How to format your references using the Strategic Organization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Strategic 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	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

Hertwig R (2012) Psychology. Tapping into the wisdom of the crowd--with confidence. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336(6079): 303–304.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zitvogel L and Kroemer G (2015) Cancer: Antibodies regulate antitumour immunity. Nature 521(7550): 35–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop JR, Schuksz M and Esko JD (2007) Heparan sulphate proteoglycans fine-tune mammalian physiology. Nature 446(7139): 1030–1037.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Slep KC, Kercher MA, He W, et al. (2001) Structural determinants for regulation of phosphodiesterase by a G protein at 2.0 A. Nature 409(6823): 1071–1077.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stein RL (2011) Kinetics of Enzyme Action. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Masson P (2016) Sociology in France after 1945 (ed. C Schrecker). Sociology Transformed. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Flaxman M and Vargas-Moreno JC (2012) Using “Spatial Resilience Planning” to Test Climate-Adaptive Conservation Strategies. In: Karl HA, Scarlett L, Vargas-Moreno JC, et al. (eds) Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action: Complexities of Climate and Governance. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 57–83.

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 Strategic Organization.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2014) What Happens If 10 ml Of Elemental Mercury Is Injected Intravenously. IFLScience.

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 (2016) Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to Focus Continued Attention on Implementing Reform Law. GAO-16-672T, 18 May. 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

Coyle M (2017) Pre-Service School Counselor’s Perception of Professional Identity Development During Internship. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kishkovsky S (2001) October 7-13; Kursk Raised. New York Times, 14 October.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hertwig, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hertwig, 2012; Zitvogel and Kroemer, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zitvogel and Kroemer, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Slep et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Strategic Organization
Abbreviation	Strateg. Organ.
ISSN (print)	1476-1270
ISSN (online)	1741-315X
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management Industrial relations Education