Guidelines for Authors

Abstract and Paper Submission

29th cromar congress

Guidelines for Authors

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

The Abstract (400-600 words) must be structured into four subheadings, followed by 4-6 keywords:

▪ Purpose (What are the reason(s) for writing the paper or the aims of the research).
▪ Methodology (How are the objectives achieved? Include the main method(s) used for the research. How do you approach the topic, and what is the theoretical or subject scope of the paper?).
▪ Findings (What was discovered/proved when conducting the research? This will refer to the analysis, discussion, or results. If the paper reports on the research, include suggestions for future research and provide information on any limitations identified during the research process).
▪ Contribution (What is new in the paper? State the theoretical, empirical, practical and social contribution and what it concerns.

Abstracts should be uploaded in EasyChair using the following link:

https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cromar2025 no later than 21 st March 2025 using the abstract
submission form.

Note: Each participant is expected to write no more than two papers.

Full Paper Submission

Copyright and licencing / Open Access

Submitted papers are expected to be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time.

Author guidelines

All submitted manuscripts are initially subject to evaluation by the Editors-in-Chief. If they deem the paper suitable, it will be sent for peer review by two independent and anonymous expert referees. The final selection of papers will be made following a double-blind review process by the Editors-in-Chief. The authors may present the paper at the conference after the final acceptance of the paper for publication has been confirmed. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the electronic format of the Conference Proceedings as Open-Aceess articles. Submitted papers are expected to be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. CROMAR Congress publishes original scientific papers, preliminary communications, and review articles with a length limit of 30.000 characters (15 pages). The paper should be written following the CROMAR 2025 – Conference Template for Full papers in English or Croatian using Microsoft Word. Authors are responsible for the completeness and grammatical correctness of the paper without spelling and typographical errors.

Instructions for full papers

The text submitted should not exceed 30,000 characters (15 pages) and should be typed according to the instructions below:

▪ Font: Times New Roman, size 10;

▪ Line spacing: single; A4 Format (297×210 mm);

▪ Page Setup: Margins: top 5 cm, bottom 5 cm, left 4.4 cm, right 4.2 cm, gutter 0 cm;

▪ Layout: header 4 cm, footer 4 cm.

▪ The cover page has to list the authors; names, their titles, positions, full addresses of their institutions, telephone, e-mail address, title of the paper.

▪ Title of the paper should be concise and informative.

Abstract comprising between 200 and 250 words should include the purpose, design, methodology, approach, findings, and originality of the research. The Abstract should be accompanied by 4-6 keywords pertinent to the main topic of the paper and suitable for indexing and online search purposes.

References to other publications must be made in Harvard style and carefully checked forcompleteness, accuracy and consistency. In the text references must be included using Harvard “author-date”, citation system, e.g. (Jackson 2004, 176) or (Jackson and Miller 2005, 26). An alphabetically ordered reference list should be supplied at the end of the paper.

Examples:

▪ Journal article: Surname, Initials (year), “Title of article “Journal Name, volume, number, pages. e.g. Capizzi, M.T. and Ferguson”, R. (2005), “Loyalty trends for the twenty-first century, Journal of Consumer Marketing”, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 72-80. doi: 10.1108/07363760510589235

▪ Book: Surname, Initials (year), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication. e.g. Harrow, R. (2005), No Place to Hide, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.

▪ Book chapter: Surname, Initials (year), “Chapter title”;, Editors Surname, Initials, Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication, pages. e.g. Calabrese, F.A. (2005),mThe early pathways: theory to practice – a continuum”, in Stankosky, M. (Ed.), Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management, Elsevier, New York, NY, pp. 15-20.

Please include DOIs in your references if possible.

Figures, graphs, tables must be inserted in the correct place in the text. They should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and labelled appropriately in the upper left corner of the figure, graph or table.

The articles published in the CROMAR 2025 conference proceedings will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). According to this, you are free to reproduce and share the licensed material, in whole or in part, for non-commercial purposes only; and produce, reproduce, and share adapted material for non-commercial purposes only. You can download the legal code for this license at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

FTHM & EFRI as a publisher, will insert this note at the end of the paper published text in the CROMAR 2025 proceedings.

© 2025 by the authors: licensee University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia. This article is an open acess article distributed under the terms and conditions of the the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Instructions for authors before submitting the paper

Submitted papers should be uploaded through the EasyChair conference management system. Prior to submitting your papers, you should be registered (create an account – sign in) to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cromar2025)

After having created your account in order to submit the paper, please follow the instructions below:

▪ Remove the authors’ names in the paper (due to a blind review) – Please save your paper in PDF format WITHOUT PROVIDING authors’ names

▪ Papers should be submitted in English or Croatian in following form: PAPER TITLE. PDF

▪ Papers should be written according to the following template Template for Full Papers Cromar 2025 (WITHOUT PROVIDING authors’ names)

Submission Procedure

▪ Log in to EasyChair using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cromar2025

▪ Upon a successful login, you will see the Main Interface. Click on ‘My Submissions’.

▪ Click on ‘Submit a new version’ on the right side.

▪ Select the file to upload and make sure that it is in PDF format (.pdf) without providing authors’ names.

▪ Finally, click the ‘Submit a New Version’ button to complete the submission. You will receive an e-mail message confirming that your submission was successful.

▪ If you wish to upload a new (updated) version of your paper, select “Update file” from the right menu of your submission.

▪ Upon the review and final paper acceptance, authors should submit paper via EasyChair using following template Template for Full Papers Cromar 2025 in word (.doc, .docx) format only (WITH PROVIDING authors’ names and final version of accepted paper).

For accepted papers, authors must fill and sign the copyright agreement to declare that he/she is the sole author or co-author of the paper and send on cromar2025@fthm.hr.

See more information under Publishing Editorial Policies.

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Guidelines for Authors

Abstract and Paper Submission​

29th cromar congress