Submissions

Author Guidelines

Editorial standards

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check their submission’s compliance with all of the following details:

• The submission to this journal is original and unpublished, of individual or collective authorship, and is not under consideration or in process of being published in another journal or in any other type of publication.
• There is a maximum of 3 authors for each article.
• The text submitted for publication complies with the standards and bibliographic requirements described in the authors’ guidelines.
• Contributions may be delivered in one of the following languages: Portuguese, Spanish, or English.
• Authors are responsible for the content and originality of the articles, as well as for ethical stances.
• Authors assign the copyright to the journal.
• Blind peer review is ensured; any reference that may enable a reviewer to identify the author will be removed.
• When available, the URLs for references should be provided within the article
• Articles are submitted electronically upon registration, according to the system’s instructions.
• The submitted files must be in Microsoft Word format and up to 2 MB in size.
• The name of the file should start with the author(s) last name, followed by his/her initials (e.g: SANTOS_A & ALMEIDA_S). The same procedure applies to figures, tables and graphs, to which enumeration should be added (e.g.: SANTOS_A & ALMEIDA_S Figure 1; SANTOS_A & ALMEIDA_S Table 2).
• Furthermore, information about the authors should be submitted, in accordance to the template file “Information about the Authors”, and the name of the file should be named, e.g, Authors_SANTOS_A & ALMEIDA_S.
• It is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce illustrations or other copyrighted sources.

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Data Protection

All personal data will be treated in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

Ethical Conduct

Authors must ensure referencing of sources used in the production of scientific work is accurate and comprehensive, as well as obtain permission from copyright holders to reproduce illustrations, tables or figures.

Authors must identify any financial supporting body(s) in compliance with the instructions provided previously.

Authors must ensure the names of authors and co-authors are accurately provided in the publications, as well as acknowledge other meaningful contributions, where applicable, following the instructions previously provided.

Article Length

Full articles should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length, including title (original language and English), abstracts, tables, graphs, footnotes and references.

The abstract’s length should be between 200 and 300 words and should be submitted both in the original language of the article and in English.

Titles should not be longer than 100 characters.

A maximum of five keywords should be provided, both in the original language of the article and in English.

The biographical note can not exceed 150 words, and must be provided both in the original language of the article and in English.

Style, Font and Spacing

Body: single-spacing, A4 pages, Times New Roman font type, 12pts font size.

Visuals (tables, graphs and figures): all visuals should be numbered and include a legend, without a full stop. In the body of the text, references to visual materials should always appear in full (e.g., in Table 1). Figures, graphs and tables must be inserted in the text and sent separately in JPEG or TIFF format, with a resolution of at least 300dpi. Tables must be editable, and not converted into images.

Titles and subtitles: may be numbered to facilitate the reading of the article. They should have the same font type (Times New Roman) and size (12pts) as that of the main text.

Quotation marks: use double quotation marks (“ ”). Quotation marks are used with ironic phrases or words, slang or words used figuratively, to introduce quotes or around the title of an article or segment of a publication (e.g., book chapter, encyclopaedia entry, ...).

Italics: use italics and not bold in the body of the text. Italics are used to indicate titles of stand-alone publications (e.g., books, films, ...), to introduce new words or words of foreign origin, or to add emphasis to some words or expressions.

Numerals: write numbers in full if from zero to nine and numbers for 10 and above. Regardless of this rule, numbers should always be used in graphs, tables and figures, in units of measurement (e.g., 5 km), in mathematical functions, statistics, fractions, decimal quantities, ratios and percentages, representations of time, dates, points on a scale and exact sums of money. Use numbers in full to express numerals that begin a sentence and in common fractions (e.g., “One fifth of the Portuguese”).

Footnotes are allowed; however, they should only be used when strictly necessary. Endnotes should not be used.

Download templates here.

Citations and Bibliography References

Bibliography references must adhere to the authors’ guidelines(download template here).

Plagiarism

LIT&TOUR takes issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication seriously. We will seek to protect the rights of authors published in our journal and to thoroughly investigate any allegations of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we will seek to protect the reputation of our journal against any misconduct.

Submitted articles may be checked for originality using software to detect duplicate content. In circumstances where plagiarism or the improper and/or insufficient acknowledgement of third party copyright material is detected, or where the authorship of the article is contested, the journal will take further action, which includes but is not limited to: publishing an erratum or rectification (correction) note; retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author’s institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or appropriate legal action.

Editorial Procedure

The works submitted to LIT&TOUR are initially examined by the editorial board of the journal, considering the adequacy to the theme of the call for articles in progress and the full compliance with editorial standards.

The decision to publish the articles proposed to the journal is made by the editorial board, and by the reviewers. Each article is submitted to a double-blind review, by experts in the applicable field.

The two reviewers make a written evaluation of the submitted article and recommend the acceptance or rejection of the article according to an established rule, considering the academic quality of the article, the originality and the relevance for the call for articles and for the objectives and scope of the journal.

Articles can be modified according to the reviewers' recommendations and re-submitted for further evaluation, preferably by the same reviewers.

Authors are always notified by email throughout the reviewing process.

Before final publication, the proofs are sent to the authors for final approval of publication.

Authors will not be charged any fees for processing and submitting articles.