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

Taylor, J. P. (2014): Neurodegenerative diseases: G-quadruplex poses quadruple threat, in: Nature, Vol. 507, No. 7491, pp. 175–177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Papasaikas, P.; Valcárcel, J. (2012): Evolution. Splicing in 4D, in: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 338, No. 6114, pp. 1547–1548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eagle, N.; Macy, M.; Claxton, R. (2010): Network diversity and economic development, in: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 328, No. 5981, pp. 1029–1031.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yoshida, K.; Toyoura, K.; Matsunaga, K.; et al. (2013): Atomic sites and stability of Cs+ captured within zeolitic nanocavities, in: Scientific reports, Vol. 3, p. 2457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, P.; Kempner, M. (2015): 50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Blewett, R. (2013): Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Catalucci, D.; Latronico, M. V. G.; Condorelli, G. (2008): MicroRNAs and the Control of Heart Pathophysiology, in: Erdmann, V. A.; Poller, W.; Barciszewski, J. (eds.): RNA Technologies in Cardiovascular Medicine and Research, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 53–68.

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

Luntz, S. (2014): Comet To Make Close Approach To MarsIn: IFLScience. , https://www.iflscience.com/space/comet-make-close-approach-mars/, 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 (1992): Quantitative Data Analysis: An Introduction, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chung, T. Y.-Y. (2010): Pulse designs on TR-MAS UWBDoctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Sifton, S. (2013): Give ’Em the Bird, in: New York Times, p. MM30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Papasaikas/Valcárcel 2012; Taylor 2014).

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

Two authors: (Papasaikas/Valcárcel 2012)
Three authors: (Eagle/Macy/Claxton 2010)
4 or more authors: (Yoshida et al. 2013)

About the journal

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