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
Paddock, S., 2002. Tech.Sight. Optical sectioning--slices of life. Science 295, 1319–1321.
A journal article with 2 authors
Nicholson, J.M., Ioannidis, J.P.A., 2012. Research grants: Conform and be funded. Nature 492, 34–36.
A journal article with 3 authors
Mulligan, C.J., Kitchen, A., Miyamoto, M.M., 2006. Comment on “Population size does not influence mitochondrial genetic diversity in animals.” Science 314, 1390.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Li, L., Gattass, R.R., Gershgoren, E., Hwang, H., Fourkas, J.T., 2009. Achieving lambda/20 resolution by one-color initiation and deactivation of polymerization. Science 324, 910–913.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Cumming, D.J., 2010. Venture Capital. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Erkelens, L.H., Meij, A.W.H., Pawlik, M. (Eds.), 2015. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office: An extended arm or a Two-Headed dragon? T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague.
A chapter in an edited book
Boehm, M., Habich, D., Preissler, S., Lehner, W., Wloka, U., 2009. Vectorizing Instance-Based Integration Processes, in: Filipe, J., Cordeiro, J. (Eds.), Enterprise Information Systems: 11th International Conference, ICEIS 2009, Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 40–52.

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
Carpineti, A., 2016. Pair Of Infant Planets Spotted Forming Around A Young Star [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/pair-of-infant-planets-spotted-forming-around-a-young-star/ (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, 2014. Secure Flight: Additional Actions Needed to Determine Program Effectiveness and Strengthen Privacy Oversight Mechanisms (No. GAO-14-796T). 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
Jorge, M.H., 2004. Relationships Among Poverty, Financial Services, Human Capital, Risk Coping, and Natural Resources: Evidence from El Salvador and Bolivia (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, 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
GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS, 2010. Love That Look, Wonder Woman. 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 (Paddock, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Nicholson and Ioannidis, 2012; Paddock, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Nicholson and Ioannidis, 2012)
  • Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2009)

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

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