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

Fulweiler, Robinson W. 2009. “Microbiology. Fantastic Fixers.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5951): 377–378.

A journal article with 2 authors

Larrick, Richard P., and Jack B. Soll. 2008. “Economics. The MPG Illusion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5883): 1593–1594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, Eric D., Mark S. Guyer, and National Human Genome Research Institute. 2011. “Charting a Course for Genomic Medicine from Base Pairs to Bedside.” Nature 470 (7333): 204–213.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Daqing, Li, Jiang Yinan, Kang Rui, and Shlomo Havlin. 2014. “Spatial Correlation Analysis of Cascading Failures: Congestions and Blackouts.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackevičius, Vigirdas. 2014. Integral and Measure. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lehmann, Anja, and Stefan Wolf, eds. 2015. Information Theoretic Security: 8th International Conference, ICITS 2015, Lugano, Switzerland, May 2-5, 2015. Proceedings. Vol. 9063. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmed, Reaz, and Raouf Boutaba. 2014. “Collaborative Web Search.” In Collaborative Web Hosting: Challenges and Research Directions, edited by Raouf Boutaba, 27–43. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Cham: 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 The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Clean Energy Sources Provided Up To 50% Of The UK’s Electricity This Summer.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/clean-energy-sources-provided-up-to-50-of-the-uks-electricity-this-summer/.

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. Student Loan Marketing Association’s Loan Consolidation Program. 121459. 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

Baciu, Alina B. 2010. “Biopolitics and the Influenza Pandemics of 1918 and 2009 in the United States: Power, Immunity, and the Law.” 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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2016. “Puerto Rico Debt Plan Prioritizes Pensions.” New York Times, February 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fulweiler 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Fulweiler 2009; Larrick and Soll 2008).

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

Two authors: (Larrick and Soll 2008)
Three authors: (Green, Guyer, and National Human Genome Research Institute 2011)
4 or more authors: (Daqing 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