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

Gershon, Diane (2002), “Cell Biology Gets Plugged In,” Nature, 417(6892), 6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xavier, Karina B. and Bonnie L. Bassler (2005), “Interference with AI-2-Mediated Bacterial Cell-Cell Communication,” Nature, 437(7059), 750–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, Xiaoli, Yinling Wang, and Maoguo Li (2014), “Selecting Water-Alcohol Mixed Solvent for Synthesis of Polydopamine Nano-Spheres Using Solubility Parameter,” Scientific reports, 4, 6070.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun, Shiguo, Fusheng Li, Fengyu Liu, Jitao Wang, and Xiaojun Peng (2014), “Fluorescence Detecting of Paraquat Using Host-Guest Chemistry with Cucurbit[8]Uril,” Scientific reports, 4, 3570.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langlois, Patrice (2013), Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Spaccapietra, Stefano, Ed. (2006), Journal on Data Semantics VII, 4244, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hammond, Kevin (2006), “Exploiting Purely Functional Programming to Obtain Bounded Resource Behaviour: The Hume Approach,” in Central European Functional Programming School: First Summer School, CEFP 2005, Budapest, Hungary, July 4-15, 2005, Revised Selected Lectures, ed. Zoltán Horváth, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 100–134.

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, Elise (2015), “Are You Overweight? The Clue’s In Your Poo,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-you-overweight-clue-s-your-poo/.

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 (1996), Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments, AA-96-18(4), 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

Darnell, Carl (2017), “Sharecropping in Higher Education: Case Study of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University - Florida State University Joint College of Engineering,” Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Chapman, Mary M. (2010), “Detroit Reins In an Annual Halloween Revelry,” New York Times, October 30, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2002; Xavier and Bassler 2005).

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

Two authors: (Xavier and Bassler 2005)
Three authors: (Jiang, Wang and Li 2014)
4 or more authors: (Sun et al. 2014)

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