Submissions

Author Guidelines

Plagiarism Detection: All received manuscripts are authenticated with the iThenticate software before being submitted for review.

Authorship: Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it

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to have approved the submitted version (and any substantially modified version that involves the author's contribution to the study);

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to have agreed both to be personally accountable for the author's own contributions and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and the resolution documented in the literature.

Paper categorization: Reviewed and accepted papers are categorized as original scientific papers, preliminary communications, and review articles.

Instructions for preparing the manuscript before submitting to the Journal:

• Papers are up to 16 pages with spacing, the text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Authors must write a paper in the English language.
• Each manuscript submission should contain a cover letter as a separate document. It should contain a short explanation of the paper's scientific contribution, stating the findings in the context of existing work and why it fits the Journal's scope. Author(s) should confirm that the manuscript nor any parts of its content are currently under consideration or published in another journal. The cover letter should be in English language.
• Each author in the manuscript should have the full and correct affiliation with the postal and e-mail address stated. In each paper, a correspondent author should be appointed, along with the e-mail address.
• Authors are kindly asked not to graphically prepress the typescript. At the beginning of the paper, it is necessary to state the paper's title, the author's or authors' names and surnames, affiliations, abstract, and keywords.
• The abstract should contain at least 100 words, briefly stating the goal, methodology, main ideas and purposes of the paper, and its scientific contribution. Keywords should be listed after the abstract.
• Tables, diagrams, illustrations, and charts must be understandable (bearing the ordinal number, title, source of information, and, if necessary, the explanation of symbols).
• Minimum resolution for all types of graphics is 300 dpi. If possible, authors should also send graphics (tables, diagrams, pictures, charts) as separate documents.
• Formulae should be put down as clear as possible using the standard expressions in MathType editor.
• References (books, papers, Internet, and other electronic sources in the paper / textual quotations) should be Harvard Style-sized. At the end of the paper, the list of references should refer to bibliographic units, bear the ordinal number (in square brackets), and be listed in alphabetic order considering the author’s name. Quotations should be written in brackets, stating the bibliographic unit's ordinal number and the page, or stating the author's name of the bibliographic unit, the year of publication, and the pages. It is preferable to avoid quoting by using footnotes.
• Each author is the only person responsible for the facts stated in her/his paper published in the Scientific Journal of Maritime Research. The Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka, as Editor and Publisher, is, therefore, released from any responsibility that may be imposed on in this respect.
• The Journal is printed in A4 format.
• The following statements about funding, acknowledgements and author contributions should be written at the end of the manuscript, but before literature:
• Funding:The manuscript should contain all sources of funding for the study, clearly stated. If the research is not funded, then the following statement should be included: "The research presented in the manuscript did not receive any external funding."
• Acknowledgments:This section contains any acknowledgment or support that the authors concern essential to share with the audience.
• Author Contributions: Each author named in the manuscript should have assigned a contribution to the manuscript (i.e., conceptualization, methodology, data collection, data curation, formal analyzes, research, writing, review and editing, supervision, validation, verification, final approval…). That should be written as follows: Research, Name Surname; Writing, Name Surname and Name Surname; Verification / Mathematical harmonization, Name surname). Only authors who contributed to the manuscript should be stated.