Submissions

Author Guidelines

Publication Guidelines

Submitted works must be original and free from plagiarism, neutral and independent, and always based on scientific evidence. The author must ensure that such works have not been previously published nor are currently under review or under consideration for publication in another physical or electronic outlet. Nevertheless, the author may submit works presented at scientific events that have not been published. The journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Published articles are the responsibility of their authors.

Submissions may be made by lecturers, researchers, professionals and students in the fields of Tourism, Hospitality, Food Service and related areas. Undergraduate and master’s students submitting work for evaluation must include a lecturer as co-author. Articles may focus on empirical research, literature reviews in specific areas or theoretical reflections.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject works it considers to be of insufficient quality, not sufficiently relevant to the journal’s thematic areas or not compliant with the guidelines set out below.

By submitting work for publication in the Tourism and Hospitality International Journal, the author(s) authorise(s) the Editorial Committee to carry out editing (without altering the idea or message), formatting and dissemination rights of their article, including in national and international scientific databases and repositories, always in line with the mission of sharing knowledge and skills obtained from scientific and applied research in Tourism, Hospitality and Food Service, progressively bringing together the research community across these three areas. The author always retains the copyright of the submitted article.

Below are the specific submission guidelines, in order to facilitate the submission system and optimise the process for authors, the editorial body and reviewers. The Tourism and Hospitality International Journal is open to receiving submissions from the entire academic and professional community. Submitted scientific works must comply with the publication guidelines set out below, and the author must, before submitting the manuscript, ensure compliance with the journal’s publication standards and the APA publication standards (American Psychological Association, 2010, Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed., Washington, DC: APA).

Formatting Guidelines

All articles must be submitted through the journal platform, without any identification of the author(s). Author data must be uploaded during the submission process directly on the journal platform.

The document must be submitted using the available template and must not exceed 25 pages in total.

Paragraphs must be indented five to seven spaces (0.5 cm), except in titles, in the abstract text and in block quotations (extracts with more than 40 words). The text must be aligned only on the left side of the page (left justification) and have a ragged right margin (not justified).

Submitted articles must present the following structure:

1. Title Page
2. Abstract Page
3. Text Pages
4. References
5. Appendices (optional)

Notes must be footnotes (on the same page), and tables and figures must appear within the text, being integrated into the preceding content.

Articles must begin with an abstract in Portuguese or Spanish and English, or only in English if that is the language of the article. Each must not exceed 250 words, as well as the keywords (minimum of 4). Abstract paragraphs must not be indented and must be aligned to the left and right. The abstract is a specific and accessible synopsis of the main ideas of the article.

Headings and subheadings must follow the formatting below by levels (numbered):

• Level 1: Centred, in Bold, with Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
• Level 2: Left-aligned, in Bold, with Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
• Level 3: Indented to the left, in bold, in lowercase and ending with a full stop.
• Level 4: Indented to the left, in bold and italics, in lowercase and ending with a full stop.
• Level 5: Indented to the left, in italics, in lowercase and ending with a full stop.

Foreign words must be presented in italics and not in quotation marks, except when they are textual quotations.

Quotation marks must be used for excerpts of text with fewer than 40 words, titles of articles or chapters referred to in the text, to reproduce material from a test item or instructions to participants, or when introducing slang or a newly proposed concept.

Citations of authors and works within the text must follow this pattern:

• (Abranja, 2026);
• (Abranja & Magalhães, 2018);
• Abranja et al. (2024);
• Abranja (2026a, 2026b)

In direct quotations (where the text is transcribed), the author, year and page must be indicated alongside the quotation, and in indirect citations (paraphrasing), the author and year of publication must be indicated. No more than 3 direct quotations per 10 pages are recommended. Preference should be given to scientific journals over general-interest publications. In the case of direct quotations with more than 40 words (block quotations), quotation marks are not used and a new line is started; the text must be set apart from the left margin by half an inch, 5 spaces or 1.3 cm, and the beginning is not indented.

In the References section, all citations of the article must be included and only those citations; works not mentioned in the text must not be included. Publications must be referenced according to APA7 standards and the following guidelines must be observed:

• References begin on a new page and must be listed in alphabetical order;
• When there are multiple references by the same author, they must be indicated in chronological order (oldest first), beginning with publications where the author appears alone and only then those where they appear with other authors;
• If there is no author, entries are placed in alphabetical order by the first meaningful word of the reference (usually the title);
• If there are two references by the same authors in the same year, they must be distinguished by adding a letter after the year;
• All references must be aligned to the left on the first line and indented on subsequent lines, and presented in double spacing;
• Titles of articles or books are written in lowercase, except for the first letter of the title and subtitle, and proper nouns (names of people, countries, religions, etc.).

For all cases of References, authors must comply with APA publication standards, as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed., 2009).

Tables, figures or graphs must strictly comply, in their content and form, with APA formatting rules. Tables must be presented in Times New Roman, size 10. Graphs must always display the values they refer to within the graph itself or in the form of an attached table, and must allow editing (built in Word or Excel: Microsoft Graph format).

Appendices (if any) must be placed after the entire article. Each appendix must begin on a different page and be labelled using letters (Appendix A, Appendix B ...).