Submissions

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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines (https://jmic.online/information).
  • A separate document (titled 'Reviewers') is included in addition to the manuscript submission, that identifies four (4) potential/tentative reviewers (names, affiliations, contact information).
  • The authors acknowledge that a publication fee or Article Processing Charge (APC) will apply to accepted articles after peer-review, as outlined on the Information for Authors (https://jmic.online/information/#publication-fees) page. No charge will be applied to declined manuscripts.

Author Guidelines

When submitting an article, you will be asked to identify it as either: a full-length article (between 5,000-10,000 words in length); 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); or book review (information on the island and marine-related books and publications, <1,000 words in length).

If you have any queries about your submission you are encouraged to discuss with the editor-in-chief.

Detailed instructions for authors (pertaining to referencing style, access rights, and publication guidelines) can be found at https://jmic.online/information.

 

Full Length Article

Articles should be between 5,000-10,000 words in length. In special cases, please ask the editor.

Short Communication

A short communication article is a brief report to report to readers before completion of the full paper and is typically <5,000 words in length.

Survey Record

A survey record is an essays concerning island survey, survey data, photo materials, etc. and is typically <5,000 words in length.

Book Review

A book review concerns information on island and marine-related books and publications, and is typically <1,000 words in length.

Copyright Notice

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.

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

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):

Allows users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Note: If you need to comply with your funding body policy, you can apply for the CC BY license after your manuscript is accepted for publication.

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