Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics
Supplementary Materials Guidelines
1. Overview
Supplementary materials (SM) are ancillary to the main content of the article. In the online version of the published paper, readers access the files via a hyperlink attached to the caption of the file, listed in the SupplementaryMaterials section of the article. bepress hosts these files on its servers.
Authors are encouraged to submit Supplementary Materials to complement articles in JOCE, particularly where the materials would add considerably to the length of the article. This might include additional figures or examples, animations, data sets used in the paper, maps, computer code used to generate figures or tables, or other materials that are necessary to fully document the research contained in the paper or to facilitate the readers' ability to understand and extend the work. Examples of headings include Alternative Language Abstract, , Dataset, Figure, File, Movie, Protocol, Supporting Information, Table, Text, Video, GIS Maps, etc.
Supplementary Materials must be submitted at the same time the article is first submitted. They will be available to the editor and referees to inspect. The referees will be asked to give the materials at least a cursory look and verify that they are appropriate to accompany the article. When a paper is published, the Supplementary Materials are linked from the main article webpage and will be clearly marked in the JOCE article as “unrefereed Supplementary Materials”. They can be cited using the same DOI as the paper.
Authors are also encouraged to consider moving material to an Appendix if it is not essential to the main flow of the paper but should be refereed and published as part of the paper. Doing so may improve readability of the paper.
2. File Type
The bepress publishing platform supports many file types for SM; if you are concerned about an unusual format, please contact the Managing Editor at nolsen@miis.edu. In general, the following file types are allowed for Supplementary Materials:
- Text/figures/tables/multimedia: TIF, JPG, GIF (including animated GIFs), PS, EPS, PSD, PDF, PPT, PPS, AU, MP3, WAV, MPG, AVI, MOV, TXT, TEX, DOC
- Computer code: should be contained within a common compressed file format such as TAR, TGZ, RAR, or ZIP.
3. File Size
For ease of reader access, we highly recommend that SM files be less than 10MB. Very large files should be compressed (e.g., LZW compression of TIFFs, etc.), changed in format (e.g. conversion of a very large EPS or SVG to PDF), or collected as a Zip file (e.g. multipage datasets).PDFs should be saved as reduced size PDFs in Acrobat if available.
4. Category Names
SM may be named in almost any way as long as it contains an "SM" and its number. Common categories include Alternative Language Abstract, Appendix, Checklist, Dataset, Figure, File, Movie, Protocol, Supporting Information, Table, Text, Video, and Map.
The files must be named in whole numbers only. Separate parts (e.g., Table SM1A and SM1B) should either be combined into one file or renamed with whole numbers (e.g., Table SM1 and SM2).
5. Captions
Because SM is accessed via a hyperlink attached to its captions, captions must be listed in the article file. Do not submit a separate caption file. It is acceptable to have them in the file itself in addition, but they must be in the article file for access to be possible in the published version.
The file category name and number is required, and a one-line title is highly recommended. A legend can also be included but is not required. Supporting Information captions should be formatted as follows.
Text SM1. Title is strongly recommended. Legend is optional.
6. In-Text Citations
While it is highly recommended, it is not technically required that all SM be cited in the text. In addition, the citations need not be in numerical order, as is required for regular publishing figures and tables.SM not referenced in the text should be summarized in an appendix to the article listing materials available.
7. Multimedia Files
Requirements and Format
JOCE expects reasonable video quality and prefer 128 kbit/s AAC audio and 480p H.264 video in an MPEG-4 (mp4) container. However, we accept other video file formats: mov, avi, mpg, mpeg, mp4.
File Size
Preferred size limit of movies is 10MB. If making the dimensions smaller or recompressing the movie compromises the image quality or usefulness of the movie, we can accept the movie as is.
Video Players
Videos must open and play in either QuickTime Player v. 7.6.2 or Windows Media Player v. 11. Preferably both, but as long as they play in one of these common players, the movie is acceptable.
VLC (VideoLAN Client) is a cross-platform universal video player. VLC will play most formats and codecs without the need to download additional software modules. VLC is free, GPL licensed, and includes streaming and other features.
Codecs
A codec ("compression-decompression") is a software module that contains algorithms used by encoding or playback software to encode or decode video and/or audio information.
Popular proprietary codecs include Windows Media Video and QuickTime. Open source video codec alternatives include x264 or the XviD codec. XviD is a high-quality codec and is the most widely supported open-source option available. It is relatively simple for most people to watch as many players have native support for XviD. A guide to encoding is available at http://www.videohelp.com/.