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

Hubbell, J. A. (2003). Materials science. Enhancing drug function. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5619), 595–596.

A journal article with 2 authors

Etienne, R. S., & Rosindell, J. (2012). Comment on “Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6089), 1639; author reply 1639.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kumar, P., Narayan, R., & Johnson, J. L. (2008). Properties of gamma-ray burst progenitor stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5887), 376–379.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, Z.-M., Wu, L.-A., Modugno, M., Yao, W., & Shao, B. (2013). Fault-tolerant almost exact state transmission. Scientific Reports, 3, 3128.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramsinghani, M. (2014). The Business of Venture Capital. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lin, L. (2012). Statistical Tools for Measuring Agreement (A. S. Hedayat & W. Wu, Eds.; 1st ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Adnan, M. F., Sabli, N., Rashid, M. Z. A., Hashim, A., Paino, H., & Abdullah, A. (2016). The Impact of Educational Level of Board of Directors on Firms’ Performance. In M. A. Abdullah, W. K. Yahya, N. Ramli, S. R. Mohamed, & B. E. Ahmad (Eds.), Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014): Business and Social Sciences (pp. 37–48). 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

Luntz, S. (2014, April 9). Pond Life Timelapse. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pond-life-timelapse/

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. (2012). Data Center Consolidation: Agencies Making Progress on Efforts, but Inventories and Plans Need to Be Completed (GAO-12-742). 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

Tucker, M. S. (2010). Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of in vitro selected artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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. (2011, October 2). Former Arsenal Houses Museum in Kiev, Ukraine. New York Times, TR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hubbell, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Etienne & Rosindell, 2012; Hubbell, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Etienne & Rosindell, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

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