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

Canup RM (2005) A giant impact origin of Pluto-Charon. Science 307:546–550

A journal article with 2 authors

Bianchi A, Shore D (2008) Molecular biology. Refined view of the ends. Science 320:1301–1302

A journal article with 3 authors

Donlea JM, Ramanan N, Shaw PJ (2009) Use-dependent plasticity in clock neurons regulates sleep need in Drosophila. Science 324:105–108

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fraser HB, Hirsh AE, Steinmetz LM, et al (2002) Evolutionary rate in the protein interaction network. Science 296:750–752

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wittcoff HA, Reuben BG, Plotkin JS (2012) Industrial Organic Chemicals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kämäräinen J-K, Koskela M (eds) (2013) Image Analysis: 18th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2013, Espoo, Finland, June 17-20, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Finkbeiner B, Kuhtz L (2009) Monitor Circuits for LTL with Bounded and Unbounded Future. In: Bensalem S, Peled DA (eds) Runtime Verification: 9th International Workshop, RV 2009, Grenoble, France, June 26-28, 2009. Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 60–75

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

O`Callaghan J (2015) Climate Change On Saturn’s Moon Titan Hinted By Images Of Wind-Eroded Features. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/climate-change-saturns-moon-titan-hinted-images-dunes/. 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 (1994) Transportation Safety: Opportunities for Enhancing Safety Across Modes. 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

Kuang S-YH (2010) “And the War Came”: A memorial to devastated lives. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Crow K (2002) Where Culture and Traffic Intersect, a Dispute. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Canup 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Canup 2005; Bianchi and Shore 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bianchi and Shore 2008)
Three or more authors: (Fraser et al. 2002)

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