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

Dennis C (2002) Baiting plan to remove fox threat to Tasmanian wildlife. Nature 416:357

A journal article with 2 authors

Thodey K, Smolke CD (2011) Cell biology. Bringing it together with RNA. Science 333:412–413

A journal article with 3 authors

Morgan MG, Houghton A, Gibbons JH (2001) Science and government. Improving science and technology advice for Congress. Science 293:1999–2000

A journal article with 5 or more authors

He M, Dijkstra FA, Zhang K, et al (2014) Leaf nitrogen and phosphorus of temperate desert plants in response to climate and soil nutrient availability. Sci Rep 4:6932

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown H, Prescott R (2014) Applied Mixed Models in Medicine. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Rhodes C (2016) Windows Installation and Update Troubleshooting. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Reiter U, Brunnström K, De Moor K, et al (2014) Factors Influencing Quality of Experience. In: Möller S, Raake A (eds) Quality of Experience: Advanced Concepts, Applications and Methods. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–72

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

Fang J (2014) The dead trees and fallen leaves near Chernobyl aren’t decaying. In: IFLScience. 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 (2006) Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Improved Planning and Acquisition Strategies Can Help Address Operational Challenges. 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

Quiroz CA (2012) A community risk assessment of 90032. 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

Roach M (2016) Bodies at War. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dennis 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dennis 2002; Thodey and Smolke 2011).

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

Two authors: (Thodey and Smolke 2011)
Three or more authors: (He et al. 2014)

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