How to format your references using the The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research. 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

Check, Erika. 2002. “Mouse Genome: The Real Deal.” Nature 420 (6915): 457.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mercer, John M., and V. Louise Roth. 2003. “The Effects of Cenozoic Global Change on Squirrel Phylogeny.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5612): 1568–1572.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishii, Hideyuki, Yoshihisa Sakurai, and Takeo Maruyama. 2014. “Effect of Soccer Shoe Upper on Ball Behaviour in Curve Kicks.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6067.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Petricevic, Ljubomir, Ulrike Kaufmann, Konrad J. Domig, Manuel Kraler, Julian Marschalek, Wolfgang Kneifel, and Herbert Kiss. 2014. “Molecular Detection of Lactobacillus Species in the Neovagina of Male-to-Female Transsexual Women.” Scientific Reports 4 (January): 3746.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau, Dominique, Aurelian Fatu, and Dominique Souchet. 2014. Mixed Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nathanson, Melvyn B., ed. 2014. Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory: CANT 2011 and 2012. Vol. 101. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Armitage, Judith. 2006. “Bacterial Behavior.” In The Prokaryotes: Volume 2: Ecophysiology and Biochemistry, edited by Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, and Erko Stackebrandt, 102–139. New York, NY: 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 The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2015. “The Utterly Horrifying Ways That Doctors Used To Test For Pregnancy.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bizarre-outlandish-history-pregnancy-tests0/.

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. 1996. Department of Education: Status of Actions to Improve the Management of Student Financial Aid. HEHS-96-143. 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

San Miguel, Anitza M. 2010. “Lived Experiences and Perceptions on Mentoring among Latina Scientists and Engineers.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Bosman, Julie, Amy Harmon, Christine Hauser, Jess Bidgood, and Maggie Astor. 2017. “Friends and Relatives Share Memories About the Las Vegas Shooting Victims.” New York Times, October 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2002; Mercer and Roth 2003).

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

Two authors: (Mercer and Roth 2003)
Three authors: (Ishii, Sakurai, and Maruyama 2014)
4 or more authors: (Petricevic et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research
ISSN (print)	0959-3969
ISSN (online)	1466-4402
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Economics and Econometrics