Library

The Library also supports students through a set of open-access and subscribed electronic sources, including Croatian journal portals, transport databases and the Faculty repository.

Hrčak brings together almost 500 Croatian scientific and professional journals that provide open access to full articles or, at minimum, bibliographic data and abstracts.

The Faculty scientific journal publishes papers in transport and traffic technology. The archive contains issues from 1990 to the present day.

TRID is the largest database for transport sciences, while the national electronic resources portal provides access to many databases through national or university subscriptions.

The Croatian national union catalogue aggregates library holdings from the science and higher education system, while the Faculty repository provides access to final, graduate and doctoral theses produced at the Faculty.

There are several ways of citing literature; the choice depends on the conventions of the field covered by the paper. The key rule is consistency: choose one style and apply it throughout the whole text.

Citation matters because it demonstrates familiarity with the topic, prevents plagiarism, enables fact-checking and helps readers find the original source.

In-text: The total aircraft weight consists of the empty aircraft weight, payload, fuel and reserve fuel. (Pavlin, 2006)

Bibliography: Pavlin, S. (2006). Aerodromi I. Zagreb: Fakultet prometnih znanosti.

In-text: The total aircraft weight consists of the empty aircraft weight, payload, fuel and reserve fuel. (Pavlin 2006)

Bibliography: Pavlin, S 2006, Aerodromi I, Fakultet prometnih znanosti, Zagreb.

In-text: The total aircraft weight consists of the empty aircraft weight, payload, fuel and reserve fuel. [1]

Bibliography: [1] Pavlin S. Aerodromi I. Zagreb: Fakultet prometnih znanosti; 2006.

For books, journal articles, theses and web sources, it is recommended to follow the standard Vancouver structure with consistent author, title, place of publication, publisher, year and access details where relevant.

In recent years, predatory publishers have increasingly targeted researchers by charging authors to publish papers without a real peer-review process. This undermines the quality of available information and often leaves the author with a publication that is not indexed in major databases and has no legitimate impact factor.

The archived Beall’s List remains a useful starting point for checking journals and publishers that have been flagged for predatory behaviour. Each result should still be verified against current indexing and editorial information.

This initiative offers a concise checklist for assessing whether a journal or publisher is trustworthy before submitting a manuscript, with a focus on transparency, peer review, editorial boards and indexing.

OpenAlex can help verify whether a journal or publisher is indexed and how it connects to broader research outputs, which is useful when checking visibility and legitimacy.