How to format your references using the Quantitative Marketing and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quantitative Marketing and Economics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Fabbiano, G. (2005). Astronomy. The hunt for intermediate-mass black holes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5709), 533–534.

A journal article with 2 authors

Misra, A., & Ching, W. Y. (2013). Theoretical nonlinear response of complex single crystal under multi-axial tensile loading. Scientific reports, 3, 1488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pesaran, B., Nelson, M. J., & Andersen, R. A. (2008). Free choice activates a decision circuit between frontal and parietal cortex. Nature, 453(7193), 406–409.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Takashima, S., Mkrtchyan, M., Younossi-Hartenstein, A., Merriam, J. R., & Hartenstein, V. (2008). The behaviour of Drosophila adult hindgut stem cells is controlled by Wnt and Hh signalling. Nature, 454(7204), 651–655.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dacey, J. S., Fiore, L. B., & Brion-Meisels, S. (2016). Your Child’s Social and Emotional Well-Being. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yamanouchi, K. (2006). Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science Volume I. (S. L. Chin, P. Agostini, & G. Ferrante, Eds.) (Vol. 84). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kou, G., Ergu, D., Peng, Y., & Shi, Y. (2013). IBMM for Questionnaire Design Improvement. In D. Ergu, Y. Peng, & Y. Shi (Eds.), Data Processing for the AHP/ANP (pp. 77–91). 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 Quantitative Marketing and Economics.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, November 1). Researchers Reveal How Close Santorini Came To Erupting In 2012. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/researchers-reveal-how-close-santorini-came-erupting-2012/. 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). SSA Computers: Long-Range Vision Needed to Guide Future Systems Modernization Efforts (No. IMTEC-91-44). 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

Sanchez, M. (2012). For imagination and love – The permanence of the Mexican father who fathers at a distance (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Walsh, M. W., & Corkery, M. (2015, November 30). Puerto Rican Bank Left Debt, Not Development. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fabbiano 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Fabbiano 2005; Misra and Ching 2013).

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

Two authors: (Misra and Ching 2013)
Three or more authors: (Takashima et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Quantitative Marketing and Economics
Abbreviation	Quant. Mark. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1570-7156
ISSN (online)	1573-711X
Scope	Marketing Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)