Submissions

Author Guidelines

An author is a person who contributed significantly with his or her intellectual work to the content of research and paper. Authors are responsible for content in their papers and cite contributions by other people in a section at the end of the paper. If the research published in the paper was financed by an institution or an individual, it should be noted at the end of the paper in the acknowledgments section.

Papers sent to the Editorial Board should represent ideas and research results in a logical, accurate and concise way. Authors should intend to be consistent in using professional terminology, and should pay special attention to maps and illustrations, which are an integral part of papers, taking care of their quality and legibility.

Authors have to sign an authorship statement which guarantees they are exclusive holders of copyright and that the publisher has right to publish the paper in printed and electronic form. Authors also make a statement about potential conflict of interest.

Authors have to obtain permission for reproducing those parts of content which have already been published (illustrations, tables, maps, figures or longer texts) by copyright holders. Authors do not receive fees for published papers and material.

Research integrity

The Editorial Board cultivates scientific integrity as the key element of scientific research. The Editorial Board proceeds according to suggestions of the Committee for Publishing Ethics (COPE) in doubt of misconduct. COPE suggestions can be found at http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts.

Paper length

Scientific and professional papers should have no more than 6000 words. The number of illustrations is not limited, but authors should make sure their number and content are appropriate. Abstracts should have no more than 200 words. A paper’s title has to be concise and informative.

Technical aspect of manuscripts

Manuscripts are sent to the Editorial Board in digital form in one of the formats supported by text editors. Illustrations are sent separately in digital form in raster or vector graphics format, and it is best to send illustrations in the format of the program they were produced in. Raster illustrations are to be sent in a format which preserves quality (e.g. TIFF, PNG).  Resolution of such illustrations has to be about 300 dpi and the size has to be the one the illustration is going to be printed in with appropriate content quality and without observable flaws. Maps should be produced according to rules of cartographic profession.

Publication Cost

Publishing accepted papers in the journal is free of charge, assuming that authors submit their manuscripts in standard English and Croatian. Authors who are not able to translate their papers into English or Croatian can make a request to have them translated at the following prices: translating from Croatian into English 15 €, from English into Croatian 12 € per text page. Furthermore, authors whose papers are not written in standard Croatian or English can make a request to have them corrected at the following prices: 3 € for Croatian and 12 € for English, per text page. One author text page = 1500 characters, including spaces.

Citing literature

Literature cited in text should be listed alphabetically in the references section, by last name of author.

Examples

Journal article
Puceković B, Lapaine M (2017) Quality control and new data-quality measures for the aesthetics of a Croatian topographic map at the scale of 1:25,000. International Journal of Cartography, vol. 3, no. 2, 187–200. doi: 10.1080/23729333.2016.1278191

Book, authored
South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

Book, edited
Lapaine M, Usery EL (eds) (2017) Choosing a Map Projection. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer

Book chapter
Lapaine M (2017) Modelling the World. In: Kent AJ, Vujakovic P (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, p 187–201

Conference papers
Lapaine M (2016) George Biddell Airy and His Contribution to Map Projections Theory. In: Bandrova T, Konecny M (eds) Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Cartography and GIS, Albena, Bulgaria, 13–17 June 2016, p 334–342

Official institutions documents
Hrvatski sabor (2013) Zakon o Nacionalnoj infrastrukturi prostornih podataka. Narodne novine, 56/13, Zagreb

Map
SGA (2012): Topographic map, sheet Tar, 25-1-108-3, *1 : 25 000. State Geodetic Administration, Zagreb

Standard
HZN (2004): HRN ISO 12858-1:2004, Optika i optički instrumenti – Pomoćni uređaji za geodetske uređaje – *1. dio: Invarske nivelmanske letve (ISO 12858-1:1999). Hrvatski zavod za norme, Zagreb

Online publications
Doe J (1999) Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their effects. Royal Society of Chemistry. Available via DIALOG. http://www.rsc.org/dose/title of subordinate document. Accessed 15 Jan 1999

Personal communication
Solarić N (2014) Professor emeritus, personal communication, 15 Jan 2014

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

2. Scientific or professional paper has no more than 6000 words. Abstract has no more than 200 words. Title is concise and informative. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.

3. Illustrations will be sent as separate documents in suitable graphic format zipped in single archive. Resolution of raster images is about 300 dpi at the size for printing without observable flaws. Maps are produces according to rules of cartographic profession.

4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.