How to format your references using the Journal of Commodity Markets citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Commodity Markets. 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

Zaanen, J., 2008. Quantum critical electron systems: the uncharted sign worlds. Science 319, 1205–1207.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, S.C., Hu, J., 2001. A four-dimensional generalization of the quantum Hall effect. Science 294, 823–828.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yohe, G., Andronova, N., Schlesinger, M., 2004. Climate. To hedge or not against an uncertain climate future? Science 306, 416–417.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maragliano, C., Lilliu, S., Dahlem, M.S., Chiesa, M., Souier, T., Stefancich, M., 2014. Quantifying charge carrier concentration in ZnO thin films by Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy. Sci. Rep. 4, 4203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sahinoglu, M., 2016. Cyber-Risk Informatics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Franco, L., Elizondo, D.A., Jerez, J.M. (Eds.), 2009. Constructive Neural Networks, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Orlov, Y.V., Aguilar, L.T., 2014. Elements of Nonsmooth Analysis, in: Aguilar, L.T. (Ed.), Advanced H∞ Control: Towards Nonsmooth Theory and Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 67–80.

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 Journal of Commodity Markets.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. 22 Ways To Cut Your Energy Bills (Before Spending On Solar Panels) [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/22-ways-to-cut-your-energy-bills-before-spending-on-solar-panels/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2011. Joint Strike Fighter: Restructuring Should Improve Outcomes, but Progress Is Still Lagging Overall (No. GAO-11-450T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coleman, J.M., 2012. Classroom management: Whose responsibility is it? (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Nir, S.M., 2015. Behind Perfect Nails, Ailing Salon Workers. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zaanen, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Zaanen, 2008; Zhang and Hu, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Hu, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Maragliano et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Commodity Markets
Abbreviation	J. Commod. Mark.
ISSN (print)	2405-8513
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance