Notes for Contributors

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO Tourism Geographies

Geo-publishing.org is a resource site for anyone interested in publishing or disseminating geographical material. It is designed to illustrate how the publishing process works and to answer any questions you might have about writing and publishing your work. It also provides a number of links to useful websites, journals and publishers.

Topics of particular use for potential Tourism Geographies contributors include:

Good practice in writing for journals
Questions editors are often asked
Dealing with copyedits and proofs
Publishing articles: seven examples from initial draft to final article

Sample Copy of Tourism Geographies - Please use this as a reference in writing and formatting your paper.

For Book Review Contributors Only: Literature Review License To Publish (copyright) Form (in MSWord format)

All manuscripts, commentaries, discussion forum items, and literature reviews (both in their original form as revisions) must be submitted online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rtxg

Each manuscript will be assigned by the Editor-in-chief to one of the following Associate Editors who will oversee its review process.

Alan A. Lew, Editor-in-chief and Associate Editor for the Americas, Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Northern Arizona University, NAU Box 15106, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5106, USA; Email: Alan.Lew [a/t] nau.edu

C. Michael Hall, Associate Editor for Asia-Pacific, Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand; Email: michael.hall [a/t] canterbury.ac.nz

Shaul Krakover, Associate Editor for Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa, Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel; Email: shaul [a/t] bgu.ac.il

Allan M. Williams, Associate Editor for Europe, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, 31 Jewry Street, London, UK EC3N 2EY, Tel: 020 7320 3042; Email: allan.williams [a/t] londonmet.ac.uk

LENGTH - Tourism Geographies accepts articles of up to 9,000 words in length, including the text body, references and tables. PLEASE DO NOT EXCEED THIS LIMIT.

FONT - All fonts to be standard Times New Roman on A4 or Letter size paper

COPYRIGHT - In accordance with the copyright law, the manuscript must not duplicate substantial portions of previously published material. Permission to quote from or reproduce copyright material must be obtained by the authors before submission and any acknowledgments should be included in the typescript, preferably in the form of an Acknowledgments section at the end of the paper. Where photographs or figures are reproduced, acknowledgment of source and copyright should be given in the caption.

If figures have been scanned or copied from a source that is not the author's own property then that author must (a) gain permission to use those figures and (b) cite the source from which the figures have been taken in the text.

Authors are encouraged to only include figures that are essential to the thesis of the paper. Please limit to number of tables and figures to total no more than six.

Images and advertisements can be reproduced without copyright clearance for criticism purposes so as long as all the images included are discussed within the paper you will not need copyright clearance. The source, however, must be clearly identified.

This website provides information on using images that you have found online: How to Use Google Images without Getting Sued.

PHOTOGRAPHS, CHARTS and FIGURES - Photographs, Charts and Figures must be Gray-scale .JPG or .GIF format, 300 DPI, and scaled to fit the dimensions of the journal (approximately 4.5in/11.5cm Wide x 6.9in/17.5cm Tall). Authors may request color photos and figures, but will be charged US$500 for each color figure.

All Tables and Figures should be fully self contained and understandable to the reader without 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.

REVIEW, PROOFS & OFFPRINT - All papers that conform to the guidelines stipulated here and are deemed of acceptable quality by the receiving Associate Editor will undergo a blind review process overseen by the receiving Associate Editor. Every effort will be made to expedite the review process in a timely and efficient manner. 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. Upon publication, twenty-five (25) offprints and a copy of the journal will be supplied free of charge to the author (or contact author for multiple authored manuscripts).

TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES - Authors are encouraged to reference past articles in Tourism Geographies that are relevant to their paper. These references will be automatically linked in the online version of the article, which will help readers of the online article to more quickly find related papers for their research.

GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT - Authors of papers submitted to Tourism Geographies are encouraged to include a discussion of the geographic context of their paper. This may include a section that provides a geographic sense of place for readers who are unfamiliar with the area under discussion. It may also include a look at the broader region and spatial relationships related to a specific topic.

GENERAL FORMAT GUIDELINES

Title

Please use Initial caps of all main words in the title, even after the colon. Range left, bold. (Do not cap words such as: it, as, of, a, but, they, then, that, for, if etc.)

For place-based articles, the title must include the location (place) that is discussed in the paper.

Abstract

The abstract should be between 50 and 200 words in length. It should summarize the manuscript in a concise statement of objectives, major findings and major conclusions. Abstracts need to summarize the paper, including the conclusions -- they need to say what the author did and what the results were, not what the author is going to do. For place-based articles, the places referred to in the article should be mentioned in the abstract.

Authors should also include up to eight keywords at the end of the abstract. For place-based articles, the keywords must include the locations (places and countries) that is discussed in the paper.

Authors may optionally include a version of the abstract in French, German and Spanish on separate pages, in addition to the required English abstract.

Headings

Example:

Top Level Heading: Transitions into the Labour Market
Bold, Initial caps of main words, range left, space above and below

Second Level Heading: Leaving education
Italic, initial caps of main words, range left, 2.5 line space above, .5 line space below.

Third Level Heading: Consuming identities. In the 1960s psychologists and sociologists looked…
Italic, full point after heading, range left, initial cap only, text indented after heading runs on same line.

Fouth Level Heading: Life on the margins. Allatt (1997, p. 90) argues that all young …
Heading indented from left hand margin, italics, initial cap only, full point, text indented then run on same line

Tables

Table must be centralised on the page, placed either at the top or bottom of page, top and bottom rules are heavy, internal rules should be light. Caption should be centralised above the table, identifier must be in bold using Arabic numbering and a full point after the digit, any flag must be superscript and appear one after the other underneath the table in a smaller font than the body text.

Tables and Figures tend to take a lot of space and should be used only when necessary to facilitate the reader's understanding of the paper. Please do not include any tables or figures that are not necessary.

Figures

Gray-scale (no color), .JPG or .GIF format, 300 DPI, scaled to fit the dimensions of the journal (approximately 4.5in/11.5cm Wide x 6.9in/17.5cm Tall). PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR FIGURES ARE DESIGNED FOR THE SIZE OF THE JOURNAL.

Figures and Tables must be placed in a separate files from the Main Document when submitting through the Manuscript Central website.

Example:

Figure 1. Drop out rates

Figure must be placed centrally on the page, either at the top of bottom of page, identifier must be in bold, followed by a full point, initial cap only, the legend must be centralised under the figure, no full point unless there is a ‘source’/’note’, which must run on as below.

Figure 1. Drop out rates. Source:…. .

Source/Note must be initial cap and italicised followed by a colon. The note itself is to be in Roman, followed by a full point.

Displayed quote

Quotes longer than 2.5 standard lines of text must be indented. Example:

Nature is beautiful here, good fishing waters, and fishing
in the sea. Good environment and very good skiing areas.
Fine salmon rivers. Many employment opportunities. Many
facilities, and a short distance to towns and cities.

Quote must be indented from both margins, and be justified, line space above and below. Please use smaller type that body text.

Equations

Example: U_R = x + y = I { A ≤ B}

Should always be central on page, italic, space above and below.

Footnotes –We do not allow footnotes or endnotes in Tourism Geographies.

Acknowledgment

Example:

Acknowledgment
The author wishes to thank Professor Smith at the University of Massachusetts for his helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

This should be placed before references, using an A heading, acknowledgment must be written in third person, not ‘I’. Smaller type than body text.

PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN THE REVIEW COPY OF THE PAPER. The Acknowledgement may be submitted as a separate document that will not be sent for review, but will be included in the publication schedule for accepted papers.

End notes – We do not allow footnotes or endnotes in Tourism Geographies.

Reference system

Please avoid excessive references to your own previous publications.

Examples:

Article in Journal: (Rimes& Haynes, 2003)
Rimes, K. J. & Haynes, C. (2003) Long-term change in Indian health, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 6(2), pp. 25–45.

Chapter in book: (Och, 2001)
Och, D. (2001) Children’s geographies, in: J. Bloggs & D. Smith (Eds) Children’s Awareness in Everyday Life, pp. 258–274 (London: Sage)

Book:
Carter, G. (2003) Social & Cultural Geography (Chicago, IL: Houghton Mifflin).

Paper: (Haynes, 2003)
Haynes, C. (2003) The difficulties of style standardization. Paper presented at Style Standardization Conference, London, 18–21 April.

Thesis/dissertation: (Rimes, 1999)
Rimes, K. J. (1999) Is the utopian world always dystopian?, BA Hons Dissertation, Department of Social Science, University College Northampton.

(town must be included if not in University name, i.e. Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

Published proceedings/seminar:
Singh, O.P. (1993) Drainage problems and design criteria for land drainage systems, in: Proceedings National Workshop on Sustainable Irrigation in Saline Environment, February 17–19, CSSRI (Karnal, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute).

Website:
Same citation as for other publication above, except add the website URL and Accessed Date to the end, as in this example: Available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals (accessed 24 April 2003).

Use website organization in place of the author where the author is not available. Use the Accessed Year in place of the publication year where the publication year is not available.

Example: (Och, 2001)
Och, D. (2001) Children’s geographies, in: J. Bloggs & D. Smith (Eds) Children’s Awareness in Everyday Life, pp. 258–274 (London: Sage). Available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals (accessed 24 April 2003).

Example: (WWF, 2003)
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2003) The forests of New Guinea. Available at http://www.worldwildlife.org/newguinea (accessed 24 April 2003).

Literature Review Titles

Example:
Governing for the Environment: Global Problems, Ethics and Democracy
Kate Rimes & Gail Carter (Eds)
Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2000, ISBN 0 333 79372 2

Range left, initial caps of main words, title in bold, publisher and location italic, all reviews must be run on.

Reviewer’s details:

Kate Rimes
Department of Social Sciences
University College Northampton, UK
k.rimes@ss.nh.eu

Reviewer’s details to be ranged right, include department, and university, town if not mentioned in university title and country.

Notes on Contributors

Example:
Elisabeth Allès has a doctorate in social and historical anthropology. She is a researcher at the…

The note should be two to three sentences long. Author name in bold, note run on from name, note written in third person.

Tourism Geograph - ADDITIONAL NOTES ON STYLE

These style considerations need not be adhered to in the initial submission of a paper to Tourism Geographies. However, they will need to be adjusted in your manuscript prior to publication, so you may want to consider them from the outset.

Abbreviations: Avoid abbreviations in the text. Only the following abbreviations may be used in the references: pp. (pages), p. (page), ed. (editor), vol. (volume), vols. (volumes), no. (number), nos. (numbers), ch. (chapter). All of these abbreviations include a full point (period). When three or more authors of referenced material are cited in the text, the abbreviation et al. should be used, for example (Smith, et al. 1199). Full points should not be used for Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms, Ltd (Limited), edn (edition), vols (volumes), nos (numbers), chs (chapters) and eds (editors) -- these contractions all end in the last letter of the full word. Also, full points should not be used for acronyms, such as NATO or UN, or well-known abbreviations, such as USA, US, MP (minister of parliament), BBC, and WWW. Also, do not use full stops after metric units (e.g., cm, m, km, kg). The abbreviations e.g. (meaning 'for example', or 'such as') and i.e. (meaning 'that is', or 'in other words') may only be used within parentheses ( ) in the text. Avoid using the word ‘et cetera' and the abbreviation ‘etc.' at all times. Do not use contractions at any time (e.g., use 'it is' not ' it's ', and use 'is not' instead of ' isn't '). Avoid separating two words with a slash ( / ). For example, do not use 'and/or' -- in most cases a simple 'and' will do.

Spacing: Use a single (not a double) space after a full point (period), and after commas, colons and semicolons. Do not put a space in front of a question mark or in front of any other closing quotation mark. Always put a space before a left parenthesis ( .

Capitalization: Please keep capitalization to a minimum. Where possible, use lower case for government, church, city, state, party and volume. Directions, such as north and south, are only capitalized if used as part of a recognized place name, such as Western Australia and South Africa. Use lower case for general terms, such as eastern France and southwest of Berlin.

Italics: Indicate italics by underlining, rather than using an italic font. Use Italics (underline) for the titles of books, journals, newspapers, plays, films, long poems, paintings, and ships. Extensive use of italics for emphasis should be avoided.

Quotations: Use single quotation marks for quoted material within the text; double quotation marks should only be used for quotes within quotes. Do not use leader dots at the beginning or end of a quotation unless the sense absolutely demands it. Within a quotation use three leader dots for a mid-sentence break, four if the break is followed by a new sentence. Quotations of over forty words should be extracted and indented and no quotation marks used.

Numerals: In general spell out numbers under 10; but always use numerals for measurements (e.g., 5 km) and ages (e.g., 6 years old), except when these start a sentence. Always spell out numbers that start a sentence. Insert a comma for both thousands and tens of thousands, with no space following (e.g., 1,000 and 20,000). Always use the minimum number of figures for ranged numbers and dates, e.g. 22-4, 105-6, 1966-7, 112-3, 1914-8. Use the percentage sign only in figures, tables and within parentheses; spell 'percent' as one word in the text using a numeral for the number. For example, "...34 percent were green with the remainder (66%) orange."

Dates: The plural of a year does not use an apostrophe. For example, 1990s is correct, not 1990's. Set out dates as follows: 8 July 1990 (no comma), 'on 8 July', and 'on the 8th'. Use 'nineteenth century (not 19th century) and insert a hyphen when used adjectively (e.g., nineteenth-century art).

En Rules: An 'en rule' is an extended dash and is used to indicate linked items. En rules are not found on normal keyboards, though some word processors will create them whenever you use a double dash. Either way, use a double dash (--) to indicate an en rule. Examples of this include: number spans (e.g., 1923 -- 1935), political alliances (e.g., Labour -- Liberal alliance), and some jointly authored studies (e.g., Temple -- Hardcastle project).

USE YOUR SPELL CHECKER - if you are using a word processor; set to UK English -- note some exceptions below.

USE YOUR GRAMMAR CHECKER - if your word processor has one (and most do these days).

PREFERRED SPELLINGS:

acknowledgment (not acknowledgement)

for most verbs, use -ize in preference to -ise (e.g., organize, realize, specialize, recognize, globalize)

- some exceptions to this rule include: advertise, analyse, and enfranchise

cooperate/cooperation and coordinate/coordination (no hyphens)

counterbalance

counter-productive

ecotour, ecotourism, ecotourist

- but hyphenate all other ‘eco-’ prefixes

fuelled

fulfil

focusing and focused (instead of focussing or focussed)

Fordist (upper case F)

‘in so far as' is four words

‘inasmuch as' is two words

‘none the less' is three words

‘nation state’ is two words

‘nevertheless' and ‘longstanding’ are one word

judgment (not judgement)

lifestyle

life cycle

northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest (no hypens)

non- (hyphenate all ‘non-’ prefixes)

overdependence, overdevelopment

overpopulation, oversimplified, overuse

post-Fordist, post-modernist, post-war

programme

proactive

reorganisation

re-evaluate, re-enactment

rainforest

sub-field, sub-discipline, sub-stream

- but do not hyphenate any other ‘sub’ pre-fixes

socio-cultural, socio-economic, socio-political

skepticism

travelled, traveller

underdevelopment

well-being

worldwide