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:

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
Butler, D. (2002). Prion data suggest BSE link to sporadic CJD. Nature, 420(6915), 450.
A journal article with 2 authors
Etienne, R. S., & Rosindell, J. (2012). Comment on “Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6089), 1639; author reply 1639.
A journal article with 3 authors
Gagnon, K., Chadwell, C. D., & Norabuena, E. (2005). Measuring the onset of locking in the Peru-Chile trench with GPS and acoustic measurements. Nature, 434(7030), 205–208.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Lim, D. S., Kim, S. T., Xu, B., Maser, R. S., Lin, J., Petrini, J. H., & Kastan, M. B. (2000). ATM phosphorylates p95/nbs1 in an S-phase checkpoint pathway. Nature, 404(6778), 613–617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Adámek, J. (1991). Foundations of Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Veiga, L. B. da. (2014). The Mimetic Finite Difference Method for Elliptic Problems (K. Lipnikov & G. Manzini, Eds.; Vol. 11). Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Pardos, Z. A., Dailey, M. D., & Heffernan, N. T. (2010). Learning What Works in ITS from Non-traditional Randomized Controlled Trial Data. In V. Aleven, J. Kay, & J. Mostow (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 14-18, 2010, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 41–50). 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
Davis, J. (2016, July 20). Biohybrid Robo Sea Slug Developed That Could Help Search For Black Boxes. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/biohybrid-robo-sea-slug-developed-that-could-help-search-for-black-boxes/

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. (2009). Information Technology: Management and Oversight of Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars Need Attention (GAO-09-624T). 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
Griner, K. F. (2014). The Effectiveness of the Integrative Career Counseling Model [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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
(nyt), S. K. (2004, November 17). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: No Choosing Alphabets. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Butler, 2002; Etienne & Rosindell, 2012).

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

  • Two authors: (Etienne & Rosindell, 2012)
  • Three authors: (Gagnon et al., 2005)
  • 6 or more authors: (Lim et al., 2000)

About the journal

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

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