GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Open Access Statement

All articles within JoDRM are available online to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. Open access aims to maximize the visibility of research and differs from free online access as it provides reuse rights provided full attribution is given (under the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA license).

Transfer of copyright

The transfer of copyright from author to publisher enable JoDRM to assure maximum dissemination of the author’s work and it is therefore the default option for each manuscript submission.
When the article is accepted for publication, the author(s) agrees to transfer to JoDRM all rights, including those pertaining to electronic forms and transmissions, under existing copyright laws, except for the following, which the author(s) specifically retain(s):
1. The right to make further copies of all or part of the published article for use in classroom teaching;
2. The right to reuse all or part of this material in a compilation or textbook of which he(she) is the author;
3. The right to make copies of the published work for internal distribution within the institution that employs the author.

Charges

There is no article-processing charge (APC) for publishing in the journal.

Editing Guidelines for the articles

The editing guidelines for the articles to be published in the journal are as follows:

• Page setup: top – 28mm, bottom – 28mm, inside – 21mm, outside – 24mm, header – 12,5mm, footer – 12,5mm, mirror margines activated;
• paper format B5 176X250;
• font: Times New Roman;
• style: normal.
• Paper title: upper case, font size 14pt, bold, centred;
• Author (s) name: first name, surname, font size 12pt, bold, centred;
• two free spaces below the title of the paper.
• Author’s affiliation, city, country: one free space (12pt) below author’s name, font 12pt, centered.
• Abstract: one free space (12pt) below author’s workplace name;
• up to 150 words;
• font size 11pt, Italic, justified, left-right alignment.
• Key words: maximum 8;
• one free space (12pt) below the abstract;
• 11pt, italic, lef alignment, separated by comma.
• Paper body: even number of pages (maximum 6; research papers may have more depending on topic comprehensiveness);
• no free space between lines;
• two free spaces below the key words (24 pt);
• two columns, width: 60mm, spacing: 5mm;
• font size 12pt, justify;
• paper main parts: introduced by titles numbered with Arabic figures, upper case, font size 12pt, bold, centered. One free space (12pt) above the text and one free space (12pt) below it;
• paragraph indentation: 6mm;
• quotations of more than two lines should be indented in a separate paragraph;
• authors should organize the article into sections and also include sub-headings where appropriate.
• Drawings, diagrams and charts: one free space (12pt) below the text;
• width similar to that of the column they belong to. Should this be impossible to achieve, then they will be printed across the whole breadth of the page either at the top or the bottom of the page;
• numbered in Arabic figures;
• accompanied by captions, one free space (12pt) below the drawings, centered, font size 12pt;
• font size 12pt, justify;
• mathematical formulae: 6mm left alignment; ordinal numbers: in round brackets, right alignment; Times New Roman;
• Full - 12pt.; Subscript / Superscript - 9pt.; Sub-Subscript / Superscript - 7pt.; Symbol - 16pt.; Sub-Symbol - 12pt;
• Long mathematical formulae: not wider than the column or displayed on the whole width of the page either at the top or bottom of the page.
• Names of organizations: printed in Upper case, straight.
• Names of military technology products: in Upper case, Italic.
• Essential notes: indicated by superscript numbers in the text;
• presented at the end of the text but before the references.
• Reference citations in the text: in round brackets;
• author: year (e.g. Smith:1995) OR if quote provided: author: year, page no. (e.g. Smith:1995, p.45);
• “et al.” mentioned when citing a work by more than two authors. For example: Brown et al. (1981) or (Brown et al., 1981).
• Use letters (e.g. a, b, c, etc.) to distinguish citations of different works by the same author in the same year. For example: Brown (1975a, b).
• References: listed in alphabetical order, at the end of the article;
• numbered in Arabic figures;
• the titles of the reference books will be printed in Italic.
The authors take full responsibility for the contents and scientific correctness of the paper.