Journal of Tourism and Sustainability

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AIMS AND SCOPES

“Journal of Tourism and Sustainability” will publish two issues per year. Occasional special symposia issues will also be produced focusing on a special topic.

JOURNAL LANGUAGE

The “Journal of Tourism and Sustainability” official lan­guage is English and papers are accepted in both Ameri­can and British English. Consistency throughout the pa­per is expected. Nevertheless submission of manuscripts in Portuguese, Spanish and or French will be accepted to be published in special issues. However, these issues will be published without any regular frequency, and should always include an extended English abstract.

EDITORIAL BOARD

António Abreu (LETS-ISLA)

Editors

Alexandra Silva (LETS-ISLA, CO/FCUL, IPIMAR, IP)

Clara Grilo (LETS-ISLA, EBD/CSIC, CBA/FCUL)

Luís Miguel Rosalino (LETS-ISLA, CBA/FCUL)

José Guerreiro (FCUL)

Ricardo Melo (FCUL)

David Picard (CRIA-UNL)

Maria José Roxo (UNL)

Sérgio Rosendo (UNL)

João Muralha (CEAUCP)

Joana Roque de Pinho (ISCSP)

Ricardo H. Tabraue (ULPGC)

Tawfiq Rkibi (ISLA)


SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
All articles submitted to the journal must comply with these instructions. Failure to do so will result in the re­turn of the manuscript and a possible delay in publica­tion. Manuscripts should be written so that they are in­telligible to the professional reader who is not a specialist in a particular field. All manuscripts are subject to copy editing. Authors must state in a cover letter that the con­tent has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere in any language, that all authors have contrib­uted significantly, and that all authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript.


COPYRIGHT
Papers accepted for publication become copyright of the LETS – Laboratory of Ecology, Tourism and Sustain­ability (LETS-ISLA). The author(s) guarantee(s) that the manuscript will not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright owner (LETS-ISLA – Laboratory of Ecology, Tourism and Sus­tainability), that the rights of third parties will not be violated, and that the publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensa­tion. Authors wishing to include figures or text passages have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Authors must submit their articles to “Journal of Tourism and Sustainability” by email. Electronic submission sub­stantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing time and shortens overall publication time. Manuscripts and cover letters must be sent to the Editor-In -Chief (jts.lets@lx.isla.pt), in a pdf format, with the following email subject: Manuscript submission – “First author’s name” (ex. Manuscript submission – Stuart et al.).

PREPARATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT

Manuscripts should be typed in double-line spacing throughout with at least 3-cm margins. The text should be Arial, font size 12 (except if required within tables where size 10 may be used). All pages should be num­bered consecutively at the bottom, beginning with the title page. To facilitate the review process, please use con­tinuous line numbers on each page.

Style

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention in the abstract and again in the main body of the text and used consistently thereafter. Upon its first use in the title, ab­stract, and text, the common name of a species or an infraspecific taxon should be followed by the scientific name (Genus, species; italic) in parentheses. If no com­mon name exists in English, only the scientific name should be used.

Formulae

Standard mathematical notation should be used and Au­thors must adhere to SI units. Single letters that denote mathematical constants, variables, and unknown quanti­ties should be set in italic type in text and in equations. Simple equations can be written as normal text. Use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line, e.g. Xp/Ym. Pow­ers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Equations appear on separate lines are numbered con­secutively.

Parts of the manuscript

Manuscripts should be presented in the follow­ing order: (i) Title page, (ii) Abstract and keywords, (iii) Text, (iv) Acknowledgments, (v) References, (vi) Figure captions, (vii) Tables (each table com­plete with title and footnotes), and (viii) Figures. Do not number section headings or subheadings. A typical article should not exceed 7.000 words. Review papers should not exceed 10.000 words.

(i) Title page

The title page should contain:

- A concise and informative title (in bold);

- The name(s) of the author(s) (initials closed up and authors name separated by commas; e.g. R.P. White, M.C. Sousa);

- The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s) (indicated by a upperscript umber);

- The e-mail address, telephone, and fax numbers of the corresponding author.

(ii) Abstract and key words

Each paper must be preceded by an abstract in Eng­lish presenting the purpose of the research, the most important results, and conclusions in no more than 300 words for original and review papers or 100 words for technical reports, notes and comments. A Portuguese version (no more than 300 words) should also be provided by the authors. Authors who are unsure of correct Portuguese usage should require language editing and copyediting support to the J. Tour. Sustain.

For special issues, published in other languages than English, a 500 word abstract in English must be pro­vided. The abstract should not contain references. The journal accepts additional abstracts in other lan­guages of the author’s choice. Such abstracts are op­tional. Authors would need to supply such abstract themselves, certified that they a faithful translation of the official abstract, and they must be supplied in Unicode especial if they are using non-roman char­acters.
Five key words (separated by semi-column) should be supplied after the Abstract for indexing purposes.

(iii) Text

In original and review papers authors should use subheadings to divide the sections of their manu­script, if appropriate: Introduction, Methods, Re­sults, Discussion, Acknowledgments, and Refer­ences. A combined Results and Discussion section might be appropriate. In technical reports, notes and comments, authors should defined and use sub­headings to divide the sections.

(iv) Acknowledgments

These should be as brief as possible. Any grant that requires acknowledgement should be mentioned. The names of funding organizations should be writ­ten in full.

(v) References

Literature citations in the text should indicate the author’s surname with the year of publication in parentheses: (Stuart, 1992; Stuart and Carl, 1992). If there are more than two authors, only the first should be named, followed by “et al.”: Stuart et al. (1992). References at the end of the paper should be listed in alphabetical order by the first author’s surname. If there is more than one work by the same author or team of authors in the same year, a, b, etc. is added to the year, both in the text and in the list of references. Cite the names of all authors. Journal titles should be given in full.

Examples:

Journal papers:

Zabala J., Zuberogoitia I., Martínez-Climent J.A. (2009). Testing for niche segregation between two abundant carnivores using presence-only data. Folia Zoologica 58(1): 385-395.

Berrow S.D., Holmes B. (1999). Tour boats and dolphins: a note on quantifying the activities of whale watching boats in the Shannon Estuary, Ire­land. Journal of Cetacean Research Management 1: 199-2004.
 

Books:

Burnham K.P., Anderson D.R. (2002). Model selec­tion and multimodel inference: a practical informa­tion-theoretic approach. Springer-Verlag, New York.
 

Single contributions in a book:

Cabezas-Díaz S., Lozano J., Virgós E. (2009). The declines of the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and the iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) in Spain: redi­recting conservation efforts. In: Aronoff J.B. (Ed.), Handbook of Nature Conservation. Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 283-310.

References other than papers and books may only be cited if available for assay. Personal communica­tions, unpublished data, and publications from in­formal meetings are not to be listed in the reference list but may be listed in the text (e.g. Stuart 2000, unpublished data).

Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic data rests entirely with the author.

(vi) Appendices

These should be placed at the end of the paper and referred to in the text. If there is more than one ap­pendix, they should be numbered in Arabic numer­als.

(vii) Tables and (viii) Figures
All tables and figures (photographs, graphs, or dia­grams) should be cited in the text, and each num­bered consecutively with Arabic numerals (e.g., Table 1, Fig. 1). Tables and figures should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, in­formation contained in the text. They should be typed on a separate page and should have a title and a legend explaining any abbreviation used in that table or figure. In tables vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parentheses. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by super­script lowercase letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Statistical measures such as SD or SE should be identified in the head­ings. The table, its legend, and its footnotes should be understandable without reference to the text.
Figure parts should be identified by lowercase roman letters (a, b, etc.; Fig. 1a). The maximum length of each picture is 23.4 cm. Please be sure that all im­ported scanned material is scanned at the appropri­ate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour (TIFF - tagged im­age file format or EPS encapsulated PostScript).The publisher reserves the right to resize illustrations.
Figure legends must be brief, self-sufficient explana­tions of the illustrations. Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered corre­spondingly. The filename for a figure should be de­scriptive (e.g. Figure1, Figure2a).
Figures will appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal, but may appear in colour in the online edition, assuming colour originals are supplied.


PROOFS AND OFFPRINTS

Proofs

Authors should make their proof corrections on a print­out of the PDF file supplied to them, checking that the text is complete and that all figures and tables are in­cluded. The author is entitled to formal corrections only. Substantial changes in content, including new results, corrected values, title, and authorship are not allowed without the approval of the responsible editor. In such cases please contact the Editor-in-Chief before returning the proofs to the publisher.

The publisher will dispose of all submitted material 2 months after publication.

Offprints

Offprints of each contribution, in a pdf format, are sup­plied free of charge to the authors. If you wish to order additional offprints you must return the order form with the corrected proofs.