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

Astudillo Besnier, P. (2014). Chile needs better science governance and support. Nature, 511(7510), 385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray, N., & Chouard, T. (2009). Neurotechniques. Nature, 461(7266), 899.

A journal article with 3 authors

Domínguez-García, V., Pigolotti, S., & Muñoz, M. A. (2014). Inherent directionality explains the lack of feedback loops in empirical networks. Scientific Reports, 4, 7497.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Izawa, D., Goto, M., Yamashita, A., Yamano, H., & Yamamoto, M. (2005). Fission yeast Mes1p ensures the onset of meiosis II by blocking degradation of cyclin Cdc13p. Nature, 434(7032), 529–533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geisser, S. (2005). Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference: Geisser/Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Donaldson, A., & Parker, D. (Eds.). (2012). Model Checking Software: 19th International Workshop, SPIN 2012, Oxford, UK, July 23-24, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7385). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghosh, P., Dey, R., Roy, K., Bhattacharjee, D., & Nashipuri, M. (2016). Microscopic Image Segmentation Using Hybrid Technique for Dengue Prediction. In S. Bhattacharyya, P. Dutta, S. De, & G. Klepac (Eds.), Hybrid Soft Computing for Image Segmentation (pp. 109–136). 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 Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, October 11). What Is Habitat III And Why Does It Matter? A Beginner’s Guide To The New Urban Agenda. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1981). Multiyear Authorizations for Research and Development (PAD-81-61). 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

Ton, N.-Q. (2015). A hierarchical wireless network architecture for building automation and control systems: Implementation and simulation study [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

Nordland, R. (2017, April 21). With Daring Cellphone Videos, Saudi Women Are Challenging Male Control. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Astudillo Besnier, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Astudillo Besnier, 2014; Gray & Chouard, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gray & Chouard, 2009)
Three authors: (Domínguez-García et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Izawa et al., 2005)

About the journal

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