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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information 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

Ballentine, C. J. (2002). Geochemistry. Tiny tracers tell tall tales. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5571), 1247–1248.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davies, I. W., & Welch, C. J. (2009). Looking forward in pharmaceutical process chemistry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5941), 701–704.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biteau, B., Labarre, J., & Toledano, M. B. (2003). ATP-dependent reduction of cysteine-sulphinic acid by S. cerevisiae sulphiredoxin. Nature, 425(6961), 980–984.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Huigens, M. E., Luck, R. F., Klaassen, R. H., Maas, M. F., Timmermans, M. J., & Stouthamer, R. (2000). Infectious parthenogenesis. Nature, 405(6783), 178–179.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willatzen, M., & Lew Yan Voon, L. C. (2011). Separable Boundary-Value Problems in Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Reissig, M., & Ruzhansky, M. (Eds.). (2013). Progress in Partial Differential Equations: Asymptotic Profiles, Regularity and Well-Posedness (Vol. 44). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Shilev, S. (2013). Soil Rhizobacteria Regulating the Uptake of Nutrients and Undesirable Elements by Plants. In N. K. Arora (Ed.), Plant Microbe Symbiosis: Fundamentals and Advances (pp. 147–167). Springer India.

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 Information and Organization.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, September 29). Hikers Caught In Volcanic Eruption Capture Moment On Camera. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/volcanic-ash-cloud-catches-hikers/

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. (2004). Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Department of Education Could Improve Its Monitoring and Assistance (GAO-04-961). 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

Scaramella, J. (2013). Physical activity and red light foods consumed in ASPIRE-VA veterans [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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, March 2). Justices Express Concern Over Aspects of Some Texas Redistricting. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ballentine, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ballentine, 2002; Davies & Welch, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Davies & Welch, 2009)
Three authors: (Biteau et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Huigens et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information and Organization
Abbreviation	Inf. Organ.
ISSN (print)	1471-7727
Scope	Management Information Systems Management of Technology and Innovation Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Information Systems Library and Information Sciences