Submissions must be original work that has not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. It is a condition of publication that contributors assign copyright to the publisher, though they remain free to use material in subsequent publications written or edited by themselves, provided the editor and publisher are informed and that Studies in Travel Writing is acknowledged as the original place of publication.

Essays may be up to 12,000 words (including notes and quotations). Please do not send conference papers or thesis chapters that have not been rewritten as essays.

Unsolicited manuscripts can be submitted in any recognised form, but final, accepted copy must adopt the conventions listed below.

Submissions may be sent electronically (in Word for Windows or Mac, or RTF) to Tim.Youngs@ntu.ac.uk or as hard copy (three copies) to: Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS. UK.

You should provide with your essay an abstract of around 150 words, approximately half-a-dozen keywords, and, on a separate page, your name, institutional affiliation, postal and email address. CVs are not required, and you will be asked for biographical details only if your essay is accepted for publication.

• Use double-spacing
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Do not leave an extra line between paragraphs.
• Do not leave two spaces between sentences.
• Subheadings should be in normal type and positioned on the left of the page. They should be set off from the text above by a double space and from the text below by a single space. Do not indent the first line of text that follows it.
• For long dashes use an en dash or double hyphen with a space before and after.
• Indented quotations should be set with a line before and after the main text. Quotations should be indented if they are longer than five lines or are made up of more than one sentence. Use a three point ellipsis, spaced at the beginning and end, to indicate omission within or at the end of a quotation but do not use an ellipsis mark at the beginning of a quotation.
• Use endnotes, not footnotes, keyed by superscript numerals 1, 2, 3 etc. in the text.
• Use single inverted commas, except for quotations within quotations where double quotation marks should be used. Punctuation marks should be placed outside the closing quotation mark except where the quotation marks contain a complete sentence or, as with a question mark or exclamation mark, where they are integral to the quotation.
• Spelling: use the ‘-ise', not ‘-ize' form. Spelling should be anglicised: thus ‘centre', not ‘center'; ‘colour', not ‘color'; ‘traveller', not ‘traveler'.
• Use the serial (or Oxford) comma only where its absence would introduce ambiguity

We use a British version of the Chicago Notes system. Full details will be sent to authors whose essays have been recommended by referees for publication or to prospective authors on request.

Referencing should take the following form:

• Book titles and journal titles should be italicised. Article, thesis and chapter titles should be in single inverted commas and set in plain type. The first and all significant words in titles and subtitles should be capitalised.
• Where you quote from an article or essay please give the full page numbers before indicating the page(s) from which you have taken your quote. Do not use the abbreviation ‘p.' or ‘pp.' for page numbers. Page references should be ‘32–3', ‘101–8', i.e. not ‘32–33' and not ‘101–108'. Similarly, years should be expressed as ‘1979–83' or ‘1986–7'; not ‘1979–1983' and not ‘1986–87'.
• Where you are using a later edition of a book, please give the date of first publication in square brackets after the title. If the later edition you are using is published by the same house that published the first edition, you may give the date of that first edition in square brackets after the date of the edition you have used.
• Use ‘ed.' for ‘editor', and ‘eds.' for ‘editors'.

Some illustrations follow:

• Wilfred Thesiger, Desert, Marsh and Mountain [1979] (London: Flamingo, 1995), 125.
• Dervla Murphy, Muddling Through in Madagascar (London: John Murray, 1985), 62.
• Chris Rojek and John Urry, eds., Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory(London: Routledge, 1997).
• Jennifer Craik, ‘The Culture of Tourism', in Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory, ed. Chris Rojek and John Urry, eds., (London: Routledge, 1997), 113–36 (115).
• Charles Sanders Peirce, Collected Papers, vols. 7 and 8, ed. Arthur W. Burks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966), in particular vol. 8, ch. 5 ‘On Signs', 210–13.
• Vincent Crapanzano, ‘On the Writing of Ethnography', Dialectical Anthropology 2, no. 1 (1977): 69–73 (72).

After the first full citation any subsequent reference should be given by author's surname and (where grammatically possible) a short version of the title:

• Murphy, Muddling Through, 62.
• Craik, ‘Culture of Tourism', 115.

Do not use ‘ibid.', or ‘op.cit'. For a frequently quoted source, add in your first citation that ‘Further page references will be given parenthetically in the text' (or words to that effect).

Information for book reviewers

We publish book reviews of around 1000 words and occasional review-essays of around 3,500 words.

Most of our book reviews are commissioned but we are happy to consider suggestions of titles for review and offers to review, which should be made to: Tim.Youngs@ntu.ac.uk

Copies of books for review should be sent to: Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS. UK.

Reviewers should provide book information in the following form:

Bewildered Travel: The Sacred Quest for Confusion, by Frederick J. Ruf, Studies in

Religion and Culture, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2007, x +210 pp.,

$49.50 (cloth), $16.50 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8139-2674-2

• Use single quotation marks
• Identify page references for quotations
• Give page references parenthetically but do not use ‘p.' or ‘pp.'
• Provide your name, and, in italics, your institutional affiliation and email address at the bottom right of your review
• Please avoid the use of endnotes in reviews (though they may be used in review-essays)

Proofs

Proofs are sent to the corresponding author as PDF files where possible.  Please note that proofs are supplied for correction of errors only, and no rewriting or reorganisation of text can be undertaken at this stage.

Corrections should be returned to the editor within 7 days.

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