How to format your references using the Culture and Organization citation style

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

Watanabe, Myrna. 2003. “Small World, Big Hopes.” Nature 426 (6965): 478–479.

A journal article with 2 authors

Engel, Michael S., and David A. Grimaldi. 2004. “New Light Shed on the Oldest Insect.” Nature 427 (6975): 627–630.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miake, Junichiro, Eduardo Marbán, and H. Bradley Nuss. 2002. “Biological Pacemaker Created by Gene Transfer.” Nature 419 (6903): 132–133.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liu, Zhida, Hang Zhou, Wenjun Wang, Wenjie Tan, Yang-Xin Fu, and Mingzhao Zhu. 2014. “A Novel Method for Synthetic Vaccine Construction Based on Protein Assembly.” Scientific Reports 4 (December 2014): 7266.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Windom, Charles A., Sr., Hemant Gaidhani, and Alex Fontana. 2010. Virtualizing. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Schildmann, Jan, Verena Sandow, Oliver Rauprich, and Jochen Vollmann, eds. 2012. Human Medical Research: Ethical, Legal and Socio-Cultural Aspects. Basel: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Roby-Brami, Agnès, and Rémi Goasdoué. 2010. “A Historical Perspective on Learning: The Legacy and Actuality of I. M. Pavlov and N. A. Bernstein.” In Rethinking Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine: New Technologies Induce New Learning Strategies, edited by Emmanuel Bigand, 71–93. Collection de L’Académie Européenne de Médecine de Réadaptation. Paris: 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 Culture and Organization.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “The Low-Down On ‘Cold And Flu’ Tablets.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 8. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/low-down-cold-and-flu-tablets/.

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. 2012. Commercial Space Transportation: Industry Trends, Government Challenges, and International Competitiveness Issues. GAO-12-836T. 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

Jackson, Michelle. 2013. “Creating Community in a Dual Immersion Program: A Grant Writing Project.” 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

Brantley, Ben. 2017. “That Close-Up, in Fine Focus.” New York Times, February 10, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watanabe 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Watanabe 2003; Engel and Grimaldi 2004).

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

Two authors: (Engel and Grimaldi 2004)
Three authors: (Miake, Marbán, and Nuss 2002)
4 or more authors: (Liu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Culture and Organization
Abbreviation	Cult. Organ.
ISSN (print)	1475-9551
ISSN (online)	1477-2760
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Cultural Studies