내용분석 기법을 통한 국내 관광학 관련 학술지의 참고문헌 표기법에 관한 질적 연구

Reference Style of Korean Tourism Journals: A Contents Analysis

Important is the quality and contents of the articles, external appearances involving styling and formatting also are next to them to be a qualified good journal. Authors here attempt to find the levels of the external appearances of journals. Amongst 28 tourism-related journals now registered in Korea Research Foundation, 23 journals were selected to analyse their referencing styles using contents analysis. The findings from the contents analysis revealed that no standardized and unified style was found existing and most of journals adopt different reference styles which may cause confusions and time wasting unnecessarily, thus leading to degrade the journal. This paper concludes with suggestion for laying down KSRSM(Korea Standard Reference Style Manual).