How to format your references using the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 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
Nathan, C., 2002. Points of control in inflammation. Nature 420, 846–852.
A journal article with 2 authors
Irion, U., St Johnston, D., 2007. bicoid RNA localization requires specific binding of an endosomal sorting complex. Nature 445, 554–558.
A journal article with 3 authors
Kennedy, M.J., Pevear, D.R., Hill, R.J., 2002. Mineral surface control of organic carbon in black shale. Science 295, 657–660.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Raghavan, S., Manzanillo, P., Chan, K., Dovey, C., Cox, J.S., 2008. Secreted transcription factor controls Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence. Nature 454, 717–721.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Willis, D.O., 2013. Business Basics for Dentists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK.
An edited book
Higashino, T., Katayama, Y., Masuzawa, T., Potop-Butucaru, M., Yamashita, M. (Eds.), 2013. Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems: 15th International Symposium, SSS 2013, Osaka, Japan, November 13-16, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
A chapter in an edited book
Belsky, J., 2011. The Determinants of Parenting in GxE Perspective: A Case of Differential Susceptibility?, in: Booth, A., McHale, S.M., Landale, N.S. (Eds.), Biosocial Foundations of Family Processes, National Symposium on Family Issues. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 61–68.

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 Retailing and Consumer Services.

Blog post
Andrew, E., 2015. These Glasses Block Facial Recognition Technology [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Transportation Security: Efforts to Strengthen Aviation and Surface Transportation Security are Under Way, but Challenges Remain (No. GAO-08-140T). 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
Naqvi, S.Z., 2017. Around the world in 15 bites: Applied perspectives on learning about food (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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
Slotnik, D.E., 2017. Greg Marius, 59, Impresario of Harlem Street Ball. New York Times B16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nathan, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Irion and St Johnston, 2007; Nathan, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Irion and St Johnston, 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Raghavan et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Retailing and Consumer Services
AbbreviationJ. Retail. Consum. Serv.
ISSN (print)0969-6989
ScopeMarketing

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