notes/data/investigative reports and editorials
An abstract of four to six lines should be included. Inaddition, for placement on the page, refer to thetemplate. The abstract should be in nine-point type,with the right and left ends of the lines indented byfour letters from the full width of the main text lines(4 letters thinner than the main text on either side).
At the top of the abstract, the notation “abstract” or“summary” is not necessary.

Journal of Japan Institute of Tourism Research
The Tourism Studies＊＊＊＊＊Writing Guidelines＊＊＊＊＊All English manuscripts submitted to The TourismStudies must be prepared in accordance with thefollowing provisions. For Japanese manuscripts,
authors should refer to the writing guidelines
intended specifically for Japanese manuscripts.

6．Keywords
For
research
articles,research
notes/data/investigative reports, and editorials, three
to four words should be presented as shown below,
written in 10-point type. Additionally, the end of thelines should align with the abstract and be four
letters indented from both the left and right ends ofthe main text. Keywords should not be capitalized
except for proper nouns.
Example:Keywords: tourism, tourist object(Document Formatting)
1．Manuscript Format
Manuscripts should be created using a word
processor such as MS-WORD in accordance withthe following provisions, using the template
provided on the Institute’s website.
2．Number of lines, letters, margins, font, etc.
One page should be 46 characters (one-bytecharacter) across, 43 lines from top to bottom, anddivided into 2 columns. Margins should be 30 mm at
the top, 23 mm at the bottom, 23 mm on the left andright, with 6 mm between the columns. Content andnumbers should be in Times New Roman.

7． Spaces between linesThere should be one blank line between the title andthe author’s name. For research articles, research
notes/data/investigative reports, and editorials, there
should be one blank line each between the name andthe abstract, the abstract and the keywords, and thekeywords and the main text. For other manuscripts,
there should be one blank line between the name andthe main text.

(Title, etc.)
3．Title and Subtitle

8．Notation of Affiliation

The title should be in bold 14-point type. If there is a
subtitle, it should be in 12-point type. In order for themanuscript to be independent, thorough, andcomplete, the title and the subtitle are not allowed tobe numbered, such as ‘Part 1’, ‘Part 2,’ and so on.

Affiliations should be displayed using two lines on
the bottom portion of the first page. One line should
be used as a boundary line from the main text, andbeneath that boundary, in 10-point type, the author’saffiliation should be expressed as “*affiliation.” If
there are joint authors with different affiliations, then“**”, “***”, etc. should be used, corresponding tothe “*” marks used when notating the authors’names. Affiliations should be referenced concisely.

4．Author’s Name
The author’s name should be in 10-point font. The
author’s name should be followed by an asterisk(“*”). In the case of joint authors, do the same, but ifthey have different affiliations, then use “**”, “***”,etc.

(Text of the Paper)

5．Abstracts

9．Main Text Character Size

5-1．For research articles

The main text body should use 10-point type.

An abstract should be six to eight lines long. Inaddition, for placement on the page, refer to thetemplate. The abstract should be in nine-point type,with the right and left ends of the lines indented byfour letters from the full width of the main text lines(4 letters thinner than the main text on either side).
At the top of the abstract, the notation “abstract” or“summary” is not necessary.
5-2．

For

manuscripts

of10．Main Body Chapter Headings, etc.
Chapter headings in the main text should be done
uniformly as follows. Entries of smaller distinction
than those listed should be avoided as much as
possible.
Chapter ・・・・ 1. 2. 3.
(numbers Gothic type)research

Section ・・・・ (1) (2) (3)1(numbers Gothic type)

Author’s family name, first name (year ofpublication in Western format): title: subtitle, city ofpublication, publisher, quotation/reference page
Example: Urry, John (1990): The Tourist Gaze:
Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies,
London, Sage Publications, pp. 105-112

Item ・・・・ 1) 2) 3)(numbers Gothic type)
Place a space after the numbers. The typeface forchapter titles, etc. should be entirely in Gothic
typeface. A blank line should be inserted between
chapters.

＜For Journals＞
Author’s family name, first name (year ofpublication in Western format): title, journal name(italicized), volume (issue), quotation/reference page
Example: Uzzell, David (1984): An Alternative
Structuralist Approach to the Psychology of Tourism
Marketing, Annals of Tourism Research, 11(1), pp.
79-99

11．Figures, tables, and images
Figures, tables, and images should be formatted sothat none exceeds one full page. The order of theseshould be described using sequential numbers foreach type; e.g., Figure-1, Table-1, Image-1. For
figures and images, the number and title should belisted underneath, and for tables, they should belisted above. The sequential number and title should,
as a general rule, be centered and typed in Gothic
typeface in 10-point type.

15．Acknowledgements, Additional Remarks
If there is a need for acknowledgements, then ablank line should be inserted before and after a line
reading “Acknowledgements:” or “AdditionalRemarks:” set between the end of the main text
body and the endnotes; the line should be written innine-point Gothic type and related content should
follow on the next line in nine-point Times NewRoman. Additionally, both acknowledgements andadditional remarks should not appear together; oneor the other should be chosen.

(Endnotes, Quotations/Bibliography,Acknowledgements, etc.)
12 ． Endnotes, Quotations/Bibliography Headings,etc.
Endnotes and Quotations and Bibliography should
be typed in nine-point Gothic type, and written fromthe following line in nine-point Times New Roman.
There should be one blank line between the end of
the main text and the endnotes, and between theendnotes, and the quotations and bibliography.

(Precautions when preparing PDF files)
Accepted manuscripts will be published on JSTAGE as PDF files. Therefore, please beware of
the following when preparing the manuscript usingMS-WORD.

13．Endnotes
Endnotes should be indicated by (1), (2), (3), etc. on
the right shoulder of the corresponding portion of themain text, and appear all together at the end of themain text body. Footnotes are not to be used.
Example: Tourist information was collected andadded to the analysis(1).

16．PDF file size
It is possible to show high-resolution images, figures,and tables on the PDF files. However, please try toset the resolution to 600dpi or lower so that the PDF
file size will proximately be 3MB or smaller. Also,
PDF version 1.4 should be used.

14 ． Quotations, bibliographic citations, andreferences
Quotations, bibliographic citations, and references
should be indicated by 1), 2), 3), etc. on the rightshoulder of the corresponding text, and appear all
together at the end of the text.
Example: This is defined as “vacationing forpleasure.1)”
Quotations and bibliographic entries should beformatted as described below. Page numbers for
quotations and references should be written as “p. 28”
or “pp. 105-112.”

17．Font
In order for the letters in the manuscript to be
displayed without fail, irrespective of the use
environments, the use of platform dependent
characters should be avoided.

Decided March 5, 2012
Revised July 31, 2015
Revised April 1, 2017

Quotations and Bibliography＜For Books＞

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