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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Marketing. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
DeLong, Edward F. (2012), “Evolution. Microbial evolution in the wild,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 336 (6080), 422–24.
A journal article with 2 authors
Settele, Josef and Elisabeth Kühn (2009), “Ecology. Insect conservation,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 325 (5936), 41–42.
A journal article with 3 authors
Fan, Yu, Dandan Yu, and Yong-Gang Yao (2014), “Tree shrew database (TreeshrewDB): a genomic knowledge base for the Chinese tree shrew,” Scientific reports, 4, 7145.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Dutton, Z., M. Budde, C. Slowe, and L. V. Hau (2001), “Observation of quantum shock waves created with ultra- compressed slow light pulses in a Bose-Einstein condensate,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 293 (5530), 663–68.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Ngwira, Malawi and David Manase (2015), Public Sector Property Asset Management, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Wohlin, Claes (2012), Experimentation in Software Engineering, (P. Runeson, M. Höst, M. C. Ohlsson, B. Regnell, and A. Wesslén, eds.), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Wu, Shiquan and Xun Gu (2005), “Gene Network: Model, Dynamics and Simulation,” in Computing and Combinatorics: 11th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2005 Kunming, China, August 16–19, 2005 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, L. Wang, ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 12–21.

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 Marketing.

Blog post
Fang, Janet (2014), “Ancient Stone Toolmaking Evolved Multiple Times Across Continents,” IFLScience, IFLScience, (accessed October 30, 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 (1991), “Aerospace Plane Technology: Research and Development Efforts in Europe,” 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
Winter, Jaclyn Marie (2010), “Investigating the biosynthesis of halogenated meroterpenoid natural products from marine actinomycetes,” Doctoral dissertation, La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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
Steel, Emily (2017), “Murdoch Son’s Rebuke of Trump May Signal a Shift,” New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeLong 2012).
This sentence cites two references (DeLong 2012; Settele and Kühn 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Settele and Kühn 2009)
  • Three authors: (Fan, Yu, and Yao 2014)
  • 4 or more authors: (Dutton et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Marketing
AbbreviationJ. Mark.
ISSN (print)0022-2429
ISSN (online)1547-7185
ScopeBusiness and International Management
Marketing

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