How to format your references using the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. 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

Levi MA. 2004. Dreaming of clean nukes. Nature. 428(6986):892

A journal article with 2 authors

Kump LR, Barley ME. 2007. Increased subaerial volcanism and the rise of atmospheric oxygen 2.5 billion years ago. Nature. 448(7157):1033–36

A journal article with 3 authors

Cotton CH, Flint J, Campbell TG. 2009. Is there an association between NPY and neuroticism? Nature. 458(7238):E6; discussion E7

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shuster DL, Ehlers TA, Rusmoren ME, Farley KA. 2005. Rapid glacial erosion at 1.8 Ma revealed by 4He/3He thermochronometry. Science. 310(5754):1668–70

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson JL. 1997. Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sako K, ed. 2016. Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2016: The Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 29 - March 4, 2016, Proceedings, Vol. 9610. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 1st ed. 2016 ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Millot D, Parrot C. 2014. Setting up Clusters of Computing Units to Process Several Data Streams Efficiently. In Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 10th International Conference, PPAM 2013, Warsaw, Poland, September 8-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, eds. R Wyrzykowski, J Dongarra, K Karczewski, J Waśniewski, pp. 49–61. 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 Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Scientist Turns To Crowd-Funding To Continue Research. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1990. B-2 Bomber: Contract Structure and Selected Provisions. NSIAD-90-230FS, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monosky KA. 2010. Perceived effectiveness and utility of various EMS credentials. Doctoral dissertation thesis. George Washington University

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

Cave D, Kwai I. 2017. Drug Trafficker and Australian Obsession Returns Home. New York Times, May 27, , p. A4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levi 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kump & Barley 2007; Levi 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kump & Barley 2007)
Three or more authors: (Shuster et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Organ. Psychol. Organ. Behav.
ISSN (print)	2327-0608
ISSN (online)	2327-0616
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