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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bender, E. (2014). Epidemiology: The dominant malignancy. Nature, 513(7517), S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heilbron, J. L., & Bynum, W. F. (2003). 1903 and all that. Nature, 421(6918), 15–18.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lampard, G. R., Macalister, C. A., & Bergmann, D. C. (2008). Arabidopsis stomatal initiation is controlled by MAPK-mediated regulation of the bHLH SPEECHLESS. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5904), 1113–1116.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mayer, W., Niveleau, A., Walter, J., Fundele, R., & Haaf, T. (2000). Demethylation of the zygotic paternal genome. Nature, 403(6769), 501–502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaffikin, F., & Morrissey, M. (2011). Planning in Divided Cities: Collaborative Shaping of Contested Space. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Schmitt, C., Deisenhofer, I., & Zrenner, B. (Eds.). (2006). Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias: A Practical Approach. Steinkopff.

A chapter in an edited book

Chowdary, C. R., & Sreenivasa Kumar, P. (2008). Sentence Ordering for Coherent Multi-document Summary Generation. In A. Gray, K. Jeffery, & J. Shao (Eds.), Sharing Data, Information and Knowledge: 25th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 25, Cardiff, UK, July 7-10, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 40–50). Springer.

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

Hale, T. (2015, November 3). Bizarre Photo Appears To Show Snake EATING Its Way Out Of Another Snake. 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. (1996). Waste From School Lunches (RCED-96-128R). 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

Parhad, A. (2015). Energy scavenging using piezoelectric sensors to power in pavement intelligent vehicle detection systems [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

Gorman, J. (2017, January 30). Maggot to Blowfly: Ready for Its Close-Up. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bender, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bender, 2014; Heilbron & Bynum, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Heilbron & Bynum, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Mayer et al., 2000)

About the journal

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