Author Guidelines

To facilitate submission, evaluation and publication, the Editorial Board of the journal Investigaciones Turísticas, has prepared the following information and guidelines. Please read all of the sections of this information fully and carefully and take care to observe the aspects that are indicated.

To submit papers to the journal, authors must previously register and identify themselves as author, reviewer and reader on the journal website.

Authors who submit articles for publication to Investigaciones Turísticas must first ensure that the submitted manuscript adheres to the following guidelines.

1. Submissions must be written in Spanish, English or Portuguese.

2. Two types of manuscript are accepted:

• Articles. These must be full reports of original theoretical or empirical research. Priority will be given to articles with a high degree of originality in their approach or which are novel in terms of the research methods applied or the subject matter. In any event, studies with results that constitute a significant advance in the scientific knowledge of tourism will be given preference. Submissions that exclusively local case-based research or eminently descriptive studies will be rejected. On the other hand, bibliographic reviews or status of the issue articles will only be accepted when they are rigorously prepared and provide a novel and reflective vision that contributes to the understanding of the evolution of an area of tourism.
• Book reviews. These must be short texts that critically discuss and review a book or monograph in the field of tourism. The works reviewed must have been published in the previous two years.

3. All submissions must be previously unpublished elsewhere and must not be submitted for consideration to other journals while in the process of evaluation by Investigaciones Turísticas. Exceptionally, and for reasons of scientific interest and/or dissemination of especially important contributions, the Editorial Board may decide to publish or translate a previously published text. Furthermore, the publication of several studies signed by the same author will be separated by a minimum gap of one issue of the journal.

4. The author’s name, filiación institucional, institutional affiliation, contact details and biographical notes should only be entered into the journal’s computerised system. The Word document containing the article should not contain this information. The authors must enter the metadata in at least Spanish and English. Special attention must be paid to bibliographical references. It is essential that bibliographical references included in the article and those in the metadata match. If subsequent revisions of the article were to modify the bibliography, authors would have to adapt those references in the metadata.

All submissions must be sent anonymously: all citations, acknowledgements and other allusions that would directly or indirectly enable the identification of the author must be deleted. The Editorial Board of Investigaciones Turísticas will ensure that all submissions comply with this condition. When an article or review is accepted for publication, the author should then send a non-anonymised version to the journal, if this differs from the version sent previously.

5. It is mandatory to fill in the ORCID field in the authors file. The ORCID page of each author should be kept up-to-date

6. The articles will have a minimum length of 7,000 words and a maximum of 10,000, including footnotes, title, abstracts, key words, graphics, tables and references. In exceptional cases, where the Editorial Board considers that there are justified reasons due to the scientific interest of the work, this limit may be exceeded.

Book reviews should not exceed a maximum of 2,500 words, and must specify the following details of the work reviewed: author, title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication and number of pages. They should also include the name, institutional affiliation and email address of the author of the review.

7. The body of article texts must be preceded by a title, a minimum abstract of 250 words in length (that should clearly and concisely summarise the objectives, methodology, main results and conclusions) and a minimum of six keywords. The title, abstract and keywords must also be written in English. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure of the quality of the English text, which may require correction. Incorrect translations can lead to the rejection of articles Also, papers in English or Portuguese must also include the title, summary and keywords in Spanish.

8. The submission should be sent in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format. The submissions that do not comply with the format described will be archived:

• The article title should be written in centre-aligned point 14 Calibri.
• The body of the text should be written in point 12 Calibri.
• The text must be justified, with single line spacing and a 1.25 cm indentation on the first line.
• Margins should be 2.5 cm at the top and bottom, left and right of the page.
• Pages must be numbered at the foot of the page, on the lower right-hand side.
• Notes should be numbered consecutively and appear at the foot of the corresponding page. Footnotes should be kept to the absolute minimum and used solely for explanatory purposes and never for citations.
• Text sections and subsections should be organised hierarchically as follows: 1st) Roman numerals in bold capitals (I. BOLD CAPITALS); 2nd) Arabic numerals in bold lower case (1.1. Bold lower case); 3rd) Arabic numerals in lowercase italics (1.1.1. Lowercase italics); 4th) Lowercase letter, normal lowercase [a) Lower case].

9. All non-textual elements (tables, maps, graphs, figures, etc.) must be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order in which they are mentioned in the text, and shall be designated as Table 1, Figure 1 or Graph 1. They should be given a clear, concise heading and the source should appear below.

Only images, drawings, photographs, figures, tables, charts, etc. created by the authors of the article are accepted. Authors can also use rights-free images, etc. or those under Creative Commons licences allowing for them to be reused and listing the allowed uses. Rights-protected images, charts, etc. can be used as long as the authors of the article have requested and secured the relevant authorisation from their creators.

10. Citations and references guidelines.

• The journal adopts and adheres to the 7th edition of the American Psychological Association (APA guidelines).
• An APA guidelines (PDF), elaborated by the University of Alicante library can also be consulted.
• Bibliographical references with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) will include it at the end of the reference, with a complete and secure URL link, without prefixes or period at the end. Any DOI included in a reference list can be checked in the Crossref page Simple Text Query.

11. Once the first round of evaluation has been completed by the reviewers and if improvements are requested in the article, the authors will have a period of two months to submit the new version. Failure to comply with these deadlines will result in the submission being archived.

12. VERY IMPORTANT. At the end of the revised paper, authors should include a document explaining in detail how the concerns raised in the initial review have been addressed. Failure to comply with these deadlines will result in the submission being archived. To this end:

This document will have the following format:

1. A table with 2 columns must be included.
2. Each comment from each reviewer must be copied and pasted into individual cells in column 1, together with the requirements indicated by the editor in the decision email.
3. In column 2, authors must provide an explanation and justification of their response and indicate precisely and clearly the changes they have made to the manuscript. Authors will show the changes in the text in this column or provide a clear indication of the section and pages where the revised text can be found.
4. If the authors disagree with the reviewers’ comments or suggestions, or prefer an alternative approach to address a problem, they should discuss and explain their views and justify their approach.

In the revised manuscript authors must clearly identify all changes made to the previous version by changing the colour of the modified paragraphs, lines or words. Authors should not activate track changes.

13. All of the authors should have made significant contributions to the study presented. The authorship should include and be limited to those authors who have substantially contributed to the study. The order of signature should be based on the importance of the contribution carried out by each of the authors, taking into consideration criteria such as: 1) the original conception of the study; 2) the analysis, acquisition and interpretation of the data, 3) the writing and critical review of the contents and; 4) the final approval of the version for publication.

Once the article has been approved for publication, the authors will indicate, at the end of its final version, the contribution of each of them to the study in a section titled Contributions of the authors (after the bibliographic references). As well as being responsible for the parts of the study that he/she has undertaken, an author should be able to identify the authorship of the other specific parts of the study.

14. After the authorship section, in a point titled Acknowledgements, the authors should indicate the financing agency(ies) and the code(s) of the project(s) and the framework in which the research giving rise to publication has been developed.