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

Schlessinger J (2004) Common and distinct elements in cellular signaling via EGF and FGF receptors. Science 306(5701):1506–1507.

A journal article with 2 authors

Young R, Gill JJ (2015) MICROBIOLOGY. Phage therapy redux--What is to be done? Science 350(6265):1163–1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Denommee KC, Bentley SJ, Droxler AW (2014) Climatic controls on hurricane patterns: a 1200-y near-annual record from Lighthouse Reef, Belize. Sci. Rep. 4:3876.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kuiper KF, Deino A, Hilgen FJ, Krijgsman W, Renne PR, Wijbrans JR (2008) Synchronizing rock clocks of Earth history. Science 320(5875):500–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feyel P (2013) Loop-shaping Robust Control (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA).

An edited book

Allen TC, Cagle PT eds. (2009) Basic Concepts of Molecular Pathology (Springer US, Boston, MA).

A chapter in an edited book

Sammet K, Bergelt D (2012) The Modernisation of Gender Relations and Religion: Comparative Analysis of Secularization Processes. Pickel G, Sammet K, eds. Transformations of Religiosity: Religion and Religiosity in Eastern Europe 1989 – 2010. (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden), 51–68.

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 (2014) Largest Ever Yellow Hypergiant Star Spotted. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/space/largest-ever-yellow-hypergiant-star-spotted/.

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 (2010) Finanzas del Consumidor: Factores que Afectan la Educacion Financiera de las Personas con Conocimientos Limitados del Ingles (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

McCullough J (2009) Functional outcomes and patient satisfaction. A retrospective study to determine if these factors are correlated in a clinical setting. A project report. 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

Billard M (2010) Dress Like a Benefactor. New York Times (April 29).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlessinger 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Schlessinger 2004, Young and Gill 2015).

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

Two authors: (Young and Gill 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kuiper et al. 2008)

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

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