STUDIES IN REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING / MIDDLE EAST FORUM
Instructions
to the Authors
Manuscripts.
Papers
submitted should be in English (US or UK) typed in double spacing with ample
margins (including a title page with the title of the contribution, name(s) of
the author(s) and affiliation(s) as the author(s) would wish them to appear), on
one side of A4 paper and numbered consecutively. Articles should normally not
exceed 7.000 words, although articles longer than 7.000 words will be accepted
on an occasional basis, if the topic demands this length of treatment. The full
postal address of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence
should be also included in the title. Articles must be preceded by an abstract,
of not more than 150 words, on a separate page. No more than six key words or
phrases must be provided.
Submission.
Manuscripts
should be submitted in triplicate to the Editor-in-Chief at the following
address:
Prof. John Karkazis, Department of Shipping, Trade & Transport, University
of the Aegean,
Korais 2a str, 82100 Chios, Greece (tel: 30-22710-35868, fax: 30-22710-35299,
e-mail: ikarkazis@aegean.gr)
All contributions are refereed. The corresponding author's name,
affiliation, full address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address
and any other contact particulars) of co-authors should only appear in the cover
letter. Submission of a paper to this Journal is understood to imply that is
represents original and unpublished research and it is not being considered for
publication elsewhere. The final version of accepted papers must be submitted
both in manuscript form and on a 3,5" High Density (HD) diskette. The
diskette must be formatted with MS-DOS/PC-DOS and the wordprocessing program
employed must be Microsoft Word. The version of the wordprocessing program used,
must be clearly indicated. Electronic submission is also possible
(ikarkazis@aegean.gr).
References.
References
should be indicated in the text by giving the author's name and year of
publication in parentheses. If a referenced paper has three or more authors, the
reference should always appear at the first author followed by et al. If several
papers by the same author and from the same year are cited a,b,c, etc should be
put after the year of publication. The references must be collected together in
a reference list, which should include (in alphabetical order by author) every
work cited in the text. The reference list should be on a separate sheet at the
end of the main text. The following system of giving references is required.
For books:
Kmenta, J. (1986) Elements of Econometrics, 2nd ed,
For periodicals:
Suykens, F. and Van de Voorde, E. (1998) A quarter of a century of port
management in
For edited books:
Lewis, M.K. (1992), "Off-the-balance-sheet activities", in: Newman P.
Milgate M. Eatwell J. (Eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of money & finance,
Macmillan,
For proceedings of conferences, symposia etc :
Lam, W.H.K., Lo, H.P. and Chung, C.M. (1990) "A unified framework for
estimating origin-destination matrices for roadside interviews". Paper
presented at the 3rd International Conference on Survey Methods iTransportation,
Footnotes.
They should be used only in exceptional cases. If footnotes are used, they
should be numbered consecutively with superscript Arabic numerals and should be
kept to a minimum.
Figures
and Tables.
They must have a descriptive title legend, should be numbered consecutively in
the text in Arabic numerals and should be drawn on separate pages. The
approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the text. Upon
acceptance of a paper, author(s) must furnish camera-ready artwork in triplicate
for all figures in a professional drawing on white paper (one original in black
ink and two photocopies accepted).
Formulae.
They
should be typewritten. Subscripts and superscripts should be set off clearly.
Equations should be numbered serially in the right-hand side and in parentheses.
Only equations explicitly referred to in the text need in general be numbered.
Lengthy mathematical proofs should be placed in an appendix.
Proofs.
They will be sent to author(s), if there is sufficient time to do so. Proofs
will be corrected and returned to the Journal within three days of receipt.
Extensive alterations or revisions cannot be accepted.