How to format your references using the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism 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	Download the output style file
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

Johns, A. (2008). When authorship met authenticity. Nature, 451(7182), 1058–1059.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lankau, R. A., & Strauss, S. Y. (2007). Mutual feedbacks maintain both genetic and species diversity in a plant community. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5844), 1561–1563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peters, S. E., Kelly, D. C., & Fraass, A. J. (2013). Oceanographic controls on the diversity and extinction of planktonic foraminifera. Nature, 493(7432), 398–401.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Jeong, D. W., Choi, W. S., Okamoto, S., Kim, J.-Y., Kim, K. W., Moon, S. J., Cho, D.-Y., Lee, H. N., & Noh, T. W. (2014). Dimensionality control of d-orbital occupation in oxide superlattices. Scientific Reports, 4, 6124.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal, R. (2014). Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shpak, A. P., & Gorbyk, P. P. (Eds.). (2010). Nanomaterials and Supramolecular Structures: Physics, Chemistry, and Applications. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng, H., & Labahn, G. (2014). A Practical Implementation of a Modular Algorithm for Ore Polynomial Matrices. In R. Feng, W.-S. Lee, & Y. Sato (Eds.), Computer Mathematics: 9th Asian Symposium (ASCM2009), Fukuoka, December 2009, 10th Asian Symposium (ASCM2012), Beijing, October 2012, Contributed Papers and Invited Talks (pp. 49–59). 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 Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, November 3). Hunting Could Cause Birds To Develop Bigger Brains. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hunting-could-cause-birds-to-develop-bigger-brains/

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. (1980). Highway Safety Research and Development--Better Management Can Make It More Useful (CED-80-87A). 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

Bartaula, B. (2017). Stand Level Growth and Survival Equations for Cutover Sites Loblolly Pine Plantations in the Mid-Gulf Region of Southern United States [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State 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

Crow, K. (2001, June 17). The Park as Hollywood East, With Stars Blossoming. New York Times, 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Johns, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Johns, 2008; Lankau & Strauss, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lankau & Strauss, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jeong et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
Abbreviation	Asia Pac. J. Tour. Res.
ISSN (print)	1094-1665
ISSN (online)	1741-6507
Scope	Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management Geography, Planning and Development