Tourism and Leisure Time Journal (TLJ) is an open-access, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published by University of Science and Culture, Iran. TLJ has been established to provide an intellectual platform for all researchers working on issues related to tourism and leisure time studies. The Journal is dedicated to the publication of highest-quality research studies in the field. In this journal. A specific DOI number is given to any published paper in the Journal.
International, non-Iranian authors are free of publishing charges.
The journal is online and can be found in the following repositories:
About Tourism and Leisure Time Journal:
The Policy of Screening for Plagiarism
All manuscripts must be free of content that is plagiarised. Using similarity and plagiarism detection software, manuscripts submitted to TLJ will be checked for plagiarism. Before submitting their manuscript to the Journal, all authors are advised to use plagiarism detection software to check for similarities.
Editors check the plagiarism detection of manuscripts in TLJ using the iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) for English abstracts, and Iranian plagiarism detection software Hamyab (https://hamyab.sinaweb.net/) or Samime Noor for the Persian texts. TLJ will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Whenever it is determined that the manuscript has not complied with the plagiarism rules, the article will be rejected. If it has been published (after accepting), it will be removed from the published list and placed in the withdrawn list (returned articles because of failure to observe plagiarism law).
Authorship
Submission of the manuscripts is only possible after obtaining permission from all of its authors and relevant authorities/institutions. Authors have been arranged in the order they will appear in the published article. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, all authors must sign a statement agreeing to the addition or deletion of their names. The work of all the authors is greatly appreciated. In the peer-review process, authors must retract, corrections, and amendments. All financial support and potential conflicts of interest have been disclosed. All authors must approve any changes or corrections to a published work.
COPE
TLJ follows the policies and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It abides by its Code of Conduct in dealing with potential misconduct cases.
Data Citation
Data citation must follow the 7th edition of APA style.