How to format your references using the Revista Espanola de Investigacion en Marketing ESIC citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Espanola de Investigacion en Marketing ESIC. 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

de Lange, T. (2009). How telomeres solve the end-protection problem. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5955), 948–952.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watanabe, M., & Kondo, S. (2015). Fish pigmentation. Comment on “Local reorganization of xanthophores fine-tunes and colors the striped pattern of zebrafish.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6232), 297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lambert, J. B., Gurusamy-Thangavelu, S. A., & Ma, K. (2010). The silicate-mediated formose reaction: bottom-up synthesis of sugar silicates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5968), 984–986.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Johnson, D., Campbell, C. D., Lee, J. A., Callaghan, T. V., & Gwynn-Jones, D. (2002). Arctic microorganisms respond more to elevated UV-B radiation than CO2. Nature, 416(6876), 82–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McAulay, A. D. (2011). Military Laser Technology for Defense. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alkassar, A., & Volkamer, M. (Eds.). (2007). E-Voting and Identity: First International Conference, VOTE-ID 2007, Bochum, Germany, October 4-5, 2007, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 4896). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Guénot, M., Isnard, J., Catenoix, H., Mauguière, F., & Sindou, M. (2011). SEEG-guided RF-thermocoagulation of epileptic foci: A therapeutic alternative for drug-resistant non-operable partial epilepsies. In J. D. Pickard, N. Akalan, V. Benes, C. D. Rocco, V. V. Dolenc, J. L. Antunes, J. Schramm, & M. Sindou (Eds.), Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery (pp. 61–78). 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 Revista Espanola de Investigacion en Marketing ESIC.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, March 30). Western Consumption Linked To Over 100,000 Pollution-Related Premature Deaths Worldwide. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1997). Proprietary Schools: Millions Spent to Train Students for Oversupplied Occupations (HEHS-97-104). 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

Pryor, G. L. (2013). Effects of a balance-specific exercise program on blood pressure medication usage [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wasik, J. F. (2016, September 22). The Next Hot Start-Up Benefit Could Be a 401(k). New York Times, B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Lange, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (de Lange, 2009; Watanabe & Kondo, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Watanabe & Kondo, 2015)
Three authors: (Lambert et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Johnson et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Espanola de Investigacion en Marketing ESIC
ISSN (print)	1138-1442
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