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

Zebrowski, G. 2000. “The Holdouts.” Nature 408 (6814): 775.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lujambio, Amaia, and Scott W. Lowe. 2012. “The Microcosmos of Cancer.” Nature 482 (7385): 347–355.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giovannetti, V., S. Lloyd, and L. Maccone. 2001. “Quantum-Enhanced Positioning and Clock Synchronization.” Nature 412 (6845): 417–419.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ho, David G., Ruomei Gao, Jeff Celaje, Ha-Yong Chung, and Matthias Selke. 2003. “Phosphadioxirane: A Peroxide from an Ortho-Substituted Arylphosphine and Singlet Dioxygen.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 302 (5643): 259–262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choudhry, Moorad. 2010. Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

James, Noel P. 2011. Neritic Carbonate Sediments in a Temperate Realm: Southern Australia. Edited by Yvonne Bone. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Rebohle, Lars, and Wolfgang Skorupa. 2010. “Electroluminescence Efficiency.” In Rare-Earth Implanted MOS Devices for Silicon Photonics: Microstructural, Electrical and Optoelectronic Properties, edited by Wolfgang Skorupa, 85–116. Springer Series in Materials Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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. 2016. “Peculiar Ancient Marine Reptile Reveals Life Evolved Rapidly After 'Great Dying” Apocalypse.” 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. 1994. Welfare to Work: JOBS Automated Systems Do Not Focus on Program’s Employment Objective. AIMD-94-44. 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

Kaplan, Joseph W. 2014. “Not a Sonata: A Conception of Sonata-Allegro Form and a Consideration of Two Marimba Works from a Langerian Perspective.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Van Gelder, Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by Lawrence. 2005. “Arts, Briefly; Can They Make Book on Dostoyevsky?” New York Times, March 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zebrowski 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Zebrowski 2000; Lujambio and Lowe 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lujambio and Lowe 2012)
Three authors: (Giovannetti, Lloyd, and Maccone 2001)
4 or more authors: (Ho et al. 2003)

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