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 (JCR). 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

Dalton, R. (2001), “Swift Move to Collect Fallout Data,” Nature, 413(6854), 335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stone, Richard and Marc Lavine (2014), “Robots. The Social Life of Robots. Introduction,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6206), 178–79.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zarrinpar, Ali, Sang-Hyun Park, and Wendell A. Lim (2003), “Optimization of Specificity in a Cellular Protein Interaction Network by Negative Selection,” Nature, 426(6967), 676–80.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roger, T., J. David, M. P. Glauser, and T. Calandra (2001), “MIF Regulates Innate Immune Responses through Modulation of Toll-like Receptor 4,” Nature, 414(6866), 920–24.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kupka, Hans J. (2010), Transitions in Molecular Systems, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ferrández Vicente, José Manuel, José Ramón Álvarez-Sánchez, Félix de la Paz López, Fco Javier Toledo-Moreo, and Hojjat Adeli, Eds. (2015), Bioinspired Computation in Artificial Systems: International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2015, Elche, Spain, June 1-5, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, 9108, Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Crespelle, Christophe and Christophe Paul (2005), “Fully Dynamic Algorithm for Recognition and Modular Decomposition of Permutation Graphs,” in Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 31st International Workshop, WG 2005, Metz, France, June 23-25, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, ed. Dieter Kratsch, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 38–48.

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

Andrew, Danielle (2016), “World War I To The Age Of The Cyborg: The Surprising History Of Prosthetic Limbs,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/world-war-i-to-the-age-of-the-cyborg-the-surprising-history-of-prosthetic-limbs/.

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 (2008), Health Information Technology: More Detailed Plans Needed for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Redesigned BioSense Program, GAO-09-100, 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

Gomes, Marc Andrew (2017), “Cognitive Science Approaches to Actor Training: Interrogating Conceptual Language,” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Kishkovsky, Sophia (2004), “Critics See Kremlin’s Hand in Charges Against Ex-K.G.B. Agent,” New York Times, December 12, 127.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2001; Stone and Lavine 2014).

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

Two authors: (Stone and Lavine 2014)
Three authors: (Zarrinpar, Park and Lim 2003)
4 or more authors: (Roger et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Consumer Research
Abbreviation	J. Consum. Res.
ISSN (print)	0093-5301
ISSN (online)	1537-5277
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Business and International Management Marketing Economics and Econometrics Anthropology