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

Gladstone, Jeanette C. 2014. Ultraluminous X-ray sources: Small field with a large impact. Nature 514 (7521): 171–172.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, Sangwon V., and Richard A. Flavell. 2004. Immunology. CD8alphaalpha and T cell memory. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5670): 529–530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello, Mark J., Robert M. May, and Nigel E. Stork. 2013. Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct? Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6118): 413–416.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kao, Shih-Chu, Hai Wu, Jianming Xie, Ching-Pin Chang, Jeffrey A. Ranish, Isabella A. Graef, and Gerald R. Crabtree. 2009. Calcineurin/NFAT signaling is required for neuregulin-regulated Schwann cell differentiation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5914): 651–654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qu, Dong. 2016. Manufacturing and Managing Customer-Driven Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Camacho, Antonio G., Jesús I. Díaz, and José Fernández, eds. 2008. Earth Sciences and Mathematics: Volume 1. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Patig, Susanne, Vanessa Casanova-Brito, and Barbara Vögeli. 2010. IT Requirements of Business Process Management in Practice – An Empirical Study. In Business Process Management: 8th International Conference, BPM 2010, Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-16, 2010. Proceedings, edited by Richard Hull, Jan Mendling, and Stefan Tai, 13–28. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. Creationist Makes Significant Fossil Discovery And Won’t Accept That It’s 60 Million Years Old. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/creationist-and-scientists-combine-fossil-discovery/>. 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. 1995. Advance Sheets: Volume 74, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. 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

Kerr, Angie Burwell. 2012. Exploring relationship awareness in organizational change using the Strength Deployment Inventory. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: 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

Vecsey, George. 2010. A Run to Twilight at the Millrose Games. 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