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

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

Asphaug, Erik (2004), “Planetary Science. Nothing Simple about Asteroids,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 306 (5701), 1489–92.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman, Brian C. and Keith R. Yamamoto (2002), “Disassembly of Transcriptional Regulatory Complexes by Molecular Chaperones,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 296 (5576), 2232–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fiorillo, Christopher D., Philippe N. Tobler, and Wolfram Schultz (2003), “Discrete Coding of Reward Probability and Uncertainty by Dopamine Neurons,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 299 (5614), 1898–1902.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Yong, Bin-Quan Luan, Zhiyu Yang, Xinyue Zhang, Brandon Ritzo, Kent Gates, and Li-Qun Gu (2014), “Single Molecule Investigation of Ag+ Interactions with Single Cytosine-, Methylcytosine- and Hydroxymethylcytosine-Cytosine Mismatches in a Nanopore,” Scientific Reports, 4 (August), 5883.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibrahim, Mohamed A. (2011), Disturbance Analysis for Power Systems, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

El Fallah Seghrouchni, Amal, Jürgen Dix, Mehdi Dastani, and Rafael H. Bordini, eds. (2009), Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Tools and Applications, Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ogura, Koichi, Hiroaki Hiraga, Takeshi Ishii, Toshifumi Ozaki, Yoshihiro Nishida, Hideo Morioka, Toru Hiruma, Takafumi Ueda, Nobuhito Araki, Norifumi Naka, Hirotaka Kawano, and Akira Kawai (2016), “Outcome of Treatment for Osteosarcoma of the Extremities Over the Last 20 Years: Report from 11 Referral Centers in Japan,” in Osteosarcoma, Takafumi Ueda and Akira Kawai, eds., Tokyo: Springer Japan, 45–57.

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.

Blog post

Rivett, Jake (2017), “Stephen Hawking Has Another Dire Warning For Humanity,” IFLScience, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/stephen-hawking-dire-warning/.

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 (2000), “Observations on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Report and Fiscal Year 2001 Performance Plan,” NSIAD-00-192R, 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

Solano Cahuana, Iris Laudith (2015), “The Production of Apologies by Colombian Learners of English A Study of Pragmatic Acquisition in an EFL Context,” doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Lee, Linda (2011), “10 Young Upstarts Strut Their Stuff in Miami,” New York Times, , November 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Asphaug 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Asphaug 2004; Freeman and Yamamoto 2002).

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

Two authors: (Freeman and Yamamoto 2002)
Three authors: (Fiorillo, Tobler, and Schultz 2003)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Retailing
Abbreviation	J. Retail.
ISSN (print)	0022-4359
Scope	Marketing