How to format your references using the European Retail Research citation style

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

Geha, M. (2010): Galaxy formation: Gone with the wind?, in: Nature, Vol. 463, No. 7278, pp. 167–168.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yi, X.; Liu, C. (2014): Retention of cotyledons is crucial for resprouting of clipped oak seedlings, in: Scientific reports, Vol. 4, p. 5145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gormley, W. T., Jr; Phillips, D.; Gayer, T. (2008): The early years. Preschool programs can boost school readiness, in: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 320, No. 5884, pp. 1723–1724.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Treiner, E.; Duban, L.; Bahram, S.; et al. (2003): Selection of evolutionarily conserved mucosal-associated invariant T cells by MR1, in: Nature, Vol. 422, No. 6928, pp. 164–169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, C. (2006): Trustee Investment Strategy for Endowments and Foundations, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Martí, J.; Benedí, J. M.; Mendonça, A. M.; Serrat, J. (2007): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Third Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Baier, C.; Bertrand, N.; Bouyer, P.; Brihaye, T. (2009): When Are Timed Automata Determinizable?, in: Albers, S.; Marchetti-Spaccamela, A.; Matias, Y.; et al. (eds.): Automata, Languages and Programming: 36th Internatilonal Collogquium, ICALP 2009, Rhodes, greece, July 5-12, 2009, Proceedings, Part II, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 43–54.

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 European Retail Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014): New cancer-hunting ‘nano-robots’ to seek and destroy tumoursIn: IFLScience. , https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-cancer-hunting-nano-robots-seek-and-destroy-tumours/, accessed October 30, 2018.

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 (1996): Earth Observing System: Concerns Over NASA’s Basic Research Funding Strategy, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Campos-Doerfler, L. (2017): The Role of Sgs1 and Exo1 in the Maintenance of Genome StabilityDoctoral dissertation, University of South Florida.

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

Kanter, J.; Povoledo, E. (2017): E.U. Leaders Project Unity, Despite Concerns of Failure, in: New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Geha 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Geha 2010; Yi/Liu 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yi/Liu 2014)
Three authors: (Gormley/Phillips/Gayer 2008)
4 or more authors: (Treiner et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Retail Research
ISSN (print)	1867-8785
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