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

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

Cook-Deegan R. Patent law. Law and science collide over human gene patents. Science. 2012 Nov 9;338(6108):745–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vohr SH, Green RE. Development. Aneuploidy and mother’s genes. Science. 2015 Apr 10;348(6231):180–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun A, Lauher JW, Goroff NS. Preparation of poly(diiododiacetylene), an ordered conjugated polymer of carbon and iodine. Science. 2006 May 19;312(5776):1030–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kerr B, Riley MA, Feldman MW, Bohannan BJM. Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock-paper-scissors. Nature. 2002 Jul 11;418(6894):171–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doldi L. Validation of Communications Systems with SDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Yu X. Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms. Gen M, editor. London: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

García-Colín LS, Dagdug L. Solution of the Integral Equations. In: Dagdug L, editor. The Kinetic Theory of a Dilute Ionized Plasma. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 51–9.

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 Migration.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Awesome Video Shows Body Doing Yoga In An X-ray Machine [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientific-animation-body-doing-yoga-x-ray-form/

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. Standard Budget Classifications--Proposed Functions and Subfunctions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Aug. Report No.: PAD-76-49.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bell KD. Fatherhood connected: A curriculum development project for adolescent fathers in the juvenile justice system [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Chira S. Le Pen Shifts A Strategy: Feminizing The Far Right. New York Times. 2017 May 4;A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cook-Deegan 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Cook-Deegan 2012; Vohr and Green 2015).

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

Two authors: (Vohr and Green 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kerr et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	IZA Journal of Migration
ISSN (online)	2193-9039
Scope