How to format your references using the Tourism Management Perspectives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tourism Management Perspectives. 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
Graham-Rowe, D. (2011). Biodiversity: Endangered and in demand. Nature, 480(7378), S101-3.
A journal article with 2 authors
Gokhale, V. J., & Rais-Zadeh, M. (2014). Phonon-electron interactions in piezoelectric semiconductor bulk acoustic wave resonators. Scientific Reports, 4, 5617.
A journal article with 3 authors
Rogina, B., Helfand, S. L., & Frankel, S. (2002). Longevity regulation by Drosophila Rpd3 deacetylase and caloric restriction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1745.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Alard, O., Luguet, A., Pearson, N. J., Griffin, W. L., Lorand, J.-P., Gannoun, A., Burton, K. W., & O’Reilly, S. Y. (2005). In situ Os isotopes in abyssal peridotites bridge the isotopic gap between MORBs and their source mantle. Nature, 436(7053), 1005–1008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Simko, S. P. (2012). Strategic Fixed Income Investing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Ghofar, A. (2015). Corporate Governance and Contingency Theory: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach and Accounting Risk Implications (S. M. N. Islam, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Tisi, M., Martínez, S., Jouault, F., & Cabot, J. (2011). Lazy Execution of Model-to-Model Transformations. In J. Whittle, T. Clark, & T. Kühne (Eds.), Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: 14th International Conference, MODELS 2011, Wellington, New Zealand, October 16-21, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 32–46). 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 Tourism Management Perspectives.

Blog post
Andrew, D. (2017, January 10). How Forensic Science Can Unlock The Mysteries Of Human Evolution. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-forensic-science-can-unlock-the-mysteries-of-human-evolution/

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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Medicare and the Delivery of Health Services Are at Risk (T-AIMD-99-89). 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
Chryssis, A. N. (2010). Design and fabrication of high-performance interband cascade tunable external cavity lasers [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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
Swenson, J. (2017, October 26). New Orleans Celebrates Fats Domino. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graham-Rowe, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gokhale & Rais-Zadeh, 2014; Graham-Rowe, 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Gokhale & Rais-Zadeh, 2014)
  • Three authors: (Rogina et al., 2002)
  • 6 or more authors: (Alard et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal titleTourism Management Perspectives
AbbreviationTour. Manag. Perspect.
ISSN (print)2211-9736
ScopeTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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