How to format your references using the Journal of Interactive Marketing citation style

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

Yutzey, Katherine E. (2015), “Regenerative Biology: Neuregulin 1 Makes Heart Muscle,” Nature, 520, 7548, 445–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis, Brian R. and Fabio Candotti (2010), “Genetics. Mosaicism--Switch or Spectrum?,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 330, 6000, 46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kempner, Joanna, Clifford S. Perlis, and Jon F. Merz (2005), “Ethics. Forbidden Knowledge,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 307, 5711, 854.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vanag, V. K., L. Yang, M. Dolnik, A. M. Zhabotinsky, and I. R. Epstein (2000), “Oscillatory Cluster Patterns in a Homogeneous Chemical System with Global Feedback,” Nature, 406, 6794, 389–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, André (2016), VoLTE and ViLTE, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pérez, David M. Callejo, Stephen M. Fain, and Judith J. Slater, eds. (2011), Higher Education and Human Capital: Re/Thinking the Doctorate in America, Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Baud, Isa (2016), “Digitisation and Participation in Urban Governance: The Contribution of ICT-Based Spatial Knowledge Management in Indian Cities,” in Local Governance, Economic Development and Institutions, Georgina M. Gómez and Peter Knorringa, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 86–97.

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 Interactive Marketing.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise (2016), “What We Learned From Chernobyl About How Radiation Affects Our Bodies,” IFLScience, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-we-learned-chernobyl-about-how-radiation-affects-our-bodies/.

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 (1995), “Adult Education Review,” HEHS-95-65R, 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

Hoffmann, Malia (2015), “An Exploratory Study: Mobile Device Use for Academics,” doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Schmidt, Michael S. (2017), “Officials Cancel Plans to Build New Headquarters for the F.B.I,” New York Times, , July 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yutzey 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Yutzey 2015; Davis and Candotti 2010).

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

Two authors: (Davis and Candotti 2010)
Three authors: (Kempner, Perlis, and Merz 2005)
4 or more authors: (Vanag et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Interactive Marketing
Abbreviation	J. Interact. Mark.
ISSN (print)	1094-9968
ISSN (online)	1520-6653
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing