How to format your references using the Administrative Science Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ). 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	Download the output style file
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

Eisenstein, M.

2015

“Medical marijuana: Showdown at the cannabis corral.” Nature, 525: S15-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rupert, P. B., and A. R. Ferré-D’Amaré

2001

“Crystal structure of a hairpin ribozyme-inhibitor complex with implications for catalysis.” Nature, 410: 780–786.

A journal article with 3 authors

Powner, M. W., B. Gerland, and J. D. Sutherland

2009

“Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions.” Nature, 459: 239–242.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pfitzner, C., I. Schröder, C. Scheungraber, A. Dogan, I. B. Runnebaum, M. Dürst, and N. Häfner

2014

“Digital-Direct-RT-PCR: a sensitive and specific method for quantification of CTC in patients with cervical carcinoma.” Scientific Reports, 4: 3970.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horrocks, G.

2010

Greek. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Cohen, R. D. (Ed.)

2011

Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis and Therapeutics. Clinical Gastroenterology 2nd ed. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Rigamonti, G.

2011

“Bertrand Russell.” In C. Bartocci, R. Betti, A. Guerraggio, and R. Lucchetti (eds.), Mathematical Lives: Protagonists of the Twentieth Century From Hilbert to Wiles: 27–35. 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 Administrative Science Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew, E.

2015, November 10

“Time To Take A Sick Day: Working When Ill Is Bad For You – And Your Company.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/time-take-sick-day-working-when-ill-bad-you-and-your-company/

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

2013

FAA Oversight of Procedures and Technologies to Prevent and Mitigate the Effects of Dense, Continuous Smoke in the Cockpit ( No. GAO-13-551R). 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

Beard, J. A.

2014

Evidence of Leadership Competencies in the Journal of Mary Easton Sibley, a Pioneering 19th Century Women’s College Founder (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Sisario, B.

2016, October 18

“Roll Over, Beyoncé: Chuck Berry’s Surprise.” New York Times, p. C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rupert and Ferré-D’Amaré, 2001; Eisenstein, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rupert and Ferré-D’Amaré, 2001)
Three authors: (Powner, Gerland, and Sutherland, 2009)
4 or more authors: (Pfitzner et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Administrative Science Quarterly
Abbreviation	Adm. Sci. Q.
ISSN (print)	0001-8392
ISSN (online)	1930-3815
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science Public Administration