How to format your references using the Organization Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organization Science. 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

Lienhardt C (2014) Fundamental research is the key to eliminating TB. Nature 507(7493):401.

A journal article with 2 authors

DeLong EF, Karl DM (2005) Genomic perspectives in microbial oceanography. Nature 437(7057):336–342.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turvey ST, Green OR, Holdaway RN (2005) Cortical growth marks reveal extended juvenile development in New Zealand moa. Nature 435(7044):940–943.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pursell ZF, Isoz I, Lundström EB, Johansson E, Kunkel TA (2007) Yeast DNA polymerase epsilon participates in leading-strand DNA replication. Science 317(5834):127–130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sadr A (2009) Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Kaur H, Tao X eds. (2014) ICTs and the Millennium Development Goals: A United Nations Perspective (Springer US, Boston, MA).

A chapter in an edited book

Zhu S, Wang W, Ravishankar CV (2006) Stochastically Consistent Caching and Dynamic Duty Cycling for Erratic Sensor Sources. Gibbons PB, Abdelzaher T, Aspnes J, Rao R, eds. Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems: Second IEEE International Conference, DCOSS 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 18-20, 2006. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 67–84.

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 Organization Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) An Artist Wants To 3D Print Someone’s Laugh In Space. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), .

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) VA Information Technology: Improvements Needed to Implement Legislative Reforms (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gallegos CM (2009) Shelter services for homeless older adults: A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA).

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

Crow K (2002) Two Old Buildings Win Friends in High Places. New York Times (November 3).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lienhardt 2014).
This sentence cites two references (DeLong and Karl 2005, Lienhardt 2014).

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

Two authors: (DeLong and Karl 2005)
Three or more authors: (Pursell et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organization Science
ISSN (print)	1047-7039
ISSN (online)	1526-5455
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Strategy and Management