Writing an article for SWZ Maritime

Below you find important information and guidelines that can help when writing an article for SWZ Maritime. Should you have any more questions please contact the editor in chief.

Number of pages

Please take into account the following guidelines:
The first page of an article contains approximately 600 words, the following pages approximately 900. These numbers do not take into account any illustrations, photographs, titles or intros. In principle, an article should not exceed three pages, which means the total number of words for one article is roughly 600 + 900 + 900 = 2400 words.
Illustrations take up space as well. Small illustrations up to a quarter page take up approximately 200 words. Larger pictures take up more space accordingly.
A small illustration can usually be fitted in on the first page of an article without taking up words (due to space left around title and intro).
A large picture on the first page (half a page or more) leaves approximately 200 - 300 words if the intro and title can be placed in the picture. If not, the intro and title should be deducted from those 200 - 300 words.
Articles longer than three pages are only published after consulting the editor in chief.

Structure

The article starts with a title followed by a subtitle (if necessary). Titles should be as short as possible and not exceed 7 words.
The article starts with an intro of approximately 60 words, followed by the text of your article. The running text can be divided by subheadings, which should not exceed 4 words.
Please send in your article as a Word document with as little layout as possible. Please try to avoid columns, line breaks, footnotes etcetera and use single lines.
You can indicate the locations for your illustrations in the text by placing the filename in square brackets, for example [illustration 1.jpg]. You can place a caption below the filename.

Photographs, Illustrations and Tables

All pictures, including graphs and tables, have to be submitted as a separate file. Please do not submit illustrations as a Word document as this significantly decreases a picture’s quality. Pictures can be submitted in jpg, tif, gif, pdf and bmp format.
A picture’s size needs to be suitable for printed media: 300 dpi. With 118 pixels per centimetre, the picture needs to be at least 6 cm wide and tall. Pictures found on the Internet are usually not big enough.
Larger pictures are easily made smaller, but small pictures cannot be enlarged. Pictures that do not meet the requirements mentioned above cannot be published in SWZ Maritime.
Tables can be submitted in Excel sheets. Tables can also be submitted in a Word file, but only without creating a real table with rows, columns and lines or several tabs. Every row should start on a new line, every column should be separated by one tab only.
Should you want to submit several large files, we would appreciate it if you could send them to us on a CD instead of per email, due to limitations on our mailbox.

Additional Remarks

Do not use unnecessary abbreviations, but write in full as much as possible.
Please try to avoid corny language.
State sources and such in a separate list, which will be published at the end of the article.
With every article, we like to include some information about the author. If you are writing for SWZ Maritime for the first time, please include some background information about yourself (30 words at most). This should include (if applicable) your title, initials, first name, last name and a short description of your occupation and background.
The numbers 1-20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 should be written in full. All other numbers should just be written as numbers.
When talking about ship sizes, all sizes should have two decimals.
Numbers up to 9999 should be written without commas (or dots in Dutch). Starting 10,000 commas (dots in Dutch) do have to be used.
Your article can be submitted electronically only, either by email (large files of several MB should be spread out over several emails) or CD.