How to format your references using the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services citation style

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

Murray-Rust, P., 2008. Chemistry for everyone. Nature 451, 648–651.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ward, W.R., Canup, R.M., 2006. Forced resonant migration of Pluto’s outer satellites by Charon. Science 313, 1107–1109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saeed, Y., Singh, N., Schwingenschlögl, U., 2014. Superior thermoelectric response in the 3R phases of hydrated NaxRhO2. Sci. Rep. 4, 4390.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rombouts, I., Lagrain, B., Brunnbauer, M., Delcour, J.A., Koehler, P., 2013. Improved identification of wheat gluten proteins through alkylation of cysteine residues and peptide-based mass spectrometry. Sci. Rep. 3, 2279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Placzek, D., Bielecki, R., Messing, M., Schwarzer, F., Tunnel, 2016. Zielgenau bis ans Ende des Tunnels. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Gould, J., Hoelmer, K., Goolsby, J. (Eds.), 2008. Classical Biological Control of Bemisia tabaci in the United States - A Review of Interagency Research and Implementation, Progress in Biological Control. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Faggioni, L., Paolicchi, F., Marinelli, M., 2010. Caratteristiche di base delle immagini TC, in: Paolicchi, F., Neri, E. (Eds.), Elementi Di Tomografia Computerizzata. Springer, Milano, pp. 49–58.

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 Retailing and Consumer Services.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. Enormous Meteor Caught On Camera In Bangkok [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1991. Perkins Student Loans: Options That Could Make the Program More Financially Independent (No. HRD-92-6). 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

Thomas Hurford, C.E., 2010. “In his arm the scar”: Medicine, race, and the social implications of the 1721 inoculation controversy on Boston (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Leland, J., 2017. Living the Bike Life. New York Times MB7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Murray-Rust, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Murray-Rust, 2008; Ward and Canup, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ward and Canup, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Rombouts et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
Abbreviation	J. Retail. Consum. Serv.
ISSN (print)	0969-6989
Scope	Marketing