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Prepare your manuscript for Current Issues in Tourism.

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Article types

Review
Research Article
Review Article
Research Letter
Lectio
Protocol
Perspective
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Systematic Review

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Typically, CIT Reviews papers should normally be no more than 8,000 words, with a 100–150-word abstract.
  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 7500 words, inclusive of: Abstract.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, author affiliation, figures, tables, funder information, and references.
  • As such, it contains a short abstract, a very limited introduction or discussion of the literature, and a focus on the issue of interest.

Keywords

  • Include or confirm the keywords required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • CIT Research Notes CIT Research Notes should be between 2,000 and 3,000 words in length, including tables, figures, and references.
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  • Submissions must not exceed 7500 words (including references, tables and figures).
  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 7500 words, inclusive of: References.
  • Review / Protocol: Each review should provide a comprehensive overview of the relevant literature, keep readers up-to-date on advances in tourism research, articulate a systematic and scientific review protocol (e.g., using PRISMA, SPAR-4), highlight in-depth reviews covering the main themes within the topic, discuss the development of literature within the domain, offer perspectives on new insights and future research agendas, and provide a useful reference list.
  • A Letter contains a limited number of display items (three figures or tables maximum) and references are limited to the minimum necessary.
  • For manuscripts submitted in LaTeX format a.bib reference file must be included.
  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
  • Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 7500 words, inclusive of: Tables.
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  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 7500 words, inclusive of: Figure or table captions.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
  • Diagrams / tables 2-3 maximum.
  • Diagrams / tables 7 maximum.
  • Diagrams / tables 5 maximum.
  • Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Include or confirm the data availability statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
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  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Author contributions

  • Add or confirm the author-written Author contributions statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.
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  • Authorship change requests may result in the withdrawal of your paper if clear reasons and evidence of author contributions cannot be provided.

Title page and author information

  • All other authors should provide full names, affiliations and email addresses.
  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
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  • Submission requirements One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author and include full name, affiliation, postal address, telephone and fax number and email address on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • This should be up to 200 words and demonstrate how the paper makes (i) an original theoretical and/or methodological contribution to the field of tourism, and (ii) how the paper makes a significant contribution to developing the intellectual agenda of the field of tourism.
  • It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
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  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Research Letter: CIT Research Letters enquiries in the first instance should be directed to the CIT Research Letters Editor, Rodolfo Baggio ( rodolfo.baggio@unibocconi.it ).
  • Review: However, any literature review must contribute to the academic literature.
  • CIT Reviews enquiries in the first instance should be directed to the CIT Reviews Editor, Dr Xin-Jean Lim ( lim.xinjean@gmail.com ).
  • CIT Research Notes enquiries in the first instance should be directed to the CIT Research Notes Editor, Dr.
  • Originality and Significance Statement / Novelty Statement All papers submitted to Current Issues in Tourism must include an originality statement.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • Research Letter: Before submitting a Research Note, authors should assure themselves that their paper would not be better suited to a ‘Research Letter’ – which are more suited to commentaries, “opinion” pieces, conceptual contributions, or rejoinders to published papers.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Contributions will be limited in length (2000 words) allowing readers to determine their potential interest in a Letter very quickly.
  • Submission of papers should be through the Current Issues in Tourism Online Submission site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cvp-cit, formatting requirements are the same as for the full papers, other requirements are as follows: Reviews.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • Purely bibliometric studies that do not analyze and synthesize the literature are unlikely to make a significant contribution.
  • Review: Given this constraint, we do not expect a detailed and lengthy literature review.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Manuscript structure

  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
  • We welcome submissions from both academics and non-academics in any area of method and practice, including, but not necessarily limited to.
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  • Research Letter: As a channel for rapid publication of new and original ideas, CIT Research Letters will be a place for quickly disseminating theoretical and experimental results, and a means of publishing new approaches that are sound and of interest to the community, but may not yet be fully supported by implementation and experiment.
  • RNs are expected to make a novel and focused contribution to empirical knowledge in the tourism field by providing a platform for researchers to share initial findings or observations before conducting a full-scale study, offering updates on ongoing research projects, including changes in methodology, unexpected challenges, or emerging trends, introducing novel research methods or techniques that may be of interest to the scholarly community, and presenting results from small-scale studies that may not warrant a full-length article but still contribute valuable insights to the field.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Preparing Your Paper Structure Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Blinded manuscript

  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/“Manuscript - anonymous” file.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 3,000 words
Declarations: Author contributions, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.

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