How to format your references using the AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv. 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

Cannon B (2013) Cardiovascular disease: Biochemistry to behaviour. Nature 493:S2-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Sutton RT, Hodson DLR (2005) Atlantic Ocean forcing of North American and European summer climate. Science 309:115–118

A journal article with 3 authors

Saeed Y, Singh N, Schwingenschlögl U (2014) Superior thermoelectric response in the 3R phases of hydrated NaxRhO2. Sci Rep 4:4390

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tapper AR, McKinney SL, Nashmi R, et al (2004) Nicotine activation of alpha4* receptors: sufficient for reward, tolerance, and sensitization. Science 306:1029–1032

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kunz RG (2009) Environmental Calculations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Carlo G, Crockett LJ, Carranza MA (eds) (2011) Health Disparities in Youth and Families: Research and Applications. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Dolce P, Vinzi VE, Lauro C (2016) Path Directions Incoherence in PLS Path Modeling: A Prediction-Oriented Solution. In: Abdi H, Esposito Vinzi V, Russolillo G, et al. (eds) The Multiple Facets of Partial Least Squares and Related Methods: PLS, Paris, France, 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–70

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 AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Everything You Need to Know About Cometary Exploration. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/everything-you-need-know-about-cometary-exploration-0/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1990) Automated Systems: Legislative Branch’s Efforts in Sharing Payroll/Personnel Systems. 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

Bannister RM (2017) To What Extent Are the Grade Configurations of Middle/High Schools and High Schools Related to Student Engagement? Doctoral dissertation, 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

Wagner J (2017) The Mets Believe Cabrera Could Be a Keeper. New York Times B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cannon 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Sutton and Hodson 2005; Cannon 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sutton and Hodson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Tapper et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
ISSN (print)	1863-8155
ISSN (online)	1863-8163
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Statistics and Probability General Social Sciences