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

Church, G. (2013). Improving genome understanding. Nature, 502(7470), 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forget, A. L., & Kowalczykowski, S. C. (2012). Single-molecule imaging of DNA pairing by RecA reveals a three-dimensional homology search. Nature, 482(7385), 423–427.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thürmer, K., Williams, E., & Reutt-Robey, J. (2002). Autocatalytic oxidation of lead crystallite surfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5589), 2033–2035.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shi, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhao, F., Ruan, H., Huang, H., Luo, L., & Li, L. (2014). Acetylcholine serves as a derepressor in Loperamide-induced Opioid-Induced Bowel Dysfunction (OIBD) in zebrafish. Scientific Reports, 4, 5602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewin, M. D. (2007). Better Software Project Management: A Primer for Success. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Snyder, C. (2005). Pro PHP Security (M. Southwell, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Selnes, T., & Termeer, C. (2011). Doubt management as a tool for change: Karl E. Weick. In S. Vellema (Ed.), Transformation and sustainability in agriculture: Connecting practice with social theory (pp. 57–68). Wageningen Academic Publishers.

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

Hale, T. (2016, October 26). Scientists Discover Parrot Fossil In The Most Unlikely Of Places: Siberia. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-parrot-fossil-in-the-most-unlikely-of-places-siberia/

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. (2015). Aviation Security: TSA Has Taken Steps to Improve Oversight of Key Programs, but Additional Actions Are Needed (GAO-15-678T). 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

Krepstekies, C. (2010). News Media Representations of Women in the U.S. Military Post September 11, 2001 [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Hartocollis, A., & Moynihan, C. (2014, July 9). Official Says Druggist Stole 200,000 Pills of Oxycodone. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Church, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Church, 2013; Forget & Kowalczykowski, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Forget & Kowalczykowski, 2012)
Three authors: (Thürmer et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Shi 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

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