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 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

Holmes EC (2010) Virology. Helping the resistance. Science 328(5983):1243–1244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hedges SB, Kumar S (2002) Genomics. Vertebrate genomes compared. Science 297(5585):1283–1285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greene CH, Monger BC, McGarry LP (2009) Ecology. Some like it cold. Science 324(5928):733–734.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hasegawa K, Martin F, Huang G, Tumas D, Diehl L, Chan AC (2004) PEST domain-enriched tyrosine phosphatase (PEP) regulation of effector/memory T cells. Science 303(5658):685–689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Forshaw M (2006) Understanding Headaches and Migraines (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK).

An edited book

Kapur S, Erşahin S eds. (2014) Soil Security for Ecosystem Management: Mediterranean Soil Ecosystems 1 (Springer International Publishing, Cham).

A chapter in an edited book

Suzdalev IP, Maksimov YV (2007) Critical sizes and characteristics of nanoclusters and nanostructures. Lippens PE, Jumas JC, Génin JMR, eds. ICAME 2005: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2005) held in Montpellier, France, 4–9 September 2005, Volume I (Part I–II/V) (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 25–35.

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

Fang J (2015) Sperm Whales Have Local Dialects. 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 (1994) Amtrak: Key Decisions Need to Be Made in the Face of Deteriorating Financial Condition (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

Armani MD (2010) Nucleic acid extraction and detection across two-dimensional tissue samples. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Kelly D (1998) Fear and Loathing in San Juan. New York Times (November 29).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hedges and Kumar 2002, Holmes 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hedges and Kumar 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hasegawa et al. 2004)

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