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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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
Sutherland, W.J., 2005. The best solution. Nature 435, 569.
A journal article with 2 authors
Turi, L., Madarász, A., 2011. Comment on “Does the hydrated electron occupy a cavity?” Science 331, 1387; author reply 1387.
A journal article with 3 authors
Rogina, B., Helfand, S.L., Frankel, S., 2002. Longevity regulation by Drosophila Rpd3 deacetylase and caloric restriction. Science 298, 1745.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Choo, B., Zhu, M., Zhao, W., Jia, L., Zhu, Y., 2014. The largest Silurian vertebrate and its palaeoecological implications. Sci. Rep. 4, 5242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Ambaum, M.H.P., 2010. Thermal Physics of the Atmosphere. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
Nguyen, N.T., Le, M.T., Świątek, J. (Eds.), 2010. Intelligent Information and Database Systems: Second International Conference, ACIIDS, Hue City, Vietnam, March 24-26, 2010. Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Bijani, S., Robertson, D., Aspinall, D., 2012. Probing Attacks on Multi-Agent Systems Using Electronic Institutions, in: Sakama, C., Sardina, S., Vasconcelos, W., Winikoff, M. (Eds.), Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IX: 9th International Workshop, DALT 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–50.

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
Andrew, D., 2017. Tigers Can Roam For Hundreds Of Miles – Should They Ever Be Kept In Zoos? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tigers-can-roam-for-hundreds-of-miles-should-they-ever-be-kept-in-zoos/ (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, 1977. Changing Patterns of Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, 1969-75 (No. PAD-78-15). 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
Tromp, M., 2015. Bayesian monitoring of clinical trials: Examples using conjugate priors (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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
Qiu, L., 2017. Trump Has Defended His Own Leak. He Has Been Far Less Forgiving of Others. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sutherland, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Sutherland, 2005; Turi and Madarász, 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Turi and Madarász, 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Choo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Industrial Organization
AbbreviationInt. J. Ind. Organ.
ISSN (print)0167-7187
ScopeStrategy and Management
Industrial relations
Aerospace Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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