Style Request: Organization Studies

jmsy
edited February 23, 2022
I'm submitting an article to the journal Organization Studies. They follow APA guidelines, but with one major change. They require full first names in the reference list.

The default APA styles use first initial.
The Organization Studies template available in Zotero is outdated and not near the APA style.

Does anyone have a recommendation of a style that is APA 7, but produces full first names in the reference list?

thanks for any help! <3


details here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/OSS/OS Style and Reference Guide_October 2021-1632991647.pdf

"The OS Reference Style is based on the APA Reference Style with some adjustments and one important modification: In the Reference list authors’ names should include the full first name of the author and initials for any further given names"
  • bwiernik
    The style for that journal is already in the Zotero Style Repository https://www.zotero.org/styles/organization-studies
  • jmsy
    edited February 17, 2022
    That style in the Zotero repository is outdated.

    edit: I mispoke and said organization science. I'm trying to use the style for Organization Studies
  • damnation
    Tell us what the errors are and we fix them.
  • jmsy
    thanks!

    Organization Studies (I miswrote org science in the initial post) should be the latest APA format, but with full first names instead of initials....like this:

    Tourais, Patrícia and Videira, Nuno (2016). Why, How and What do Organizations Achieve with the Implementation of Environmental Management Systems: Lessons from a Comprehensive Review on the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme. Sustainability 8(3): 283. DOI: 10.3390/su8030283.


  • damnation
    No, what's wrong with the current OS style? If you review this for us you'll have an update within a day.
  • bwiernik
    @damnation you can just take apa.csl.

    I actually don’t think CSL can do what this journal is asking for, can it? It can either initialize all names or none of them, not initialize only non-first names. Is that right? @adamsmith

    If that’s the case, just make this a dependent style on APA.

    This is a pretty ridiculous requirement—I don’t know why they feel it’s necessary to deviate from the widely used style guide in such a minor and trivial way.
  • adamsmith
    The style I'm seeing uses full first names throughout, which is trivial. Different styles for first authors aren't feasible, but I'm not seeing that?
  • jmsy
    currently when I use the organization studies template I get this:

    Tourais, P., & Videira, N. (2016). Why, How and What do Organizations Achieve with the Implementation of Environmental Management Systems: Lessons from a Comprehensive Review on the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme. Sustainability, 8, 283.

    Their new format should be this:

    Tourais, Patrícia and Videira, Nuno (2016). Why, How and What do Organizations Achieve with the Implementation of Environmental Management Systems: Lessons from a Comprehensive Review on the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme. Sustainability 8(3): 283. DOI: 10.3390/su8030283.

    The differences that need to be updated are:

    complete first names need to be used
    include the DOI if it exists
    present the volume(issue): page number(s) in the APA7 format.

    basically their new format is APA 7, with full first names.

    I hope that helps. thanks again.
  • adamsmith
    (alas, this differs from APA 7 in a lot of ways, so it's not quite as simple)
  • jmsy
    ok, thanks. I'm going off the journal's guidelines. The second paragraph here:

    https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/OSS/OS Style and Reference Guide_October 2021-1632991647.pdf

    "The OS Reference Style is based on the APA Reference Style with some adjustments and one important modification: In the Reference list authors’ names should include the full first name of the author and initials for any further given names. "
  • bwiernik
    @damnation Looking at an open access article or two, the journal style is very inconsistent. I suggest we just take APA, set initialize=“false”, and leave it at that. That will produce a format that is widely used in the journal.

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01708406211053222
  • jmsy
    thanks for all the help and proactive work on this! I appreciate it.
  • damnation
    (PR https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/5779)
  • damnation
    The style has now been merged and you can use it from the repository or update it.
  • jmsy
    thank you very much!

    I've updated the refence style in my Zotero, and the references now meet the updated journal standards. Incredible work!
  • jmsy
    Hello all, Thank you for the help with this journal. I think there is an update needed to the way books are referenced.

    Right now, the style for Organization Science does not include the location of the book publisher. A citation I'm trying to include currently looks like this.

    Daly, Herman. (1991). Steady-state economics. Island Press.


    It should look like this, with the location followed by a colon.
    Daly, Herman. (1991). Steady-state economics. San Francisco: Island Press.

    The journal's example is on page 9 here: https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/OSS/OS Style and Reference Guide_October 2021-1632991647.pdf

    Please let me know how to update the style.
  • damnation
    edited February 19, 2022
    @jmsy
    Looks like we've gone full circle with this style.
    I've switched it back to an independent style (it was just APA as per our December-21 changes)

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/edab42fb9801332b127e6c402a76d1567b0391c9/organization-studies.csl
  • jmsy
    hi @damnation , thanks for your help.

    Everything seems to be aligned with the journal's reference format now. You guys are fantastic.

  • damnation
    Great. May I ask you to rename the title of this thread to "Style Request: Organization Studies"?
  • jmsy
    done! thanks again!
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