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.

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

Konner, M., 2002. Seeking universals. Nature 415, 121.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meacham, C.E., Morrison, S.J., 2013. Tumour heterogeneity and cancer cell plasticity. Nature 501, 328–337.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parens, E., Johnston, J., Moses, J., 2008. Ethics. Do we need “synthetic bioethics”? Science 321, 1449.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, G., Seki, Y., Kimura, H., Sakurai, S., Yumura, M., Hata, K., Futaba, D.N., 2014. Diameter control of single-walled carbon nanotube forests from 1.3-3.0 nm by arc plasma deposition. Sci. Rep. 4, 3804.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Filla, J.J., Brown, H.E., 2013. Prospect Research for Fundraisers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Page, D., 2014. What Is Computer Science?: An Information Security Perspective, Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujimoto, S., Ishikawa, A., Mizuno, T., Watanabe, T., 2015. Are Firms that Are Awarded More Patents More Productive?, in: Abergel, F., Aoyama, H., Chakrabarti, B.K., Chakraborti, A., Ghosh, A. (Eds.), Econophysics and Data Driven Modelling of Market Dynamics, New Economic Windows. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 129–142.

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, D., 2016. Here’s What Eating Junk Food Does To Your Gut Bacteria [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-gut-bacteria-dont-like-junk-food-even-if-you-do/ (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, 1977. Educational Assistance for Institutionalized Neglected or Delinquent Children (No. 103697). 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

Thom, R.C., 2017. Digital Martyrs and Shadowless Assailants: The Projective Shadow’s Emergence in Cyberspace (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Pilon, M., 2012. Symbols for Satire. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Konner, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Konner, 2002; Meacham and Morrison, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Meacham and Morrison, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
Abbreviation	J. Retail. Consum. Serv.
ISSN (print)	0969-6989
Scope	Marketing