How to format your references using the Strategy Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Strategy 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	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

Narasimha R (2001) Sines in terse verse. Nature 414(6866):851.

A journal article with 2 authors

Veldhoen M, Withers DR (2010) Immunology. Innate lymphoid cell relations. Science 330(6004):594–595.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karlin S, Bergman A, Gentles AJ (2001) Genomics. Annotation of the Drosophila genome. Nature 411(6835):259–260.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bondevik S, Mangerud J, Birks HH, Gulliksen S, Reimer P (2006) Changes in North Atlantic radiocarbon reservoir ages during the Allerød and Younger Dryas. Science 312(5779):1514–1517.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ventre D (2013) Information Warfare (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Moot R (2012) The Logic of Categorial Grammars: A Deductive Account of Natural Language Syntax and Semantics Retoré C, ed. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Chen J, Jeong H, Loy MMT, Du S (2013) Observation of Optical Precursors in Cold Atoms. Jeong H, Loy M, Du S, eds. Optical Precursors: From Classical Waves to Single Photons. SpringerBriefs in Physics. (Springer, Singapore), 45–64.

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 Strategy Science.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Dragonfish Have A Really Freaky Way Of Opening Their Jaws. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 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 (1987) Bilingual Education: Information on Limited English Proficient Students (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

Aggarwal E (2012) South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors. 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

Vecsey G (2010) Namath Has His Own Memories of ’65. New York Times (January 7).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Narasimha 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Narasimha 2001, Veldhoen and Withers 2010).

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

Two authors: (Veldhoen and Withers 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bondevik et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Strategy Science
ISSN (print)	2333-2050
ISSN (online)	2333-2077
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