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

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

Abraham S (2004) Climate. The Bush administration’s approach to climate change. Science 305:616–617

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleizen B, Braakman I (2013) Cell biology. A sweet send-off. Science 340:930–931

A journal article with 3 authors

Haas J, Creamer W, Ruiz A (2004) Dating the Late Archaic occupation of the Norte Chico region in Peru. Nature 432:1020–1023

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yao J, Liu Z, Liu Y, et al (2008) Optical negative refraction in bulk metamaterials of nanowires. Science 321:930

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abner DJ (2010) The ETF Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dulak J, Józkowicz A, Łoboda A (eds) (2013) Angiogenesis and Vascularisation: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Health and Diseases. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

Scheider S (2009) The Case for Grounding Databases. In: Janowicz K, Raubal M, Levashkin S (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics: Third International Conference, GeoS 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, December 3-4, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 44–62

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 Labor Economics.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) People Hadn’t Set Foot In This Ancient “Lost City” In The Honduran Jungle For 500 Years — Until Now. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Tax Systems Modernization: IRS’ Use of Consultants to Do the TMAC Price/Technical Tradeoff Analysis. 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

Chatterji S (2016) A novel agent-based dynamic load balancing model for cloud networks. 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

Meacham J (2017) The Man to Blame for Our Culture of Fame. New York Times BR17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abraham 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Abraham 2004; Kleizen and Braakman 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kleizen and Braakman 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yao et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	IZA Journal of Labor Economics
Abbreviation	IZA J. Labor Econ.
ISSN (online)	2193-8997
Scope