Submission method

Since May 2014, all submission to this journal must be submitted online through the website. Click the left side of the website to enter the "Author Submission/Review" system for registration, and complete online submission according to the system process. After submission, log in the registered account to track the manuscript processing. The same author does not need to register for another submission.

Publishing agreements

The "Paper Publication Agreement" must be submitted at the same time when submitting papers. Before submitting, the author should read the Statement carefully to clarify the copyright affiliation, author signature, technical confidentiality, and no multiple submissions with one manuscript. The Paper Publication Agreement can be filled in after being downloaded from the website download center, signed by all the authors, scanned and uploaded. The agreements must be signed by all the authors in person, not on behalf of others, and can be signed separately if the authors are in different places. If there is any unauthorized signature, the paper will be rejected, and the signatory will be refused to submit again.

Manuscript processing flow

1. Receiving Manuscript receipt: The manuscripts that meet the publication scope of this journal, pass the academic misconduct test detection and complete basic items shall be registered and submitted to the responsible editor for preliminary initial review.

2. Initial review: The decision to reject, revise, or submit for external review is based on the quality of the manuscript’s writing.

3. External audit review: reviewed by peer experts.

4. Second Review: Manuscripts that pass external review are subject to acceptance or rejection recommendations by associate editors or editorial board members.

5. Final review: give the final results (recruitment acceptance, review after revision, and rejection) in combination with the opinions of the external review and editorial board.

6. Editing and processing: editing, processing and publishing the accepted manuscripts."

Upon receiving a submission, our editorial team will typically make a decision on whether to revise, send for review, or reject the manuscript within 10 working days. The decision will be communicated to the author via internal messaging or email. The manuscript review process usually does not exceed 60 days. If you have not received any notification from the editorial team after 60 days, please contact us promptly.

Publication fee

The publication fee of this journal includes review fee and layout fee, including review fee of 200 yuan per paper and layout fee of 200 yuan per page, which will be charged after the manuscript is finally approved and accepted.  After the paper is published, the journal will pay the author a one-time honorarium and provide a complimentary copy of the journal.

Reviewer recommendation

In order to expand the pool of expert reviewers and improve the quality of peer review, as well as shorten the review time, we kindly request that authors recommend at least three peers with expertise in the field related to their submission during the submission process. Among these recommended reviewers, at least two should not be affiliated with the same institution as the authors. Please provide their names, research areas, titles, phone numbers, affiliations, and email addresses in the "Recommended Reviewers" section of the submission process.

Submission requirements

1. The manuscripts shall be innovative, academic, scientific, normative and readable, requiring clear arguments, sufficient arguments, reliable data, clear hierarchy and refined words

2. Manuscript language: Chinese; Version: WORD version. We doesn't accept paper copies.

3. The colleting manuscripts receipt scope: research papers in the fields of transportation engineering, ship and ocean engineering, thermal energy and power, marine environment, electronic information, control, materials, etc. For authors that are not in Dalian Maritime University, this journal only accepts papers in the field of waterway transportation.

4. Please attach an English translation of the title, author's name and affiliation, abstract and key words of the paper.

5. Please fill in the personal profile and contact information of the first author and corresponding author in the submission system (including name, year of birth, gender, affiliation, degree, professional title/student identity, research direction field, email and contact number); Please indicate the fund source, project name and project number of the manuscript supported by the fund project. (Please don't fill in the information about the author and the fund when submitting the manuscript, just fill in the submission system. After the manuscript is approved and employed accepted, please add it to the uploaded final manuscript before uploading.)

6. The title of a paper should accurately and concisely reflect the specific content of the article, following the principles of compiling catalogs, indexes, and selecting keywords, and a subtitle should not be used generally. The Chinese title should not exceed 20 characters, while the English title should have the same meaning as the Chinese title.

7. The abstract of the paper should be written as a reportable abstract as far as possible, and. its content should be independent of the text, and generally include the following four items: ① research purpose; ② Research methods and processes; ③ Results; ④ Conclusion. It should be objective and true, without the author's subjective opinion, and avoid empty comments or ambiguous conclusions. It requires rigorous structure, precise semantics, and should be written with standardized terminology to fully reflect the theme scope of the article and the summary of the contents. Whether the original innovation can be summarized accurately, concretely and completely will directly determine whether the paper can be included, read and quoted. The length of the Chinese abstract is generally 200~300 words, and the English abstract must completely correspond to the Chinese abstract. The Chinese and English abstracts are all expressed in the third person, without "the text", "the author", etc. as the subject.

8. The key words should reflect the theme, research object and subject category of the paper. Generally, 3~8 keywords should be selected, and the Chinese and English keywords should correspond to each other.

9. Figures and tables shall be selected, self-explanatory, and appear in the text where they are referenced. Illustrations must conform to drawing specifications and can be opened and edited with Visio. All tables are three-line tables. Tiles of figures and tables must be in both Chinese and English.

10. Measurement and unit should be strictly in accordance with the national standard. The capitalization, subscript and superscript, symbols, and positional typography of foreign letters in the manuscript should be clearly distinguished. Please pay attention to the use of regular and italic fonts.

11. References shall be publicly publications directly cited in the articles, mainly journal papers. Chinese references shall be provided in English with "(in Chinese)" added after English. The references in this journal adopt the sequential coding system. The citations in the papers are arranged in Arabic numerals according to the order of occurrence, and are marked with square brackets in the upper right corner. The format of reference description must conform to the 2015 national standard "Rules for the Description of References".

Explanations of the corresponding author

The submission system of this journal requires authors to mark the corresponding author when submitting manuscripts, and provide the contact information of the corresponding author, including telephone number and email address. When handling manuscripts, the editorial department mainly contacts the corresponding author, and relevant emails are sent to the email address of the first author and the corresponding author.

Recently, the editorial team has noticed that some manuscripts submitted to our journal have listed both the first author and corresponding author as graduate students, or listed the graduate student advisor as the first author but did not provide contact information, with the graduate student listed as the corresponding author.  During the processing of manuscripts, other authored signed authors, especially the supervisor, could not receive the information from the editorial department, which caused certain obstacles in the processing of manuscripts. To standardize the authorship of papers and improve manuscript processing efficiency, we would like to provide the following guidelines for indicating the corresponding author.

The corresponding author refers to the author who is responsible for communicating with the editorial department during the submission and handling of the paper, and is also the contact person for readers' consultation after the publication of the paper is published. Usually, the first author is the main author of the paper research work and also the main author of the paper. Other by authors must be those who have contributed substantially to the paper, ranked according to their contribution. The corresponding author is the supervisor and gatekeeper of the research work of the paper, and is generally considered as the holder of the research results of the paper, and is mainly responsible for the reliability of the paper.

To ensure smooth processing of manuscripts and to accurately reflect the ownership of research results, the editorial team recommends that authors clearly identify the responsible parties for the paper and properly indicate the first and corresponding authors prior to submission. For papers completed by graduate students (including master's and doctoral students) under the guidance and support of their advisors, with the advisor assuming primary responsibility, it is recommended that the student be listed as the first author and the advisor be listed as the corresponding author. For papers that are mainly completed by the supervisor, only assisted by the graduate students and participate in the signature, it is recommended that the supervisor act as the first author and the corresponding author.

In the future, unless recommended by well-known peers, this journal will no longer accept submissions where the corresponding author is a master's degree student. For the papers of the doctoral student as the corresponding author, if the supervisor participates in the signature, the supervisor must sign on the copyright transfer agreement.