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

Smaglik P (2004) Shifting the balance. Nature 427(6972):375.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xavier RJ, Podolsky DK (2007) Unravelling the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 448(7152):427–434.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poulsen CJ, Tabor C, White JD (2015) CLIMATE CHANGE. Long-term climate forcing by atmospheric oxygen concentrations. Science 348(6240):1238–1241.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Senthilnathan J, Liu YF, Rao KS, Yoshimura M (2014) Submerged liquid plasma for the synchronized reduction and functionalization of graphene oxide. Sci. Rep. 4:4395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon L, Ospina J (2015) Closed-Form Solutions for Drug Transport through Controlled-Release Devices in Two and Three Dimensions (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

North PE, Sander T eds. (2016) Vascular Tumors and Developmental Malformations: Pathogenic Mechanisms and Molecular Diagnosis 1st ed. 2016. (Springer, New York, NY).

A chapter in an edited book

Qu Z, Wang J, Hull RA (2005) Multi-Objective Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems. Parker LE, Schneider FE, Schultz AC, eds. Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata Volume III: Proceedings from the 2005 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems. (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht), 41–52.

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

Andrew E (2015) World’s Most Powerful Laser Is 2,000 Trillion Watts – But What’s It For? 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 (2017) District of Columbia Charter Schools: Multi-Agency Plan Needed to Continue Progress Addressing High and Disproportionate Discipline Rates (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

Truong T (2012) Microfluidics-based system for high-throughput analysis of nitrite in harbor water. 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

Dewan S (2014) Mostly White Forces in Mostly Black Towns: Police Struggle for Racial Diversity. New York Times (September 9).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004, Xavier and Podolsky 2007).

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

Two authors: (Xavier and Podolsky 2007)
Three or more authors: (Senthilnathan et al. 2014)

About the journal

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