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Instructions for Authors

Note: Before proceeding with your manuscript, please follow these steps to ensure a successful submission:

1. Read the 'Author guidelines' carefully at https://journal.mostwiedzy.pl/pmr/author-guidelines.
2. Check that you have incorporated all the recommendations provided in the 'Author guidelines.'
3. Pay close attention to the guidelines outlined in this 'Instructions for Authors.'

Failure to adhere to the essential recommendations outlined in both the 'Author guidelines' and this 'Instructions for Authors' document could lead to the rejection of your submission during the initial processing stages.

Here are the organized instructions:

1. Ensure your manuscript meets these requirements for successful publication:
   • The manuscript should be written in English.
   • Use the Microsoft Word software format.
   • Submit the manuscript online as a Word document.
   • Include tables, captions for figures, and supplemental information in the submission.
   • Avoid formatting your text in multiple columns to maintain consistency in presentation.
2. After the review process is complete, our Formatting Team will make necessary adjustments to the page layout. This ensures your manuscript aligns with our publishing house's standards and website formatting..

General requirements

1. The manuscript should not exceed 12 pages, A4 (21 cm × 29.7 cm) size, and should not exceed 5000 words.
2. The manuscript page margins for every page: top and bottom – 2.5 cm, left and right – 2.1 cm, with the headers – 1.25 cm and footers – 1.25 cm.
3. The manuscript should be typed single-spaced in Microsoft Word editor. All the matter should be typed in Times New Roman font without automatic hyphenation.
4. All names of titles, captions, etc., should not end with dots at the end of the sentence
5. The manuscript pages should not be numbered.

Manuscript

Note 1: For first submissions (i.e. not revised manuscripts), authors may choose to incorporate the manuscript text and figures into a single file (Microsoft Word) up to 30 MB in size — the figures may be inserted within the text at the appropriate positions, or grouped at the end. Supplementary Information should be combined and supplied as a separate file, preferably in Word format.

Note 2: To ensure that manuscript referees or peer reviewers do not know your identity (as author[s] of the manuscript being reviewed), you will need to make sure that you remove your name(s) and affiliation(s) within the manuscript.

1. Title of the Paper – font 16 pt, bold, major words are capitalized, and most minor words are lowercase, centered with no full stop at the end. Please leave an empty line (or equivalent spacing) after the title row.
2. Headings – Please do not use numbering for headings, and use no more than three levels of displayed headings:
   • HEADING 1– font 14 pt, bold capital letters, centered with no full stop at the end. Please leave an empty line (or equivalent spacing) before and after the row.
   • HEADING 2– font 12 pt, bold capital letters, left aligned with no full stop at the end. Please leave an empty line (or equivalent spacing) before and after the row.
   • Heading 3– font 12 pt, bold non-capital letters, left aligned with no full stop at the end. Please leave an empty line (or equivalent spacing) before the row.
3. Abstract– font 10 pt, italic non-capital letters, full justification. The text of the abstract should range from 150 to 250 words. Please leave an empty line (or equivalent spacing) before and after the abstract text.
4. Keywords– font 8 pt, non-capital letters, left aligned with no full stop at the end. Please select 3 to 5 keywords (or phrases) that describe the content of the paper, from general to particular, and facilitate online paper searches. Please leave an empty line (or equivalent spacing) before and after the abstract text.
5. Main Body Text– font 12 pt, non-capital letters, one column, full justification without automatic hyphenation.
6. Figures(pictures, charts, diagrams, drawings etc.) should be centered and should appear in the text shortly after the first time they are cited. All figures must be cited in sequence within the main article text in the form Fig. 1, Fig. 2. The size of a figure should not exceed the text width into the margins. Figures should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. All fonts used within the figures should be 6 pt to 12 pt. Please submit also each figure as an individual file: .jpg, .bmp., .tiff, .png, .cdr., separate from the manuscript text.
7. Figure captions– font 8 pt, non-capital italic letters, centered below the body of the figure with no full stop at the end. They should be numbered consecutively with the abbreviation “Fig.“, e.g. " 2. The dependence …". When referring to a figure in the body text, the word "Figure" is also abbreviated as "Fig." Please leave an empty line (or equivalent spacing) after the figure caption.
8. Tablesshould be created by using the Microsoft Word built-in table tool, not by using tabs and spaces. They should be centered and appear in the body of the manuscript where they are first referenced. Font size – 12 pt; cell margins – 0.1 cm in all directions; first column justified to the left, but other columns preferably centered; line thickness of upper and lower boundary – 1 pt; line thickness of other lines, if necessary to make table readable – ½ pt. The size of a table should not exceed the text width into the margins. Do not use the enter key within the body of the table. Instead, separate data horizontally with a new row. Do not insert blank columns or rows.
9. Table captions– font 8 pt, non-capital italic letters, centered above the body of the table with no full stop at the end. They should be numbered consecutively without abbreviating “Table”, e.g. “Table 1. Characteristics of …”. When referring to Table in the body text, put the number of the Table x, where x refers to the relevant number of the Table.
10. Equationsshould be created by using the Microsoft Word built-in equation editor (editable/processable format). The equation should be centered, and the equation number in parenthesis should be justified to the right. Equations should be numbered consecutively throughout the entire paper as simply (1), (2), (3). Please refer to the equations with “Eq. (x)” in the body text.
11. References: References play a critical role in your manuscript and should be located at the document's end. Therefore, this part of your manuscript must also be very well prepared and meet all the requirements of the 'Author guidelines' (link: https://journal.mostwiedzy.pl/pmr/author-guidelines -> Manuscript -> References).

When referencing a source in the text, enclose the reference number in square brackets [xx], corresponding to the entry's number in the list. References are to be organized either alphabetically based on the author's surname or in the order they appear in the text.

To streamline bibliography formatting, consider utilizing Reference Management Software products. These include all products that support Citation Style Language styles, such as Mendeley. This software enables seamless insertion of citations and bibliographies into Microsoft Word documents. Using citation plug-ins from these products, authors only need to select the Engineering style when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will be automatically formatted in the PMR's style. This style organizes references in the order they appear in the text.

Include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for all works that have a DOI, regardless of whether you used the online version or the print version.

Avoid manually formatting bibliographies. If there is such a need, then ensure compliance with the Engineering style when citing sources in your manuscript.

If you do wish to format the references yourself, they should be arranged according to the following examples: journal paper [1], paper in conference proceedings [2], book [3], thesis [4] and section or page within a website [5].

[1]       Kozak J, Tarełko W. Case study of masts damage of the sail training vessel POGORIA. Eng Fail Anal 2011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2010.11.016.

[2]      Tarelko W, Kowalewski T. Modeling of decision-making process relating to design of ship power plants safe for operators. Proc. - 2013 12th Mex. Int. Conf. Artif. Intell. MICAI 2013, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/MICAI.2013.8.

[3]      Alderton P, Saieva G. Port management and operations. Taylor & Francis; 2013.

[4]      Rudzki K. Two-objective optimization of engine ship propulsion settings with controllable pitch propeller using artificial neural networks. Gdynia Maritime University, 2014.

[5]       Author A. Title of webpage. In title of website. Date. Retrieved from URL.

If you want to organize references alphabetically based on the author's name, use the Sort Button in Microsoft Word.

Include a Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for all references that have a DOI, regardless of whether you used the online version or the print version.