1. Online Submissions

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the Emerging Tourism Review (ETR) online editorial system using Open Journal Systems (OJS). Manuscripts submitted by email or in hard copy will not be accepted.

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Authors are required to register and log in to the journal’s online submission system to submit manuscripts and monitor the status of their submissions.

2. Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors must confirm that their manuscripts comply with all of the following requirements. Manuscripts that do not meet the journal’s submission requirements may be returned to the authors for correction before entering the peer review process.

• Originality and Exclusivity: The manuscript has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration by another journal. Any relevant information concerning prior dissemination or related submissions must be disclosed in the Comments to the Editor.

• File Format: The main manuscript file must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx). PDF files are not accepted as the primary manuscript file for initial submission.

• Formatting Compliance: The manuscript must comply with the formatting, structural, and bibliographic requirements specified in the Author Guidelines, including the APA 7th Edition referencing style and the 3,500–6,000 word requirement.

• Figures and Tables: All figures, illustrations, charts, and tables must be clear, appropriately formatted, and of sufficient quality for publication. Where applicable, visual materials should follow the journal’s minimalist design principles and be provided at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Complex 3D charts and excessively saturated colors should be avoided.

• Digital Ethics Declaration: For studies involving big data, artificial intelligence, digital footprint tracking, or other forms of digital data, the manuscript must include a clear statement explaining how data privacy, security, ethical data collection, and relevant ethical considerations were addressed.

• Reference Linking: Authors should provide active URLs and/or DOIs for cited references whenever these are available.

3. Ensuring a Double-Blind Review

To preserve the integrity of the double-blind peer review process, authors must ensure that the submitted manuscript does not reveal their identities to reviewers.

• Separate Title Page: Authors must upload a separate Title Page containing the manuscript title, author names, institutional affiliations, ORCID iDs, email addresses, and other relevant contact information.

• Anonymized Main Manuscript: The main manuscript file must not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or other identifying information. When referring to their own previously published work, authors should use appropriate third-person references where necessary to preserve anonymity during the review process.

• Document Metadata: Authors must remove personal identifying information from the electronic document properties before submission. In Microsoft Word, authors may use File > Info > Check for Issues > Inspect Document to identify and remove document properties and personal information.

• Acknowledgments: Acknowledgments that could reveal the identity of the authors, research institution, funding organization, or collaborators should be omitted from the anonymized manuscript and may be included in the final version if the manuscript is accepted.

4. Privacy Statement

The names, email addresses, ORCID iDs, institutional affiliations, and other personal information submitted through the ETR journal website will be used solely for the purposes of managing submissions, peer review, publication, and other legitimate journal-related activities.

Such information will be handled confidentially and will not be disclosed or made available for unrelated purposes or to unauthorized third parties, except where disclosure is required by applicable law or necessary for legitimate scholarly publishing processes.