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

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

Riley, P. (2009). Journal club. A molecular cardiologist looks into getting to the heart of his inner fish. Nature, 460(7259), 1061.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, J.-Q., & Pollard, T. D. (2005). Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5746), 310–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Willbold, M., Elliott, T., & Moorbath, S. (2011). The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth’s mantle before the terminal bombardment. Nature, 477(7363), 195–198.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Aono, N., Sutani, T., Tomonaga, T., Mochida, S., & Yanagida, M. (2002). Cnd2 has dual roles in mitotic condensation and interphase. Nature, 417(6885), 197–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cumming, D. (2010). Private Equity. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lal, S. K. (Ed.). (2010). Molecular Biology of the SARS-Coronavirus. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Parker, A., Simari, G. I., Sliva, A., & Subrahmanian, V. S. (2014). A Comparison with Planning Under Uncertainty. In G. I. Simari, A. Sliva, & V. S. Subrahmanian (Eds.), Data-driven Generation of Policies (pp. 31–35). 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 Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 10). What will Climate be Like in 2100? Expect Surprises, Says New Met Office Study. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-will-climate-be-2100-expect-surprises-says-new-met-office-study/

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. (2003). Electronic Government: Challenges to the Adoption of Smart Card Technology (GAO-03-1108T). 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

Romano, T. A. (2014). Time-frequency classification of gamma oscillatory activity in the frontoparietal system during working memory [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Saslow, L. (2007, November 4). Elections Could Shift Power in Nassau. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Riley, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Riley, 2009; Wu & Pollard, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Wu & Pollard, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Aono et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Consumer Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Consum. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1057-7408
Scope	Marketing Applied Psychology