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

Bartal, G. (2015). Nanophotonics: bright future for hyperbolic chips. Nature, 522(7555), 160–161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yamamoto, J., & Tanaka, H. (2001). Transparent nematic phase in a liquid-crystal-based microemulsion. Nature, 409(6818), 321–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, G., Liu, C., & Fan, S. (2013). Directly measuring of thermal pulse transfer in one-dimensional highly aligned carbon nanotubes. Scientific Reports, 3, 2549.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pennartz, C. M. A., de Jeu, M. T. G., Bos, N. P. A., Schaap, J., & Geurtsen, A. M. S. (2002). Diurnal modulation of pacemaker potentials and calcium current in the mammalian circadian clock. Nature, 416(6878), 286–290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Misra, D. K. (2006). Practical Electromagnetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Padula, F. (2015). Advances in Robust Fractional Control (A. Visioli, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lynch, E. D., Kil, J., & Le Prell, C. G. (2016). Development of Drugs for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss. In C. G. Le Prell, E. Lobarinas, A. N. Popper, & R. R. Fay (Eds.), Translational Research in Audiology, Neurotology, and the Hearing Sciences (pp. 105–139). 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 Global Scholars of Marketing Science.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015, April 6). Can Plants Get Cancer? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/can-plants-get-cancer/

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. (2009). Telecommunications: Long-Term Strategic Vision Would Help Ensure Targeting of E-rate Funds to Highest-Priority Uses (GAO-09-253). 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

Potter, R. H. (2017). Marx Generator Charged via Biperiodic Resonant Cascaded Transformers [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Crow, K. (2001, December 9). The Newest Tower: Working 24/7. New York Times, 1414.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bartal, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bartal, 2015; Yamamoto & Tanaka, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Yamamoto & Tanaka, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Pennartz et al., 2002)

About the journal

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