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

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

Yamanouchi, Kaoru (2002), “The next Frontier,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5560), 1659–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fang, Jun and Thomas F. McCutchan (2002), “Thermoregulation in a Parasite’s Life Cycle,” Nature, 418(6899), 742.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prins, M. W., W. J. Welters, and J. W. Weekamp (2001), “Fluid Control in Multichannel Structures by Electrocapillary Pressure,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5502), 277–80.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lim, D. S., S. T. Kim, B. Xu, R. S. Maser, J. Lin, J. H. Petrini, and M. B. Kastan (2000), “ATM Phosphorylates P95/Nbs1 in an S-Phase Checkpoint Pathway,” Nature, 404(6778), 613–17.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samuels, Shirley (2011), Reading the American Novel 1780-1865, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hancock, James F., Ed. (2008), Temperate Fruit Crop Breeding: Germplasm to Genomics, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrarese, G. and D. Bini (2008), “Applications,” in Introduction to Relativistic Continuum Mechanics, ed. G. Ferrarese and D. Bini, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 147–67.

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 Research.

Blog post

Hale, Tom (2017), “What Actually Is The Insanely Potent VX Nerve Agent That Killed Kim Jong-Nam?,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/what-actually-is-the-insanely-potent-vx-nerve-agent-that-killed-kim-jongnam/.

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 (2013), Data Center Consolidation: Strengthened Oversight Needed to Achieve Billions of Dollars in Savings, GAO-13-627T, 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

Mosbacker, Howard Lee (2008), “Control of Electrical Transport Mechanisms at Metal-Zinc Oxide Interfaces by Subsurface Defect Engineering with Remote Plasma Treatment,” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

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

Feeney, Kelly (2010), “Local, Fresh and in Season,” New York Times, October 24, NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yamanouchi 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Fang and McCutchan 2002; Yamanouchi 2002).

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

Two authors: (Fang and McCutchan 2002)
Three authors: (Prins, Welters and Weekamp 2001)
4 or more authors: (Lim et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Consumer Research
Abbreviation	J. Consum. Res.
ISSN (print)	0093-5301
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Business and International Management Marketing Economics and Econometrics Anthropology