My bibliography file and its entries

Describes the inner structures of my bibliography.

Introduction

This document exemplifies the bibtex entries and structures that I use to manage my research related bibliography. This page also serves as a test to check that generated references are compliant with required referencing formats. Additional background and technical details about my tool chain are summarized at Staudinger (2017). All my references are formatted according to Harvard (author-date) style, as summarized at Cite Them Right.

This approach is heavily inspired by Yao (2016).

Types of references and bibliography entries

Web references

Here’s a simple URL on the web, using an entry of type online:

@online{matsumoto,
    author = "Matsumoto, D. and  Hwang, H. and Sandoval, D.",
    title = "The funnel approach to questioning and eliciting information",
    year = "2015",
    note = "Available at: http://davidmatsumoto.com/content/TPjan15-info-mat-hwa-sand\%201.pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2015)"
}

… gives: Matsumoto, Hwang and Sandoval (2015)

Books

Simple book

Next, a simple print book.

@book{huff1,
    Author = "Anne Sigismund Huff",
    Year = "2009",
    Title = "Designing research for publication",
    publisher = "London, UK: Sage"
}

… gives Huff (2009), by the way, this is a good overview about how to structure and do your research when you intend to publish your research. There are more pitfalls then you might imagine. Anne Huff, by the time of this writing a lecturer in Berlin, has provided a comprehensive overview of all relevant aspects.

Book with an edition

On to a simple book with an edition entry, available as print:

@book{pedler,
    author = "Mike Pedler", 
    title= "Action Learning for Managers", 
    year = "2012",
    edition = "8th",
    location = "Aldershot, UK",
    publisher = "Gower Publishing"
}

… gives Pedler (2012), by the way, that’s a very brief introduction into Revan’s concept of action learning. The title says “for Managers”, I still wonder why all books aimed at managers are thin (less than 100 pages) and printed with font size 14 pt … Are managers considered to be in a hurry?

Book with edition, available online

Now something more fancy, a book with an edition that’s also online.

@book{rogers1971,
    author = "Everett M. Rogers",
    title = "Diffusions of Innovations",
    year = "1971",
    edition = "2nd", 
    location = "NY, US",
    publisher = "The Free Press",
    note = "Available at: https://goo.gl/jk6feB (Accessed: 23 August 2017)"
}

… gives Rogers (1971), a book that covers supporting and opposing forces to stimulate or hinder the diffusion of innovation. It also tells about opinion leaders, adopters, and the role of organizations in spreading innovation. A good read, although other sources are more up to date (I think of Kuhn).

Book with an editor

A book with a plain editor looks like this.

@book{gold1,
  title = "Gower Handbook of Leadership and Management Development",
  year = "2014",
  editor = "Jeff Gold and Richard Thorpe and Alan Mumford",
  edition = "5th",
  publisher = "Aldershot, UK: Gower Publishing",
}

Gold, Thorpe and Mumford (2014) are the editors of a great encyclopedia on leadership and management development. I ue it when I need a quick introduction into a related topic from where to research further.

Referencing the works of an author in an edited book

Relevant reference at Cite Them Right.

A book with author and editor, such as a chapter in a book (that’s an inbook bibtex entry):

@InBook{schon,
  title     = "The crisis of professional knowledge and the pursuit of an epistemology of practice",
  publisher = "New York: Peter Lang",
  year      = "2001",
  author    = "Schoen, D. A.",
  editor    = "J. Raven and J. Stephenson",
  note      = "Available at: http://thecreativeleadershipforum.com/clf-articles/Reflective\%20Practice\%20Schon.pdf (Accessed: 29 May 2013)",
  booktitle = "Competence in the Learning Society",
}

Which would yields Schoen (2001). If I remember correctly, this work stemmed from research into insider research, action research, and alike. Ok, skimmed it again .. it’s about reflection on and in action, rigor and relevance, and Edgar Schein’s division of professional knowledge (the epistemology).

Articles in Journals

Article, single author, available at some URL

A simple article, with one author, available online.

@article{raelin,
    Author = "Raelin, J.",
    Year = "2001",
    Title = "Public reflection as the basis of learning",
    Journal = "Management Learning",
    Volume = "31",
    Number = "1",
    Pages = "11-30",    
    publisher = "Sage Premier 2009 [Online]",
    note = "Available at: http://linksource.ebsco.com.liverpool.idm.oclc.org/linking.aspx?title=Management+Learning\&volume=32\&issue=1\&spage=11\&date=2001 (Accessed: 20 April 2016)"
}

This leads to Raelin (2001), who wrote about the link between learning and public reflection, putting it into context of action learning, etc.

Article, single author, available at some DOI

Another, and sometimes more preferrably way, is to use DOIs to indicate where to obtain an article from. Here’s an example.

@article{zuber,
    author = "Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun",
    title = "The concept of action learning",
    journal = "The Learning Organization",
    volume = "9",
    number = "3",
    pages = "114-124",
    year = "2002",
    doi = "10.1108/09696470210428831",
    publisher = "Emerald Group Publishing Limited"
}

This leads to Zuber-Skerritt (2002), who explains the concept of Revan’s action learning.

Article, five authors: et al

For more than four authors, it is necessary to reference using et al.

@Article{finnish2007,
  author   = "Kuokkanen, Liisa and Suominen, Tarja and Rankinen, Sirkku and Kukkurainen, Marja-leena and Savikko, Nina and Doran, Diane",
  title    = "Organizational change and work-related empowerment",
  journal  = "Journal of Nursing Management",
  year     = "2007",
  volume   = "15",
  number   = "5",
  pages    = "500-507",
  note     = "Available at: https://liverpool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=25378158&site=eds-live&scope=site (Accessed: 25 March 2017)",
}

Kuokkanen et al. (2007) writes about empowerment during a period of transitioning in a public organization. The study is interesting as an example of a positivist research, applying quantitative methods for data sampling.

Remarks

In my bibtex file, I need to escape the % sign. For sources available online, I keep things simple and add a note that carries the text Available at: (Accessed: …).

References

Gold, J., Thorpe, R. and Mumford, A. (eds) (2014) Gower handbook of leadership and management development. 5th edn. Aldershot, UK: Gower Publishing.

Huff, A. S. (2009) Designing research for publication. London, UK: Sage.

Kuokkanen, L. et al. (2007) ‘Organizational change and work-related empowerment.’, Journal of Nursing Management, 15(5), pp. 500–507. Available at: https://liverpool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=25378158&site=eds-live&scope=site (Accessed: 25 March 2017).

Matsumoto, D., Hwang, H. and Sandoval, D. (2015) The funnel approach to questioning and eliciting information. Available at: http://davidmatsumoto.com/content/TPjan15-info-mat-hwa-sand%201.pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2015).

Pedler, M. (2012) Action learning for managers. 8th edn. Aldershot, UK: Gower Publishing.

Raelin, J. (2001) ‘Public reflection as the basis of learning’, Management Learning. Sage Premier 2009 [Online], 31(1), pp. 11–30. Available at: http://linksource.ebsco.com.liverpool.idm.oclc.org/linking.aspx?title=Management+Learning&volume=32&issue=1&spage=11&date=2001 (Accessed: 20 April 2016).

Rogers, E. M. (1971) Diffusions of innovations. 2nd edn. NY, US: The Free Press. Available at: https://goo.gl/jk6feB (Accessed: 23 August 2017).

Schoen, D. A. (2001) ‘The crisis of professional knowledge and the pursuit of an epistemology of practice’, in Raven, J. and Stephenson, J. (eds) Competence in the learning society. New York: Peter Lang. Available at: http://thecreativeleadershipforum.com/clf-articles/Reflective%20Practice%20Schon.pdf (Accessed: 29 May 2013).

Staudinger, U. (2017) ‘My publishing tool chain’. Available at: http://managementletters.eu/posts/publishing/ (Accessed: 10 October 2017).

Yao, M. (2016) ‘Boilerplating pandoc for academic writing’. Available at: https://www.soimort.org/notes/161117.

Zuber-Skerritt, O. (2002) ‘The concept of action learning’, The Learning Organization. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 9(3), pp. 114–124. DOI: 10.1108/09696470210428831.