Articles on tourism and leisure: On articles in general

An article (or paper) is a piece of text, usually published in a journal and often reporting on research into a single aspect of a problem. Many articles have a rather fixed structure, but each discipline has its own traditions.

Authors use articles for:

• quick sharing of new scientific insights
• recording/claiming certain new insights for the outside world
• making sure that their research literally does count: many researchers are judged by the number of articles and books they have published

and readers use them as:

• a source of very detailed analyses and research findings without a too extensive context

• peer reviewed = before publication blindly presented by the editors to experts and found in order
• open access = a business model for publishing journals and books in which the supplier/author carries the costs and the publication is freely and copyright-free available worldwide

Many scholarly articles are structured as follows:

1. Name and volume of the journal
2. Title of the article
3. Authors
4. Abstract
5. (Author) keywords
6. Acknowledgements
7. Introduction
8. Problem
9. Review of previous scholarship
10. Data
11. Method
12. Analysis
13. Results
14. Discussion
15. Conclusion
16. References
17. Appendices