NOTES for AUTHORS
How to Submit Academic Papers to Tourism Geographies
Paper Types & Appropriate Topics
INTRODUCTION
The following guidelines are in addition to those for Tourism Geographies as they appear on the T&F Instructions for Authors website for Tourism Geographies, and T&F Quick Layout Guide. Please also consult those websites for additional author notes if your questions are not answered below. APPROPRIATE TOPICS Tourism Geographies publishes blind reviewed original research articles, theoretical review articles, commentaries (Research Frontiers), and book reviews. Tourism Geographies is a social science journal and we primarily publishing papers that address theoretical and methodological issues grounded in social science theory, and which contribute to broader theoretical or methodological issues in tourism and geographical research and understanding. Due to the large number of papers submitted to Tourism Geographies, the editors are not able to pre-review papers that are not submitted to the ScholarOne article submission website.
Authors may find Successful Academic Writing (from the IAST) useful in preparing their work for submission to international journals. Also see: How to Avoid a Desk Rejection, by Alan A. Lew.
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TYPES & LENGTHS OF PAPERS
Tourism Geographies publishes four types of papers. When you submit a paper, please check the appropriate box in ScholarOne so it can be reviewed appropriately.
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Paper Format
FORMAT - For all papers submitted to Tourism Geographies
TITLE - The maximum number of words allowed in a Title is twelve (12), including the subtitle, if any.
ABSTRACT Your abstract should be between 200 and 300 words in length. It should be a short version of your entire paper, including a concise statement of objectives, major findings, conclusions and global significance. Please see these guidelines on how to write your abstract for Tourism Geographies.
KEYWORDS - You may include up to 10 Keywords at the end of the abstract. Please carefully select your Keywords to make your article easy to find for online academic search engines. For place-based articles, the keywords must include the major location (places and countries) that is discussed in the paper. TITLE PAGE - which includes: ACKNOWLEDGMENT & AUTHOR BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES For All Articles (excluding literature/book reviews), please include a separate Title Page document that includes (1) the paper title, (2) all author names, affiliations and full contact information, with author names in the preferred order for final publication, (3) any acknowledgments that are required for your paper, and (4) author biographical notes. This file will not be sent to reviewers.
REFERENCING - Tourism Geographies uses APA-7 style referencing (as of 2020). Download a the APA-7 T&F Guidelines to see how to format your references.
HEADINGS AUTHOR AFFILIATION - In all cases this is the university or institution that the author was at when the research was performed. The journal and publisher assume that the original institution listed for the authors when the paper was submitted is the one where the research was performed. If the author changes affiliation after the review process has begun, this will be indicated as a footnote to the article. Please bear this in mind if you are likely to be changing institutions. |
PHOTOGRAPHS, CHARTS, FIGURES & TABLES
All photographs, charts and figures will be referred to as "Figures" in the journal, and numbered as Figure 1, Figure 2, and so on. Tables are not figures. Table must be included in an MS Word .doc or .docx file, either at the end of the Main Document or in a separate file with the same font as in the Main Document.
Author are to provide the highest quality image formats possible for their figures. The mimimum resolution must be: 1200 dpi for line art; 600 dpi for grayscale; 300 dpi for colour
Captions for all Tables and Figures - must be fully self contained and understandable to the reader without their having to refer to the text. Acronyms, Initialism and Abbreviations must be defined in footnotes, and the table or figure Title needs to clearly explain what the figure shows.
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Other Notes
SUPPLEMENTAL ONLINE MATERIAL
PROCEEDINGS ARTICLES
Articles that have been previously published in full (more than just an abstract) in a conference proceeding may be submitted to Tourism Geographies under the following conditions:
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PERMISSIONS to REUSE an ARTICLE or FIGURE
To obtain Permission to use a figure from a Taylor & Francis journal, or to republish a full article (in a book, for example): (1) go to the article where you found the figure on the T&F website; (2) click on the tab titled "Reprints & Permissions"; (3) submit the appropriate information EDITING & TRANSLATING SERVICES
Authors are fully responsible for submitting an article that is properly formatted and has minimal grammatical issues. If you need assistance with this, the publisher of Tourism Geographies, offers Taylor & Francis Editing Services for a fee. The services include English language editing, Translation of papers into English, Manuscript formatting for specific journals, and Figure preparation. REFERENCING TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES ARTICLES
You are not required to reference previously published articles from Tourism Geographies, and whether or not you reference TG articles will have absolutely no bearing on editoral decisions to accept or decline your paper for publication. However, when you do you are contributing to the community of scholars that share an interest in geographic approaches to tourism studies. A full list of previously published article titles, with link to their abstracts, can be found here: Quick Link to All Tourism Geographies Abstracts. |
Please contact the TG Editors-in-Chief (either Alan A. Lew or Joseph M. Cheer) if you need full access any Tourism Geographies paper so you can properly cite it in a publication that you are working on.
The Review Process & Your Accepted Paper
ANONYMOUS REVIEWS
Authors are encouraged to distribute and promote your Routledge journal publications in the following ways:
- All papers are initially reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief. Each paper is then assigned to one of the Editors who does a further review before sending the paper out for anonymous reviewer comments.
- All papers that conform to the guidelines stipulated here and are deemed of acceptable quality by the Editors will undergo a blind review process. Every effort will be made to expedite the review process in a timely and efficient manner. Please contact your supervising Editor if you have any questions about the review of your paper.
- PROOFS, iFIRST & OFFPRINTS
- PROOFS: For accepted papers, a link to the proofs will be sent to authors. The authors should be corrected within 48 hours. Major alterations and revisions cannot be accepted.
- iFIRST: An online version of your paper will appear before it comes out in hard copy. The online version is the publication of record and is fully citable. It will be viewable to scholarly search engines and no changes may be made to the paper once it appears online.
- OFFPRINTS: Upon publication of the hard copy version of your article, 49 offprints and a copy of the journal will be supplied free of charge to the the contact author for the article (not for other authors on multiple authored manuscripts).
Authors are encouraged to distribute and promote your Routledge journal publications in the following ways:
- Share with colleagues (for research purposes)
- Use for lecture or classroom purposes
- Include in a thesis or dissertation
- Present at a conference
- Use in a personal compilation
- Expand to book length form
- Put the article on a reading list
- Mention the article on your email signature
- Announce the article on Twitter or Facebook
- Update your publication history on LinkedIn.com, ResearchGate.net and Academia.edu
- Create a Video Abstract to share
- Post your paper on JournalMap.org
- Add the pre-publication version of your paper to any website for sharing and downloading (including a university repository, ResearchGate.net and Academia.edu)
- Add the final published version of your paper to your personal or department website for downloading. After 12 months you can also add the final version to a university repository, ResearchGate.org and Academica.edu