How to format your references using the Administrative Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Administrative Sciences. 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 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

Burke, B. Cell Biology: Nuclear Dilemma Resolved. Nature 2015, 522, 159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stoltz, D.B.; Whitfield, J.B. Virology. Making Nice with Viruses. Science 2009, 323, 884–885.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jia, S.; Noma, K.-I.; Grewal, S.I.S. RNAi-Independent Heterochromatin Nucleation by the Stress-Activated ATF/CREB Family Proteins. Science 2004, 304, 1971–1976.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ferguson, N.M.; Ghani, A.C.; Donnelly, C.A.; Hagenaars, T.J.; Anderson, R.M. Estimating the Human Health Risk from Possible BSE Infection of the British Sheep Flock. Nature 2002, 415, 420–424.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasternak, J.J. An Introduction to Human Molecular Genetics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471719182.

An edited book

Amiri, S. Silicon Containing Copolymers; Semsarzadeh, M.A., Amiri, S., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; ISBN 9783319092249.

A chapter in an edited book

Hospers, G.-J.; Reverda, N. The Geography of Population Decline. In Managing Population Decline in Europe’s Urban and Rural Areas; Reverda, N., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Population Studies; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 29–37 ISBN 9783319124117.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. Mars To Make Its Closest Approach To Earth In 11 Years This Month Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-make-its-closest-approach-earth-11-years-month/ (accessed on 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 Department of Education Grant Award; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wilson, L.A. An Exploratory Study of the Impact of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support on Bullying. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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

Eligon, J.; Nolan, K. In Milwaukee, Worries Over Eliminating Rule That Police Must Live in City. New York Times 2016, A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Administrative Sciences
Abbreviation	Adm. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2076-3387
Scope