The Maritime Economist Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 71

THEMARITIME Economist Submission Quidelines FreshMINDS section is dedicated to young scholars and professionals (early in their [research] career) for presenting their research results, novel concepts and innovative findings or thoughts. This section promotes young scholars and professionals to express their opinions and/or criticism about the conventional concepts with proper theoretical and/or practical evidences to support their arguments. Articles in this section should be written in plain language excluding jargons and using limited number of technical terms with brief and simple descriptions. Technical requirements on articles for submitting to this section are as follows: • Article should not exceed 2000 words plus a number of figures or tables; • A bionote of 80 to maximum 100 words length should be inserted at the end of the article; Each article submitted to FreshMINDS will be reviewed in terms of its intellectual value, writing style and accordance with the policy and concept of ME Mag by section editors. A proposal for consideration can be sent to editors instead of full article. Proposals should address briefly the objective, motivation and background, main idea and major results. Please submit your full article or a proposal electronically to [email protected] Section 4: CHALLENGE CHALLENGE section is dedicated to draw attention to critical problems in the maritime industry as well as academic research. Both scholars and professionals can submit a short article dealing with the problem and draw attention of readers to that challenging topic. Articles in this section should be written in plain language excluding jargons and using limited number of technical terms with brief and simple descriptions. Technical requirements on articles for submitting to this section are as follows: • Article should not exceed 1000 words plus a number of figures or tables; • A bionote of 80 to maximum 100 words length should be inserted at the end of the article; Each article submitted to CHALLENGE will be reviewed in terms of its intelle ctual value, writing style and accordance with the policy and concept of ME Mag by section editors. A proposal for consideration can be sent to editors instead of full article. Proposals should address briefly the objective, motivation and background, main idea and major results. Please submit your full article or a proposal electronically to [email protected] BOOK REVIEWS ME Mag will review recently published books and article collections related broadly to maritime transport, maritime economics, ports, logistics and shipping that can appeal not only to an academic audience but also to industry. If you would like a book to be considered for review in the magazine, please send two copies to: Michele Acciaro, Grosser Grassbrook 17, 20459 Hamburg, Germany. For further information, please do not hesitate to write to [email protected] ME Mag Section 3: FRESHMINDS 71