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.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Stevenson DJ (2008) A planetary perspective on the deep Earth. Nature 451(7176): 261–265.
A journal article with 2 authors
Marraffini LA and Sontheimer EJ (2008) CRISPR interference limits horizontal gene transfer in staphylococci by targeting DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322(5909): 1843–1845.
A journal article with 3 authors
ffrench-Constant C, Colognato H and Franklin RJM (2004) Neuroscience. The mysteries of myelin unwrapped. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304(5671): 688–689.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Han TA, Pereira LM, Santos FC, et al. (2013) Good agreements make good friends. Scientific reports 3: 2695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Stavetski EJ (2009) Managing Hedge Fund Managers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Chrisment I, Couch A, Badonnel R, et al. (eds) (2011) Managing the Dynamics of Networks and Services: 5th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2011, Nancy, France, June 13-17, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Dever M and Hamilton GW (2015) Automatically Partitioning Data to Facilitate the Parallelization of Functional Programs. In: Voronkov A and Virbitskaite I (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics: 9th International Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 59–66.

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 (2014) Moonwalking Flies! IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/moonwalking-flies/ (accessed 30 October 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 (1980) Routine Disclosure of Broadcaster Financial Records. 111721, 4 March. 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
Emmerling-Baker D (2017) A Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Study of K5 Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Empathy Instruction. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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
Williams ME (2014) A Second Embrace, With Hearts and Eyes Open. New York Times, 16 March.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stevenson, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Marraffini and Sontheimer, 2008; Stevenson, 2008).

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

  • Two authors: (Marraffini and Sontheimer, 2008)
  • Three or more authors: (Han et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleStrategic Organization
AbbreviationStrateg. Organ.
ISSN (print)1476-1270
ISSN (online)1741-315X
ScopeBusiness and International Management
Strategy and Management
Industrial relations
Education

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