Author Guideline for Marine Litter News
Author
Dear
authors of ‘Marine Litter News from East Asia Civil Forum on Marine Litter,’
Thank
you for preparing your valuable manuscript for our journal. We welcome articles
regarding researches, education, policies, and any other activities on marine
litter issues from the globe. To make your article more easily understandable
to readers around the world, please pay attention to the following guidelines.
1.
Composition of Articles
(1)
Title
-Please
make it concise and understandable.
-Including
the name of the relevant country is recommended.
(2)
Name of the author
-The
author should be natural persons even when writing articles representing
organizations.
-Name
of organization, author’s position, and email address should be included
(3)
Figure, Map, or Table
-Figures,
maps, or tables are recommended to be included in articles.
-Especially
maps showing the geographical context of the article is strongly recommended.
-Each
figure, map, and table should have captions explaining the figures, maps, and
tables.
-Each
figure, map, and table should be submitted as separate files.
(4)
References
-Referencing
other texts for explaining the situation is recommended.
-All
the lists of documents referenced needs to be included.
2.
Submission, Acceptance, and Edition
-Anybody
from around the world can submit the articles via email
-As
the journal is published at the end of May and November, draft articles need to
be submitted by the end of April and October.
-All
the articles which have basic quality will be accepted. The article may be
500-1000 words or longer if approved by the editor.
-The
editor may ask some revision of the draft to make the article more easily
understandable to readers.
3.
Publication fee
-There
is no publication fee to be paid by authors to us or by us to authors.
Thank
you for your cooperation,
Sunwook
Hong (Ph.D), the editor.