How to format your references using the International Journal of Research in Marketing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Research in Marketing. 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	Download the output style file
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

Holmes, C. D. (2014). Air pollution and forest water use. Nature, 507(7491), E1-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gross, R. A., & Kalra, B. (2002). Biodegradable polymers for the environment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5582), 803–807.

A journal article with 3 authors

Postma, E., Griffith, S. C., & Brooks, R. (2006). Evolutionary genetics: evolution of mate choice in the wild. Nature, 444(7121), E16; discussion E16-7.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ren, T., He, W., Li, Y., Grosh, K., & Fridberger, A. (2014). Light-induced vibration in the hearing organ. Scientific Reports, 4, 5941.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sahinoglu, M. (2016). Cyber-Risk Informatics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Robinson, M. W., & Dalton, J. P. (Eds.). (2011). Cysteine Proteases of Pathogenic Organisms (Vol. 712). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Simon, R. (2006). The Financial Restructuring of Medium-Sized Companies. In M. Blatz, K.-J. Kraus, & S. Haghani (Eds.), Corporate Restructuring: Finance in Times of Crisis (pp. 55–63). Springer.

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 International Journal of Research in Marketing.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, November 7). Legal Marijuana Has Given Colorado A Massive Economic Boost. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2006). Joint Strike Fighter: DOD Plans to Enter Production before Testing Demonstrates Acceptable Performance (GAO-06-356). 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

Creed, C. K. (2017). Identifying Controls on Patterns of Intermittent Streamflow in Three Streams of the American Southwest: A Geospatial Approach [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Otis, J. (2017, January 4). A Mother Struggles Alone to Keep Her Family United. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gross & Kalra, 2002; Holmes, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gross & Kalra, 2002)
Three authors: (Postma et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Ren et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Research in Marketing
Abbreviation	Int. J. Res. Mark.
ISSN (print)	0167-8116
Scope	Marketing