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

Reik, W. (2007). Stability and flexibility of epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian development. Nature, 447(7143), 425–432.

A journal article with 2 authors

Remondes, M., & Schuman, E. M. (2002). Direct cortical input modulates plasticity and spiking in CA1 pyramidal neurons. Nature, 416(6882), 736–740.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, G., Pan, F., & Gan, W.-B. (2009). Stably maintained dendritic spines are associated with lifelong memories. Nature, 462(7275), 920–924.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, C., Liu, G., Cheng, S., Fang, T., & Lam, P. K. S. (2014). The environmental geochemistry of trace elements and naturally radionuclides in a coal gangue brick-making plant. Scientific reports, 4, 6221.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hood, D., & Trojer, E. (2012). Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Xu, G. (2013). Orbits: 2nd Order Singularity-free Solutions. (J. Xu, Ed.) (2nd ed. 2013.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Peskun, C., & Whelan, D. B. (2013). Initial Assessment in the Acute and Chronic Multiple-Ligament-Injured Knee. In G. C. Fanelli (Ed.), The Multiple Ligament Injured Knee: A Practical Guide to Management (pp. 51–62). New York, NY: 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 Journal of Consumer Policy.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, December 19). The Atacama Desert Had Freshwater Lakes 9,000 Years Ago. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/atacama-desert-freshwater-lakes-9000-years-ago/. 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. (1982). Inquiry Into Allegations of Improprieties at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (No. FPCD-83-23). 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

RinconGallardo, T. J. (2010). The effect of the use of learning journals on the development of metacognition in undergraduate students (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Fernandez, M., & Blinder, A. (2017, August 25). Hurricane Harvey Crashes Into Texas Coast. New York Times, p. A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reik 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Reik 2007; Remondes and Schuman 2002).

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

Two authors: (Remondes and Schuman 2002)
Three or more authors: (Zhou 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