Instructions to Authors

Baltic Coastal Zone is a refereed journal with issue a year, presenting research works in the areas of: biology, ecology, environmental protection, chemistry, physics, geomorphology, tourism, landscape and spatial planning of the coastland and the coastal waters. Submission of the manuscript implies that it has not been published nor is being considered for publication elsewhere. Papers submitted to BCZ should be written in English. Both British and American spelling versions are admissible. The manuscripts should not exceed 8 standard pages (A4, 1800 characters per page, including spaces) plus all necessary tables and figures. The original and two copies accompanied by an electronic copy on a diskette (Word XP, Excel XP, CorelDRAW 9.0 for Windows) should be submitted to the Editorial Office. The text should include: title of the work, first and last name of the author (authors), abstract (150 words), key words, introduction, material and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, references, summary in the native language of the author (1 page). No element of the manuscript should be typed in capitals or in spaced set. Generic and specific names should be underlined or set in italics. Names of the higher taxa should not be underlined nor italicized. The text should be written according to English editing rules, e.g. the decimal fractions written with a dot (0.25, 20.75), numbers over one thousand written with a comma or space in between (25,874 or 25 874), the dates written in the long form (BrE: 24 November 2000, AmE: November, 24 3000) or in the short form with a slash mark (24/11/2000), quotation marks used in English (“citation” or ‘citation’), no indentation in the beginning of paragraphs , etc. Any issues not covered by the present „Instruction” should be resolved based on the “Scientific Style and Format. The GEE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 6th Edition 1994, Cambridge University Press." Tables, figures and photographs should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and should be grouped at the end of the paper. They should be clearly marked on the back with number and the author’s name. Captions of tables, figures and photographs, should be supplied on a separate sheet. Good quality printouts on white paper produced in black ink are required, photographs must be black and white (authors will be charged for colour at current printing costs). The quality of the ilustrations printed in your paper depends on the quality of the originals you provide. The author’s name and date (in parentheses) should quote references in the text. The name and the date should not be separated by a comma. In the case of two authors, their names should be joined by “and”. If there are more than two authors only the first one should be quoted followed by “et al.”. The list of references should be arranged in alphabetical order. The titles of the cited works should be given in their original version with the English translation provided in brackets, according to the following example. Watanabe M. F., Oishi S., 1985. Effects of environmental factors on toxicity of a cyanobacterium (Microcystis aeruginosa) under culture conditions. Appl. Envir. Microbiol., 49, 1342-1344. Voipio A., 1981. The Baltic Sea, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam. Rajman J., Górz B., 1995. Tendencje demograficzne i osadnicze na terenach przygranicznych Polski Południowo-Wschodniej. W: Przemiany struktur społeczno-gospodarczych obszarów przygranicznych. (Demographic and settlement tendencies in boundary regions of South-East Poland. In: Transformations of social and economic structures of boundary regions). (Ed.), J. Kitowski, Z. Ziolo, Warszawa-Rzeszow, 329-347, (in Polish). Nalewajko C., Lean D. R., 1980. Phosphorus. In: The physiological ecology of phytoplankton, Morris I. (Ed.), Blackwell Scientific Publishing, Oxford, 235-258. Russian names originally written in Cyrillic alphabet should be transliterated using the ISO-86 system. The authors receive 5 reprints of their paper free of charge.