Author guidelines

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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document 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.
• Two reviewers have to be suggested in the comments to editor section. Submit reviewers suggestions of scientists from different countries than those of the authors who could evaluate the work and they are not based at the funding body of the manuscript.
• One topic and one subtopic under which the paper is submitted have to be indicated.
• We do not allow correspoding author to have more than two manuscripts appear in a peer review procedure at the same time. Submission of new manuscript can be made after successful manusripts publication.

General information

• All papers have to deal with the topic of transport and be submitted strictly within one of the listed subtopics. Please, refer to list of topics and subtopics here and indicate it clearly when submitting your paper.
• Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication.
• Manuscripts written in good English must include abstract and keywords also written in English.
• The resume (abstract) should not exceed 10 lines.
• Please provide minimum three up to maximum seven keywords which express the principal topics of the paper.
• Submitted manuscripts must not exceed 15 pages (including figures, graphs, list of references, appendix, etc.). The cost of one additional page, designed according to the requirements of the journal, is 50.00 Euro (price excluding VAT).
• The nomination of 2 reviewers must be enclosed - their full names, workplaces and e-mails must be sent. Please provide their personal email accounts (e.g. Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail) only if their institutional email accounts can be found after performing a basic Google search (name and institution). Submit reviewers suggestions of scientists from different countries than those of the authors.
• For all manuscripts a standard single-anonymised peer review procedure by at least two independent reviewers and language correction is mandatory.
• After reviewing and incorporating the editor‘s comments, the final draft (before printing) will be sent to authors for final review and minor adjustments.

General paper format

• Submissions should be prepared in Microsoft WORD compatible format – format A4, Times Roman size 12, simple line spacing, page margins 2.5 cm.
• Do not use styles and limit formatting to minimum (bold for section headings, figure and table captions).
• Uncommon abbreviations must be defined the first time they are used in the text.

Equations, mathematics and number formats

• Mathematical symbols and equations should follow standard formatting rules (use of italics and bold) and the use of inline mathematic equations and expressions limited to a necessary minimum.
• Scalar variables in the text are set as italic (e.g. r_corr or A₅), vector are set as boldface (e.g. F , a or v₁) and matrices or tensors are set as boldface Arial (e. g. Z)
• Use decimal point instead of decimal comma in numbers, e.g. 0.367 and not 0,367.
• All equations, with the exception of inline expressions, should be numbered in a chronological order using numbers in brackets - (1).
• Equations may be submitted in only in Word and Mathtype formats and must be editable, i.e. not embedded as figures.
• Only SI units are allowed, using multiplication and negative powers instead of /, e.g. kg.m^-3 and not kg/m³. If Imperial units are necessary, then a conversion to an appropriate SI unit must be provided.

Figures and tables

• All figures and tables shall be numbered in a chronological order, contain a concise caption and referenced in the text. Place the tables and figures in positions that you consider appropriate given content.
• Figures, graphs and diagrams, if not processed in Microsoft WORD, must be sent in electronic form (as JPG, GIF, TIF, TTF or BMP files) or drawn in high contrast on white paper. Photographs for publication must be either contrastive or on a slide.
• Where possible always try to use table and figure widths of 7.5 cm or 16 cm; the editor reserves the right to reformat figures and tables that are not of the indicated width.
• Tables should use only horizontal lines to separate the table heading from the body of the table and at the bottom of the table. No colours or other formatting is permitted in tables; when highlighting is required you may use special symbols such as "^", "†", "‡", etc.
• Do not embed tables as figures; all tabulated information must be in editable format. Using Figure caption for graphics containing tabulated information is not acceptable.
• Where possible use vector or high-resolution graphics for good publishing quality and reliability.

Table formatting examples

Citations and references

• All information and data that are not author's original data or contribution shall be appropriately and clearly referenced. All manuscripts are submitted for an originality check.
• The numbered reference citation within text should be enclosed in square brackets and used in chronological order. The reference list should appear at the end of the article (in compliance with ISO 690).
• For citing of multiple sources use [1,5,7] or [1-3] depending on the order of references you are using.
• The following format shall be used for all references:

Journal paper

[1] HISAKATA, R., NISHIDA S., JOHNSTON, A. An adaptable metric shapes perceptual space. Current Biology [online]. 2016, 26(14), p. 1911–1915 [accessed 2016-10-03]. ISSN 0960-9822. Available from: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.047

Book

[2] SAMBROOK, J., RUSSELL, D. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. 3. ed. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: CSHL Press, 2001. ISBN 0879695773.

Conference paper

[3] GROSS, P. Railway track cracks identification. In: 9th International Railway Conference: proceedings. Vol. 2. Mechanical engineering in transport. London: London College of Transport, 2001. ISBN 80-7157- 524-0, p. 262-268.

Edited book or monograph

[4] HOGUE, W. V. Structure databases. In: Bioinformatics. 2. ed. New York, NY: Wiley-Interscience, 2001, Life Sciences Series, p. 83–109. ISBN 0471383910.

Webpage

[5] Transport - Wikipedia [online] [accessed 2019-02-21]. Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport

Attachments