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

Izaurralde, E. (2015). GENE REGULATION. Breakers and blockers—miRNAs at work. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6246), 380–382.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cullimore, J., & Dénarié, J. (2003). Plant sciences. How legumes select their sweet talking symbionts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5645), 575–578.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weng, L., Menczer, F., & Ahn, Y.-Y. (2013). Virality prediction and community structure in social networks. Scientific reports, 3, 2522.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Arvidson, R. E., Poulet, F., Bibring, J.-P., Wolff, M., Gendrin, A., Morris, R. V., et al. (2005). Spectral reflectance and morphologic correlations in eastern Terra Meridiani, Mars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5715), 1591–1594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schaik, C. P. V. (2015). The Primate Origins of Human Nature. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kar, S. (2015). Industrial and Labor Economics: Issues in Developing and Transition Countries. (D. Datta, Ed.) (Vol. 25). New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Merzouki, R., Samantaray, A. K., Pathak, P. M., & Ould Bouamama, B. (2013). Rigid Body, Flexible Body, and Micro Electromechanical Systems. In A. K. Samantaray, P. M. Pathak, & B. Ould Bouamama (Eds.), Intelligent Mechatronic Systems: Modeling, Control and Diagnosis (pp. 281–433). London: 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

Andrew, E. (2015, May 19). Russian Rocket Tumbles Back To Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/russian-rocket-tumbles-back-earth/. 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. (1979). Comments on “The Government Can Be More Productive in Collecting Its Debts by Following Commercial Practices” (No. B-194920). 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

Mullen, C. R. (2017). Factors Influencing Canadian Power Engineers’ Decision to Pursue Advanced Certification (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Vecsey, G. (2012, February 17). A Star With a Smile, Forever Kid. New York Times, p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Izaurralde 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cullimore and Dénarié 2003; Izaurralde 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cullimore and Dénarié 2003)
Three or more authors: (Arvidson et al. 2005)

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