How to format your references using the Journal of Consumer Policy citation style

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

Landsea, C. W. (2005). Meteorology: hurricanes and global warming. Nature, 438(7071), E11-2; discussion E13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dufour, S. C., & Felbeck, H. (2003). Sulphide mining by the superextensile foot of symbiotic thyasirid bivalves. Nature, 426(6962), 65–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bridgham, J. T., Carroll, S. M., & Thornton, J. W. (2006). Evolution of hormone-receptor complexity by molecular exploitation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5770), 97–101.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chu, W., Zhou, S., Zhu, W., & Zhuang, X. (2014). Quorum quenching bacteria Bacillus sp. QSI-1 protect zebrafish (Danio rerio) from Aeromonas hydrophila infection. Scientific reports, 4, 5446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Warnock, G., Ghafary, M., & Shaheen, G. (2015). Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing Architect (SRA) Self-Study Guide. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mutsvairo, B. (Ed.). (2016). Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gulati, K., & Khatri, S. P. (2010). Accelerating Boolean Satisfiability on a Custom IC. In S. P. Khatri (Ed.), Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms: Custom ICs, FPGAs and GPUs (pp. 33–61). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Consumer Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 22). Our Oceans Give New Insights On Elements Made In Supernovae. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-oceans-give-new-insights-elements-made-supernovae/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1987). ADP Modernization: IRS’ Redesign of Its Tax Administration System (No. IMTEC-88-5FS). Washington, DC: 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

Metcalfe, A. C. (2017). Using Evolution as a Context for Teaching the Nature of Science to Diverse Student Populations: A High School Unit of Curriculum (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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, September 3). A Cosmetics Company Bets on Underdogs. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Landsea 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Dufour and Felbeck 2003; Landsea 2005).

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

Two authors: (Dufour and Felbeck 2003)
Three or more authors: (Chu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Consumer Policy
Abbreviation	J. Consumer Policy
ISSN (print)	0168-7034
ISSN (online)	1573-0700
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Economics and Econometrics