How to format your references using the Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. 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

Schultz, P. H. (2007). Planetary science. Hidden Mars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5853), 1080–1081.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roesch, M. R., & Olson, C. R. (2004). Neuronal activity related to reward value and motivation in primate frontal cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5668), 307–310.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dieterich, J., Cayol, V., & Okubo, P. (2000). The use of earthquake rate changes as a stress meter at Kilauea volcano. Nature, 408(6811), 457–460.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Matsuo, T., Gambe, Y., Sun, Y., & Honma, I. (2014). Bipolar stacked quasi-all-solid-state lithium secondary batteries with output cell potentials of over 6 V. Scientific Reports, 4, 6084.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaltashov, I. A., & Eyles, S. J. (2005). Mass Spectrometry in Biophysics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alvarez-Ordóñez, A. (2012). Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy in Food Microbiology (M. Prieto, Ed.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Mohd Noor, N., Mohd Rijal, O., Yunus, A., Mahayiddin, A. A., Gan, C. P., Ong, E. L., & Abu Bakar, S. A. R. (2014). Texture-Based Statistical Detection and Discrimination of Some Respiratory Diseases Using Chest Radiograph. In Y. C. Hum, M. I. Mohamad Salim, S.-B. Ong, N. P. Utama, Y. M. Myint, N. Mohd Noor, & E. Supriyanto (Eds.), Advances in Medical Diagnostic Technology (pp. 75–97). 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 Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, June 13). A Decade Of Work Has Decoded This Ancient Greek Astronomy “Computer.” IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-decade-of-work-has-decoded-this-ancient-greek-astronomy-computer/

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. (1990). Motor Vehicle Safety: Information on Recent Controversy Between NHTSA and Consumer Group (RCED-90-221). 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

Gogri, D. (2017). Effect of Water Hardness on Adsorption of Lead From Aqueous Solutions Using Douglas Fir Biochar [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State 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

Urbina, I. (2015, July 20). Video Captures 4 Murders, but Killers Go Unpunished. 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 (Schultz, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Roesch & Olson, 2004; Schultz, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Roesch & Olson, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Matsuo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events
ISSN (print)	1940-7963
ISSN (online)	1940-7971
Scope	Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management Geography, Planning and Development