Journal of Marine and Island Cultures

Information for Authors

Access Rights

From 2012 to 2016, the journal was published by Elsevier. As of 1 January 2017 it operates as an independent publication, published by the Institution for Marine and Island Cultures, Mokpo National University with production and hosting by Plate Media. All articles published are open access and are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

The journal is Scopus indexed and listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

User Rights

Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following user license:

Author Rights

For open access publishing, this journal uses an exclusive licensing agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to Institution for Marine and Island Cultures, Mokpo National University, but will have the right to share their article in the same way permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.

Publishing Schedule

This journal is published three times per year: April, August, and December.

Submissions

Journal of Marine and Island Cultures publishes English language articles and uses a simplified style of Harvard referencing (see below). Authors are expected to submit their final manuscripts in the prescribed house style. Articles should be between 5,000-10,000 words in length. In special cases, please ask the editor.

In addition to full-length articles, Journal of Marine and Island Cultures publishes following articles: short communication (a brief report to report to readers before completion of the full paper, <5,000 words in length); survey record (essays on the island survey, survey data, photo materials, etc. <5,000 words in length); and book review (information on the island and marine-related books and publications, <1,000 words in length).

All manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form in Word format. Use of styles in your formatting is not a requirement but is preferred.

To track the progress of your submission, please visit the journal's submission portal.

Instructions for Authors

Abstracts

All articles should be accompanied by an abstract of 150-200 words.

Keywords

All abstracts should be followed by a maximum of six key words/terms.

Maps, Photographs, and Diagrams

Maps, photographs, and diagrams may be used, provided authors obtain permission to reproduce any previously published material. Images can be embedded within the .docx file, or sent as separate files to the manuscript.

References

Citation in text

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or "Personal communication" Citation of a reference as ‘‘in press’’ implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

Web references

As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.

References in a special issue

Please ensure that the words ‘this issue’ are added to any references in the list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special Issue.

Reference management software

This journal has standard templates available in key reference management packages EndNote (http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp) and Reference Manager (http://refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp). Using plug-ins to word processing packages, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article and the list of references and citations to these will be formatted according to the journal style which is described below.

House style specifications

• Use footnotes instead of endnotes in your submission.
• Leave line breaks after every paragraph.
• Explain all abbreviations and foreign language terms on first use.
• Use double inverted commas “…” for direct quotations and singles ‘…’ for figures of speech (etc.)
• Put all quotes of over 30 words in italics and separate from preceding line with a line break.
• Use round brackets (…) rather than square […]
• All journal, book, film, TV program, DVD and/or album titles should be in italics, all journal article, poem, play, novel and/or artwork titles should be in single inverted commas.

Reference style

Reference all quotations in following style (Author, year:page). Then include full bibliographic reference in a final References section at the end of the article.

• Text: All citations in the text should refer to:
  1. Single author: the author’s name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
  2. Two authors: both authors’ names and the year of publication;
  3. Three or more authors: first author’s name followed by “et al.” and the year of publication.
• Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.
  • Examples: “as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995). Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown…”
• List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, etc., placed after the year of publication.

Reference Examples

• Reference to a journal publication:
  Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2000. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163: 51–59.
• Reference to a book:
  Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 1979. The Elements of Style, third ed. Macmillan, New York.
• Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
  Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 1999. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith, R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281–304.
• Journal abbreviations sources
  
  • Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html;
  • List of title word abbreviations: http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWAonline. php;
  • CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service): http://www.cas.org/sent.html.

Publication Fees

From 2024 onwards, in order to efficiently operate the editing process and journal management, JMIC will apply publication fees/Article Processing Charges (APCs) under some scenarios (as detailed below). In short: if the number of pages exceeds 10, additional costs may apply. In the case of organizing a special issue or special section, please discuss with the editor-in-chief.

We regard this as an important step in being able to continue publishing as an open access journal for the benefit of readers worldwide and the authors.

Publication Fees Summary

PDF of up to 10 pages: No APC applies.
Extra-page charges: $30 USD per page apples to each page exceeding 10 PDF pages.
For special issues and thematic sections, please contact the editor-in-chief.

Note that in the cases of an APC being applicable, the amount will be paid only to accepted articles after peer-review. No charge will be applied to declined manuscripts.

Publication Policies

JMIC has the following Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Policies*

Editors’ responsibilities

The editor is responsible for deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published. The editor will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. The decision will be based on the paper’s importance, originality and clarity, and the study’s validity and its relevance to the journal's scope.

The editor and any editorial staff will not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers and/or other editorial advisers as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

The peer-reviewing process assists the editor and the editorial board in making editorial decisions and may also serve the author in improving the paper.

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and withdraw from the review process.

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorised by the editor.

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Reviewers should identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the paper has not been cited in the reference section. They should point out whether observations or arguments derived from other publications are accompanied by the respective source. Reviewers will notify the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and conflict of interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

Authors’ duties

Authors of original research reports should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data access and retention

Authors could be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the paper for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.

Originality, plagiarism and acknowledgement of sources

Authors will submit only entirely original works, and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication

Papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Manuscripts which have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere cannot be submitted. In addition, manuscripts under review by the journal should not be resubmitted to copyrighted publications. However, by submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retain the rights to the published material.

Authorship of the paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.

The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list. The corresponding author will also verify that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

*JMIC’s Publication Ethics and Malpractice policies are derived from those of Psych Open Publishing.