How to format your references using the Administrative Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Administrative Sciences. 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

Grayson, M. Assessing Science. Nature 2015, 520, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens, R.C.; Wilson, I.A. Tech.Sight. Industrializing Structural Biology. Science 2001, 293, 519–520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Perrin, R.J.; Fagan, A.M.; Holtzman, D.M. Multimodal Techniques for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. Nature 2009, 461, 916–922.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lim, P.-E.; Tan, J.; Eamsobhana, P.; Yong, H.S. Distinct Genetic Clades of Malaysian Copera Damselflies and the Phylogeny of Platycnemine Subfamilies. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chitty, J.; Raftery, A. Essentials of Tortoise Medicine and Surgery; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Oxford, 2013; ISBN 9781118656372.

An edited book

Hannibal, J. Neuronal Input Pathways to the Brain’s Biological Clock and Their Functional Significance; Fahrenkrug, J., Ed.; Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; Vol. 182; ISBN 9783540277880.

A chapter in an edited book

Liddy, E.D. ISchools & the ISchool at Syracuse University. In Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research; Chen, C., Larsen, R., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp. 31–37 ISBN 9783642548116.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Fang, J. This Microbe’s Hair Is Actually a Nanowire for Powering Itself Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/microbes-hair-actually-nanowire-powering-itself/ (accessed on 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 Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Promote Transparency and Open Government to Enhance Civic Engagement and Foster Innovation; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2016;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Haigh, C.V. More Than Skin Deep: The Impact of Self-Esteem, Desire for Lighter Skin, and Gender on the Mental Health of University Students in Thailand. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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. Ed Sheeran’s ‘Divide’ Breaks a Global Record. New York Times 2017, C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Administrative Sciences
Abbreviation	Adm. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2076-3387
Scope