Journal Details
Maritime Affairs
Journal of the National Maritime Foundation of India
Instructions for Authors
Instructions to Authors
Though there is no standard length for papers, 5000-8000 words is a useful target. The paper should begin with an indented summary of around 100-150 words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions of the paper. Details of institutional affiliations of the author(s), full address(es) and other contact information should be included on a separate cover sheet. Any acknowledgements should be included on the cover sheet as should a note of the exact length of the paper.
Each typescript should be submitted in duplicate. Papers should be typewritten on A4/letter size paper, on one side only, double-spaced (including notes) and with ample margins. All pages (including those containing only diagrams and tables) should be numbered consecutively. Papers should be submitted on CD-R in rich text format (RTF) or MS Word together with double-spaced hard copy.
All diagrams and maps should be provided separately in uncompressed .TIF or .JPG formats in individual files. These should be prepared in black and white. Tints should be avoided. If maps and diagrams cannot be prepared electronically, they should be presented on good quality white paper. Each CD-R should be labelled with the journal's name, paper title, name of the author(s) and software used. It is the responsibility of the author(s) to ensure that where copyright materials are included within a paper, the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained. Confirmation of this should be included on a separate sheet to be submitted with the paper. Copyright of papers published in Maritime Affairs rests with the National Maritime Foundation.
Style
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. A guide to style and presentation is obtainable from the publisher. Current Journal style should be followed closely. Dates should be given in the form: January 1, 2000. Use Figures for denoting numbers 11 and above. British spellings are to be used. Sub-headings and sub-sub-headings should be unambiguously marked on the copy.
Title
The title of the paper should clearly convey its aim.
Abstract
This is an indented summary of around 100-150 words describing the objective, main arguments and conclusions of the paper.
Article text
All diagrams, charts and graphs should be referred to as figure and should be consecutively numbered. Source tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an Arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text.
Source Notes
Maritime Affairs follows a system of endnotes for references in the Chicago style of citation. The notes should be single spaced and numbered consecutively through the paper. They should follow the following pattern:
Books
One Author
Wendy Doniger, Splitting the Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), p. 65.
Two Authors
Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 104-7.
Four or more authors
Randall, John E. et al., Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997), p. 262.
Editor, Translator, or Compiler Instead of Author
Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), pp. 91-92.
Editor, Translator, or Compiler in Addition to Author
Yves Bonnefoy, New and Selected Poems, ed. John Naughton and Anthony Rudolf (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), p. 22.
Chapter or Other Part of a Book
Andrew Wiese, “‘The House I Live In': Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States,” in The New Suburban History, ed. Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. 101-2.
Chapter of an Edited Volume Originally Published Elsewhere (as in primary sources)
Quintus Tullius Cicero. “Handbook on Canvassing for the Consulship,” in Rome: Late Republic and Principate, ed. Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White, vol. 2 of University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, ed. John Boyer and Julius Kirshner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), p. 35.
Preface, Foreword, Introduction, or Similar Part of a Book
James Rieger, Introduction to Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. xx-xxi.
Book Published Electronically
Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders' Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/ (accessed June 27, 2006).
Journals Article in a Print Journal
John Maynard Smith, “The Origin of Altruism,” Nature, 393 (1998): 639.
Article in an Online Journal
Hlatky, Mark A., Derek Boothroyd, Eric Vittinghoff, Penny Sharp, and Mary A. Whooley. 2002. Quality-of-life and depressive symptoms in postmenopausal women after receiving hormone therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progest in Replacement Study (HERS) trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 287, no. 5 (February 6), http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html#aainfo (accessed January 7, 2004).
Magazine Article
Steve Martin, “Sports-Interview Shocker”, New Yorker, May 6, 2002, p. 84.
Newspaper Article
Niederkorn, William S. “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare' Discovery.” New York Times, June 20, 2002, Arts section, Midwest edition.
Book Review
James Gorman, “Endangered Species,” review of The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times Book Review, June 2, 2002, p. 16.
Thesis or Dissertation
M. Amundin, “Click Repetition Rate Patterns in Communicative Sounds from the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena” (PhD diss., Stockholm University, 1991), 22-29, p. 35.
Paper Presented at a Meeting or Conference
Brian Doyle, “Howling Like Dogs: Metaphorical Language in Psalm 59” (paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, Berlin, Germany, June 19-22, 2002).
Website
Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees. “Evanston Public Library Strategic Plan, 2000-2010: A Decade of Outreach.” Evanston Public Library. http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html (accessed June 1, 2005).
Weblog Entry or Comment
Peter Pearson, comment on “The New American Dilemma: Illegal Immigration,” The Becker-Posner Blog, comment posted March 6, 2006, http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/03/the_new_america.html#c080052 (accessed March 28,2006).
Item in Online Database
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, ed. John Bostock and H.T. Riley, in the Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+1.dedication (accessed November 17, 2005).
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