How to format your references using the Australasian Marketing Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian Marketing Journal. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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
Kacprzak, G.G., 2011. Astronomy. The pristine universe. Science 334, 1216–1217.
A journal article with 2 authors
Linkenhoker, B.A., Knudsen, E.I., 2002. Incremental training increases the plasticity of the auditory space map in adult barn owls. Nature 419, 293–296.
A journal article with 3 authors
Takahashi, K., Mitsui, K., Yamanaka, S., 2003. Role of ERas in promoting tumour-like properties in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature 423, 541–545.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Shulz, D.E., Sosnik, R., Ego, V., Haidarliu, S., Ahissar, E., 2000. A neuronal analogue of state-dependent learning. Nature 403, 549–553.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Grant, G., 2012. Ecosystem Services Come to Town. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK.
An edited book
Koht, A., Sloan, T.B., Toleikis, J.R. (Eds.), 2012. Monitoring the Nervous System for Anesthesiologists and Other Health Care Professionals, 1st ed. Springer US, Boston, MA.
A chapter in an edited book
Hill, K.M., Luft, J.A., 2015. Exploring Beginning Teachers’ Content Knowledge, in: Luft, J.A., Dubois, S.L. (Eds.), Newly Hired Teachers of Science: A Better Beginning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 57–74.

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 Australasian Marketing Journal.

Blog post
Andrews, R., 2017. Scientists Discover Plants Have “Brains” That Determine When They Grow [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-plants-brains-determine-grow/ (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, 2014. Healthcare.gov: Ineffective Planning and Oversight Practices Underscore the Need for Improved Contract Management (No. GAO-14-694). 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
Valadez, I., 2010. A psycho-education peer support group for homeless youth: A grant proposal (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
Walsh, M.W., Werdigier, J., 2013. What’s in Your Pension Plan? New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kacprzak, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kacprzak, 2011; Linkenhoker and Knudsen, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Linkenhoker and Knudsen, 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Shulz et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal titleAustralasian Marketing Journal
ISSN (print)1441-3582
ScopeMarketing
Economics and Econometrics

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