How to format your references using the AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv. 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

Bohannon J (2015) Scientific societies. Torture report prompts APA apology. Science 349:221–222

A journal article with 2 authors

Lollar BS, McCollom TM (2006) Geochemistry: biosignatures and abiotic constraints on early life. Nature 444:E18; discussion E18-9

A journal article with 3 authors

Sawai S, Thomason PA, Cox EC (2005) An autoregulatory circuit for long-range self-organization in Dictyostelium cell populations. Nature 433:323–326

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huisken J, Swoger J, Del Bene F, et al (2004) Optical sectioning deep inside live embryos by selective plane illumination microscopy. Science 305:1007–1009

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Desmond KK (2011) Ideas about Art. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Icard T, Muskens R (eds) (2010) Interfaces: Explorations in Logic, Language and Computation: ESSLLI 2008 and ESSLLI 2009 Student Sessions. Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fukushima O (2010) Jikei University School of Medicine: An Interprofessional Medical Education Program. In: Watanabe H, Koizumi M (eds) Advanced Initiatives in Interprofessional Education in Japan: Japan Interprofessional Working and Education Network. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 49–56

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 AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) How Citizen Scientists Discovered A Giant Cluster Of Galaxies. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-citizen-scientists-discovered-a-giant-cluster-of-galaxies/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2002) Intercity Passenger Rail: Congress Faces Critical Decisions in Developing a National Policy. 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

Lund BC (2017) Physiological response to cycling at different pedal rates during high intensity interval training. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

George I by N (2013) An Essentially American Narrative. New York Times AR18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lollar and McCollom 2006; Bohannon 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lollar and McCollom 2006)
Three or more authors: (Huisken et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
ISSN (print)	1863-8155
ISSN (online)	1863-8163
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Statistics and Probability General Social Sciences