How to format your references using the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. 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

Smaglik P (2004) Alternative paths. Nature 430:485

A journal article with 2 authors

Shinar G, Feinberg M (2010) Structural sources of robustness in biochemical reaction networks. Science 327:1389–1391

A journal article with 3 authors

Jarillo-Herrero P, van Dam JA, Kouwenhoven LP (2006) Quantum supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes. Nature 439:953–956

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim SK, Shindo A, Park TJ, et al (2010) Planar cell polarity acts through septins to control collective cell movement and ciliogenesis. Science 329:1337–1340

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Renaud B, Kim K-H, Cho M (2016) Dynamics of Housing in East Asia. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Prabhu V, Taisch M, Kiritsis D (eds) (2013) Advances in Production Management Systems. Sustainable Production and Service Supply Chains: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2013, State College, PA, USA, September 9-12, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Szabó G, Szolnoki A, Vukov J (2010) Mechanisms Supporting Cooperation for the Evolutionary Prisoner’s Dilemma Games. In: Basu B, Chakravarty SR, Chakrabarti BK, Gangopadhyay K (eds) Econophysics and Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques. Springer, Milano, pp 24–31

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 Industry, Competition and Trade.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) Curiosity Rover Back On Track After Safety Mode Glitch. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/curiosity-rover-back-on-track-after-safety-mode-glitch/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2012) Highway Infrastructure: Federal-State Partnership Produces Benefits and Poses Oversight Risks. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Saguilig LG (2017) A Clinical Decision Support System for the Prevention of Genetic-Related Heart Disease. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Pilon M (2013) The Dazzle of Neon. New York Times B12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Shinar and Feinberg 2010).

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

Two authors: (Shinar and Feinberg 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade
Abbreviation	J. Ind. Compet. Trade
ISSN (print)	1566-1679
ISSN (online)	1573-7012
Scope	Industrial relations