Author Instructions

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original and high-quality manuscripts to Maritime Park: Journal of Maritime Technology and Society. Manuscripts should fall within the journal's aims and scope and demonstrate scientific originality, methodological rigor, clear presentation, and relevance to the international maritime research community.

Authors are strongly encouraged to read these guidelines carefully before submission. Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal's basic requirements may be returned to the authors for technical revision or declined during the initial editorial screening.

1. General Requirements

Manuscripts submitted to Maritime Park must be original, scientifically sound, and relevant to the journal's aims and scope. The manuscript must not have been previously published and must not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

  • Manuscripts must be written in clear and academically appropriate English.
  • The study must present a clear research problem, scientific contribution, or technological contribution.
  • The methodology must be appropriate for the research objectives and sufficiently described.
  • Results must be supported by adequate evidence, analysis, and interpretation.
  • Manuscripts should engage with relevant and current international scholarly literature.
  • Local or regional case studies should demonstrate broader scientific, technological, methodological, comparative, or practical relevance beyond the immediate study area.

2. Article Types

Maritime Park primarily considers the following types of scholarly contributions:

Original Research Article
Reports original research findings supported by an appropriate research methodology, analysis, discussion, and clearly identified contribution.

Review Article
Provides a critical and structured synthesis of existing research, identifies important developments and research gaps, and proposes directions for future research.

Technical or Engineering Study
Presents significant technological, experimental, computational, design, operational, or engineering developments relevant to the journal's scope.

3. Submission Files and Anonymity

Maritime Park applies a double-anonymous peer-review process. Authors must therefore ensure that the manuscript submitted for peer review does not reveal the identities of the authors.

Author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, and other identifying information should be entered correctly in the OJS submission metadata. Such information should not appear in the anonymized manuscript used for peer review.

Authors should also remove identifying information from acknowledgments, file properties, self-references, or other sections where disclosure could compromise anonymous review.

Authors are encouraged to use the official Maritime Park manuscript template where available.

4. Manuscript Structure

Original research manuscripts should normally contain the following components:

  1. Title
  2. Abstract
  3. Keywords
  4. Introduction
  5. Materials and Methods
  6. Results
  7. Discussion, or Results and Discussion
  8. Conclusion
  9. Acknowledgments, where applicable
  10. Funding Statement
  11. Conflict of Interest Statement
  12. Data Availability Statement, where applicable
  13. AI Use Disclosure, where applicable
  14. References

Alternative structures may be accepted for review articles, technical studies, or manuscripts where another organization is more appropriate to the research design.

5. Title and Author Information

The title should be concise, specific, informative, and accurately reflect the principal subject and contribution of the manuscript. Authors should avoid unnecessarily long, overly general, or ambiguous titles.

Complete author information must be entered in the OJS metadata, including:

  • Full name;
  • Institutional affiliation;
  • Country;
  • Email address; and
  • ORCID iD, where available.

The corresponding author is responsible for communication with the journal and for ensuring that all authors have approved the submission and final version of the manuscript.

6. Abstract and Keywords

The abstract should provide a concise and self-contained summary of the manuscript. A research article abstract should normally be approximately 150–250 words and should clearly communicate:

  • Background or research problem;
  • Purpose or objective of the study;
  • Principal methodology;
  • Key results;
  • Main conclusion; and
  • Scientific, technological, or practical significance where appropriate.

Avoid references, undefined abbreviations, excessive background information, and claims that are not supported by the manuscript.

Authors should provide approximately 3–6 relevant keywords. Keywords should accurately represent the principal concepts of the study and should support indexing and discoverability.

7. Introduction

The Introduction should provide sufficient scientific context for the research. It should explain the problem being investigated, critically discuss relevant previous studies, identify the research gap, and clearly state the objective and contribution of the study.

Authors should avoid presenting the Introduction merely as a long descriptive literature review. The relationship between previous research, the unresolved problem, and the novelty of the submitted study should be clearly established.

8. Materials and Methods

The Materials and Methods section should describe the research design, data, materials, procedures, instruments, numerical models, experimental arrangements, analytical methods, or other techniques used in the study.

The description should be sufficiently detailed to allow qualified researchers to understand, evaluate, and, where appropriate, reproduce or replicate the study.

Established methods should be appropriately referenced. New or substantially modified methods should be clearly explained and justified.

Where research involves human participants, animals, confidential data, or activities requiring formal ethical approval or permission, authors must provide the relevant ethical or institutional information where applicable.

9. Results and Discussion

Results should be presented clearly, logically, and objectively. Tables and figures should support the presentation of important findings and should not unnecessarily duplicate information already explained in the text.

The Discussion should interpret the findings rather than merely repeat them. Authors should explain the scientific or engineering significance of the results, compare them with relevant previous studies, discuss possible reasons for similarities or differences, and identify the implications of the findings.

Relevant limitations of the study should be acknowledged where appropriate. Authors are encouraged to explain how the findings contribute to theory, methodology, engineering practice, maritime operations, industry, policy, environment, or society.

Results and Discussion may be presented as separate sections or as a combined Results and Discussion section when scientifically appropriate.

10. Conclusion

The Conclusion should directly address the research objective and summarize the most important scientific or technological contribution of the study.

The Conclusion should not simply repeat numerical results or restate the abstract. Where appropriate, authors may briefly discuss practical implications, limitations, recommendations, or directions for future research.

11. Ethical and Transparency Statements

Acknowledgments

Individuals or organizations that contributed to the research but do not meet the criteria for authorship may be acknowledged in this section.

Funding Statement

Authors should identify all sources of financial support for the research, including funding organizations and grant numbers where applicable. If the research received no specific funding, authors may state that no specific financial support was received.

Conflict of Interest Statement

Authors must disclose any financial, professional, personal, institutional, or other competing interest that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research or its interpretation. If no conflict exists, authors should provide an appropriate declaration.

Data Availability Statement

Where appropriate, authors should indicate whether the data supporting the findings of the study are publicly available, available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request, subject to confidentiality restrictions, or otherwise unavailable for a justified reason.

AI Use Disclosure

The substantive use of generative artificial intelligence for generating or significantly modifying manuscript text, images, code, data analysis, or scientific interpretation must be transparently disclosed in accordance with the journal's AI Use Policy.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, references, interpretations, and final content of the submitted manuscript.

12. Figures and Tables

Figures and tables must be relevant, clearly presented, and referred to in the manuscript text. They should be numbered consecutively according to their first appearance in the manuscript.

  • Each figure must have a clear and informative caption.
  • Each table must have a concise descriptive title.
  • Text, symbols, units, and labels must remain legible at publication size.
  • Figures should be of sufficient quality and resolution for scholarly publication.
  • Material reproduced or adapted from other sources must be properly cited, and authors are responsible for obtaining any permission required for reuse.

13. References

References should be relevant to the research problem and should adequately represent the current state of knowledge in the field. Authors are encouraged to prioritize credible, peer-reviewed, and recent scholarly sources, particularly international journal articles.

References should not be included solely to increase citation counts or to cite unrelated work. Excessive self-citation and unnecessary citation of the journal should be avoided.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that every reference cited in the text appears in the reference list and that every item in the reference list is cited in the manuscript.

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) should be included whenever available. Authors should carefully verify the accuracy of author names, article titles, journal titles, publication years, volumes, issues, pages, and DOI information.

References should be prepared consistently according to the citation style specified in the official Maritime Park manuscript template.

14. Submission Preparation Checklist

Before completing a submission, authors should confirm that:

  • The manuscript is original and is not under consideration by another journal.
  • The manuscript falls within the aims and scope of Maritime Park.
  • The manuscript is written in clear academic English.
  • The manuscript has been anonymized for double-anonymous peer review.
  • Complete author information has been entered correctly in the OJS metadata.
  • The abstract and keywords accurately represent the study.
  • The Introduction identifies the research problem, research gap, objective, and contribution.
  • Methods are sufficiently described and scientifically appropriate.
  • Results are supported by appropriate evidence and analysis.
  • The Discussion interprets the findings in relation to relevant literature.
  • All figures and tables are clear, numbered, and cited in the manuscript.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and DOI information where available.
  • Funding, conflicts of interest, data availability, and AI use have been disclosed where applicable.
  • The submission complies with the journal's Publication Ethics, Plagiarism, Authorship, Copyright, Open Access, and AI Use policies.

15. Review and Revision Process

Submitted manuscripts first undergo editorial screening. Manuscripts that satisfy the journal's preliminary requirements may proceed to a double-anonymous peer-review process involving at least two independent reviewers.

Authors receiving a revision decision should carefully address all relevant comments from editors and reviewers. A revised submission should be accompanied by a clear response explaining how each comment has been addressed or, where appropriate, providing a reasoned explanation for any suggested change that has not been adopted.

Revised manuscripts may be returned to the original reviewers for further evaluation. Submission of a revised manuscript does not guarantee acceptance.

16. After Acceptance

After a manuscript has been formally accepted, it will proceed to the journal's production process, which may include copyediting, metadata verification, layout preparation, author proofreading, and final publication.

Authors are responsible for reviewing proofs carefully and responding promptly to editorial or production queries. At the proof stage, changes should normally be limited to correcting errors rather than introducing substantial new content.

There is no manuscript submission fee. An Article Processing Charge of IDR 800,000 per accepted article applies only after the manuscript has successfully completed the editorial and peer-review process and has received a formal acceptance decision.

Payment of the Article Processing Charge does not influence editorial decisions and does not guarantee acceptance or publication.

 
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