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

Hatfull, G. F. (2001). Microbiology. The great escape. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5525), 2263–2264.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pelkmans, L., & Zerial, M. (2005). Kinase-regulated quantal assemblies and kiss-and-run recycling of caveolae. Nature, 436(7047), 128–133.

A journal article with 3 authors

Russo, R., Herrmann, H. J., & de Arcangelis, L. (2014). Brain modularity controls the critical behavior of spontaneous activity. Scientific reports, 4, 4312.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yu, S.-W., Wang, H., Poitras, M. F., Coombs, C., Bowers, W. J., Federoff, H. J., et al. (2002). Mediation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1-dependent cell death by apoptosis-inducing factor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5579), 259–263.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiman, J. (2012). As Free and as Just as Possible. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Bairoch, A., Cohen-Boulakia, S., & Froidevaux, C. (Eds.). (2008). Data Integration in the Life Sciences: 5th International Workshop, DILS 2008, Evry, France, June 25-27, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 5109). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carminati, R. (2006). Introduction to Radiative Transfer. In S. Volz (Ed.), Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer (pp. 55–76). 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, November 11). Armored Dinosaurs Used “Krazy Straw” Nasal Passages To Cool Their Blood. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/armored-dinosaurs-used-twisty-nasal-passages-air-conditioning/. 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. (1996). Impacts of Closing Meigs Field Airport (No. RCED-96-256R). 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

Naik, M. (2017). Automating the process of antibiotic susceptibility testing (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

Coll, S. (2016, October 2). Way Down Under. New York Times, p. BR20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hatfull 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hatfull 2001; Pelkmans and Zerial 2005).

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

Two authors: (Pelkmans and Zerial 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al. 2002)

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