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

Goldston, D. (2009): Beware politicians bearing gifts, in: Nature, Vol. 457, No. 7230, p. 649.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fazleabas, A. T.; Kim, J. J. (2003): Development. What makes an embryo stick?, in: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 299, No. 5605, pp. 355–356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Q.; Foote, M.; Chen, J. (2014): Effects of histone deacetylase inhibitor valproic acid on skeletal myocyte development, in: Scientific reports, Vol. 4, p. 7207.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Roche, J.; Carrara, S.; Sanchez, J.; et al. (2014): Wireless powering of e-swimmers, in: Scientific reports, Vol. 4, p. 6705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aldridge, P.; O’Dwyer, L. (2013): Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing, West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Kullmann, O. (2009): Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing - SAT 2009: 12th International Conference, SAT 2009, Swansea, UK, June 30 - July 3, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hammerman, M. R. (2011): Frontiers in Organ Transplantation, in: Liapis, H.; Wang, H. L. (eds.): Pathology of Solid Organ Transplantation, Berlin, Heidelberg, 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 European Retail Research.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015): An Enormous Blue Whale Has Washed Up On The Coast Of OregonIn: IFLScience. , https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/blue-whale-has-strangely-washed-coast-oregon/, 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 (1973): The F-14/PHOENIX Aircraft Program, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ackerina, J. (2012): The call of public service: Motivation and professional commitment in educationDoctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2003): Moscow Talking of Arson As Fire Toll Climbs to 36, in: New York Times, p. A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Fazleabas/Kim 2003; Goldston 2009).

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

Two authors: (Fazleabas/Kim 2003)
Three authors: (Li/Foote/Chen 2014)
4 or more authors: (Roche et al. 2014)

About the journal

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