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

Gee, H. (2012). Developmental biology: a brainy background. Nature, 483(7389), 280.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nathanson, N., & Fine, P. (2002). Virology. Poliomyelitis eradication--a dangerous endgame. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5566), 269–270.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gormley, W. T., Jr, Phillips, D., & Gayer, T. (2008). The early years. Preschool programs can boost school readiness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5884), 1723–1724.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ventura, M., Antonacci, F., Cardone, M. F., Stanyon, R., D’Addabbo, P., Cellamare, A., Sprague, L. J., Eichler, E. E., Archidiacono, N., & Rocchi, M. (2007). Evolutionary formation of new centromeres in macaque. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5822), 243–246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, L. C. R., Hodgetts, C. T. J., Mahoney, C. P. F., & Castle, N. (2010). Disaster Rules. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Paias, A., Ruthmair, M., & Voß, S. (Eds.). (2016). Computational Logistics: 7th International Conference, ICCL 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, September 7-9, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9855). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Norrie, M. C. (2011). Desktop, Tabletop or Mobile? In S. Ceri & M. Brambilla (Eds.), Search Computing: Trends and Developments (pp. 46–52). 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 Spanish Journal of Marketing - ESIC.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, November 18). New Zealand Quakes Caused Seafloor To Rise Upwards By 2 Meters. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-zealand-quakes-seafloor-rise-upwards-2-meters/

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). Business Process Reengineering Assessment Guide--Version 3 (AIMD-10.1.15). 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

Stout, J. (2017). The Effects of Discipline with African-American Males at an Alternative Middle School: The Perceptions of Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Administrators, and Other Academic Stakeholders [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, June 6). MSNBC Surges to an Unfamiliar Spot: No. 1. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gee, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gee, 2012; Nathanson & Fine, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Nathanson & Fine, 2002)
Three authors: (Gormley et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Ventura et al., 2007)

About the journal

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