How to format your references using the International Journal of Hospitality Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Hospitality Management. 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.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Kandel, E.R., 2001. The molecular biology of memory storage: a dialogue between genes and synapses. Science 294, 1030–1038.
A journal article with 2 authors
Settele, J., Kühn, E., 2009. Ecology. Insect conservation. Science 325, 41–42.
A journal article with 3 authors
Pakull, M.W., Soria, R., Motch, C., 2010. A 300-parsec-long jet-inflated bubble around a powerful microquasar in the galaxy NGC 7793. Nature 466, 209–212.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Zheng, Q., Zhang, R., Xu, Y., White, R.A., 3rd, Wang, Y., Luo, T., Jiao, N., 2014. A marine inducible prophage vB_CibM-P1 isolated from the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Citromicrobium bathyomarinum JL354. Sci. Rep. 4, 7118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Vaughan, D., Robinson, N., Lucas, N., Arulkumaran, S., 2010. Handbook of Obstetric High Dependency Care. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.
An edited book
Aston, P.J., Mulholland, A.J., Tant, K.M.M. (Eds.), 2016. UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
A chapter in an edited book
Bogdanovic, S., 2011. Solidarity Principle as a System Tool for Mitigation of Flood Impacts, in: Hefnawy, M. (Ed.), Advances in Food Protection: Focus on Food Safety and Defense, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 49–55.

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 International Journal of Hospitality Management.

Blog post
Andrew, E., 2015. Rosetta Sees Evidence Of Active Water-Ice Cycle On Comet 67P [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-sees-evidence-active-water-ice-cycle-comet-67p-author-amy-lynn/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1970. Activities of Washington Data Processing Center Statistical Research Service (No. B-167008). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Manners, A.T., 2008. Influence of transformational, autocratic, democratic, and laissez -faire leadership principles on the effectiveness of religious leaders (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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
Crow, K., 2002. Safe, for Now. New York Times 141.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kandel, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kandel, 2001; Settele and Kühn, 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Settele and Kühn, 2009)
  • Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Hospitality Management
AbbreviationInt. J. Hosp. Manag.
ISSN (print)0278-4319
ScopeStrategy and Management
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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