How to format your references using the Journal of Consumer Policy citation style

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

Nelson, S. (2008). Big data: The Harvard computers. Nature, 455(7209), 36–37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dioumaev, V. K., & Bullock, R. M. (2003). A recyclable catalyst that precipitates at the end of the reaction. Nature, 424(6948), 530–532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Salter, M. G., Franklin, K. A., & Whitelam, G. C. (2003). Gating of the rapid shade-avoidance response by the circadian clock in plants. Nature, 426(6967), 680–683.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, P. N., Callaerts, P., De Couet, H. G., & Martindale, M. Q. (2003). Cephalopod Hox genes and the origin of morphological novelties. Nature, 424(6952), 1061–1065.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bajpai, P. (2010). Environmentally Friendly Production of Pulp and Paper. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Talent, J. A. (Ed.). (2012). Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Maglogiannis, I. (2009). Introducing Intelligence in Electronic Healthcare Systems: State of the Art and Future Trends. In M. Bramer (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence An International Perspective: An International Perspective (pp. 71–90). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Journal of Consumer Policy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, November 30). “Lucy’s” Bones Indicate Part-Time Life In The Trees. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lucys-bones-indicate-parttime-life-in-the-trees/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2016). Emergency Communications: Survey of Selected Federal Agencies’ Use and Procurement of Land Mobile Radio Equipment (GAO-17-13SP, October 5, 2016), an E-supplement to GAO-17-12 (No. GAO-17-13SP). Washington, DC: 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

Lucky-Medford, L. (2010). A gendered approach to synaesthesia using the poetry of John Keats and Emily Dickinson (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Billard, M. (2010, September 23). Bright, Playful, Swiss. New York Times, p. E9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nelson 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dioumaev and Bullock 2003; Nelson 2008).

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

Two authors: (Dioumaev and Bullock 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Consumer Policy
Abbreviation	J. Consumer Policy
ISSN (print)	0168-7034
ISSN (online)	1573-0700
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Economics and Econometrics