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

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

Dajani, R. (2011). The Arab Spring offers hope but no quick fix. Nature, 477(7362), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaccolo, M., & Pozzan, T. (2002). Discrete microdomains with high concentration of cAMP in stimulated rat neonatal cardiac myocytes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5560), 1711–1715.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki, G., Shimazu, N., & Tanaka, M. (2012). A yeast prion, Mod5, promotes acquired drug resistance and cell survival under environmental stress. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6079), 355–359.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, J., Liu, F., Wang, Q., Ge, P., Woo, P. C. Y., Yan, J., et al. (2014). Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of NDM-1 Klebsiella pneumoniae in spaceflight reveal mechanisms underlying environmental adaptability. Scientific reports, 4, 6216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hooper, J., Zalewski, A., & Watanabe, E. (2013). Advanced Charting Techniques for High Probability Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alt-Epping, B., & Nauck, F. (Eds.). (2015). Palliative Care in Oncology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aliev, I. (2009). Siegel’s Lemma and Sum-Distinct Sets. In R. Pollack, J. Pach, & J. E. Goodman (Eds.), Twentieth Anniversary Volume: Discrete & Computational Geometry (pp. 1–8). New York, NY: 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 the Academy of Marketing Science.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 3). Archaeologists Think They’ve Found Captain Cook’s Ship. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1991). FTS 2000 Recompetition: Opportunity Exists for Better Prices (No. T-IMTEC-92-1). 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

Burchman, E. K. (2014). A dialogue on improvisation, space and melody: Larry Koonse’s approach to improvisation (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

Hodara, S. (2013, November 17). Seeing and Being Seen, Across Millenniums. New York Times, p. WE10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dajani 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dajani 2011; Zaccolo and Pozzan 2002).

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

Two authors: (Zaccolo and Pozzan 2002)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Abbreviation	J. Acad. Mark. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0092-0703
ISSN (online)	1552-7824
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Economics and Econometrics