How to format your references using the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Greely, H. T. (2011). Get ready for the flood of fetal gene screening. Nature, 469(7330), 289–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Inchausti, P., & Halley, J. (2001). Investigating long-term ecological variability using the Global Population Dynamics Database. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5530), 655–657.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rocha, P. P., Chaumeil, J., & Skok, J. A. (2013). Molecular biology. Finding the right partner in a 3D genome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6164), 1333–1334.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Maxted, P. F. L., Napiwotzki, R., Dobbie, P. D., & Burleigh, M. R. (2006). Survival of a brown dwarf after engulfment by a red giant star. Nature, 442(7102), 543–545.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ben Mahmoud, M. S., Larrieu, N., & Pirovano, A. (2013). Risk Propagation Assessment for Network Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grove, A., & Berg, G. A. (Eds.). (2014). Social Business: Theory, Practice, and Critical Perspectives. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Oren, N. (2014). Argument Schemes for Normative Practical Reasoning. In E. Black, S. Modgil, & N. Oren (Eds.), Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation: Second International Workshop, TAFA 2013, Beijing, China, August 3-5, 2013, Revised Selected papers (pp. 63–78). 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 Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 8). Deep Sea Explorers Stumble Upon A Creature They Can Hardly Believe Is Real. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deep-sea-explorers-stumble-upon-creature-they-can-hardly-believe-real/

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. (1988). Aviation Security: Corrective Actions Underway, but Better Inspection Guidance Still Needed (RCED-88-160). 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

Li, J. (2015). Growth Prediction of New Fractures in the Shadows of Existing Hydraulic Fractures in Shale Gas Formations [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Borden, S. (2016, August 31). How the Game Became One With the Rocket’s Red Glare. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greely, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Greely, 2011; Inchausti & Halley, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Inchausti & Halley, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Maxted et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
Abbreviation	Asia Pac. J. Tour. Res.
ISSN (print)	1094-1665
ISSN (online)	1741-6507
Scope	Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management Geography, Planning and Development