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

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

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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Golden handcuffs. Nature, 424(6946), 351.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Visser, J. A. G. M., & Rozen, D. E. (2004). Comment on “High deleterious genomic mutation rate in stationary phase of Escherichia coli.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5670), 518; author reply 518.

A journal article with 3 authors

Le Galliard, J.-F., Clobert, J., & Ferrière, R. (2004). Physical performance and Darwinian fitness in lizards. Nature, 432(7016), 502–505.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, J., Stein, D., McMullan, C., Branton, D., Aziz, M. J., & Golovchenko, J. A. (2001). Ion-beam sculpting at nanometre length scales. Nature, 412(6843), 166–169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer, A. (2011). Shifting the Earth. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Michell, D., Wilson, J. Z., & Archer, V. (Eds.). (2015). Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class. SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Mogaji, E. (2016). University WebsiteWebsites Design in International Student Recruitment: Some Reflections. In T. Wu & V. Naidoo (Eds.), International Marketing of Higher Education (pp. 99–117). Palgrave Macmillan 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 Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, September 20). Grainy Footage Fuels Rumor That Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Lives On. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/grainy-footage-fuels-rumor-that-extinct-tasmanian-tiger-lives-on/

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. (1994). Highway User Fees: Updated Data Needed to Determine Whether All Users Pay Their Fair Share (RCED-94-181). 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

Yu, W. (2012). Impacts of storms and sea-level rise on coastal evolution between two capes: Onslow Bay, North Carolina [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

Pilon, M. (2013, July 15). Top Sprinters Test Positive, Jolting Track World. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (de Visser & Rozen, 2004; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (de Visser & Rozen, 2004)
Three authors: (Le Galliard et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Li et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Abbreviation	J. Hosp. Tour. Manag.
ISSN (print)	1447-6770
Scope	Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management