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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

O’Malley, Bert W. 2006. Molecular biology. Little molecules with big goals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5794): 1749–1750.

A journal article with 2 authors

Francesconi, Mirko, and Ben Lehner. 2014. The effects of genetic variation on gene expression dynamics during development. Nature 505 (7482): 208–211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bewley, Gregory P., Daniel P. Lathrop, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan. 2006. Superfluid helium: visualization of quantized vortices. Nature 441 (7093): 588.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Foster, Kevin R., Gad Shaulsky, Joan E. Strassmann, David C. Queller, and Chris R. L. Thompson. 2004. Pleiotropy as a mechanism to stabilize cooperation. Nature 431 (7009): 693–696.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdel-aleem, Salah. 2010. The Design and Management of Medical Device clinical Trials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hughes, Tammy L. 2008. Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Conduct Disorder at School. Edited by Laura M. Crothers and Shane R. Jimerson. Vol. 1. Developmental Psychopathology at School. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Cawston, S., and L. Vostrikova. 2014. An f-Divergence Approach for Optimal Portfolios in Exponential Lévy Models. In Inspired by Finance: The Musiela Festschrift, edited by Yuri Kabanov, Marek Rutkowski, and Thaleia Zariphopoulou, 83–101. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Taub, Ben. 2015. NASA Releases Stunning Half-Hour Ultra HD Video Of The Sun. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at <https://www.iflscience.com/space/stunning-hd-video-of-sun/>. 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. 2012. Information Technology: Agencies Need to Strengthen Oversight of Billions of Dollars in Operations and Maintenance Investments. 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

Casale, Natalie. 2015. Generational preferences in marketing medium selections of animal adoptions in nonprofit organizations: A correlational study. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Rothenberg, Ben. 2017. Sharapova Given Wild Card Into U.S. Open, Her First Major Since 2016. 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