How to format your references using the Administrative Science Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ). 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Armitage, P. J.

2008

“Astronomy. Stars in the making.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321: 1047–1048.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bloom, P., and D. S. Weisberg

2007

“Childhood origins of adult resistance to science.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 316: 996–997.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lourens, L. J., R. Wehausen, and H. J. Brumsack

2001

“Geological constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over the past three million years.” Nature, 409: 1029–1033.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Peccianti, M., C. Conti, G. Assanto, A. De Luca, and C. Umeton

2004

“Routing of anisotropic spatial solitons and modulational instability in liquid crystals.” Nature, 432: 733–737.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heines, M. H.

2014

First to File. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Harper, R., L. Palen, and A. Taylor (Eds.)

2005

The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS. The Kluwer International Series on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Vol. 4. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Adhikari, A., P. Ramachandrarao, and W. Pedrycz

2010

“Mining Patterns of Select Items in Multiple Databases.” In P. Ramachandrarao and W. Pedrycz (eds.), Developing Multi-Database Mining Applications, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing: 51–70. London: Springer.

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 Administrative Science Quarterly.

Blog post

Davis, J.

2015, July 31

“Scientists Make World’s First White Laser.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-show-worlds-first-white-laser/

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

2008

National Airspace System: DOT and FAA Actions Will Likely Have a Limited Effect on Reducing Delays during Summer 2008 Travel Season ( No. GAO-08-934T). 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

Mills, C. C.

2017

Olfaction and Exhibition: Assessing the Impact of Scent in Museums on Exhibit Engagement, Learning and Empathy (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Kelly, D.

1993, May 16

“IN SHORT: NONFICTION.” New York Times, p. 732.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Armitage, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bloom and Weisberg, 2007; Armitage, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bloom and Weisberg, 2007)
Three authors: (Lourens, Wehausen, and Brumsack, 2001)
4 or more authors: (Peccianti et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Administrative Science Quarterly
Abbreviation	Adm. Sci. Q.
ISSN (print)	0001-8392
ISSN (online)	1930-3815
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science Public Administration