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

Fischer, R. (2008). Developmental biology. Sex and poison in the dark. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5882), 1430–1431.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sprecher, S. G., & Desplan, C. (2008). Switch of rhodopsin expression in terminally differentiated Drosophila sensory neurons. Nature, 454(7203), 533–537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Séguin, B., Singer, P. A., & Daar, A. S. (2006). Science community: scientific diasporas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5780), 1602–1603.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Bernal-Mizrachi, C., Gates, A. C., Weng, S., Imamura, T., Knutsen, R. H., DeSantis, P., Coleman, T., Townsend, R. R., Muglia, L. J., & Semenkovich, C. F. (2005). Vascular respiratory uncoupling increases blood pressure and atherosclerosis. Nature, 435(7041), 502–506.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros, N., Diakoumopoulou, E., Ioannidis, I., Liatis, S., Makrilakis, K., Tentolouris, N., & Tsapogas, P. (2006). Diabetes in Clinical Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Adams, J. C. (2009). The Fortran 2003 Handbook: The Complete Syntax, Features and Procedures (W. S. Brainerd, R. A. Hendrickson, R. E. Maine, J. T. Martin, & B. T. Smith, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schadendorf, D., Kochs, C., & Livingstone, E. (2013). Treatment of Primary Tumor and Locoregional Disease. In C. Kochs & E. Livingstone (Eds.), Handbook of Cutaneous Melanoma: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment (pp. 53–77). Springer Healthcare Ltd.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, June 22). Unfeelability Cloak Prevents Sensing Object By Touch. 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. (2015). Space Situational Awareness: Status of Efforts and Planned Budgets (GAO-16-6R). 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

Hall, K. E. (2012). Transformational leadership practices of African-American ministers at predominantly African American Churches of Christ in Nashville, TN [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Hollander, S. (1999, November 8). Letting Nothing Stop the Streak. New York Times, F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fischer, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Fischer, 2008; Sprecher & Desplan, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Sprecher & Desplan, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Bernal-Mizrachi et al., 2005)

About the journal

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