How to format your references using the Current Issues in Tourism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Issues in Tourism. 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

Schlessinger, J. (2004). Common and distinct elements in cellular signaling via EGF and FGF receptors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1506–1507.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parrish, D. D., & Zhu, T. (2009). Climate change. Clean air for megacities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5953), 674–675.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depège, N., Bellafiore, S., & Rochaix, J.-D. (2003). Role of chloroplast protein kinase Stt7 in LHCII phosphorylation and state transition in Chlamydomonas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5612), 1572–1575.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Enya, S., Ameku, T., Igarashi, F., Iga, M., Kataoka, H., Shinoda, T., & Niwa, R. (2014). A Halloween gene noppera-bo encodes a glutathione S-transferase essential for ecdysteroid biosynthesis via regulating the behaviour of cholesterol in Drosophila. Scientific Reports, 4, 6586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Rewini, H., & Abd-El-Barr, M. (2004). Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Benferhat, S., & Grant, J. (Eds.). (2011). Scalable Uncertainty Management: 5th International Conference, SUM 2011, Dayton, OH, USA, October 10-13, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6929). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mills, P. R. (2009). Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii. In C. White (Ed.), The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives (pp. 75–91). Springer US.

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 Current Issues in Tourism.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, October 24). Potential For A Male Contraceptive Is One Step Closer. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/potential-for-a-male-contraceptive-is-one-step-closer/

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. (2011). OPM Retirement Modernization: Longstanding Information Technology Management Weaknesses Need to Be Addressed (GAO-12-226T). 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

Garcia, R. I. (2009). Variable selection for models with missing data [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, May 22). Supreme Court to Address State Tax Breaks for Bonds. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlessinger, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Parrish & Zhu, 2009; Schlessinger, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Parrish & Zhu, 2009)
Three authors: (Depège et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Enya et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Issues in Tourism
Abbreviation	Curr. Issues Tourism
ISSN (print)	1368-3500
ISSN (online)	1747-7603
Scope	Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management Geography, Planning and Development

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