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

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

Rogers JA (2012) Materials science. Nanometer-scale printing. Science 337:1459–1460

A journal article with 2 authors

Wulder MA, Coops NC (2014) Satellites: Make Earth observations open access. Nature 513:30–31

A journal article with 3 authors

Bao J, Lee H-J, Zheng JJ (2013) Genome-wide network analysis of Wnt signaling in three pediatric cancers. Sci Rep 3:2969

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Charras GT, Yarrow JC, Horton MA, et al (2005) Non-equilibration of hydrostatic pressure in blebbing cells. Nature 435:365–369

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berntsen ES, Thompson J (2015) A Guide to Starting Your Hedge Fund. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Allpress B, Barnacle R, Duxbury L, Grierson E (eds) (2012) Supervising Practices for Postgraduate Research in Art, Architecture and Design. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Svinin M, Goncharenko I (2011) Models of and Experiments with Reaching Tasks in Haptic Virtual Environments. In: Cooper EW, Kryssanov VV, Ogawa H, Brewster S (eds) Haptic and Audio Interaction Design: 6th International Workshop, HAID 2011, Kusatsu, Japan, August 25-26, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 32–41

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 European Labor Studies.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) There Might Be Some Unwanted Guests At Your BBQ This Summer. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/there-might-be-some-unwanted-guests-at-your-bbq-this-summer/. 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 (1993) B-2 Costs. 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

Seidel JG (2015) Adolescent female stress management curriculum. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hanel M (2013) The Octopus War. New York Times MM50

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rogers 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Rogers 2012; Wulder and Coops 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wulder and Coops 2014)
Three or more authors: (Charras et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	IZA Journal of European Labor Studies
ISSN (online)	2193-9012
Scope