How to format your references using the Review of Industrial Organization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Industrial Organization. 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

Wilkinson, L. S. (2010). Developmental biology. Which parental gene gets the upper hand? Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5992), 636–637.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maizels, R. M., & Allen, J. E. (2011). Immunology. Eosinophils forestall obesity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6026), 186–187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Caricchi, L., Simpson, G., & Schaltegger, U. (2014). Zircons reveal magma fluxes in the Earth’s crust. Nature, 511(7510), 457–461.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Houze, R. A., Jr, Chen, S. S., Smull, B. F., Lee, W.-C., & Bell, M. M. (2007). Hurricane intensity and eyewall replacement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5816), 1235–1239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smilansky, S. (2007). 10 Moral Paradoxes. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Camenisch, J., & Kesdoğan, D. (Eds.). (2016). Open Problems in Network Security: IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop, iNetSec 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, October 29, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9591). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Debnath, M., Prasad, G. B. K. S., & Bisen, P. S. (2010). Aptamers: In Vitro DNA Selection. In G. B. K. S. Prasad & P. S. Bisen (Eds.), Molecular Diagnostics: Promises and Possibilities (pp. 55–69). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Review of Industrial Organization.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 10). Adorable Baby Pygmy Hippo Born At Melbourne Zoo. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (2004). Gulf War Illnesses: DOD’s Conclusions About U.S. Troops’ Exposure Cannot Be Adequately Supported (No. GAO-04-821T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kao, C. H. (2012). Community mental health care for Chinese Americans: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Williams, J. (2016, September 15). Making, and Musing On, an Existential Classic. New York Times, p. C22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilkinson 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Maizels and Allen 2011; Wilkinson 2010).

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

Two authors: (Maizels and Allen 2011)
Three or more authors: (Houze et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Industrial Organization
Abbreviation	Rev. Ind. Organ.
ISSN (print)	0889-938X
ISSN (online)	1573-7160
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Strategy and Management Economics and Econometrics