Author guidelines

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors who do not adhere to these guidelines.

Author Guidelines

As regards the formatting of the manuscripts, it is necessary to follow the submission guidelines to facilitate the preparation of the journal and its timely publication.

Manuscript submission

Coastal resilience and sustainability is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed diamond open access scientific journal published twice a year.

The journal aims to publish the following original contributions from authors:

  • Original Research Papers
  • Review Papers
  • Preliminary Reports
  • Professional Papers
  • Conference Papers
  • Book reviews

All manuscripts must be written in English, with the accompanying Abstract and up to 5 keywords in English, and with an abstract and up to 5 keywords in one of the respective languages: Croatian, German, French, Spanish, Greek, Latvian, Romanian, and Ukrainian.  

Manuscripts should be submitted via the submission system available at: 

https://morepress.unizd.hr/journals/index.php/crs/submission

During the submission, authors should use their ORCID ID, if applicable.

Editorial Board accepts unpublished manuscripts except for academic theses previously published in an institutional or other repositories or conference papers. Manuscript submission complies with Croatian Zakon o autorskom pravu i srodnim pravima (NN 167/03) and other copyright laws. By that, the author confirms that his work is an original manuscript and that there is no copyright violation, and it adheres to strict rules of academic integrity, including ethical issues, methodology, citation, etc. By submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors give authority to the journal to process the manuscript and confirm that the manuscript is not under consideration for publication in another journal. CoReS journal accepts manuscripts that were prepared from a thesis (diploma, master or PhD) or presented at a conference.

General format guidelines

The manuscript length depends on the type of submission (excluding abstracts, bibliography, and data in tables and charts).

  • An Original research paper should not exceed 9,000-10,000 words.
  • The Review paper should not exceed 12,000-14,000 words.
  • Preliminary Reports, Professional Papers, and Conference Papers should not exceed 6,000-7,500 words
  • Book reviews should not exceed 1,500-2,000 words

The Editorial Board may, in exceptional cases, decide to publish longer texts.

All manuscripts should be accompanied by a separate document including:

  • Cover letter to the Editor to explain the motivation behind the manuscript, why it fits the scope of the journal, and the relevance and originality of the submission
  • title,
  • name and surname of the author(s), job title/position,
  • whenever possible, authors’ contributions (CRediT roles),
  • ORCID (If applicable),
  • the e-mail address(es) of all authors,
  • affiliation of all author(s),
  • one author should be marked as the corresponding author.

The manuscript should consist of an

  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Body of manuscript (with IMRaD structure: Materials and Methods/Methodology, Results, Discussion)
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:

For single agency grants

This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].

For multiple agency grants

This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

  • Disclosure statement/ Conflicts of interest,
  • Data availability statement.

If there is a data set associated with the manuscript, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the manuscript can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).

Note: depending on the type of submission, elements of the manuscript may vary.

Structured abstract

A structured abstract (200 to 300 words) should consist of 4 to 7 elements:

Purpose (mandatory)
Approach/methodology/design (mandatory)
Main Findings (mandatory) 
Research limitations (if applicable) 
Practical implications (if applicable)      
Social implications (if applicable)
Originality/value (mandatory)

The abstract should be accompanied by up to five key words, i.e., the terms that help in the classification of the manuscript. Keywords should be sorted alphabetically and separated by commas.

Text editing

The main body of the text should be font Times New Roman, size 12, line spacing 1.5, and alignment Justify. 

Chapter numbering. The chapters in the manuscript are to be numbered by using Arabic numerals (1, 2, 2.1, 2.2, etc.). They should be highlighted in bold, and the subheadings should also be in italics.

Tables and figures. Tables and figures (charts) within the text should be numbered in order of appearance. Each table and figure should be described in such a way that they are legible even without the context. Table descriptions should be placed above the table, and figure descriptions should be placed below the figure. All decimal numbers should be written with commas in tables and throughout the text. Within the part of the text that refers to a particular table or figure, it is necessary to state in parentheses which table or figure it is referring to. E.g. (Figure 1) or (see Table 2).

Illustrations. Illustrations (especially photographs and maps) should be submitted separately (JPG, TIFF) and should be of satisfactory resolution. The place of the illustration should be marked in the text of the manuscript.

Examples of satisfactory resolution:

Photos, color images, and grayscale images: 400-600 dpi (dots per inch) at the final print size.

Graphs, diagrams, and line drawings (vector or black-and-white): 600-1200 dpi to keep lines sharp.

Maps and detailed images: at least 400-600 dpi, depending on the level of detail.

Recommended formats: TIFF, PNG.

In-text citations. Direct quotations in the text should be used sparingly and only when it is essential to express a thought in the words of the original author. All in-text citations should first be announced in the narrative text by the author of the article (the reasons for the decision to state something directly should be clarified) and commented on at the end of the quotation (explain what the original author meant in that quote). Quotations of up to 10 words should be given within the text in the usual typeface and placed in quotation marks. If the quotation is more extensive, it should be separated from the whole text as a separate fragment using single spacing (indent the left and right margins by 1 cm), with a smaller font size (11).

Citation guide

Notes are listed at the bottom of the page (footnotes), and the references (bibliography) at the end of the manuscript. The references are stated in brackets in the text of the manuscript. When citing notes and bibliography, the Chicago Manual of Style, Author-Date System, should be used. For the ways of quoting the bibliography at the end of the manuscript, as well as citing the literature in brackets in the manuscript itself, more details are available at:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

Archival sources should be cited in the footnotes at the end of the page. 

The Editorial Board encourages authors to inform themselves in more detail about formatting the manuscript by reading and inspecting other published articles.