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

Lang T (2011) Advancing global health research through digital technology and sharing data. Science 331(6018):714–717.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moser AL, Bellan PM (2012) Magnetic reconnection from a multiscale instability cascade. Nature 482(7385):379–381.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hodge A, Campbell CD, Fitter AH (2001) An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus accelerates decomposition and acquires nitrogen directly from organic material. Nature 413(6853):297–299.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sturgill D, Zhang Y, Parisi M, Oliver B (2007) Demasculinization of X chromosomes in the Drosophila genus. Nature 450(7167):238–241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu PP (2008) FPGA Prototyping by Verilog Examples (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Poovendran R, Saad W eds. (2014) Decision and Game Theory for Security: 5th International Conference, GameSec 2014, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 6-7, 2014. Proceedings (Springer International Publishing, Cham).

A chapter in an edited book

Vilain C (2007) Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the 16th Century. Laird WR, Roux S, eds. Mechanics and Natural Philosophy Before the Scientific Revolution. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht), 149–172.

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) California Just Signed A New Climate Change Agreement With China. 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 (1997) General Government Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments (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

Matos G (2013) Re-fashioning goddesses: Exploring women’s archetypal fashion in the classroom. Doctoral dissertation. (Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

de la MERCED MJ, Abrams R (2017) Abercrombie & Fitch in Talks to Sell Itself. New York Times (May 10).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lang 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lang 2011, Moser and Bellan 2012).

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

Two authors: (Moser and Bellan 2012)
Three or more authors: (Sturgill et al. 2007)

About the journal

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