How to format your references using the The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research. 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

Buffett, Bruce A. 2003. “Geophysics. The Thermal State of Earth’s Core.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5613): 1675–1677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allen, Myles R., and David J. Frame. 2007. “Atmosphere. Call off the Quest.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5850): 582–583.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, Fanghao, Wenbin Luo, and Mei Hong. 2010. “Mechanisms of Proton Conduction and Gating in Influenza M2 Proton Channels from Solid-State NMR.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6003): 505–508.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Furumoto, Tsuyoshi, Teppei Yamaguchi, Yumiko Ohshima-Ichie, Masayoshi Nakamura, Yoshiko Tsuchida-Iwata, Masaki Shimamura, Junichi Ohnishi, et al. 2011. “A Plastidial Sodium-Dependent Pyruvate Transporter.” Nature 476 (7361): 472–475.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hull, Bobby. 2010. Manufacturing Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kreiss, Gunilla, Per Lötstedt, Axel Målqvist, and Maya Neytcheva, eds. 2010. Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications 2009: Proceedings of ENUMATH 2009, the 8th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Uppsala, July 2009. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ham, Myungjoo, and Gul Agha. 2008. “A Study of Coordinated Dynamic Market-Based Task Assignment in Massively Multi-Agent Systems.” In Massively Multi-Agent Technology: AAMAS Workshops, MMAS 2006, LSMAS 2006, and CCMMS 2007 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Honolulu, HI, USA, May 15, 2007 Selected and Revised Papers, edited by Nadeem Jamali, Paul Scerri, and Toshiharu Sugawara, 43–63. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “There Could Be Some Big Cybersecurity Issues With ‘Pokémon Go.’” IFLScience, IFLScience, July 12. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/there-could-be-some-big-cybersecurity-issues-with-pokemon-go/.

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. 1977. Problems and Needed Improvements in Evaluating Office of Education Programs. HRD-76-165. 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

Maranhao, Bruno. 2015. “Efficient Identification of Disease Causative Mutations with next Generation Sequencing Technologies.” Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego.

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

Feeney, Kelly. 2008. “Strictly (Upscale) Takeout.” New York Times, December 7, 2008.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buffett 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buffett 2003; Allen and Frame 2007).

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

Two authors: (Allen and Frame 2007)
Three authors: (Hu, Luo, and Hong 2010)
4 or more authors: (Furumoto et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research
ISSN (print)	0959-3969
ISSN (online)	1466-4402
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Economics and Econometrics