Submissions

Author Guidelines

I. TYPES OF PUBLICATION

Vietnam Journal of Marine Science and Technology, ISSN (print): 1859-3097, is one of the major specialty journals in Vietnam, published quarterly by the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Vietnam Journal of Marine Science and Technology publishes the articles on the results of basic investigative research, applied research and development of new methods and technologies in research and investigation, and brief information on conferences, seminars, and related activities in Vietnam and abroad in the field of marine science and technology.

II. MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE

The submitted manuscript must be in the electronic file written with Microsoft Word in Times New Roman font, font size 12 and line spacing 1.2; the figures should be clear with the adequate caption; the figure size should not exceed 15×20 cm. The manuscript must be A4 size, including abstract, tables, figures, and references. It is compulsory to provide the names of the author and co-authors, institution, contact details, phone number, and email address in the manuscript. The manuscript should use legal and popular scientific terms and measurement units in Vietnam and worldwide. The manuscript is divided into sections numbered I, II, etc. The subsections are numbered 1.1, 1.2, etc. (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, etc.). The manuscript must be presented in the following order: Title, Author names, Contact detail of all authors, Email address of all authors, Abstract, Introduction, Main Content, Conclusion, Acknowledgement, References, and Appendix. Title: Brief and generalize the content of the article. Avoid abbreviations and formulas (if possible). Authors’ names and contact detail: Provide the full name of all authors, institutions and email addresses of each author. The corresponding author should be indicated who will take over the task of responding to the reviewer and editing the manuscript after being accepted. Provide the phone numbers and postal address of the corresponding author. Changes in the manuscript may be accepted only if the request if the corresponding author send the request. Abstract: Clear and summarize the objectives of the article. Provide basic information: research methodology and results of the article. Clarify new contributions of the article compared to previously published works. Keywords: Provide at least 3 keywords. Avoid generic and unspecified words. Conclusion: Summarizing the issues examined and the results obtained. Emphasize the importance of new contributions in the article. If possible, propose the directions to further study in the future. Appendix: If there is more than one Appendix, it must be numbered I, II, etc. Formulas, Tables, Figures in the Appendix must be numbered separately. Math formulas and symbols: Using Latin or Greek characters. Formulas are numbered in the order (1), (2), etc. Figure: It should be noted that the symbols and other details must be in the appropriate size to avoid illegibility when reducing the figure size. The caption is shown below the figure. All the figures must be cited in the content and the order Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. The figures illustrating the territory of Vietnam must indicate the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos. Table: The caption will be presented above the table. All the tables must be fully cited in the content and the order Table 1, Table 2, etc. References: Each manuscript should include at least 12 references. All the references are fully cited in the content and arranged in citation order, for example, [1], [2, 3], [3–5]. In this order, the first cited reference in the manuscript is recorded as the number [1], and in turn, the last cited reference is recorded as the largest number. All co-authors of the reference must be fully recorded, for example, not written: “Marchesiello, P., et al., 2001”, must be fully written: “Marchesiello, P., McWilliams, J. C., and Shchepetkin, A., 2001” etc. Documents not published in the electronic or printing form are not recommended to be included in References. The references in Vietnamese or hieroglyphs and non-Roman scripts must be translated into English with the original language in parenthesis. For online documents: Full author’s name (if author is not available, news agency), publication year, Document name (italic), publication date (if any), Web address, time (date month year) of access. The references must adhere to the formats as follows:

[1]    Dung, N. T., 2015. Oil and gas milestones. https://petrovietnam.petrotimes.vn/nhung-moc-son-dau-khi-354521.html; accessed June 30, 2020 (Vietnamese).

[2]    Duong, P. X., 2013. Modelling the current field at the Dong Bo river mouth (Nha Trang) under the impact of reclamation work. Proceedings of International Conference “East Vietnam Sea 2012”, 2, 9–16. (in Vietnamese).

[3]    Duong, P. X., 2012. Study on the circulation in Binh Cang bay - Nha Trang by using numerical model. PhD Thesis in Geography, Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, Hanoi. (in Vietnamese).

[4] Arakawa, A. and V. R. Lamb, 1977. Methods of computational physics (Vol. 17, pp. 174–265). Academic Press.

[5] Arakawa, A., and Lamb, V. R., 1977. Computational design of the basic dynamical processes of the UCLA general circulation model. Methods in Computational Physics, 17, 173–265.

[6] Mellor, G. L., and Blumberg, A. F., 1985. Modeling vertical and horizontal diffusivities with the sigma coordinate system. Monthly Weather Review, 113(8), 1379–1383. [7] Durran, D. R., 1999. Numerical methods for wave equations in geophysical fluid dynamics (No. 32). Springer. [8] Da Silva, A. M., Young-Molling, C. C., and Levitus, S., 1994. Atlas of Surface Marine Data 1994, Vol. 1–5. NOAA Atlas NESDIS, 6–10. U. S. Gov. Printing Office, Washington D.C.

[9] Marchesiello, P., McWilliams, J. C., and Shchepetkin, A., 2001. Open boundary conditions for long-term integration of regional oceanic models. Ocean modelling, 3(1), 1–20.

III. MANUSCRIPT VERIFICATION AND FORMAT

The manuscript submitted to the Vietnam Journal of Marine Science and Technology must not have been published before. This manuscript has not been reviewed for publication in another journal. All authors must approve the publication. If accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English, or in any other language (including the electronic file the author receives).

IV. SUBMISSION PROCESS

The manuscript submission must be completed online through the Journal’s homepage. The Vietnam Journal of Marine Science and Technology author will be guided on the submission process step by step through the creation and upload of the manuscript. The system will automatically allocate the ID to the original manuscript used during the review and editing processes and allocate the digital object identifier (DOI) to the article after publication. All the correspondence, notices of editors and authors, along with the comments of reviewers, will be archived on the system.

V. REVIEW PROCESS

Each submitted manuscript is usually reviewed and evaluated by two independent reviewers. Review time is within two months. The review will be sent to the author by the editor; the author needs to revise and improve the manuscript before publication. The time limit for the author to revise the manuscript is three months. The revised manuscript received after this time limit will be considered a new manuscript, and the review process will be performed from the beginning.

VI. MANUSCRIPT REVISION

When there are reviewers’ comments, the author is requested to make the manuscript revision, accompanied by a reply to all reviewers’ comments. The author should highlight changes in the manuscript so that the editor and reviewers can follow the revision.

VII. MANUSCRIPT EDITING

After being accepted, the manuscript will be edited into the Journal’s standard format. The manuscript will be converted into PDF format. The author’s tasks in the manuscript editing are as follows: The author will be requested to recheck the manuscript before the editor prepares the proof of the article. The author must recheck this proof to avoid any mistakes in the editing process. After the English proofreading, the author must verify the prepress proof once again before receiving the final article. Accordingly, the author should read the manuscript at least three times until the last article is completed. Authors will receive a printed copy after 20 days of electronic publication on the homepage of the Journal.

VIII. USE OF DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI)

DOI can be used to cite and link to electronic documents. DOI consists of unique serial numbers assigned to a published paper. DOI is guaranteed to be unchanged; therefore, it is an ideal means for citing references, for example, an article published in the Vietnam Journal of Marine Science and Technology: http://dx.doi.org/10.15625/1859-3097/xxx

Contact details: Vietnam Journal of Marine Science and Technology, A16 Building, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Street, Cau Giay District, Hanoi; Phone number: +84 24 37917411; E-mail address: jmst@vjs.ac.vn; Website: https://vjs.ac.vn/index.php/jmst