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

Pagel M (2008) Rise of the digital machine. Nature 452(7188): 699.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mattaini KR and Vander Heiden MG (2012) Cancer. Glycosylation to adapt to stress. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6097): 925–926.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bowler C, Karl DM and Colwell RR (2009) Microbial oceanography in a sea of opportunity. Nature 459(7244): 180–184.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu Y, Luo Y, Wu J, et al. (2013) Graphene oxide can induce in vitro and in vivo mutagenesis. Scientific reports 3: 3469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eggert H and Kauschke W (2012) Structural Bearings. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Gałecki A (2013) Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using R: A Step-by-Step Approach (ed. T Burzykowski). Springer Texts in Statistics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Flum H and Cinamon RG (2012) An Interdisciplinary View Of Social Constructionist Vocational Psychology. In: McIlveen P and Schultheiss DE (eds) Social Constructionism in Vocational Psychology and Career Development. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, pp. 45–57.

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

Hamilton K (2017) Don’t Panic: The Northern Lights Won’t Be Turning Off Anytime Soon. 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 (1987) Rail Abandonments: Abandonment Activity and Shipper Views on Rail Service Loss. RCED-87-82, 17 July. 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

Foster RL (2016) The Perceptions of Language Minority Parents Regarding Informed Consent in the Special Education Process. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times, 22 June.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pagel, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Mattaini and Vander Heiden, 2012; Pagel, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Mattaini and Vander Heiden, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2013)

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