Faculty & Research
Submission Guidelines
Guidelines for Prospective Authors
The primary purpose of the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR), School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, is to share the benefits of academic research and industry expertise throughout all segments of the hospitality industry and its associated enterprises. To that end, CHR publishes six series of publications intended for the benefit and improvement of industry practice and scholarship. Accepted submissions are posted on the center’s website for download by several thousand registered users. CHR publications are often cited or quoted by media (see http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/research/chr/relations/reach.html for additional details about the reach of CHR).
Below are descriptions of and the author guidelines for
(1) Cornell Hospitality Research Reports
(2) Cornell Hospitality Research Tools
(3) Cornell Hospitality Research Briefs
(4) Cornell Hospitality Industry Roundtable Proceedings
(5) Cornell Hospitality Industry Perspectives
(6) Cornell Hospitality Industry Case Studies
The Cornell Center for Hospitality Research welcomes submissions from industry and academe for its series of publications. Authors should consider which of the center’s series will constitute the best fit for a proposed submission:
Cornell Hospitality Research Reports is a series of stand-alone research studies that must both be rigorous and contain implications of value to the hospitality industry. Through the proposal mechanism described below, report submissions are judged for suitability by academic reviewers (for rigor) and by industry reviewers (for applicability).
Cornell Hospitality Research Tools are interactive applications or other experience- or research-based techniques that hospitality professionals can employ for a specific purpose. Examples of past tools include spreadsheets, management games, and checklists of operating procedures. While tools may primarily be based on research, they also may be the culmination of experience and management practice. Tools which are adjuncts of a report or which are explained in a report must be submitted concurrently with the report manuscript. Like the reports, tools are subject to the proposal and review mechanism described below.
Cornell Hospitality Research Briefs are a series of relatively brief explanations of research having hospitality-industry implications that has been published in a highly reputed academic journal. Criteria for acceptance of submissions in this series are similar to those of Reports, although the Briefs are much “briefer”. As described below, Research Translations are written in business-style language with clear explanations and implications for practicing managers.
Cornell Hospitality Industry Roundtable Proceedings is a specialized form of the Hospitality Reports series. Proceedings take one of two forms: a summarized and synthesized analysis of the key points discussed in a recent industry roundtable organized by CHR, or a research paper analyzing and augmenting the key points from an industry roundtable organized by CHR or other organizations. Roundtable Proceedings of either type are submitted and reviewed according to the procedure set out for Cornell Hospitality Reports, below.
Cornell Hospitality Industry Perspectives series allow executives and managers to share successful ideas from their organizations or to explain positive interactions of hospitality businesses and their communities. The perspectives should present examples and procedures that others in the industry could learn from and follow.
Cornell Hospitality Industry Case Studies describes in detail a business problem to be solved along with all the relevant facts pertaining to the problem, or presents successful implementation and usefulness of rigorous tools, procedures, or managerial applications developed primarily by the members of the hospitality industry and related enterprises. Case Studies may resemble the Tools, and they should offer actionable methodology and implications, although they may be less generic than the Tools. Each case study will be subject to independent verification and at least make a version of the highlighted tool/procedure/application available as a freeware.
Instructions for Initial Submission
Instructions for Submission of Approved Proposals
Sample Template
Submit manuscript here.
We appreciate your interest in the Center for Hospitality Research. Please contact Glenn Withiam, grw4@cornell.edu, with questions about manuscript preparation. Query the center’s executive director, Rohit Verma, rohit.verma@cornell.edu, regarding suitability of manuscript topics. For help with the online submission process please contact Jane Henion, jmh222@cornell.edu.