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

Hillmyer, Marc A. 2007. “Materials Science. Micelles Made to Order.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5838): 604–605.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pfisterer, Andrea B., and Bernhard Schmid. 2002. “Diversity-Dependent Production Can Decrease the Stability of Ecosystem Functioning.” Nature 416 (6876): 84–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Springel, Volker, Carlos S. Frenk, and Simon D. M. White. 2006. “The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe.” Nature 440 (7088): 1137–1144.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Osterlund, M. T., C. S. Hardtke, N. Wei, and X. W. Deng. 2000. “Targeted Destabilization of HY5 during Light-Regulated Development of Arabidopsis.” Nature 405 (6785): 462–466.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welker, Roger W., R. Nagarajan, and Carl E. Newberg. 2005. Contamination and ESD Control in High-Technology Manufacturing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bugdol, Marek. 2015. Integrated Management Systems. Edited by Piotr Jedynak. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sengupta, Nilanjana, Maria B. Grant, Sergio Caballero, and Mike E. Boulton. 2007. “Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Vascular Development and Ocular Neovascularization.” In Retinal Vascular Disease, edited by Antonia M. Joussen, Thomas W. Gardner, Bernd Kirchhof, and Stephen J. Ryan, 78–96. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “Smoking During Pregnancy Could Affect Your Grandchildren’s Growth.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/smoking-during-pregnancy-could-affect-your-grandchildrens-growth/.

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. 2005. Information Technology: OMB Can Make More Effective Use of Its Investment Reviews. GAO-05-276. 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

Dasari, Rohith Abhishek. 2016. “Automatic Driving System by Recognizing Road Signs Using Digital Image Processing.” 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

Crow, Kelly. 2003. “Glittering Prizes.” New York Times, August 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hillmyer 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hillmyer 2007; Pfisterer and Schmid 2002).

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

Two authors: (Pfisterer and Schmid 2002)
Three authors: (Springel, Frenk, and White 2006)
4 or more authors: (Osterlund 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