How to format your references using the Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Gratton, E. (2011). Applied physics. Deeper tissue imaging with total detection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6020), 1016–1017.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eddingsaas, N. C., & Suslick, K. S. (2006). Mechanoluminescence: light from sonication of crystal slurries. Nature, 444(7116), 163.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dyall, S. D., Brown, M. T., & Johnson, P. J. (2004). Ancient invasions: from endosymbionts to organelles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5668), 253–257.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Varmus, H., Klausner, R., Zerhouni, E., Acharya, T., Daar, A. S., & Singer, P. A. (2003). Public health. Grand Challenges in Global Health. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5644), 398–399.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morri, G., & Mazza, A. (2014). Property Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pokorski, M. (Ed.). (2016). Pulmonary Dysfunction and Disease (Vol. 934). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Barnhill, R. L. (2014). Circumscribed Pigmented Lesions Composed of Basilar Melanocytes. In R. L. Barnhill, M. W. Piepkorn, & K. J. Busam (Eds.), Pathology of Melanocytic Nevi and Melanoma (pp. 59–86). 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 Global Scholars of Marketing Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 26). Why Everyone Should Embrace Their Inner Sloth. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-everyone-should-embrace-their-inner-sloth/

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. (2007). No Child Left Behind Act: Education Assistance Could Help States Better Measure Progress of Students with Limited English Proficiency (GAO-07-646T). 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

Cherukuri, H. (2014). 1, 3-Dipolar Reaction of gem-Dicyanoepoxide with a Fluoro-Olefin [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Chang, S. (2006, February 11). High School Student Charged In Death of Newborn Daughter. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gratton, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Eddingsaas & Suslick, 2006; Gratton, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Eddingsaas & Suslick, 2006)
Three authors: (Dyall et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Varmus et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
ISSN (print)	2163-9159
ISSN (online)	2163-9167
Scope