Recite Works
Reference checking for your journal articles
This week I made a wonderful discovery, an application called Recite. It is a tool that lets you check that all your citations are in your list of References, and vice versa, that everything in your list of References has been cited in the body of your article. It also checks that you have conformed exactly to Styles, for example APA 7th Style.
Test, Fix and Repeat
Recite is accessed through your Google Account in the Chrome web browser. Readers of the Travel Writers Online magazine blog probably already have a free Google Account. The makers of Recite let you run a free test on a short essay, but you can signup for just a month for the price of a couple of cups of coffee. This monthly sub lets you upload whatever you’re writing as many times as you like. This process of test, fix and repeat is very useful as you resolve each of the issues with your in-text referencing.
I wish I’d discovered Recite in the spring when we were working as a team of three on a research methods article for a tourism journal in Poland. First, the journal editors wanted APA 7 style, which I’d not heard of back then, and we all had different systems for storing our bibliographies, from EndNote to Zotero. But the story has a happy ending, I found Recite in time to begin editing the chapters for our new tourism textbook in August 2025. It means that contributors can check their chapters to resolve any referencing issues before the typescript goes to the publisher’s proof-readers. I've checked my own chapter and Recite does find issues that I missed myself.
New Book for Tourism Management in the 2030s
If you’d like to read more about our new tourism book in the making, please visit the post where we made the initial Call for Chapters at the end of May 2025:
https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/call-for-chapters.html
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