How to format your references using the Research in Organizational Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Organizational Behavior. 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

Südhof, T. C. (2015). Reproducibility: Experimental mismatch in neural circuits. Nature, 528(7582), 338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cai, W.-J., & Dai, M. (2004). Comment on “Enhanced open ocean storage of CO2 from shelf sea pumping.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1477; author reply 1477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyd, R. W., Chan, K. W. C., & O’Sullivan, M. N. (2007). Physics. Quantum weirdness in the lab. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5846), 1874–1875.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hites, R. A., Santoro, M. A., Sturges, W. T., Oram, D. E., Penkett, S. A., Wallington, T. J., Shine, K. P., & Brenninkmeijer, C. A. (2000). Clarifying the SF5CF3 Record. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5493), 935–936.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ledolter, J. (2013). Data Mining and Business Analytics with R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ziemann, O. (2008). POF Handbook: Optical Short Range Transmission Systems (J. Krauser, P. E. Zamzow, & W. Daum, Eds.; Second edition). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar, A., Mittal, V., & Kulkarni, A. (2010). Sanskrit Compound Processor. In G. N. Jha (Ed.), Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: 4th International Symposium, New Delhi, India, December 10-12, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 57–69). 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 Research in Organizational Behavior.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 2). Shell’s Abandoned Well And The Myth Of The Arctic Oil Land Grab. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/shell-s-abandoned-well-and-myth-arctic-oil-land-grab/

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. (1986). Deactivating Research Vessels: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Use of Private Ships (RCED-86-133). 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

Chen, X. S. (2017). Social Support Communication Behavior, Anxiety Symptomatology, and Marital Satisfaction Among Distressed Couples [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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, R. (1993, October 3). Mortality Tale. New York Times, 711.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Südhof, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cai & Dai, 2004; Südhof, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cai & Dai, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Hites et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Organizational Behavior
Abbreviation	Res. Organ. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0191-3085
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social Psychology