How to format your references using the Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management. 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

Jernelöv, A. (2010). How to defend against future oil spills. Nature, 466(7303), 182–183.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berger, A., & Loutre, M. F. (2002). Climate. An exceptionally long interglacial ahead? Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5585), 1287–1288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Serizawa, T., Hamada, K.-I., & Akashi, M. (2004). Polymerization within a molecular-scale stereoregular template. Nature, 429(6987), 52–55.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jones, M. W. M., Elgass, K., Junker, M. D., Luu, M. B., Ryan, M. T., Peele, A. G., & van Riessen, G. A. (2014). Mapping biological composition through quantitative phase and absorption X-ray ptychography. Scientific Reports, 4, 6796.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sericola, B. (2013). Markov Chains. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marani, E. (2014). The Pelvis: Structure, Gender and Society (W. F. R. M. Koch, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gasanov, A. M., Samedov, E. A., & Melikova, S. Z. (2005). Structural Peculiarities of Borosilicates and its Correlation with Radiation-Catalytic Activity. In M. K. Zaidi & I. Mustafaev (Eds.), Radiation Safety Problems in the Caspian Region (pp. 23–27). Springer Netherlands.

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 Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, November 13). GM Crops And The Developing World: Opposing Sides Miss The Bigger Picture. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gm-crops-and-developing-world-opposing-sides-miss-bigger-picture/

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. (1998). Space Exploration: Power Sources for Deep Space Probes (NSIAD-98-102). 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

Kerr, A. B. (2012). Exploring relationship awareness in organizational change using the Strength Deployment Inventory [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Walsh, M. W. (2010, October 8). S.&P. Says Cost to Care For Elderly Will Spiral. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jernelöv, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Berger & Loutre, 2002; Jernelöv, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Berger & Loutre, 2002)
Three authors: (Serizawa et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Jones et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management
ISSN (print)	2213-297X
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