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

Rizo, J. (2012). Cell biology. Staging membrane fusion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6100), 1300–1301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Paul, W. E., & Germain, R. N. (2003). Obituary: Charles A. Janeway Jr (1943-2003). Nature, 423(6937), 237.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gu, Y., Lee, W., & Shen, J. (2014). Site-2 protease responds to oxidative stress and regulates oxidative injury in mammalian cells. Scientific reports, 4, 6268.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rocha, D. F. O., Wouters, F. C., Machado, G., & Marsaioli, A. J. (2013). First biosynthetic pathway of 1-hepten-3-one in Iporangaia pustulosa (Opiliones). Scientific reports, 3, 3156.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weverka, P. (2010). Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 All-in-One for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pardoux, E. (2014). Stochastic Differential Equations, Backward SDEs, Partial Differential Equations. (A. Rӑşcanu, Ed.) (Vol. 69). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu, P. L., Sadler, B. M., Verma, G., & Baras, J. S. (2016). Fingerprinting by Design: Embedding and Authentication. In C. Wang, R. M. Gerdes, Y. Guan, & S. K. Kasera (Eds.), Digital Fingerprinting (pp. 69–88). New York, NY: Springer.

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

Davis, J. (2016, April 29). Can Marijuana Treat Opioid Addiction? 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. (1990). Truck Safety: Need to Better Ensure Correction of Serious Inspection Violations (No. RCED-90-202). 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

Boyer, M. D. (2009). Organizational improvisation within an episodic planning model: A systems perspective (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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, December 15). Hank’s Long Suffering. New York Times, p. BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rizo 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Paul and Germain 2003; Rizo 2012).

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

Two authors: (Paul and Germain 2003)
Three or more authors: (Rocha et al. 2013)

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