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Author Guidelines

 The manuscripts submitted to RTA must meet all the following requirements:

     I.  Tourism is the main topic;


    II.  Previously unpublished;


  III.  Not to be under consideration by other journals;


  IV.  Written in Portuguese, English or Spanish;


   V.  Limit of four (4) authors;


  VI.  Microsoft Word file – .doc or RTF format, up to 5 MB;


  VII. Follow the RTA’s Author Guidelines;


VIII. Authors’ names are not included in the text;


  IX.  No indication of authorship in the file properties;


   X.  Fill out the submission form with data regarding the authors and manuscript’s metadata.

 

Author guidelines

File: .doc, .docx or .RTF; up to 5 Mb.

Authorship: The manuscript must not contain the authors’ names. Data regarding authors must be exclusively in the form provided by the submission system. Authors cannot be included or excluded after the submission of the article. The website registry section resumo da biografia [biography synopsis] must be filed with information about the authors’ upper degree (degree, discipline, and institution), institutional affiliation and email. When applicable, instead of the degree, the author can inform an ongoing study program.

Important: Submitted manuscripts that do not have complete authors  data (metadata) will not be evaluated.

The first page: must contain title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The abstract must have between 150 and 250 words, and 3 to 5 keywords.

Pictures and maps: Must be in JPG format and with minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

Other figures and tables: must come in an open format for editing.

Footnotes: use this resource only in the article if strictly necessary, inserted in the text as superscript Arabic numerals.

Additional materials: can be attached to the article when relevant. Data collection instruments and databases are desirable.

Citations, references, figures and tables: must follow the pattern of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition (APA 6th style), available at http://www.apastyle.org. More information about this can be found at: http://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/apa-format/

Size: articles must have between 5,000 and 8,000 words; other contributions should be up to 5,000 words.

Support: must not be included in the manuscript to avoid the identification of authors. Such information must be inserted in the “Development agencies” (submission system).

Acknowledgments: must not be included in the manuscript file to avoid identification of authors. Such information must be sent to tanalise@usp.br.

 

Final Version

After the approval of the article, and before the publication of the final version, authors must write a “statement of authorship and responsibility” declaring that: the study was never published in other scientific media; the contributions of each author must be described according to the information at the submission. Send this declaration to: tanalise@usp.br, PDF format, with the scanned signatures of all authors.

The journal reserves the right to make changes in the original (revision regarding grammar, orthography and other editorial adjustments for the publication). 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The contribution is original, unpublished and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal;
  • Files for submission are in Microsoft Word or RTF format (and do not exceed 5MB)
  • The title and abstract are presented in the Portuguese, English and Spanish.
  • The article has no more than four authors.
  • All authors were included at the time of submission and they are aware that it is not possible to add author later.
  • The text is in space 1.5; uses 12-point Times New Roman font. Employs italics only in words in another language, except in proper names. There is no use of high-case in the body of the text. There is no use of underscore. The figures and tables are inserted in the text, not at the end of the document, as attachments.
  • The text follows the style patterns and bibliographic requirements described in the "Guidelines for Authors".
  • The identification of the authorship of the work was removed from the archive and the Properties in Word option, thus ensuring the criterion of confidentiality of the submission journal for peer review, according to instructions available in Ensuring the Blind Review evaluation system.
  • URL or DOI of the references were reported when necessary.

Articles

Original research articles that address the advance of knowledge in Tourism.

Outras Contribuições

Reports, interviews and reviews focused on Tourism.

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