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

Kerwin, L. (2002). Obituary: Franco Rasetti (1901-2001). Nature, 415(6872), 597.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heyduk, A. F., & Nocera, D. G. (2001). Hydrogen produced from hydrohalic acid solutions by a two-electron mixed-valence photocatalyst. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5535), 1639–1641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bania, T. M., Rood, R. T., & Balser, D. S. (2002). The cosmological density of baryons from observations of 3He+ in the Milky Way. Nature, 415(6867), 54–57.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Whitney, H. M., Kolle, M., Andrew, P., Chittka, L., Steiner, U., & Glover, B. J. (2009). Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5910), 130–133.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schlechty, P. C. (2009). Leading for Learning. Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Singh, S., Singh, M., Apte, C., & Perner, P. (Eds.). (2005). Pattern Recognition and Data Mining: Third International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, ICAPR 2005, Bath, UK, August 22-25, 2005, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 3686). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Salles, L., Swacek, C., Lacayo, R. M., Reuss, P., Brake, M. R. W., & Schwingshackl, C. W. (2016). Numerical Round Robin for Prediction of Dissipation in Lap Joints. In G. Kerschen (Ed.), Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015 (pp. 53–64). Springer International Publishing.

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

Taub, B. (2016, May 25). Crystal Meth In Adelaide’s Sewage Has Doubled In Four Years. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/australian-poo-full-crystal-meth-0/

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. (1997). Space Shuttle: Upgrade Activities and Carryover Balances (T-NSIAD-98-21). 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

Valenzuela, J. (2014). Medicare advantage’s population make-up and its impact on the future of Medicare financing [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

Gustines, G. G. (2011, December 30). Leaping Off the Pages in the Himalayas. New York Times, C27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerwin, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Heyduk & Nocera, 2001; Kerwin, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Heyduk & Nocera, 2001)
Three authors: (Bania et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Whitney et al., 2009)

About the journal

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