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Submission Guidelines
General Information for Prospective Authors
The Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (CQ) is a fully peer-reviewed journal (double-blind review). The CQ publishes research in all business disciplines that contribute to management practice in the hospitality and tourism industries. Like the hospitality industry itself, the editorial content of CQ is broad, including topics in strategic and operations management, marketing and consumer behavior, accounting and financial management, real estate, planning and design, communications and human resources management, information technology, international development, and travel and tourism. The audience is academics, hospitality executives, and representatives of ancillary businesses, such as consultants and investors. The objective of CQ is to help all those involved or interested in the hospitality industry to keep up to date on the latest research findings and theory development in order to improve business practices and to stay informed regarding successful strategies. This includes, but is not limited to, articles that develop applied theories, explain research findings, provide industry perspectives and trends, describe relevant experimental evidence, and provide illustrative cases that can inform the management of hotels, restaurants, casinos, clubs, spas, resorts, and travel-related businesses.
Read the complete manuscript guidelines below. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cq.
Specific Submission Guidelines
Information for Authors: Style and Footnotes
The Cornell Hospitality Quarterly generally uses the writing conventions set forth in the Chicago Manual of Style. Citations should follow the CMS format, and should appear as run-in citations in the text (Author, date), together with an alphabetical list of references at the end of the manuscript. When referring to material found on the worldwide web, it is important to note the date on which that material was viewed. To help ensure the discoverability of articles authors are requested to include as many references as possible.
Tables and figures should follow the main text, rather than be run-in with the text. Write an abstract of your paper, not longer than 350 words, and list two or three key words or phrases. The entire text, not including references and tables, should run no more than 6,000 words, typically about 30 double-spaced pages.
As a professional journal, the CQ prefers a direct, vigorous writing style that employs simple, declarative sentences. In particular, authors should use the active voice rather than passive voice in their sentence structure. The CQ's purpose is to share information clearly, and an active voice does that job better than does a passive voice.
Before submitting your paper to the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, please ensure that the paper is in standard American English. Consider engaging an outside editor for assistance prior to submission. Make sure that the submitted version is as complete and final as possible. Preliminary drafts will not be sent out for review…
Information for Authors: Submission Procedures
Submission of manuscripts to the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly is open to anyone who has a message of interest for managers in the hospitality industry. Prospective authors are welcome to query the editor regarding potential topics, but such queries are not required prior to submission of manuscripts.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cq. Authors will be required to set up an online account on the SageTrack system hosted by ScholarOne.
Information for Authors: Review Process
The editor will read the paper for general acceptability and send it for review to one member of the CQ editorial board and one or two ad hoc reviewers. The review will be double blind; that is, the author will not know who the judges are and the judges will not know who the author is. Based on the reviewers' recommendation, the editor will make a final decision regarding publication. The entire review process should take three to six months.
You most likely will be asked to revise the paper based on the editor's and reviewers' suggestions. If you choose to make the revisions and resubmit the paper, it will be subject to further review, as needed.
Papers deemed not suitable for publication are usually rejected without prejudice, meaning that the author may substantially amend and then resubmit the paper.
Information for Authors: Developing a Final Draft
Once your paper has been accepted, you should ensure that it is in its final form. It will be edited for style and readability, but you as the author are responsible for ensuring the paper’s clarity and logic. Issues of logic or fact that have not been resolved during the review process must be resolved prior to publication. Should an issue arise that has somehow been overlooked in the review process, the CQ reserves the right to suspend publication of the paper until all issues are resolved.
When the editing process is complete, you will receive a final draft for your approval. The purpose of this step is to serve as a check on the editing process to ensure that no errors were inadvertently introduced. This step is not an invitation to revise your thinking or to substantially rewrite the paper. The final draft is uploaded to Sage for processing and page layout. Authors receive a page proof as a final checkpoint prior to publication. The editors reserve the right to schedule the appearance of accepted papers.
Information for Authors: Resubmission Process
You most likely will be asked to revise the paper based on the editor's and reviewers' suggestions. If you choose to make the revisions and resubmit the paper, it will be subject to further review, as needed.
In addition to the original guidelines, Specific Submission Guidelines, you will need to resubmit the original version with changes tracked.
You must submit a separate letter that indicates how you addressed each of the reviewers' and editor's comments on a point-by-point basis