How to format your references using the Journal of Commodity Markets citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Commodity Markets. 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

Lawler, A., 2000. ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: Silent No Longer: “Model Minority” Mobilizes. Science 290, 1072–1077.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts, L., Jasny, B., 2008. HIV/AIDS: money matters. Science 321, 511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Melchor, R.N., Buchwaldt, R., Bowring, S., 2013. A Late Eocene date for Late Triassic bird tracks. Nature 495, E1-2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Baker, A.C., Starger, C.J., McClanahan, T.R., Glynn, P.W., 2004. Coral reefs: corals’ adaptive response to climate change. Nature 430, 741.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsujimura, T., 2017. OLED Display Fundamentals and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Bria, W.F., 2009. Digital Communication in Medical Practice, Health Informatics. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Syed, M.N., Principe, J.C., Pardalos, P.M., 2012. Correntropy in Data Classification, in: Sorokin, A., Murphey, R., Thai, M.T., Pardalos, P.M. (Eds.), Dynamics of Information Systems: Mathematical Foundations, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 81–117.

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 Journal of Commodity Markets.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Quantum Computer Makes Finding New Physics More Difficult [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/quantum-computer-makes-finding-new-physics-more-difficult/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Office of Education’s Efforts To Recover Overpayments from Denver Indian Center (No. B-164031(1).68). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Geiselman, C.K., 2010. Diet and reproduction of sympatric nectar-feeding bat species (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in French Guiana (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Crow, K., 2003. You Talkin’ to Me? Less and Less These Days. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler, 2000; Roberts and Jasny, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Jasny, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Baker et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Commodity Markets
Abbreviation	J. Commod. Mark.
ISSN (print)	2405-8513
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance