How to format your references using the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality 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

Rohn, J. (2011). Give postdocs a career, not empty promises. Nature, 471(7336), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tozer, S., & Morin, X. (2014). Neuroscience. Young neurons sever ties to the parental niche. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6167), 146–147.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eilken, H. M., Nishikawa, S.-I., & Schroeder, T. (2009). Continuous single-cell imaging of blood generation from haemogenic endothelium. Nature, 457(7231), 896–900.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sazonova, V., Yaish, Y., Ustünel, H., Roundy, D., Arias, T. A., & McEuen, P. L. (2004). A tunable carbon nanotube electromechanical oscillator. Nature, 431(7006), 284–287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor, T. A. (2010). Guide to LEED® 2009 Estimating and Preconstruction Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Donaldson, A., & Parker, D. (Eds.). (2012). Model Checking Software: 19th International Workshop, SPIN 2012, Oxford, UK, July 23-24, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7385). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hemsley-Brown, J., & Oplatka, I. (2016). Organisational Factors Influencing Higher Education Consumer Choice. In I. Oplatka (Ed.), Higher Education Consumer Choice (pp. 94–117). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, December 6). C-Sections Might Be Altering Human Evolution. 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). Indian Affairs: Further Actions on GAO Recommendations Needed to Address Systemic Management Challenges with Indian Education (GAO-15-539T). 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

Eaddy, M. (2008). An empirical assessment of the crosscutting concern problem [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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

Semple, K., & Correal, A. (2015, March 28). The Extent of Losses Begins to Come Into Focus for Families, Friends and Residents. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rohn, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Rohn, 2011; Tozer & Morin, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tozer & Morin, 2014)
Three authors: (Eilken et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Sazonova et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Abbreviation	Scand. J. Hosp. Tourism
ISSN (print)	1502-2250
ISSN (online)	1502-2269
Scope	Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management