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

Osborne, J.

2010

“Arguing to learn in science: the role of collaborative, critical discourse.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 328: 463–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wagner, W. R., and B. P. Griffith

2010

“Reconstructing the lung.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 329: 520–522.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gutfreund, Y., W. Zheng, and E. I. Knudsen

2002

“Gated visual input to the central auditory system.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 297: 1556–1559.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Huang, X., J. Chen, Z. Lu, H. Yu, Q. Yan, and H. H. Hng

2013

“Carbon inverse opal entrapped with electrode active nanoparticles as high-performance anode for lithium-ion batteries.” Scientific Reports, 3: 2317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chow, S.-C., and J.-P. Liu

2005

Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concepts and Methodologies. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hong, B., X. Meng, L. Chen, W. Winiwarter, and W. Song (Eds.)

2013

Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 18th International Conference, DASFAA 2013, International Workshops: BDMA, SNSM, SeCoP, Wuhan, China, April 22-25, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 7827. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Basu, M., and T. K. Ho

2006

“Linear Separability in Descent Procedures for Linear Classifiers.” In M. Basu and T. K. Ho (eds.), Data Complexity in Pattern Recognition, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing: 69–90. 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 Administrative Science Quarterly.

Blog post

Evans, K.

2017, January 10

“Nutrition Experts Got Together And Ranked The Best Diets Of 2017 — Here Are The Top 12.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nutrition-experts-ranked-the-best-diets-2017-top-12/

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

2012

HUD Information Technology: More Work Remains to Implement Necessary Management Controls ( No. GAO-12-580T). 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

Griffin, J. C.

2012

Animal and soul: Animals in Native American mythologies and the individuation process (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

JULIA C. MEAD; Linda Saslow contributed reporting for this article

2006, April 30

“A Grieving Family Questions a Police Policy.” New York Times, p. 14LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Osborne, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Osborne, 2010; Wagner and Griffith, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wagner and Griffith, 2010)
Three authors: (Gutfreund, Zheng, and Knudsen, 2002)
4 or more authors: (Huang et al., 2013)

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