How to format your references using the European Retail Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Retail 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 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

Mollenauer, L. F. (2003): Physics. Nonlinear optics in fibers, in: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 302, No. 5647, pp. 996–997.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolff, S.; Dillin, A. (2013): Ageing: beneficial miscommunication, in: Nature, Vol. 497, No. 7450, pp. 442–443.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fenn, K. M.; Nusbaum, H. C.; Margoliash, D. (2003): Consolidation during sleep of perceptual learning of spoken language, in: Nature, Vol. 425, No. 6958, pp. 614–616.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Intlekofer, A. M.; Banerjee, A.; Takemoto, N.; et al. (2008): Anomalous type 17 response to viral infection by CD8+ T cells lacking T-bet and eomesodermin, in: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 321, No. 5887, pp. 408–411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai, Y. (2012): Practical Database Programming with Visual Basic.NET, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Dey, A.; Kokinov, B.; Leake, D.; Turner, R. (2005): Modeling and Using Context: 5thInternational and Interdisciplinary Conference CONTEXT 2005, Paris, France, July 5-8, 2005. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Prins, C.; Bouchenoua, S. (2005): A Memetic Algorithm Solving the VRP, the CARP and General Routing Problems with Nodes, Edges and Arcs, in: Hart, W. E.; Smith, J. E.; Krasnogor, N. (eds.): Recent Advances in Memetic Algorithms, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 65–85.

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 European Retail Research.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014): Scientists Translate Dolphin WhistlesIn: IFLScience. , https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-translate-dolphin-whistles/, accessed October 30, 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 (1975): Need for More Effective Management of Transportation Data Systems, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Koner, K. M. (2012): The development and validation of an instrument to measure wind ensemble error detection skills among instrumental music educatorsDoctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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, D. A. (2007): Tools For Staying In Control, in: New York Times, p. SPG9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mollenauer 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Mollenauer 2003; Wolff/Dillin 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wolff/Dillin 2013)
Three authors: (Fenn/Nusbaum/Margoliash 2003)
4 or more authors: (Intlekofer et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Retail Research
ISSN (print)	1867-8785
Scope