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

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

May, Mike (2013), “The Spine,” Nature, 503 (7475), S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lasaga, A. C. and A. Luttge (2001), “Variation of Crystal Dissolution Rate Based on a Dissolution Stepwave Model,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 291 (5512), 2400–2404.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, Wanzhi, Shigeru Shimada, and Masato Tanaka (2002), “Synthesis and Structure of Formally Hexavalent Palladium Complexes,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 295 (5553), 308–10.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brady, Siobhan M., David A. Orlando, Ji-Young Lee, Jean Y. Wang, Jeremy Koch, José R. Dinneny, Daniel Mace, Uwe Ohler, and Philip N. Benfey (2007), “A High-Resolution Root Spatiotemporal Map Reveals Dominant Expression Patterns,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 318 (5851), 801–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liebhart, Rainer, Devaki Chandramouli, Curt Wong, and Jürgen Merkel (2015), LTE for Public Safety, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Moura Neto, Francisco Duarte (2013), An Introduction to Inverse Problems with Applications, Antônio José da Silva Neto, ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tam, Alda L. (2011), “Mediastinal Biopsy,” in Interventional Radiology Procedures in Biopsy and Drainage, Debra A. Gervais and Tarun Sabharwal, eds., London: Springer, 31–45.

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.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo (2017), “Researchers Create An Artificial Skin That Can Sense Changes In Temperature,” IFLScience, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-create-an-artificial-skin-that-can-sense-changes-in-temperature/.

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 (2017), “Health Information Technology: HHS Should Assess the Effectiveness of Its Efforts to Enhance Patient Access to and Use of Electronic Health Information,” GAO-17-305, 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

Wahid, Randa (2012), “Quality of Life of Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy,” 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

Kelly, Caitlin (2012), “Personal Finance Advice, Taken to the Woodshed,” New York Times, , December 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May 2013).
This sentence cites two references (May 2013; Lasaga and Luttge 2001).

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

Two authors: (Lasaga and Luttge 2001)
Three authors: (Chen, Shimada, and Tanaka 2002)
4 or more authors: (Brady et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Retailing
Abbreviation	J. Retail.
ISSN (print)	0022-4359
Scope	Marketing