Authors’ Guidelines

Only original manuscripts should be submitted to Tourism Praxis. Research papers under consideration simultaneously for publication elsewhere will be rejected summarily. Submissions and correspondence of any kind should be addressed to the Editor in Chief, Tourism Praxis, Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Mizoram University, Tanhril, Aizawl, 796004, Mizoram or at the following email address: tourismpraxis@gmail.com

Research manuscripts submitted would be finalized for publication in the journal issues after a rigorous double blind peer review process by a minimum of two reviewers as per their respective comments and decisions followed by a final decision by the journal editorial board.

The review process follows five criteria for evaluating research manuscript:

1. Originality and Reliability
2. Readability
3. Relevance
4. Quality of research
5. Applicability

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should be written as understandably and concisely as possible with clarity and meaningfulness. Submissions are accepted only in electronic format (MS Word) through the journal weblink. The journal doesn’t charge any fee for the review or publication of the manuscript.

The authors are required to submit a declaration duly signed by all the authors/co-authors mentioned in the manuscript clearly stating that the manuscript is an original work and has not been copyrighted elsewhere. The author(s) should also ensure that the manuscript has not been previously published or submitted for publication or under review process to anywhere for the journal or as a book chapter.

Manuscripts that are eventually published in the journal “Tourism Praxis” cannot be reproduced in any other publication in any form (print or electronic).

The final manuscript submission should consist title of the manuscript at top followed by Abstract (250- 300 words), Keywords (5) and complete research manuscript (5000- 7000 words) including all references cited inside the manuscript. Additionally, a separate document needs to be submitted indicating the details such as the complete details of the principal author, corresponding author and all co-authors (if any) indicated in the paper. The concise Oxford English Dictionary can be used as a reference for all spellings and hyphenations.

Title page: the title page should include: the article title; the author(s) names and affiliations; ORCID ID, email and contact address.

Abstract: An abstract should be submitted that does not exceed 250-300 words in length with maximum 5 keywords. It should be on a separate page. Abstracts should contain an abbreviated representation of the content of the manuscript. Major results, conclusions, and/or recommendations should be given, followed by supporting details of method, scope, or purpose as appropriate.

Length of full research paper: A full research manuscript sent for publication to “Tourism Praxis” should have a word count between 5000 words and 7000 words. Research Notes should be no longer than 3000 words and not shorter than 2000. Case Studies should be no-longer than 3500 words and not shorter than 3000. Book Reviews should be no-longer than 2000 words and not shorter than 1000. Conference Proceedings should be no-longer than 2000 words and not shorter than 1000 and forthcoming Events should be no-longer than 500 words.

The main body of the text should be written in Times New Roman letters, font size 12. Section headings should be written in bold, font size 12. Authors submitting papers for publication should specify which section of the journal they wish their paper to be considered for research paper, research notes, case studies, book reviews, conference proceedings, industry outcomes, forthcoming events or others. Manuscripts that do not fully conform to the above word limits (according to the nature of the manuscript) will be automatically rejected and would not be entertained in the reviewing process.

Further, the author(s) are advised to review spelling, grammar and punctuation. Neither the Editorial Board nor the Publisher is responsible for correcting the errors in the manuscript.

Reference style

The journal adheres to the American Psychological Association Citation Style (APA 7th ed.). The use of footnotes within the text is discouraged. The manuscript that has already been prepared in another style needs to be properly changed as per the ‘Tourism Praxis’ journal guidelines before submission.

Plagiarism

Papers submitted to Tourism Praxis will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin plagiarism software as per the UGC Guidelines