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

Bray, D., 2003. Molecular networks: the top-down view. Science 301, 1864–1865.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemphill, C.S., Sampat, B., 2013. Intellectual property. Drug patents at the Supreme Court. Science 339, 1386–1387.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Zuilen, M.A., Lepland, A., Arrhenius, G., 2002. Reassessing the evidence for the earliest traces of life. Nature 418, 627–630.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tarduno, J.A., Cottrell, R.D., Watkeys, M.K., Bauch, D., 2007. Geomagnetic field strength 3.2 billion years ago recorded by single silicate crystals. Nature 446, 657–660.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krysinski, T., Malburet, F., 2013. Mechanical Instability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Frankel, E.G. (Ed.), 2007. Oil and Security: A World Beyond Petroleum, Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Ordóñez, A., 2015. A New Set of Questions: ICT4D Research and Policy, in: Chib, A., May, J., Barrantes, R. (Eds.), Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South. Springer, Singapore, pp. 63–82.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Bizarre Bulge Spotted On Ganymede [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/ganymede-has-love-handles/ (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, 2006. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Knowledge-Based Acquisition Approach Key to Addressing Program Challenges (No. GAO-06-634). 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

Bell, K.D., 2010. Fatherhood connected: A curriculum development project for adolescent fathers in the juvenile justice system (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Cowen, T., 2016. More Time to Unwind, Unless You’re a Woman. New York Times BU3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bray, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bray, 2003; Hemphill and Sampat, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hemphill and Sampat, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tarduno et al., 2007)

About the journal

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