How to format your references using the Quantitative Marketing and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quantitative Marketing and Economics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Basri, G. (2006). Astronomy. Big fields on small stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5761), 618–619.

A journal article with 2 authors

He, S., & MacLeod, D. I. (2001). Orientation-selective adaptation and tilt after-effect from invisible patterns. Nature, 411(6836), 473–476.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeffery, C. S., Tout, C. A., & Lattanzio, J. C. (2006). Astronomy. Nucleosynthesis in binary stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5759), 345–346.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lelieveld, J., van Aardenne, J., Fischer, H., de Reus, M., Williams, J., & Winkler, P. (2004). Increasing ozone over the Atlantic Ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5676), 1483–1487.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poltorak, A. I., & Lerner, P. J. (2011). Essentials of Intellectual Property. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hesselbach, J., & Herrmann, C. (Eds.). (2011). Functional Thinking for Value Creation: Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 5th - 6th, 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

de Chiara, C., & Pastore, A. (2011). Polyglutamine Diseases and Neurodegeneration: The Example of Ataxin-1. In J. Brnjas-Kraljević & G. Pifat-Mrzljak (Eds.), Supramolecular Structure and Function 10 (pp. 87–99). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Quantitative Marketing and Economics.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, June 9). Planet Nine May Have Come From Outside The Solar System. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/planet-nine-may-have-come-from-outside-the-solar-system/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1981). The Bureau of the Census Must Solve ADP Acquisition and Security Problems (No. AFMD-82-13). 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

Arzaga, C. B. (2012). Homeless shelter program for the elderly in Los Angeles, California: A grant writing project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kolomatsky, M. (2017, May 19). One Subway Stop Changes the Rent. New York Times, p. RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Basri 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Basri 2006; He and MacLeod 2001).

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

Two authors: (He and MacLeod 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lelieveld et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Quantitative Marketing and Economics
Abbreviation	Quant. Mark. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1570-7156
ISSN (online)	1573-711X
Scope	Marketing Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)