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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Consumer Research (JCR). 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

Marx, Vivien (2014), “Proteomics: An Atlas of Expression,” Nature, 509(7502), 645–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, Laury and Bruce C. Douglas (2004), “Mass and Volume Contributions to Twentieth-Century Global Sea Level Rise,” Nature, 428(6981), 406–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Purohit, Prasad, Ananya Mitra, and Anthony Auerbach (2007), “A Stepwise Mechanism for Acetylcholine Receptor Channel Gating,” Nature, 446(7138), 930–33.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Baba, Daichi, Nobuo Maita, Jun-Goo Jee, Yasuhiro Uchimura, Hisato Saitoh, Kaoru Sugasawa, Fumio Hanaoka, Hidehito Tochio, Hidekazu Hiroaki, and Masahiro Shirakawa (2005), “Crystal Structure of Thymine DNA Glycosylase Conjugated to SUMO-1,” Nature, 435(7044), 979–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clark, Marie (2006), Understanding Diabetes, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Qian, Dianwei (2015), Hierarchical Sliding Mode Control for Under-Actuated Cranes: Design, Analysis and Simulation, ed. Jianqiang Yi, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh, Nirbhay K. and D. B. Patel (2012), “Microalgae for Bioremediation of Distillery Effluent,” in Farming for Food and Water Security, ed. Eric Lichtfouse, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 83–109.

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 Research.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy (2016), “Flakka Is A Dangerous Drug, But It Doesn’t Turn You Into A Zombie,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/flakka-is-a-dangerous-drug-but-it-doesnt-turn-you-into-a-zombie/.

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 (1992), Highway Contracting: Disadvantaged Business Eligibility Guidance and Oversight Are Ineffective, RCED-92-148, 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

Van Gilder, Bobbi J. (2012), “American Students’ Communication Abroad: Factors Promoting and Inhibiting Interactions with Host Nationals,” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Sansal, Boualem (2017), “The Altered State of France,” New York Times, May 8, 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Marx 2014; Miller and Douglas 2004).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Douglas 2004)
Three authors: (Purohit, Mitra, and Auerbach 2007)
4 or more authors: (Baba et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Consumer Research
Abbreviation	J. Consum. Res.
ISSN (print)	0093-5301
ISSN (online)	1537-5277
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Business and International Management Marketing Economics and Econometrics Anthropology