How to format your references using the Organization Studies citation style

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

Riding, R. (2012). Geochemistry. A hard life for cyanobacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336, 427–428.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lumpkin, E. A., & Caterina, M. J. (2007). Mechanisms of sensory transduction in the skin. Nature, 445, 858–865.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falenty, A., Hansen, T. C., & Kuhs, W. F. (2014). Formation and properties of ice XVI obtained by emptying a type sII clathrate hydrate. Nature, 516, 231–233.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Strouse, B., Bialk, P., Niamat, R. A., Rivera-Torres, N., & Kmiec, E. B. (2014). Combinatorial gene editing in mammalian cells using ssODNs and TALENs. Scientific Reports, 4, 3791.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fiske, J. R., & Fiske, C. A. (2009). The Big Book of Benefit Auctions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pearton, S. J. (2006). Gallium Nitride Processing for Electronics, Sensors and Spintronics (C. R. Abernathy & F. Ren, Eds.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Toma, A. K., Papadopoulos, M. C., Stapleton, S., Kitchen, N. D., & Watkins, L. D. (2012). Conservative Versus Surgical Management of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A Prospective Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial: Study Protocol. In G. A. Aygok & H. L. Rekate (Eds.), Hydrocephalus: Selected Papers from the International Workshop in Crete, 2010 (pp. 21–23). Vienna: 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 Organization Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 22). Pod Of Orcas Caught With An Enormous Eyeball.

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. (2001). Telecommunications: Characteristics and Competitiveness of the Internet Backbone Market (No. GAO-02-16). Washington, DC: 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

Dusenberry, W. (2017). Integrating depth psychology in adolescent court-mandated treatment facilities: Increasing treatment efficacy and client engagement (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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, May 13). Nothing Up His Sleeve, but on It. New York Times, p. E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Riding, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Lumpkin & Caterina, 2007; Riding, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lumpkin & Caterina, 2007)
Three authors: (Falenty, Hansen, & Kuhs, 2014)
6 or more authors: (Strouse, Bialk, Niamat, Rivera-Torres, & Kmiec, 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organization Studies
ISSN (print)	0170-8406
ISSN (online)	1741-3044
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Strategy and Management

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