How to format your references using the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 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
Fuyuno, I. (2011). Japan: Will the sun set on Kampo? Nature, 480(7378), S96.
A journal article with 2 authors
Wohlers, A., & Wood, B. J. (2015). A Mercury-like component of early Earth yields uranium in the core and high mantle (142)Nd. Nature, 520(7547), 337–340.
A journal article with 3 authors
Nussbaumer, A. D., Fisher, C. R., & Bright, M. (2006). Horizontal endosymbiont transmission in hydrothermal vent tubeworms. Nature, 441(7091), 345–348.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Liu, Y., Zhao, Q., Li, M.-H., Guan, J.-Y., Zhang, Y., Bai, B., Zhang, W., Liu, W.-Z., Wu, C., Yuan, X., Li, H., Munro, W. J., Wang, Z., You, L., Zhang, J., Ma, X., Fan, J., Zhang, Q., & Pan, J.-W. (2018). Device-independent quantum random-number generation. Nature, 562(7728), 548–551.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Choudhry, M. (2010). Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Kaneko, M., & Nakamura, Y. (Eds.). (2011). Robotics Research: The 13th International Symposium ISRR (Vol. 66). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Roos, D., Spits, H., & Hack, C. E. (2005). Innate immunity — phagocytes, natural killer cells and the complement system. In F. P. Nijkamp & M. J. Parnham (Eds.), Principles of Immunopharmacology (pp. 63–80). Birkhäuser.

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 Tourism and Cultural Change.

Blog post
Fang, J. (2014, September 26). Ancient Stone Toolmaking Evolved Multiple Times Across Continents. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-stone-toolmaking-evolved-multiple-times-across-continents/

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. (1980). Staffing Implications of Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System and Remote Sensing Activities (PSAD-80-47). 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
Chavez, G. (2017). Creating Integrated, Inquiry Science Lessons Based on Early Childhood Science Activities [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
Pilon, M. (2012, June 3). How Do Kenyan 10K Runners Get to London? Through Raindrops in Oregon. New York Times, SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fuyuno, 2011; Wohlers & Wood, 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Wohlers & Wood, 2015)
  • Three authors: (Nussbaumer et al., 2006)
  • 6 or more authors: (Liu et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Tourism and Cultural Change
AbbreviationJ. Tour. Cult. Chang.
ISSN (print)1476-6825
ISSN (online)1747-7654
ScopeTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Geography, Planning and Development
Transportation
Cultural Studies

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