How to format your references using the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism citation style

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

Ahlberg, P. E. (2004). Comment on “The early evolution of the tetrapod humerus.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5691), 1715; author reply 1715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roos, D., & Winterbourn, C. C. (2002). Immunology. Lethal weapons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5568), 669–671.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thore, S., Leibundgut, M., & Ban, N. (2006). Structure of the eukaryotic thiamine pyrophosphate riboswitch with its regulatory ligand. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5777), 1208–1211.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brüggemann, H., Henne, A., Hoster, F., Liesegang, H., Wiezer, A., Strittmatter, A., Hujer, S., Dürre, P., & Gottschalk, G. (2004). The complete genome sequence of Propionibacterium acnes, a commensal of human skin. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5684), 671–673.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cousley, R. R. J. (2013). The Orthodontic Mini-Implant Clinical Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Crowe, J. (2005). PID Control: New Identification and Design Methods (K. K. Tan, T. H. Lee, R. Ferdous, M. R. Katebi, H.-P. Huang, J.-C. Jeng, K. S. Tang, G. R. Chen, K. F. Man, S. Kwong, A. Sánchez, Q.-G. Wang, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, P. Martin, M. J. Grimble, D. R. Greenwood, M. A. Johnson, & M. H. Moradi, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Andrews, B., & Hopper, C. (2011). Evolution of the Curvature. In C. Hopper (Ed.), The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry: A Complete Proof of the Differentiable 1/4-Pinching Sphere Theorem (pp. 63–82). Springer.

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 Outdoor Recreation and Tourism.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, June 8). Researchers Inject Tiny, Rolled-Up Electronics into the Brain Using a Syringe. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2006). NASA’s Deep Space Network: Current Management Structure Is Not Conducive to Effectively Matching Resources with Future Requirements (GAO-06-445). 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

Tyler, E. P. (2013). Tectonic geomorphology of quaternary river terraces at Santa Cruz Creek, Santa Maria Basin, Santa Barbara County, California [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

BRUCE LAMBERT; Reporting for this article was contributed by Faiza Akhtar, Beller, P. C., Burghardt, L. F., Cotsalas, V., Toy, V. S., Vitello, P., & Winzelberg, D. (2005, November 9). Democrats Extend Control In Nassau and Suffolk. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ahlberg, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ahlberg, 2004; Roos & Winterbourn, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Roos & Winterbourn, 2002)
Three authors: (Thore et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Brüggemann et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
Abbreviation	J. Outdoor Recreat. Tour.
ISSN (print)	2213-0780
Scope	Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management