Dr. Heather Leggate McLaughlin, Director
Centre for International Transport Management
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street
London EC3N 2EY
Tel: 020 7320 1655
Fax: 020 7320 1672
Email: h.leggate@londonmet.ac.uk

Please read these Guidelines with care and attention: failure to follow them may result in your paper being delayed. Note especially the referencing conventions used by Maritime Policy & Management and the requirement for gender-, race-, and creed-inclusive language.

Maritime Policy & Management considers all manuscripts on condition they are the property (copyright) of the submitting author(s) and that copyright will be transferred to Maritime Policy & Management and the publishers, Taylor & Francis if the paper is accepted.

Maritime Policy & Management considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Maritime Policy & Management, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication, nor in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged all costs which Maritime Policy & Management incurs, and their papers will not be published.

• Please write clearly and concisely, stating your objectives clearly and defining your terms. Your arguments should be substantiated with well reasoned supporting evidence.
• For all manuscripts, gender-, race-, and creed-inclusive language is mandatory.
• Abstracts are required for all papers submitted and should precede the text of a paper.
• Bionotes should be contained on a separate sheet and be located at the beginning of a paper.
• Authors should include telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail addresses on the cover page of manuscripts.
• In writing your paper, you are encouraged to review articles in the area you are addressing which have been previously published in the journal, and where you feel appropriate, to reference them. This will enhance context, coherence, and continuity for our readers.  

Copyright permission

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This applies both to direct reproduction or 'derivative reproduction' - when the contributor has created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source.

It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Abstracts

Structured abstracts are required for all papers, and should be submitted as detailed below, following the title and author's name and address, preceding the main text.

For papers reporting original research, state the primary objective and any hypothesis tested; describe the research design and your reasons for adopting that methodology; state the methods and procedures employed, including where appropriate tools, hardware, software, the selection and number of study areas/subjects, and the central experimental interventions; state the main outcomes and results, including relevant data; and state the conclusions that might be drawn from these data and results, including their implications for further research or application/practice.

For review essays, state the primary objective of the review; the reasoning behind your literature selection; and the way you critically analyse the literature; state the main outcomes and results of your review; and state the conclusions that might be drawn, including their implications for further research or application/practice.

Abstracts should not exceed 200 words.

Notes on style

All authors are asked to take account of the diverse audience of Maritime Policy & Management. Clearly explain or avoid the use of terms that might be meaningful only to a local or national audience. However, note also that Maritime Policy & Management does not aspire to be international in the ways that McDonald's restaurants or Hilton Hotels are 'international'; we much prefer papers that, where appropriate, reflect the particularities of each higher education system.

Some specific points of style for the text of articles, research reports, case studies, reports, essay reviews, and reviews follow:

1. Maritime Policy & Management prefers US to 'American', USA to 'United States', and UK to 'United Kingdom'.
2. Maritime Policy & Management uses conservative British, not US, spelling, i.e. colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not behavior; [school] programme not program; [he] practises not practices; centre not center; organization not organisation; analyse not analyze, etc.
3. Single 'quotes' are used for quotations rather than double "quotes", unless the 'quote is "within" another quote'.
4. Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. 'quotes precede punctuation'.
5. Punctuation of common abbreviations should follow the following conventions: e.g. i.e. cf. Note that such abbreviations are not followed by a comma or a (double) point/period.
6. Dashes (M-dash) should be clearly indicated in manuscripts by way of either a clear dash (-) or a triple hyphen (---) (N-dash) should be indicated either by a clear dash (-) or a double hyphen (--).
7. Maritime Policy & Management is sparing in its use of the upper case in headings and references, e.g. only the first word in paper titles and all subheads is in upper case; titles of papers from journals in the references and other places are not in upper case.
8. Apostrophes should be used sparingly. Thus, decades should be referred to as follows: 'The 1980s [not the 1980's] saw ...'. Possessives associated with acronyms (e.g. APU), should be written as follows: 'The APU's findings that ...', but, NB, the plural is APUs.
9. All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. 'The work f the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) in the early 1980s ...'. Subsequently, 'The APU studies of achievement ...', in a reference ... (Department of Education and Science [DES] 1989a).
10. Brief biographical details of significant national figures should be outlined in the text unless it is quite clear that the person concerned would be known internationally. Some suggested editorial emendations to a typical text are indicated in the following with square brackets: 'From the time of H. E. Armstrong [in the 19th century] to the curriculum development work associated with the Nuffield Foundation [in the 1960s], there has been a shift from heurism to constructivism in the design of [British] science courses'.
11. The preferred local (national) usage for ethnic and other minorities should be used in all papers. For the USA, African-American, Hispanic, and Native American are used, e.g. 'The African American presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson...' For the UK, African-Caribbean (not 'West Indian'), etc.
12. Material to be emphasized (italicized in the printed version) should be underlined in the typescript rather than italicized. Please use such emphasis sparingly.
13. n (not N), % (not per cent) should be used in typescripts.
14. Numbers in text should take the following forms: 300, 3000, 30 000. Spell out numbers under 10 unless used with a unit of measure, e.g. nine pupils but 9 mm (do not introduce periods with measure). For decimals, use the form 0.05 (not .05).
15. When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark authors' must use the symbol ® or TM or alternatively a footnote can be inserted using the wording below:
    
    

    This article includes a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark. Its inclusion does not imply it has acquired for legal purposes a non-proprietary or general significance, nor is any other judgement implied concerning its legal status.

Notes on tables and figures

1. Tables and figures should be referred to in text as follows: figure 1, table 1, i.e. lower case. 'As seen in table [or figure] 1 ...' (not Tab., fig. or Fig).
2. The place at which a table or figure is to be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly on a manuscript:
   
   

   Insert table 2 about here

3. Each table and/or figure must have a title that explains its purpose without reference to the text.
4. All figures and tables must be on separate sheets and not embedded in the text.
   
   

   Thus tables and figures must be referred to in the text and numbered in order of appearance. Each table should have a descriptive title and each column an appropriate heading. For all figures, original copies of figures should be supplied. All figures should allow for reduction to column width (7.5cm) or page width (16 cm). Photographs may be sent as glossy prints or negatives. The legends to any illustrations must be typed separately following the text and should be grouped together.

   Do not type the caption to a figure on that figure; the legends to any illustrations must be typed separately following the main text and should be grouped together.

Author's bionote and photograph

This note should be brief (fifty words) and include the author's institutional position and affiliation and a full address for correspondence. For example:

'Nel Noddings is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education in the School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-3096, USA. Her most recent books are The Challenge of Care to Schools: Alternative Approaches to Education (New York: Teachers College Press, 1992) and (edited with Carol Witherell) Stories Lives Tell: Narrative and Dialogue in Education (New York: Teachers College Press, 1991).'

A good quality portrait photograph should accompany the bionote.

Acknowledgements

Any acknowledgements authors wish to make should be included in a separate headed section at the end of the manuscript. Please do not incorporate these into the bionote or notes.

Book reviews

1. The following header material should appear in all reviews in the following order (note also the punctuation):

    

   Operating a Bus and Coach Business. By Ann Brewer and David Hensher. (St Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1997.) [Pp. 220.] $35.00. ISBN 1 86448 458 6.

2. Page references within reviews should be given as follows: (p. 337) or (pp. 36-37).

Citations in text

References should be cited using the numerical system (e.g. [3], [5-9]). They should be listed separately at the end of the paper in the order in which they appear in the text.

Maritime Policy & Management uses the following conventions for references:

1. To a book:

   STEENBRINK, P. A., 1974, Optimization of Transportation Networks (London, U.K.: John Wiley).

2. To a chapter in a book:

    

   FRIESZ, T. L., 1981, The multiobjective optimization in transportation: the case of equilibrium network design. In: Organizations: Multiple Agents with Multiple Criteria, edited by J. N. Morse. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 190 (NewYork: Springer-Verlag), pp. 116-127.

3. To an article in a journal:

    

   YANG, H., YAGAR, S., IIDA, Y., and ASAKURA, Y., 1994, An algorithm for the inflow control problem on urban freeway networks with user-optimal flows. Transportation Research, 28B, 123-139.

4. To a report, proceedings and to unpublished literature

    

   TAN, H., GERSHWIN, S., and ATHANS, M., 1979, Hybrid optimization in urban traffic networks. MIT Report Dot-TSC-RSPA-79-7.

   ASAKURA, Y., and SASAKI, T., 1990. Formulation and feasibility test of optimal road network design model with endogenously determined travel demand. Proceedings of the 5th World Conference on Transport Research, Yokohama, Japan, July, pp. 351-365

   YANG, H., BELL, M. G. H., and MENG, Q., 1997, Equilibrium zone reserve capacity under network capacity constraints. Working paper, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

5. Reference to a newspaper or magazine

    

   SMITH, A., 1996, Labour ditches plans to re-regulate buses. Financial Times, 30 December.

6. Reference to an Internet source

    

   Give the universal resource locator in full:

   http://acsinfo.acs.org/instruct/instruct.html

7. Reference to a personal communication

    

   BRANNEN, J., 1996, Personal communication.

8. Reference to a case in law

    

   In text, italicize names of plaintiffs and defendants:

   Miranda v. Arizona 1974

9. Reference to government legislation

    

   US CONGRESS, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1956, The Mutual Security Act of 1956, 84th Congress, second session, report 2273.

   UNITED KINGDOM PARLIAMENT, Committee on the Working of the Monetary System [Radcliffe Committee] 1960, Principal Memoranda of Evidence, vol. 2, Cmd 1958.

   UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Secretariat for Economic Affairs, 1951, Methods of Financing Economic Development in Less Developed Countries, report II B 2.

Other points to note

1. References to multi-authored books and papers should be fully spelled out in the references, i.e. et al. should not be used. The '&' should not be used except for publisher's names.
2. References to chapters in edited books must include the page references for any chapter being cited. Such references should include the full page span (e.g. 212-252 , NOT 212-52). Note that a single editor is indicated by (ed.) - with a point/period - and multiple editors by (eds) - without a point/period.
3. Wherever possible ERIC references should be included in all unpublished material, e.g. ERIC ED 332 157. The availability of ERIC numbers enormously simplifies the work of those who want to follow-up a reference.

    

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