How to format your references using the Spanish Journal of Marketing - ESIC citation style

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

Keller, R. (2012). Developmental biology. Physical biology returns to morphogenesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6104), 201–203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Apps, R., & Carrington, M. (2013). Response to Comment on “Influence of HLA-C expression level on HIV control.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6151), 1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sturm, M., Racine, C., & Tape, K. (2001). Climate change. Increasing shrub abundance in the Arctic. Nature, 411(6837), 546–547.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Realini, N., Solorzano, C., Pagliuca, C., Pizzirani, D., Armirotti, A., Luciani, R., Costi, M. P., Bandiera, T., & Piomelli, D. (2013). Discovery of highly potent acid ceramidase inhibitors with in vitro tumor chemosensitizing activity. Scientific Reports, 3, 1035.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, G. P. (2011). Managing to the New Regulatory Reality. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Biryukov, A., & Goyal, V. (Eds.). (2015). Progress in Cryptology -- INDOCRYPT 2015: 16th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Bangalore, India, December 6-9, 2015, Proceedings (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 9462). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng, Y., An, H., Chen, Z., Li, F., Wang, Z., Jiang, X., & Peng, Y. (2014). Understanding the SIMD Efficiency of Graph Traversal on GPU. In X.-H. Sun, W. Qu, I. Stojmenovic, W. Zhou, Z. Li, H. Guo, G. Min, T. Yang, Y. Wu, & L. Liu (Eds.), Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 14th International Conference, ICA3PP 2014, Dalian, China, August 24-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part I (pp. 42–56). Springer International Publishing.

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 Spanish Journal of Marketing - ESIC.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 12). The First Human Head Transplant Has Been Scheduled For 2017. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-head-transplant/

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. (1983). Cost Recovery Practices Inconsistent With Government Policy (GGD-83-61). 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

Valdovinos, G. (2012). Entre familia (among family): A parent training and social support program for Latino families. A grant proposal [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

Neuman, P. W. (2015, April 20). El desminado y la paz avanzan lentamente en Colombia. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keller, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Apps & Carrington, 2013; Keller, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Apps & Carrington, 2013)
Three authors: (Sturm et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Realini et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Spanish Journal of Marketing - ESIC
ISSN (print)	2444-9695
Scope