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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Gottschling, D. E. (2012). Molecular biology. Fragile delivery to the genome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6091), 160–161.
A journal article with 2 authors
Gomes, C. P., & Selman, B. (2002). Computer science. Satisfied with physics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5582), 784–785.
A journal article with 3 authors
Song, C., Wang, P., & Makse, H. A. (2008). A phase diagram for jammed matter. Nature, 453(7195), 629–632.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Swain, M. R., Deroo, P., Griffith, C. A., Tinetti, G., Thatte, A., Vasisht, G., et al. (2010). A ground-based near-infrared emission spectrum of the exoplanet HD 189733b. Nature, 463(7281), 637–639.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Warren, A. (2013). Dunes. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.
An edited book
Das, G., & Gulati, V. P. (Eds.). (2005). Intelligent Information Technology: 7th International Conference on Information Technology, CIT 2004, Hyderabad, India, December 20-23, 2004. Proceedings (Vol. 3356). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Augustin, M. (2012). Pharmacoeconomics of Occupational Diseases. In T. Rustemeyer, P. Elsner, S.-M. John, & H. I. Maibach (Eds.), Kanerva’s Occupational Dermatology (pp. 19–26). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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
Andrew, E. (2014, November 12). Scientists at Work as Philae Lands: From Rosetta Mission Control. 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. (1999). National Airspace System: Review of FAA’s Spending for Operations (No. RCED/OGC/AIMD-99-222R). 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
Zhuang, S. (2008). Enhancing Implicit Finite Element Sheet Forming Simulation (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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
Kelly, M. (1993, October 31). David Gergen, Master of THE GAME. New York Times, p. 664.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gottschling 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gomes and Selman 2002; Gottschling 2012).

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

  • Two authors: (Gomes and Selman 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Swain et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal titleReview of Industrial Organization
AbbreviationRev. Ind. Organ.
ISSN (print)0889-938X
ISSN (online)1573-7160
ScopeManagement of Technology and Innovation
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Strategy and Management
Economics and Econometrics

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