How to format your references using the The Review of International Organizations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Review of International Organizations. 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

Cho, A. (2014). Computer science. Quantum or not, controversial computer yields no speedup. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6190), 1330–1331.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sobel, H. W., & Suzuki, Y. (2008). Obituary: Yoji Totsuka (1942-2008). Nature, 454(7207), 954.

A journal article with 3 authors

Han, Y., Bai, T., & Liu, W. (2014). Controlled heterogeneous stem cell differentiation on a shape memory hydrogel surface. Scientific reports, 4, 5815.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ohlrogge, J., Allen, D., Berguson, B., Dellapenna, D., Shachar-Hill, Y., & Stymne, S. (2009). Energy. Driving on biomass. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5930), 1019–1020.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodda, H. J. E., & Little, M. A. (2015). Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Barthe, G., Pardo, A., & Schneider, G. (Eds.). (2011). Software Engineering and Formal Methods: 9th International Conference, SEFM 2011, Montevideo, Uruguay, November 14-18, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 7041). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Majorana, E., & Sasso, A. (2006). Pseudopolar reaction of hydrogen atoms. In G. F. Bassani (Ed.), Ettore Majorana Scientific Papers: On occasion of the centenary of his birth (pp. 77–88). 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 The Review of International Organizations.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, March 24). Exploding Stars Prove Gravity Constant Over The Last 9 Billion Years. 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. (2008). Telecommunications: Survey of State Regulatory Commissions (GAO-08-662SP, June 2008), an E-supplement to GAO-08-633 (No. GAO-08-662SP). 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

Stephens, T. (2012). The evolution of transformative communication patterns in 1-to-1 computing classrooms (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, March 9). After Trump, Executives Ponder Path Into Politics. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cho 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Cho 2014; Sobel and Suzuki 2008).

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

Two authors: (Sobel and Suzuki 2008)
Three or more authors: (Ohlrogge et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Review of International Organizations
Abbreviation	Rev. Int. Organ.
ISSN (print)	1559-7431
ISSN (online)	1559-744X
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management