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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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
Tegmark, M. (2000). Cosmology. The dark side of distortion. Nature, 405(6783), 133–134.
A journal article with 2 authors
Rolff, J., & Siva-Jothy, M. T. (2003). Invertebrate ecological immunology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5632), 472–475.
A journal article with 3 authors
Scarano, F., Guimarães, A., & da Silva, J. M. (2012). Rio+20: Lead by example. Nature, 486(7401), 25–26.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Matsuda, T., Bebenek, K., Masutani, C., Hanaoka, F., & Kunkel, T. A. (2000). Low fidelity DNA synthesis by human DNA polymerase-eta. Nature, 404(6781), 1011–1013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Klee, L. (2015). International Construction Contract Law. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Shibata, Y., & Suzuki, Y. (Eds.). (2016). Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, Present and Future: Tokyo, Japan, November 2014 (Vol. 183). Springer Japan.
A chapter in an edited book
Ahmed, M., & Masaryk, T. J. (2007). Computerized Tomography. In G. H. Barnett (Ed.), High-Grade Gliomas: Diagnosis and Treatment (pp. 73–104). Humana Press.

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
Carpineti, C. (2017, March 23). New Footage Reveals Deadly Chimpanzee Battles. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-footage-reveals-deadly-chimpanzee-battles/

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. (2008). Commercial Drivers: Certification Process for Drivers with Serious Medical Conditions (GAO-08-1030T). 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
Rehan, T. Y. (2016). Analysis of Life-Cycle Cost, Properties, and Field Performance of Parking Lot Pavements [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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
STEVEN LEE MYERS; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting from Beslan for this article, & Melikhovo, S. K. F. (2004, September 5). PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA FACES FULL “WAR” TO DIVIDE NATION. New York Times, 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tegmark, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rolff & Siva-Jothy, 2003; Tegmark, 2000).

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

  • Two authors: (Rolff & Siva-Jothy, 2003)
  • Three or more authors: (Matsuda et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Heritage Tourism
AbbreviationJ. Heritage Tour.
ISSN (print)1743-873X
ISSN (online)1747-6631
ScopeHistory
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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