How to format your references using the International Journal of Hospitality Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Hospitality Management. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Schmidt, B., 2005. Astronomy. The link between supernovae and gamma ray bursts. Science 308, 1265–1266.
A journal article with 2 authors
Krueger, A.B., Stone, A.A., 2014. Psychology and economics. Progress in measuring subjective well-being. Science 346, 42–43.
A journal article with 3 authors
Otto, A., White, J.D., Simoneit, B.R.T., 2002. Natural product terpenoids in Eocene and Miocene conifer fossils. Science 297, 1543–1545.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Lu, M.-X., Cao, S.-S., Du, Y.-Z., Liu, Z.-X., Liu, P., Li, J., 2013. Diapause, signal and molecular characteristics of overwintering Chilo suppressalis (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Sci. Rep. 3, 3211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Fong, A.C.M., Hui, S.C., 2006. Multimedia Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, England.
An edited book
Nelson, J.K. (Ed.), 2010. Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites. Springer US, Boston, MA.
A chapter in an edited book
Costantini, A., Gutierrez, E., Cacheiro, J.L., Rodriguez, A., Gervasi, O., Laganà, A., 2010. Porting of GROMACS Package into the Grid Environment: Testing of a New Distribution Strategy, in: Taniar, D., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Pardede, E., Apduhan, B.O. (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010: International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, March 23-26, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 41–52.

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 International Journal of Hospitality Management.

Blog post
Andrew, E., 2014. Lions are on the brink of extinction in West Africa [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lions-are-brink-extinction-west-africa/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. Truck Safety: Improvements Needed in FHwA’s Motor Carrier Safety Program (No. RCED-91-30). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Pappa, D.M., 2002. A Study of Various Process Factors in the Scale Up of a High Shear Granulated Product (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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
Eligon, J., 2016. Violence in Milwaukee Was No Shock to Some. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmidt, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Krueger and Stone, 2014; Schmidt, 2005).

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

  • Two authors: (Krueger and Stone, 2014)
  • Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Hospitality Management
AbbreviationInt. J. Hosp. Manag.
ISSN (print)0278-4319
ScopeStrategy and Management
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

Other styles