How to format your references using the International Journal of Research in Marketing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Research in Marketing. 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

McKinney, J. D. (2014). Technology: Photonics illuminates the future of radar. Nature, 507(7492), 310–311.

A journal article with 2 authors

West, S. A., & Gardner, A. (2010). Altruism, spite, and greenbeards. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5971), 1341–1344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmidt-Hieber, C., Jonas, P., & Bischofberger, J. (2004). Enhanced synaptic plasticity in newly generated granule cells of the adult hippocampus. Nature, 429(6988), 184–187.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Bhargava, V., Head, S. R., Ordoukhanian, P., Mercola, M., & Subramaniam, S. (2014). Technical variations in low-input RNA-seq methodologies. Scientific Reports, 4, 3678.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raut, R., & Swamy, M. N. S. (2010). Modern Analog Filter Analysis and Design. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Squillero, G., & Burelli, P. (Eds.). (2016). Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 19th European Conference, EvoApplications 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 -- April 1, 2016, Proceedings, Part I (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 9597). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Fokoue, A., Srivatsa, M., & Young, R. (2011). Trust-Based Probabilistic Query Answering. In A. Bouguettaya, M. Hauswirth, & L. Liu (Eds.), Web Information System Engineering – WISE 2011: 12th International Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 13-14, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 57–71). 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 International Journal of Research in Marketing.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, October 25). From Trash To Treasure. IFLScience. 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. (1994). Health Care: Benefits and Barriers to Automated Medical Records (T-AIMD-94-117). 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

Zivkovic, O. (2010). Ternary nanomaterials: Synthesis by alkalide reduction and characterization [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Greenhouse, L. (2016, November 24). Chasing Abortion Rights Across the State Line. New York Times, SR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McKinney, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (McKinney, 2014; West & Gardner, 2010).

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

Two authors: (West & Gardner, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bhargava et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Research in Marketing
Abbreviation	Int. J. Res. Mark.
ISSN (print)	0167-8116
Scope	Marketing