How to format your references using the Journal of International Marketing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of International Marketing (JIM). 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

Ke, Da-Guan (2013), “Unifying complexity and information,” Scientific reports, 3, 1585.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaidos, E. J. and F. Nimmo (2000), “Tectonics and water on Europa,” Nature, 405 (6787), 637.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sachs, Raymond, Zhisheng Lin, and Jing Shi (2014), “Ferroelectric-like SrTiO3 surface dipoles probed by graphene,” Scientific reports, 4, 3657.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Erez, Noam, Goren Gordon, Mathias Nest, and Gershon Kurizki (2008), “Thermodynamic control by frequent quantum measurements,” Nature, 452 (7188), 724–27.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lunn, George (2005), HPLC Methods for Recently Approved Pharmaceuticals, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fahrner, W. R. (Ed.) (2005), Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics: Materials, Devices, Measurement Techniques, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bullock, Kathryn R. (2013), “Lead Acid Battery Systems and Technology for Sustainable Energy,” in Batteries for Sustainability: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, R. J. Brodd, ed., New York, NY: Springer, 117–34.

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 International Marketing.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan (2016), “It’s One Year Until A Total Solar Eclipse Sweeps Across America,” IFLScience, IFLScience, (accessed October 30, 2018), [available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/its-one-year-until-a-total-solar-eclipse-sweeps-across-america/].

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 (2006), “Joint Strike Fighter: Management of the Technology Transfer Process,” 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

Espinoza, Enrique (2015), “Understanding help-seeking behavior among at-risk Latino male high school students,” 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

Herrman, John (2016), “Mayer’s Media Problem at Yahoo Is Now Verizon’s,” New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ke 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gaidos and Nimmo 2000; Ke 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gaidos and Nimmo 2000)
Three authors: (Sachs, Lin, and Shi 2014)
4 or more authors: (Erez et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Marketing
Abbreviation	J. Int. Mark.
ISSN (print)	1069-031X
ISSN (online)	1547-7215
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing