How to format your references using the Leisure Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Leisure Studies. 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
Weinstein, J. N. (2008). Biochemistry. A postgenomic visual icon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5871), 1772–1773.
A journal article with 2 authors
Bier, E., & De Robertis, E. M. (2015). EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT. BMP gradients: A paradigm for morphogen-mediated developmental patterning. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6242), aaa5838.
A journal article with 3 authors
Kender, S., Yu, J., & Peck, V. L. (2014). Deep ocean carbonate ion increase during mid Miocene CO2 decline. Scientific Reports, 4, 4187.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Ilani, S., Yacoby, A., Mahalu, D., & Shtrikman, H. (2001). Microscopic structure of the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5520), 1354–1357.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Hurst, K. (2008). Primary Care Trust Workforce Planning and Development. Whurr Publishers Ltd.
An edited book
Marechal, E., Roy, S., & Lafanechère, L. (Eds.). (2011). Chemogenomics and Chemical Genetics: A User’s Introduction for Biologists, Chemists and Informaticians. Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Hall, M. J. W., & Reginatto, M. (2016). Quantization of Classical Ensembles via an Exact Uncertainty Principle. In M. Reginatto (Ed.), Ensembles on Configuration Space: Classical, Quantum, and Beyond (pp. 85–113). Springer International Publishing.

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 Leisure Studies.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2015, June 15). Scientists Observe Radioactive Decay In Action For First Time. 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. (1994). Advance Sheets: Volume 73, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States (OGC-94-28). 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
Bethany, M. P. (2014). Business continuity planning: Identifying gaps, patterns and justifications [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
Shpigel, B., & Schonbrun, Z. (2017, March 17). Northwestern Makes Its Debut a Winning One. New York Times, B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weinstein, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bier & De Robertis, 2015; Weinstein, 2008).

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

  • Two authors: (Bier & De Robertis, 2015)
  • Three or more authors: (Ilani et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleLeisure Studies
ISSN (print)0261-4367
ISSN (online)1466-4496
ScopeTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Geography, Planning and Development

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