Author Guidelines
The writing rules have been rearranged by announcing on 30.12.2025 to be valid as of the 9th volume (2026 issues) of our journal.
Dear author(s),
You must include the title page, manuscript, copyright agreement and Ethics Committee document (if required) files in the first submission. The originality of the submissions is checked with plagiarism detection software. Our policy for similarity levels is the similarity with each source should not exceed 1% and total similarity should not exceed 20%. For avoiding desk rejection, authors might consider checking the similarity level before submission.
This Word template has been designed to fully comply with the GSI Journals Serie A: Advancements in Tourism Recreation and Sports Sciences author guidelines. It includes predefined styles and macros that automatically format all parts of the manuscript, including titles, abstracts, in-text citations, tables, figures, and references. Authors are only required to:
Replace the sample text with their own content
Use the predefined heading styles when adding new sections
Insert tables and figures by following the provided examples
The template automatically preserves font type, font size, line spacing, paragraph indentation, and heading numbering. Therefore, no additional formatting is required.
Important note: The template structure should not be modified, and styles or macros should not be deleted. Manuscripts prepared using this template are considered fully compliant with the journal’s formatting requirements, which helps accelerate the review and publication process.
All authors are required to submit a signed Publication License Agreement upon manuscript submission. Under this agreement, authors retain the copyright of their work and grant GSI Journals Serie A: Advancements in Tourism Recreation and Sports Sciences a non-exclusive, perpetual right to publish, distribute, archive, and make the manuscript publicly available. All published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Manuscripts submitted without a completed license agreement will not be considered for review.
In accordance with the Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy defined within the Ethical Principles and Publication Policy of the journal, authors are required to declare whether artificial intelligence–assisted tools were used during any stage of the manuscript preparation process. Accordingly, all authors must complete and upload the “Artificial Intelligence Usage Declaration” form to the system at the time of manuscript submission. The declaration should clearly and transparently specify the stages at which artificial intelligence was used (e.g., language editing, data analysis, image generation) and the purpose of such use.
Manuscripts submitted without an Artificial Intelligence Usage Declaration will not be considered for evaluation.
Click for the Artificial Intelligence Usage Declaration Form.
For manuscripts that require revision during the peer review or editorial evaluation process, authors are required to submit their responses to reviewer and/or editor comments using the Author Response Form.
The Author Response Form is designed to clearly, systematically, and transparently present: all comments and revision requests provided by reviewers and editors, the corresponding changes made in the manuscript or justified explanations where changes were not made, the exact location of each change within the manuscript (page, section, line, etc.).
For manuscripts undergoing revision, submission of a fully and clearly completed Author Response Form together with the revised manuscript is mandatory. The Author Response Form must be updated and resubmitted at each round of peer review to reflect all comments and revisions relevant to that specific review round.
Revisions submitted without an Author Response Form, with an incomplete form, or without updating the form for the relevant review round will not be considered for further evaluation.
👉 Author Response Form (For Reviewer and Editor Revisions)
Paragraph and page structure: Single spacing (0 pt before, 6pt after) should be used for all parts of manuscript except tables, figures and appendices. The page structure should be determined according to the bottom, top, right and left margins 1.5 cm, A4 paper size.
Title: The title of the manuscript should be written with the first letter of the words in capital letters, Palatino Linotype, 12 pt, bold letters.
Abstract: It should be between 150-180 words. Font: Palatino Linotype, 10 pt, italicized.
Keywords: It should be between 3-5 words.
Main Text: It should not exceed the limit of 10000 words (including references, abstract, extended summary, and appendices sections). Font: Palatino Linotype, 11 pt. Font for headings and subheadings: Palatino Linotype 11 pt, bold, justified. Hierarchical numbering should be done for sub-headings. One line space should be left before the main headings.
Tables and Figures: Paragraph structure should be set with single line spacing, but with 0 pt spacing before and after. Font: Palatino Linotype, 9 pt, left aligned. In addition, the text wrapping feature in figures and tables should be turned off. For table and figure titles (Palatino Linotype, 11 pt) and their representations, see the examples in the article template.
Appendices: Each appendix should be given on separate pages, after the references.
Manuscript should not make direct references to the author or co-authors that would reveal the identity of the author. Information about authors should be indicated on the title page for blind review purposes only.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND EXAMPLE REFERENCES FOR PROPOSED ARTICLE
Abstract: In this section, the main purpose, important results and method of the research should be stated. It is essential that the abstract is conceptualized in a way that gives the reader a clear idea of the topic and main points of the article.
Introduction part of the study should provide a general overview of the importance of the topic that is going to be covered in the manuscript. Readers should have an insight into the topic and reasons for conducting the current study. After introducing the topic, the research aim should be clearly stated. At the end of the introduction part, the presentation of the paper structure should be provided with a short description of what is going to be addressed in each part of the manuscript. Authors are advised to avoid reviewing the literature and detail description of the methodology in this part of the paper.
Literature review: At this part of the manuscript, previous similar studies conducted in the related field should be reviewed. Authors should in briefly elaborate on topic and concepts, theoretical models and framework as well as methodology being used, with the appropriate overview of the results obtained from these studies. It is important to clearly point out to the gap in the literature and contribution that the current study will have on the overall body of knowledge. Based on what is presented in the current part of the manuscript, related hypothesis or research questions should be derived and presented.
Methodology part should be reserved for description of research design and method used to answer to study’s research questions. It is expected that the appropriate literature for using the related method is presented. In addition, it is essential to pay attention to the issues such as explaining the characteristics of settings in which the study is conducted, sampling techniques as well as data collection method. The information on how were the questionnaires or interview questions derived should be provided in detail. In addition, the research analysis used in the current study, as well as the reasons for using this particular analysis should be presented. Descriptions mentioned in this part can be avoided in the case of an opinion piece.
Findings: After the description of the methodology, results derived from the conducted data analysis should be presented at this part. What type of analysis was used as well as statistical tests, reliability and validity tests, should be properly explained at this part of the study. After that presentation of the results should come. Findings and hypotheses evaluations should be presented according to the research approach and analysis, with the appropriate elaboration on the same. Tables, graphics, and figures should be presented at this part as well. Authors should make sure not to overuse the tables, but to combine several statistical data into one table where possible.
Discussions and/or Conclusion: In this part, a brief overview of the results obtained in the study is presented. This part should start with a short turn on the research problem and how the findings of the current study address this problem. At the end of the conclusion part, theoretical and practical implications for future research and practitioners in the field should be provided.
References: The spelling rules specified in the Publication Manual of American Psychological Association (APA) (6th edition) published by the American Psychological Association should be applied both in the text and in the bibliography.
Reference Formatting and Verification
Authors are required to prepare all references in submitted manuscripts in accordance with APA 6th edition standards. To ensure accuracy and accessibility, references must be verified before the typesetting stage.
Our journal recommends using https://referanscheck.com/ for this purpose. Responsible authors should quickly check their references on this platform and make necessary corrections. Authors must register using a free edu-affiliated email address. This process ensures that:
Any deficiencies or errors in the references are identified and corrected before typesetting.
The publication process proceeds faster and more smoothly.
References are accurate at the typesetting stage, minimizing the need for further corrections.
After typesetting is completed, during the final review by the editor, corrections must be updated in the Dergipark interface for the manuscript title, abstract, keywords (both in Turkish and English), and any changes made in the references.
According to the new policy, it is mandatory to provide references with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) in manuscripts. The DOI is a permanent identifier of academic publications and enhances citation accuracy. Therefore, DOI information must be indicated both in in-text citations and in the Reference List. If the article cited in the references does not have a DOI, the URL (access link) of the source must be provided.
In-text citation style:
Different citation formats are used as follows: single author (Adams, 1965), two authors (Chalip & Costa, 2012), three authors (Sevinç, Başaran & Clark, 2017), more than three authors (Chalip et al., 2012). For web references, instead of providing the URL, if the website belongs to an institution, the institution’s name should be used; if it does not belong to an institution, the website name should be given without “www” or domain extensions such as “com, net, org,” along with the year of access.
Examples: for www.kultur.gov.tr/
.. use (Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 2022); for www.hayalgucumerkezi.com
use (Hayalgucumerkezi, 2022).
An alphabetically ordered reference list must be provided at the end of the manuscript.
Sample Reference Formats
Journal Article Reference (with DOI):
Djurasevic, S., Adzic, S., & Stranjančević, A. (2019). Tourism Development Montenegro – Crucial Challenge Within The Structural Changes In Economy. GSI Journals Serie A: Advancements in Tourism Recreation and Sports Sciences, 2(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3360303
Öztürk, A. (2020). Çalışan motivasyonu ve iş tatmini ilişkisi: İstanbul örneği. İşletme ve Yönetim Dergisi, 12(2), 45–60. Retrieved January 12, 2026, from https://example.com/makale.pdf
Probst, G. J. B., & Büchel, B. S. T. (1997). Organizational Learning: The Competitive Advantage of The Future. London: Prentice Hall.
Book Chapter Reference (standard format if no DOI is available):
O’Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men’s and women’s gender role journeys: A metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle (pp. 107–123). New York, NY: Springer.
Internet Sources (access information instead of DOI):
GSI Journals Serie A: Advancements in Tourism Recreation and Sports Sciences. (2021). Ethical principles and publication policy. Retrieved January 12, 2026, from https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/atrss/policy
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