How to format your references using the Strategic Organization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Strategic Organization. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Lavé J (2015) Earth science: Landscape inversion by stream piracy. Nature 520(7548): 442–444.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanders RW and Moore JP (2014) HIV: A stamp on the envelope. Nature 514(7523): 437–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tilmes S, Müller R and Salawitch R (2008) The sensitivity of polar ozone depletion to proposed geoengineering schemes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320(5880): 1201–1204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen J, de Felipe KS, Clarke M, et al. (2004) Legionella effectors that promote nonlytic release from protozoa. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303(5662): 1358–1361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willan AR and Briggs AH (2006) Statistical Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness Data. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Choi J and Friedland G (eds) (2015) Multimodal Location Estimation of Videos and Images. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiménez Urroz J (2008) Almost Prime Orders of CM Elliptic Curves Modulo p. In: Poorten AJ van der and Stein A (eds) Algorithmic Number Theory: 8th International Symposium, ANTS-VIII Banff, Canada, May 17-22, 2008 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 74–87.

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 Strategic Organization.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Bone Tissue Regrown Using Proteins from Stem Cells. IFLScience.

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 (2009) Securities and Exchange Commission: Greater Attention Is Needed to Enhance Communication and Utilization of Resources in the Division of Enforcement. GAO-09-613T, 7 May. 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

Flores E (2010) An exploratory study on widows’ experiences following the loss of their spouse. 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

Kelly D (1995) IN SHORT: FICTION. New York Times, 6 August.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lavé, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lavé, 2015; Sanders and Moore, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sanders and Moore, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Strategic Organization
Abbreviation	Strateg. Organ.
ISSN (print)	1476-1270
ISSN (online)	1741-315X
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management Industrial relations Education