How to format your references using the Journal of Heritage Tourism citation style

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

Edler, J. (2012). Research funding. Toward variable funding for international science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6105), 331–332.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levens, D., & Gupta, A. (2010). Molecular biology. Reliable noise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5969), 1088–1089.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greene, C. H., Monger, B. C., & McGarry, L. P. (2009). Ecology. Some like it cold. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5928), 733–734.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

McLellan, J. S., Marcos, S., Prieto, P. M., & Burns, S. A. (2002). Imperfect optics may be the eye’s defence against chromatic blur. Nature, 417(6885), 174–176.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wei, J. (2012). Great Inventions that Changed the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bomze, I. M. (2010). Nonlinear Optimization: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 1-7, 2007 (V. F. Demyanov, R. Fletcher, T. Terlaky, G. Di Pillo, & F. Schoen, Eds.; Vol. 1989). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Byun, J. S. (jason), & Kwak, Y. (2009). The Scanner Data Shows Size Elasticity at Package Food Category? In D. Ślęzak, T.-H. Kim, J. Ma, W.-C. Fang, F. E. Sandnes, B.-H. Kang, & B. Gu (Eds.), U- and E-Service, Science and Technology: International Conference, UNESST 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 19–24). 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 Journal of Heritage Tourism.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, September 16). Giant, “Living Fossil” Fish Has A Vestigial Lung. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-living-fossil-fish-has-vestigial-lung/

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). Railroad Regulation: Current Issues Associated With the Rate Relief Process (RCED-99-46). 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

Yi, Z. (2009). Dynamics of bio-membranes investigated by neutron spin echo: Effects of phospholipid conformations and presence of lidocaine [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Kovaleski, S. F., & Alter, A. (2015, July 2). Intrigue Grows Over New Book by Harper Lee. 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 (Edler, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Edler, 2012; Levens & Gupta, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Levens & Gupta, 2010)
Three or more authors: (McLellan et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Heritage Tourism
Abbreviation	J. Heritage Tour.
ISSN (print)	1743-873X
ISSN (online)	1747-6631
Scope	History Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management