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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Marketing Communications. 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

Victor, David G. 2015. “Climate Change: Embed the Social Sciences in Climate Policy.” Nature 520 (7545): 27–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tice, Michael M., and Donald R. Lowe. 2004. “Photosynthetic Microbial Mats in the 3,416-Myr-Old Ocean.” Nature 431 (7008): 549–552.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arakawa, Hiroshi, Jessica Hauschild, and Jean-Marie Buerstedde. 2002. “Requirement of the Activation-Induced Deaminase (AID) Gene for Immunoglobulin Gene Conversion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5558): 1301–1306.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Huiskes, R., R. Ruimerman, G. H. van Lenthe, and J. D. Janssen. 2000. “Effects of Mechanical Forces on Maintenance and Adaptation of Form in Trabecular Bone.” Nature 405 (6787): 704–706.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Furmston, Michael. 2008. Powell-Smith & Furmston’s Building Contract Casebook. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

An edited book

Cellier, François E. 2006. Continuous System Simulation. Edited by Ernesto Kofman. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Holovaty, Adrian, and Jacob Kaplan-Moss. 2008. “Interacting with a Database: Models.” In The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, edited by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, 59–82. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 Communications.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2015. “THC In Marijuana Delays Organ Transplant Rejection In Mice.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1997. Department of Education: Multiple, Nonintegrated Systems Hamper Management of Student Financial Aid Programs. T-HEHS/AIMD-97-132. 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

Hayes, Monica G. 2010. “A Qualitative Case Study of Cultural Competency among Advanced Placement Teachers in Florida.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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, Kelly. 2001. “Challenging Coffee in Manhattan, and Taking a Lump or 2.” New York Times, August 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Victor 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Victor 2015; Tice and Lowe 2004).

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

Two authors: (Tice and Lowe 2004)
Three authors: (Arakawa, Hauschild, and Buerstedde 2002)
4 or more authors: (Huiskes et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Marketing Communications
Abbreviation	J. Mark. Commun.
ISSN (print)	1352-7266
ISSN (online)	1466-4445
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing