How to format your references using the Journal of Heritage Tourism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Heritage 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

Abbott, A. (2001). WHO plans study of Gulf War fallout. Nature, 413(6852), 97.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaleeba, J. A. R., & Berger, E. A. (2006). Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus fusion-entry receptor: cystine transporter xCT. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5769), 1921–1924.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dornelas, M., Connolly, S. R., & Hughes, T. P. (2006). Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature, 440(7080), 80–82.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shen, S., Zhou, J., Dong, C.-L., Hu, Y., Tseng, E. N., Guo, P., Guo, L., & Mao, S. S. (2014). Surface engineered doping of hematite nanorod arrays for improved photoelectrochemical water splitting. Scientific Reports, 4, 6627.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lau, J. Y. F. (2011). An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bravetti, M., & Zavattaro, G. (Eds.). (2009). CONCUR 2009 - Concurrency Theory: 20th International Conference, CONCUR 2009, Bologna, Italy, September 1-4, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5710). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Basso-Blandin, A., & Delaplace, F. (2014). GUBS a Language for Synthetic Biology: Specification and Compilation. In O. H. Ibarra, L. Kari, & S. Kopecki (Eds.), Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 13th International Conference, UCNC 2014, London, ON, Canada, July 14-18, 2014, Proceedings (pp. 40–53). Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Heritage Tourism.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, February 24). Watch A Snowflake Form Before Your Eyes! IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/watch-snowflake-form-your-eyes/

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). Need for Improved Management and Increased Sharing of Computer Resources at the San Antonio Data Services Center (FGMSD-80-82). 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

Rees, C. L. (2009). A systems-level investigation into the genetic determinants of childhood-onset schizophrenia [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Hodara, S. (2017, March 15). A Westchester Town With Acres of Open Land. New York Times, RE8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2001; Kaleeba & Berger, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kaleeba & Berger, 2006)
Three authors: (Dornelas et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Shen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Heritage Tourism
Abbreviation	J. Heritage Tour.
ISSN (print)	1743-873X
ISSN (online)	1747-6631
Scope	History Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management