How to format your references using the Consumption and Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Consumption and Society. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Midgley, M. (2001) Being objective, Nature, 410(6830), 753.

A journal article with 2 authors

Usherwood, J.R. and Wilson, A.M. (2005) Biomechanics: no force limit on greyhound sprint speed, Nature, 438(7069), 753–754.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grey, M., Haggart, J.W. and Smith, P.L. (2008) Variation in evolutionary patterns across the geographic range of a fossil bivalve, Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5905), 1238–1241.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Molofsky, A.V., Slutsky, S.G., Joseph, N.M., et al (2006) Increasing p16INK4a expression decreases forebrain progenitors and neurogenesis during ageing, Nature, 443(7110), 448–452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad, K. (2005) Sourcebook of ATM and IP Internetworking, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Freeman, K., Elmegreen, B., Block, D., et al (eds.) (2015) Lessons from the Local Group: A Conference in honour of David Block and Bruce Elmegreen, Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rizzi, A., Montanari, R., Bertolini, M., et al (2011) “Impiego della tecnologia RFID per la tracciabilità dei prodotti alimentari.”, in Montanari, R., Bertolini, M., Bottani, E., et al (eds.), Logistica e tecnologia RFID: Creare valore nella filiera alimentare e nel largo consumo. Food, Milano: Springer. pp 111–149.

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 Consumption and Society.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015) Rare “Sea Monster” Washes Ashore In New Zealand, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-oarfish-washed-ashore-new-zealand/.

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) Tax System Modernization: Further Testing of IRS’ Automated Taxpayer Service Systems Is Needed. IMTEC-91-42, 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

Savvas, C. (2010) Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010) Sheppard Was Always About The Word, New York Times, 16 July, p B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Midgley, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Midgley, 2001; Usherwood and Wilson, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Usherwood and Wilson, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Molofsky et al, 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Consumption and Society
ISSN (online)	2752-8499
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