Author Guidelines

1. About the Journal

Indonesian Tourism Justice Review is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal focusing on tourism and its intersections with justice, law, governance, sustainability, society, culture, economy, environment, and technology.

The journal publishes original scholarly contributions in Indonesian and English. Manuscripts may employ doctrinal, normative, empirical, socio-legal, comparative, interdisciplinary, qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-method approaches, provided that the methodology is appropriate to the research question and clearly presented.

Authors should ensure that their manuscripts make a clear and meaningful contribution to existing international scholarship.

2. Article Types

The journal accepts the following types of manuscripts:

2.1 Original Research Article

Original Research Articles present novel theoretical, empirical, doctrinal, socio-legal, comparative, or interdisciplinary research.

Recommended length: 6,000–9,000 words, excluding references, tables, and supplementary materials.

2.2 Review Article

Review Articles provide a critical synthesis and evaluation of existing scholarship.

The journal welcomes systematic, scoping, integrative, and other rigorous forms of literature review.

Recommended length: 6,000–9,000 words, excluding references.

2.3 Conceptual and Theoretical Article

Conceptual and Theoretical Articles develop, critique, or extend theories, concepts, analytical frameworks, or scholarly perspectives relevant to tourism and justice.

Recommended length: 5,000–8,000 words, excluding references.

2.4 Policy and Regulatory Analysis

These articles critically examine legislation, regulations, public policy, institutional frameworks, and governance arrangements affecting tourism and related fields.

Recommended length: 5,000–8,000 words, excluding references.

2.5 Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research

These articles employ comparative or interdisciplinary approaches to examine tourism-related issues across jurisdictions, destinations, disciplines, institutions, or theoretical perspectives.

Recommended length: 6,000–9,000 words, excluding references.

2.6 Case Study

Case Studies should provide analytical and scholarly insights that extend beyond the specific case and contribute to broader academic debates.

Recommended length: 5,000–8,000 words, excluding references.

2.7 Research Note / Short Communication

Research Notes may present significant preliminary findings, methodological innovations, emerging issues, datasets, or concise analyses.

Recommended length: 3,000–5,000 words, excluding references.

2.8 Book Review

Book Reviews should critically evaluate recently published scholarly books relevant to the journal's scope.

Recommended length: 1,500–2,500 words.

Book Reviews are normally commissioned or approved by the editorial team.

2.9 Editorial and Commentary

Editorials and Commentaries address significant emerging issues, debates, policies, or developments in tourism and related fields.

They are normally commissioned or invited by the Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Board.

3. Language

Manuscripts may be submitted in:

  • English; or
  • Indonesian.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts are written in clear, coherent, and academically appropriate language.

English-language manuscripts should use consistent academic English, preferably either American or British English.

Authors whose first language is not English are encouraged to have their manuscript professionally proofread before submission.

Language editing or proofreading does not guarantee acceptance.

4. Originality and Exclusivity

Submitted manuscripts must be original scholarly works.

By submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that:

  • the manuscript has not been previously published in substantially the same form;
  • the manuscript is not under consideration by another journal;
  • all sources have been appropriately acknowledged;
  • all authors have approved the submitted version;
  • the manuscript does not contain plagiarized material;
  • any substantial overlap with previous publications has been disclosed; and
  • the manuscript complies with applicable research and publication ethics requirements.

Simultaneous submission to more than one journal is not permitted.

5. Manuscript Structure

Unless otherwise appropriate for the article type, Original Research Articles should generally follow the structure below:

Title

The title should be concise, informative, specific, and accurately reflect the content of the manuscript.

Avoid unnecessary abbreviations, excessive punctuation, and overly broad titles.

Abstract

The abstract should clearly summarize the manuscript and normally include:

  • research background or problem;
  • objective or research question;
  • methodology;
  • principal findings;
  • conclusion; and
  • scholarly or practical implications where appropriate.

Recommended length: 200–300 words.

The abstract should be understandable without referring to the main text.

Keywords

Provide 4–6 keywords that accurately represent the main concepts, themes, methods, or geographical focus of the article.

Avoid repeating words already contained in the title unless necessary.

Introduction

The Introduction should:

  • establish the research context;
  • identify the problem or research gap;
  • explain the significance of the study;
  • present the research question(s) or objective(s);
  • position the study within relevant scholarship; and
  • clearly explain the contribution of the research.

Literature Review / Theoretical Framework

The manuscript should critically engage with relevant and current scholarship.

Authors should avoid merely listing previous studies and should instead demonstrate how existing literature informs the research problem, theoretical framework, hypotheses, propositions, or analytical approach.

Methodology

The methodology section should provide sufficient information to allow readers to understand and evaluate the research process.

Depending on the research design, this may include:

  • research approach and design;
  • research setting or context;
  • population and sampling;
  • data sources;
  • data collection procedures;
  • analytical methods;
  • legal or doctrinal approach;
  • comparative framework;
  • validity, reliability, or trustworthiness procedures; and
  • research ethics and ethical approval where applicable.

Results / Findings

Present the main findings clearly and systematically.

Tables, figures, legal documents, datasets, quotations, or other evidence may be used where appropriate.

Results should be distinguished from interpretation or broader theoretical discussion where the research design requires such separation.

Discussion

The Discussion should interpret the findings in relation to:

  • the research questions;
  • existing literature;
  • theoretical or conceptual frameworks;
  • relevant legal or policy debates; and
  • broader implications of the findings.

The discussion should demonstrate the manuscript's contribution rather than simply repeat the results.

Conclusion

The Conclusion should directly address the research objectives or questions and summarize the principal contribution of the study.

Where appropriate, authors may include:

  • theoretical implications;
  • policy implications;
  • practical implications;
  • limitations; and
  • recommendations for future research.

References

All sources cited in the manuscript must appear in the reference list, and all references listed must be cited in the manuscript.

Authors should prioritize relevant, recent, and internationally recognized scholarly sources.

6. Legal and Doctrinal Research

For doctrinal, normative, or legal research, the structure may be adapted to the research question.

Authors should clearly explain:

  • the legal issues examined;
  • the sources of law used;
  • the legal research approach;
  • the analytical or interpretive method;
  • relevant jurisprudence or legal authorities; and
  • the contribution of the analysis to legal scholarship or tourism-related policy.

Legal arguments should be supported by authoritative primary sources wherever appropriate.

7. Empirical and Interdisciplinary Research

Empirical and interdisciplinary manuscripts should clearly explain their methodological design and demonstrate an appropriate relationship between research questions, evidence, analysis, and conclusions.

Quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, socio-legal, ethnographic, comparative, and other methodological approaches are welcome when appropriately justified.

8. Tables and Figures

Tables and figures should:

  • be numbered consecutively;
  • have clear and informative titles;
  • be referred to in the main text;
  • provide appropriate sources where applicable; and
  • be sufficiently clear and readable.

Authors must obtain permission for copyrighted third-party material where required.

Figures should be submitted at an appropriate resolution for publication.

9. Citations and References

The journal recommends the use of a recognized reference-management system such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote.

Authors should ensure consistency between in-text citations and the reference list.

The journal encourages authors to cite relevant:

  • peer-reviewed journal articles;
  • scholarly books;
  • authoritative legal materials;
  • official government documents;
  • international organization publications; and
  • reliable and academically relevant sources.

Authors should avoid excessive reliance on non-scholarly websites, unverifiable sources, or citations that do not directly support the argument.

Authors are encouraged to include DOIs or other persistent identifiers where available.

The journal may require authors to revise references that are incomplete, inaccurate, unverifiable, or inappropriate.

10. Research Ethics

Research involving human participants, interviews, surveys, personal data, observations, or other potentially sensitive information must comply with applicable ethical requirements.

Where required, authors must obtain approval from an appropriate ethics committee or institutional review board.

Authors should include an ethics statement where applicable.

Research participants' privacy, dignity, safety, confidentiality, and informed consent must be appropriately protected.

11. Data Availability and Transparency

Authors should provide sufficient information about data sources, research materials, analytical procedures, and methodology to support transparency and, where possible, reproducibility.

Where ethically and legally permissible, authors are encouraged to make supporting data or research materials available through an appropriate repository.

Where data cannot be shared because of privacy, confidentiality, legal, contractual, or ethical restrictions, authors should provide an appropriate explanation.

12. Funding Statement

Authors must disclose all financial or institutional support relevant to the research.

The Funding Statement should identify the funding organization and, where appropriate, describe the role of the funder in the research.

If the research received no specific funding, authors may state:

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

13. Conflict of Interest

All authors must disclose actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest.

Where no conflict exists, authors should provide a statement such as:

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Conflicts may include financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other interests that could reasonably influence the research.

14. Author Contributions

Where applicable, authors should provide a statement describing individual contributions to the research and manuscript.

For multi-author manuscripts, contribution statements may identify roles such as:

  • conceptualization;
  • methodology;
  • data collection;
  • formal analysis;
  • investigation;
  • writing – original draft;
  • writing – review and editing;
  • supervision; and
  • project administration.

All authors must approve the final manuscript.

15. Artificial Intelligence and AI-Assisted Tools

Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, integrity, and ethical compliance of their manuscripts.

AI tools must not be listed as authors.

Authors must disclose material use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation, analysis, or content generation in accordance with the journal's AI Policy.

Authors are responsible for verifying AI-assisted content, references, factual claims, legal authorities, and citations.

AI tools must not be used to fabricate data, references, quotations, sources, or research findings.

16. Plagiarism and Similarity Checking

All submitted manuscripts may be subjected to similarity checking using appropriate plagiarism-detection tools.

A similarity percentage alone does not determine plagiarism. The editorial team assesses the source, context, location, and nature of identified similarities.

Substantial plagiarism, duplicate publication, or inappropriate text reuse may result in rejection or other action under the journal's Publication Ethics Policy.

17. Preprints

Authors may submit manuscripts that have previously appeared as preprints, provided that the preprint is clearly disclosed at submission and does not constitute duplicate publication.

Authors should provide the DOI or persistent link to the preprint where available.

If the manuscript is subsequently published, authors are encouraged to update the preprint record to link to the final Version of Record.

18. Authorship

Authorship should reflect substantial intellectual contributions to the research and manuscript.

All authors must:

  • make a meaningful contribution to the work;
  • participate in drafting or critically revising the manuscript;
  • approve the final version; and
  • accept responsibility for their contribution.

Guest authorship, gift authorship, and ghost authorship are not permitted.

19. Manuscript Preparation

Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the journal's current manuscript template.

The manuscript should be:

  • clearly structured;
  • consistently formatted;
  • free from unnecessary formatting;
  • written in appropriate academic language;
  • anonymized for double-anonymized peer review; and
  • accompanied by all required declarations and supplementary documents.

Authors should remove identifying information from the manuscript file where required for anonymous peer review.

20. Submission Process

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the journal's official online submission system.

Authors should create an account and provide complete and accurate metadata, including:

  • manuscript title;
  • abstract;
  • keywords;
  • author names;
  • institutional affiliations;
  • email addresses;
  • ORCID iDs, where available;
  • funding information;
  • conflict-of-interest information; and
  • other required metadata.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all information submitted to the journal is accurate and that all co-authors approve the submission.

21. Submission Preparation Checklist

Before submitting a manuscript, authors should confirm that all of the following requirements have been fulfilled:

Basic Submission Requirements

  •  The manuscript falls within the Focus and Scope of Indonesian Tourism Justice Review.
  •  The manuscript represents an original scholarly contribution.
  •  The manuscript is not currently under consideration by another journal.
  •  All authors have approved the submitted manuscript.
  •  The corresponding author has obtained permission from all co-authors to submit the manuscript.
  •  The manuscript follows the journal's current template and formatting requirements.
  •  The manuscript meets the recommended word limit for its article type.
  •  The manuscript is written in clear and academically appropriate Indonesian or English.

Manuscript Structure

  •  The title is concise, specific, and informative.
  •  An abstract of approximately 200–300 words is provided.
  •  Four to six keywords are provided.
  •  The introduction clearly identifies the research problem, gap, objective, and contribution.
  •  The literature review and/or theoretical framework is relevant and critically developed.
  •  The research methodology is clearly explained and appropriate to the research questions.
  •  Results/findings are presented clearly.
  •  The discussion demonstrates the significance of the findings in relation to existing scholarship.
  •  The conclusion addresses the research questions/objectives and contribution.
  •  Limitations and implications are included where appropriate.

References and Citations

  •  Every source cited in the manuscript appears in the reference list.
  •  Every reference listed is cited in the manuscript.
  •  References are accurate and complete.
  •  Relevant recent international literature has been appropriately considered.
  •  DOI or persistent identifiers are included where available.
  •  Primary legal sources are cited appropriately for doctrinal or legal research.
  •  No irrelevant or excessive citations have been included.

Tables, Figures, and Supplementary Materials

  •  All tables and figures are numbered consecutively.
  •  All tables and figures are referred to in the main text.
  •  Titles and captions are clear and informative.
  •  Sources are provided where required.
  •  Permission has been obtained for copyrighted third-party materials where necessary.
  •  Supplementary materials are clearly identified and appropriately referenced.

Ethics and Integrity

  •  The manuscript contains no plagiarism or inappropriate text reuse.
  •  Any substantial overlap with previous publications has been disclosed.
  •  Research involving human participants complies with applicable ethical requirements.
  •  Ethical approval is stated where applicable.
  •  Informed consent has been obtained where required.
  •  Personal and confidential information has been appropriately protected.
  •  Data and findings have not been fabricated, falsified, or manipulated.
  •  Funding information has been disclosed.
  •  Conflicts of interest have been disclosed.
  •  Author contributions have been accurately identified where applicable.

Peer Review Preparation

  •  The manuscript has been anonymized for double-anonymized peer review.
  •  Author names and institutional affiliations have been removed from the anonymized manuscript file.
  •  Self-identifying references have been handled appropriately without compromising necessary scholarly attribution.
  •  The manuscript does not contain acknowledgments that reveal the authors' identities in the anonymized version.

AI and Technology

  •  Any material use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies has been disclosed according to the journal's AI Policy.
  •  AI tools have not been listed as authors.
  •  All AI-assisted content has been carefully verified by the authors.
  •  AI has not been used to fabricate data, references, quotations, legal authorities, or research findings.

Submission Files

  •  The main manuscript file has been prepared according to the journal template.
  •  A separate title page has been prepared where required.
  •  Figures and supplementary files have been uploaded in the appropriate formats.
  •  All required declarations have been completed.
  •  The correct article type has been selected in the submission system.
  •  Complete and accurate author metadata have been entered into the journal's submission system.

Final Confirmation

By submitting the manuscript, the authors confirm that:

  •  the manuscript complies with the journal's Author Guidelines;
  •  the manuscript complies with the journal's Publication Ethics Policy;
  •  the manuscript complies with the journal's Plagiarism Prevention Policy;
  •  all authors have approved the submission;
  •  all relevant funding and conflicts of interest have been disclosed; and
  •  the information provided during submission is accurate and complete.

Failure to comply with these requirements may result in the manuscript being returned to the authors, delayed in processing, or rejected before or during peer review.