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

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

Dobson CM (2004) Protein chemistry. In the footsteps of alchemists. Science 304:1259–1262

A journal article with 2 authors

Yao T, Cohen RE (2002) A cryptic protease couples deubiquitination and degradation by the proteasome. Nature 419:403–407

A journal article with 3 authors

Libby P, Ridker PM, Hansson GK (2011) Progress and challenges in translating the biology of atherosclerosis. Nature 473:317–325

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Northen TR, Yanes O, Northen MT, et al (2007) Clathrate nanostructures for mass spectrometry. Nature 449:1033–1036

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reschetilowski W (2002) Technisch-Chemisches Praktikum. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Rudolph KL (ed) (2008) Telomeres and Telomerase in Ageing, Disease, and Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms of Adult Stem Cell Ageing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ursani AA, Kpalma K, Ronsin J, et al (2009) Improved Texture Description with Features Based on Fourier Transform. In: Hussain DMA, Rajput AQK, Chowdhry BS, Gee Q (eds) Wireless Networks, Information Processing and Systems: International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2008 Jamshoro, Pakistan, April 11-12, 2008 Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 19–28

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 Policy.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Cosmological Big Bang Or Damp Squib? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmological-big-bang-or-damp-squib/. 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 (1999) Army Medium Trucks: Information on Delivery Delays and Corrosion Problems. 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

Okafor-Dike LC (2008) The effect of leadership on economic development: A case study of Nigeria. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Wilson M (2017) A Manhunt That Began on Mulberry Street Ends in Florida. New York Times A23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Yao and Cohen 2002; Dobson 2004).

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

Two authors: (Yao and Cohen 2002)
Three or more authors: (Northen et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	IZA Journal of Labor Policy
Abbreviation	IZA J. Labor Policy
ISSN (online)	2193-9004
Scope