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 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
Bennetzen, J. (2002). The rice genome. Opening the door to comparative plant biology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5565), 60–63.
A journal article with 2 authors
Fauci, A. S., & Marston, H. D. (2015). PUBLIC HEALTH. Toward an HIV vaccine: A scientific journey. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6246), 386–387.
A journal article with 3 authors
Erickson, B., Singh, R., & Winters, P. (2011). Synthetic biology: regulating industry uses of new biotechnologies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1254–1256.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Grujić, J., Gracia-Lázaro, C., Milinski, M., Semmann, D., Traulsen, A., Cuesta, J. A., Moreno, Y., & Sánchez, A. (2014). A comparative analysis of spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma experiments: conditional cooperation and payoff irrelevance. Scientific Reports, 4, 4615.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Lahdenmäki, T., & Leach, M. (2005). Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Krishnaswamy, D., Pfeifer, T., & Raz, D. (Eds.). (2007). Real-Time Mobile Multimedia Services: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2007, San José, USA, October 31 - November 2, 2007 Proceedings (Vol. 4787). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Boukayoua, F., Vossaert, J., De Decker, B., & Naessens, V. (2012). Claim-Based versus Network-Based Identity Management: A Hybrid Approach. In A. U. Schmidt, G. Russello, I. Krontiris, & S. Lian (Eds.), Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems: 4th International Conference, MobiSec 2012, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 25-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 38–50). 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
O`Callaghan, J. (2015, August 13). Bears Are Terrified Of “UFOs”: Should We Stop Using Drones To Monitor Wildlife? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bears-are-terrified-ufos/

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. (2006). No Child Left Behind Act: States Face Challenges Measuring Academic Growth (GAO-06-948T). 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
Manalo, J. B. (2017). Ascend Physical Therapy: A Private Practice Clinic for the Next Level [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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
Walsh, M. W. (2012, May 22). New York Investigates Insurer Payments to Banks. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennetzen, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bennetzen, 2002; Fauci & Marston, 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Fauci & Marston, 2015)
  • Three or more authors: (Grujić et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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