How to format your references using the Culture and Organization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Culture and Organization. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bray, D. 2001. “Reasoning for Results.” Nature 412 (6850): 863.

A journal article with 2 authors

Uversky, Vladimir N., and A. Keith Dunker. 2008. “Biochemistry. Controlled Chaos.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5906): 1340–1341.

A journal article with 3 authors

West, G. B., J. H. Brown, and B. J. Enquist. 2001. “A General Model for Ontogenetic Growth.” Nature 413 (6856): 628–631.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bormuth, Volker, Vladimir Varga, Jonathon Howard, and Erik Schäffer. 2009. “Protein Friction Limits Diffusive and Directed Movements of Kinesin Motors on Microtubules.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5942): 870–873.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hermans, Jan, and Barry Lentz. 2013. Equilibria and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Narayanan, Ranga, ed. 2008. Interfacial Processes and Molecular Aggregation of Surfactants. Vol. 218. Advances in Polymer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Borsotti, Angelo, Luca Breveglieri, Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, and Angelo Morzenti. 2015. “From Ambiguous Regular Expressions to Deterministic Parsing Automata.” In Implementation and Application of Automata: 20th International Conference, CIAA 2015, Umeå, Sweden, August 18-21, 2015, Proceedings, edited by Frank Drewes, 35–48. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Culture and Organization.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “How Does A Computer Know Where You’re Looking?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-does-a-computer-know-where-youre-looking/.

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. 2010. High Speed Rail: Learning From Service Start-Ups, Prospects for Increased Industry Investment, and Federal Oversight Plans. GAO-10-625. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Farrell, Dale Patrick. 2017. “Teachers’ Perceptions of How the Use of Peer Evaluation Could Improve Their Teaching Practice.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Rosenthal, Brian M. 2017. “‘Tough Cop’ Running for Mayor Is Accused of Pushing Limits.” New York Times, June 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bray 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bray 2001; Uversky and Dunker 2008).

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

Two authors: (Uversky and Dunker 2008)
Three authors: (West, Brown, and Enquist 2001)
4 or more authors: (Bormuth et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Culture and Organization
Abbreviation	Cult. Organ.
ISSN (print)	1475-9551
ISSN (online)	1477-2760
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Cultural Studies