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

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

Petrukovich, A. A. (2008). Planetary science. The elusive onset of geomagnetic substorms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5891), 920–921.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smyth, M. J., & Kershaw, M. H. (2011). Immunology. The adjuvant effects of antibodies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6045), 944–945.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, B. M., Finn, K. J., & Li, J. J. (2010). Loss of DNA replication control is a potent inducer of gene amplification. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5994), 943–946.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Byrne, J. A., Pedersen, D. A., Clepper, L. L., Nelson, M., Sanger, W. G., Gokhale, S., Wolf, D. P., & Mitalipov, S. M. (2007). Producing primate embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nature, 450(7169), 497–502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, A. S. (2006). ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lutz, H. T., & Gharbi, H. A. (Eds.). (2006). Manual of Diagnostic Ultrasound in Infectious Tropical Diseases. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Masri, R., & Keller, A. (2012). Chronic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury. In R. Jandial & M. Y. Chen (Eds.), Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord (pp. 74–88). 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 Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 30). Watch a Vampire Squid Turn Itself Inside Out. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-vampire-squid-turning-itself-inside-out/

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. (2015). Airport Finance: Information on Funding Sources and Planned Capital Development (GAO-15-306). 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

Griffith, A. (2017). The Curious Case of Implementation: Enactment of the California Community College Student Equity Initiative [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Schmidt, M. S. (2017, May 12). In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petrukovich, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Petrukovich, 2008; Smyth & Kershaw, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Smyth & Kershaw, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Byrne et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Consumer Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Consum. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1057-7408
Scope	Marketing Applied Psychology