Papers should be written in Croatian language (with English titles, subtitles and summary) or in English language. The authors have to follow a concise scientific style of writing and ensure that the manuscript does not contain grammatical, stylistic or other linguistic errors.
Manuscripts have to be submitted as a single MS Word file (.doc, .docx). To aid reviewers, submissions should have tables and figures placed in the text soon after where they are first cited. To aid in page layout and technical preparation of the article, submissions should also have all attachments (graphs, pictures etc.) submitted separately in its original form i.e. the format in which they are created (.jpg, .xls, .xlsx, .cdr, …).

When preparing the manuscript, authors should respect the following rules:

• Extent of the manuscript (with all attachments) should take up no more than 7 printed pages in the journal (5500 words). For each non-textual attachment (table or figure), the maximum number of words should be reduced by 250
• A4 paper format, font Times New Roman 12 pt, single column pages, 2.5 cm margins, 1.5 line spacing, only the first line of the paragraph indented by 1 cm
• Avoid bolding, underlining or in any other way emphasising any part of the text
• Italics should be used only for scientific names of plant and animal species
• Avoid footnotes
• All pages should be numbered (bottom right side of the page)
• Line numbers should not be placed
• Raster pictures (e.g. photos) must be of high quality, minimum 400 dpi resolution and of sufficient dimensions for printing
• For drawings, graphs, diagrams and similar, their originals in vector format should be submitted.

Must be as short as possible whilst giving a good insight into the theme of the paper. It is to be written with capitalised first and other letters in agreement with language grammar, bold, font size 14, centered in the space available, with Croatian-English translation.

Written below the title without the authors’ appellations, bold, centered on the paper, author’s first name followed by their family name; authors are separated using a comma. Corresponding author should be clearly indicated.

Written at the very end of the manuscript. Along with the author’s appellation, name and family name, the author’s correct address, telephone and fax number, and e-mail must also be given.

Must have a maximum of 250 words, must describe the problem researched, methods and materials used, area of research and give a summarised description of the most important conclusions.

The paper must contain up to 7 key words by which it is recognisable.

Should be divided into corresponding chapters and numbered according to importance. Individual chapters can be adjusted to the subject work.

The titles must be as short as possible and include key words. Chapter titles, tables and pictures must be capitalised, while the other words, except for names of persons and geographical titles, begin with small letters. No full stop comes after the heading. Measurement units in the table titles, headings of pictures and tables, must follow after the comma (e.g. Minimum value of P, kW).

Only national legal measuring units should be used, which belong to the SI system anyhow (french Systeme International, engl. System International). In agreement with this, unit names, as well as their symbols, must be written in accordance with the legal provisions, or Croatian and international standards.

Mathematical and measurement (physical) magnitudes must be clearly described. As such, e.g., the Croatian Law on Measuring Units explicitly prescribes three characteristics units must have: value, symbol and name. Each measuring unit belongs to a specific measurement (physical) magnitude. When a larger number of mathematical, or measurement magnitudes and units are used, they must be listed separately and described in the chapter Measurement and Mathematical Symbols. Each symbol also needs to be listed and described textually when it first appears due to the duality in writing of some mathematical symbols (e.g. comma, full stop…), in CROJFE publications, a comma (,) will be used as a decimal point in conjunction with the ISO 31-0 standard, while a raised period in the middle of a line (.) as a second multiplication sign (the first sign is an ×). (A supplement from one journal published in English: Please note that the decimal point is indicated by a comma, in accordance with ISO 31. Interpreter’s remark: all ISO standards use a comma as a decimal point, while a raised period and cross in the middle of a line are used as multiplication sign!) 7.4 Citing and listing of references. The text cited in works is done in accordance with the Harvard system. The family name of the first and possibly the second key author of the paper are placed inside the brackets, followed by the year of publishing, e.g. (Pentek 2004) or (Pentek and Horvat 2004). If the paper is signed by more than two authors, the abbreviation et al. must be placed after the family name of the first author, e.g. (Pentek et al. 2004). If several papers need to be cited consecutively, details of each paper are separated with a comma and in case of several papers by the same author during the same year, they must be separated by adding Latin letters, e.g. (Pentek 2003a, Pentek 2003b, Horvat 2004).

The article should have a list of references in a separate chapter, in alphabetical order starting with the family name of the first author. List of references should include only literature which has been cited in the text of manuscript. If the source of references is a book or an article, it must contain (in this order):

• author’s name (if they are unknown, name of the editor or the name of the organisation that published it)
• year of publishing
• title of the paper in native language and the English translation
• full name, year and number of the publication where the paper was published, as well as page numbers if it came from the book, or the starting and finishing pages for articles from a journal
• name of the publisher and place of publishing (for books)

If the source came from the internet, it is necessary to state the date and the web address of the documents used.

Examples:

Journal
1. Pentek, T., Pičman, D., Nevečerel, H., 2004: Srednja udaljenost privlačenja drva (Themean wood skidding distance), Šumarski list 127(9-10), p. 545-558.

Book
2. FAO, 1974a: Logging and log transport in man-made forests in developing countries, FAO/SWE/TF 116, p. …. Rome 1974.

Chapter in a book
3. Pentek, T., Pičman, D. (2001): Šumske protupžarne prometnice – osnovne zadaće, planiranje i prostorni raspored (Forest fire prevention roads – basic tasks, planning, and distribution in the space). In: Znanost u potrajnom gospodarenju hrvatskim ąumama (Matić, S., Krpan, A. P. B., Gračan, J., ed.), Šum. fak. Sveuč. u Zagrebu(Forest. Fac. of the Uni. of Zagreb) and Šum. institut, Jastrebarsko (Forest. Inst. Jastrebarsko), Zagreb, p. 545 – 554.

Conference paper
4. Sever, S., Horvat, D. (1997): Choosing and Application of Forest Soft Machines. In: Proceedings of the 7th European ISTVS Conference. International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems, Ferrara, Italy 1997, p. 549 – 556.

Law, statute, guideline and similar
5. Basic Demands about the agriculture and forest tractors (2001) Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia, NN 75/2001.

World Wide Web site
6. Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering (2005) (Accessed 1 November 2005).

Pictures are all illustrations, drawings, graphs, diagrams and photographs. Each picture must be attached on a separate page. They are numbered in the order they appear in the text (picture 1, picture 2). The title is placed beneath the picture. Key information necessary for interpretation of the picture is placed beneath the picture’s title if it hasn’t already been specified inside the picture itself. Diagram and graph legends must be written in small letters, apart from the first word which has its first letter capitalised. Pictures must be complete with all legends and titles for the purposes of being cited in the text.

Example:

Slika 1. Ovisnost indeksa kotača o konusnom indeksu tla
Fig. 1 Wheel numeric vs. cone index

Each table must be placed on a separate page and numbered with Arabic numbers in the order it appears in the text (table 1, table 2 etc.). Table’s title is located above its upper corner.

Example:

Tablica 1. Minimalna i planirana otvorenost prema različitim šumskim područjima u Hrvatskoj
Table 1: Minimum and planned openness of different forest areas in Croatia

Footnotes are not used in the main text of the paper, but can be used with tables.

Can be used on diagrams and graphs, but not for numbering in the text.