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

Smaglik P (2002) The best of both worlds. Seattle. Nature 417:4–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Gershenwald JE, Fidler IJ (2002) Cancer. Targeting lymphatic metastasis. Science 296:1811–1812

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng G-M, Wu L-A, Xing H-J (2014) Symmetry restoration and quantumness reestablishment. Sci Rep 4:6377

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mühlbauer S, Binz B, Jonietz F, et al (2009) Skyrmion lattice in a chiral magnet. Science 323:915–919

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackevičius V (2014) Integral and Measure. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Thampi SM, Gelbukh A, Mukhopadhyay J (eds) (2014) Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Berube DM (2009) Intuitive Toxicology: The Public Perception of Nanoscience. In: Allhoff F, Lin P (eds) Nanotechnology & Society: Current and Emerging Ethical Issues. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 91–108

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

Andrew E (2014) Female Insects Prefer Dinner To “Handcuffs.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/female-insects-prefer-dinner-handcuffs/. 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 (1971) Review of the Policies and Procedures of the Office of Education in Administering Contracts Awarded for the Purpose of Studying or Evaluating Educational Programs. 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

Trantham LC (2012) PSA surveillance following radical prostatectomy: What we know and why it matters. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Beard M (2017) Lives in Ruins. 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 (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Gershenwald and Fidler 2002).

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

Two authors: (Gershenwald and Fidler 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mühlbauer et al. 2009)

About the journal

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