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

Heckenberger, M. (2009). Journal club. An archaeologist looks at South America’s early complex societies. Nature, 458(7239), 683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carbone, C., & Gittleman, J. L. (2002). A common rule for the scaling of carnivore density. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5563), 2273–2276.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sambarey, A., Prashanthi, K., & Chandra, N. (2013). Mining large-scale response networks reveals “topmost activities” in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Scientific Reports, 3, 2302.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Horjus, D. L., Nieuwland, R., Boateng, K. B., Schaap, M. C. L., van Montfrans, G. A., Clark, J. F., Sturk, A., & Brewster, L. M. (2014). Creatine kinase inhibits ADP-induced platelet aggregation. Scientific Reports, 4, 6551.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collins, D. (2008). Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Brody, H., Meghani, Z., & Greenwald, K. (Eds.). (2010). Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics (Vol. 105). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Artstein-Avidan, S., Florentin, D., & Milman, V. (2012). Order Isomorphisms on Convex Functions in Windows. In B. Klartag, S. Mendelson, & V. D. Milman (Eds.), Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis: Israel Seminar 2006–2010 (pp. 61–122). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 26). How To See This Week’s Rare Alignment Of Venus, Mars, And Jupiter. 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. (2015). Information Technology: Implementation of Reform Legislation Needed to Improve Acquisitions and Operations (GAO-16-204T). 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

Al-Kharafi, H. T. (2017). TF-CBT with the Pediatric Medical Population: A Modification [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Pilon, M. (2013, October 2). Races End Fees to Top Runners, Drawing Outcry. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heckenberger, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Carbone & Gittleman, 2002; Heckenberger, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Carbone & Gittleman, 2002)
Three authors: (Sambarey et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Horjus et al., 2014)

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

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