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

Fenton, M. B.

2011

“Ecology. The world through a bat’s ear.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 333: 528–529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanz, J., and Z. A. Fayad

2008

“Imaging of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.” Nature, 451: 953–957.

A journal article with 3 authors

Møller, P. R., J. G. Nielsen, and I. Fossen

2003

“Fish migration: Patagonian toothfish found off Greenland.” Nature, 421: 599.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bruto, M., C. Prigent-Combaret, D. Muller, and Y. Moënne-Loccoz

2014

“Analysis of genes contributing to plant-beneficial functions in Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria and related Proteobacteria.” Scientific Reports, 4: 6261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen, R. N.

2010

Practical Relativity. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Xu, L. D., A. M. Tjoa, and S. S. Chaudhry (Eds.)

2008

Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems II: IFIP TC 8 WG 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2007) October 14–16, 2007, Beijing, China. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing Vol. 254. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

De Pauw, T., F. De Turck, and V. Ongenae

2011

“Autonomous Service Composition in Symbiotic Networks.” In I. Chrisment, A. Couch, R. Badonnel, and M. Waldburger (eds.), Managing the Dynamics of Networks and Services: 5th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2011, Nancy, France, June 13-17, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 49–52. 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

O`Callaghan, J.

2015, September 10

“How Sex And Masturbation Could Lead To More Ebola Outbreaks.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/risk-ebola-flare-ups-sex-and-masturbation-could-be-greater-thought/

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

1998

Information Technology: Assessment of the Department of Commerce’s Report on Workforce Demand and Supply ( No. HEHS-98-106). 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

Comorau, N.

2009

Postcolonial refashionings: Reading forms, reading novels (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Saslow, L.

2007, January 28

“Nassau Has $100 Million for Open Space.” New York Times, p. LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fenton, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Sanz and Fayad, 2008; Fenton, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Sanz and Fayad, 2008)
Three authors: (Møller, Nielsen, and Fossen, 2003)
4 or more authors: (Bruto 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