA-related antigens due to TLR7 gene duplication. Science. 2006 Jun 16;312(5780):1669–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brower MC. Wind Resource Assessment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Yamaguchi Y, editor. Immunotherapy of Cancer: An Innovative Treatment Comes of Age. 1st ed. 2016. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Duan Z, Jiang Y, Cai Z. Intelligent Tutorial Planning Based on Extended Knowledge Structure Graph. In: Pan Z, Aylett R, Diener H, Jin X, Göbel S, Li L, editors. Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment: First International Conference, Edutainment 2006, Hangzhou, China, April 16-19, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 7–16.

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 Migration.

Blog post

Carpineti A. New Fossil Suggests More Variety Among The Oldest Extinct Penguins. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Maritime Administration: Proceeds from the Sale of Obsolete Vessels Were Accounted for, Allocated, and Disbursed Consistent with Applicable Law. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017 Feb. Report No.: GAO-17-280.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Seesengood BN. Analysis of the Repairability of Resin Modified Glass Ionomer Cement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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

Tabuchi H. Kochs’ Strategy to Court Allies: Gospel and Gas. New York Times. 2017 Jan 5;A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sommeria 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Sommeria 2001; Yuan and Zhao 2013).

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

Two authors: (Yuan and Zhao 2013)
Three or more authors: (Pisitkun et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	IZA Journal of Migration
ISSN (online)	2193-9039
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