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

Thulborn T (2003) Comment on “Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.” Science 301(5630):169; author reply 169.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kidder SQ, Vonder Haar TH (2010) Atmospheric science. Observing weather from space. Science 327(5969):1085–1086.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zheludev I, Smith R, Aste T (2014) When can social media lead financial markets? Sci. Rep. 4:4213.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Boesenberg U, Marcus MA, Shukla AK, Yi T, McDermott E, Teh PF, Srinivasan M, Moewes A, Cabana J (2014) Asymmetric pathways in the electrochemical conversion reaction of NiO as battery electrode with high storage capacity. Sci. Rep. 4:7133.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lloret J, Shulman G, Love RM (2013) Condition and Health Indicators of Exploited Marine Fishes (John Wiley & Sons, Oxford).

An edited book

Tseng CC (2013) Learning Basic Genetics with Interactive Computer Programs Yang X, ed. (Springer, New York, NY).

A chapter in an edited book

Saakov VS, Krivchenko AI, Rozengart EV, Danilova IG (2015) Application of Derivative Spectrophotometry in Comparative Biochemical Studies. Krivchenko AI, Rozengart EV, Danilova IG, eds. Derivative Spectrophotometry and PAM-Fluorescence in Comparative Biochemistry. (Springer International Publishing, Cham), 349–478.

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

Andrew D (2016) Fasting May Improve Cancer Treatment, But Needs Further Exploration. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fasting-may-improve-cancer-treatment-but-needs-further-exploration/.

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 (1977) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s System of Accounting for Accounts Receivable (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

Dandavate R (2006) Building Cultural Understanding Through Cultural Exchange. Doctoral dissertation. (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH).

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 (2005) Justices Refuse to Hear Case Of Condemned Virginia Man. New York Times (October 4).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thulborn 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kidder and Vonder Haar 2010, Thulborn 2003).

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

Two authors: (Kidder and Vonder Haar 2010)
Three or more authors: (Boesenberg et al. 2014)

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