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Author Guidelines

Aims & Scope

Fishery technology covers the below topics that relate to the field of fish and fisheries

  • Aquaculture
  • Fish genetics and biotechnology
  • Fish health management
  • Fish nutrition and biochemistry
  • Fish processing technology
  • Fishing technology
  • Seafood quality assurance and management
  • Seafood biochemistry and microbiology
  • Fishery resource management
  • Fisheries extension, economics and statistics

The scope of Fishery technology is comprehensive and includes original research papers, authoritative reviews, and short communications/research notes.

The work described should be innovative either in the approach or in the methods used. The significance of the results either for the science community or for the fish industry must also be specified. Contributions that do not fulfil these requirements will not be considered for review and publication.

 

Types of paper

  • Research papers: Original high-quality research papers with preferably no more than 6000 words, including abstract and references.
  • Review articles: Major review articles, up to 8,000 words, including abstract and references.
  • Research notes: Short communications of up to 3000 words (including abstract and references), describing work that may be of a preliminary nature but which merits immediate publication.

 

Manuscript preparation

  • The manuscript should be submitted with continuous line numbers and double space.
  • The manuscript should be prepared in MS word with Times New Roman font.
  • All pages in the manuscript should be numbered. Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
  • Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main text (Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion), Acknowledgements, and References. The corresponding author should be identified with an asterisk.
  • Research papers: Research articles are complete reports of original, scientifically sound research that have not been published previously, except in a preliminary form in symposia/conferences etc.

 

The research articles shall adhere to the following–

Abstract: ≤ 250 words

Word count: ≤ 6000 (including abstract and references)

Total Figures & Tables: ≤ 06

Number of references: ≤ 40

 

  • Review articles: Review articles aim to provide a critical and comprehensive assessment of published material to extend and gain new insights in past research. Review articles focused on recent literature published (preferably over the previous 5 years) as well as comprehensive and definitive reviews will be considered. Review articles must also identify gaps in the field of study that can be useful for future studies. It is expected that Potential authors considering the preparation of a review would have spent considerable amounts of their research career in the area that is being reviewed.

 

Review articles shall adhere to the following –

Abstract: ≤ 250 words

Word count: ≤ 8000 (including abstract and references)

Total Figures & Tables: ≤ 06

Number of references: ≤ 80

 

However, if the length of submitted review articles is 5,000 words or fewer, and the article offers fresh perspectives on previous research, it may be eligible for publication as a mini-review. Such articles must comply with the following guidelines-

 

Abstract: ≤ 150 words

Word count: ≤ 5000 (including abstract and references)

Total Figures & Tables: ≤ 04

Number of references: ≤ 60

 

 

  • Research notes: These are brief reports of scientifically sound research, that contribute to new knowledge. They are short communications and may be preliminary reports of new findings.

Research notes shall adhere to the following –

Abstract: ≤ 100 words

Word count: ≤ 3000 (including abstract and references)

Total Figures & Tables: ≤ 03

Number of references: ≤ 25

* The limits for research papers/review articles/research notes might be exceeded as required for manuscripts to be as complete as possible towards ensuring quality, novelty and impact.

Article/Main text structure

  • Abstract: A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided. Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
  • Keywords: Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords. Keywords allow the article to be found easily by search engines and considerably increase article citations when they are comprehensive. Keywords should be in singular, full word form. Keywords must be different from title to enhance searchability and findability.
  • Introduction: State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. Provide a brief review of pertinent work citing key references.
  • Materials and methods: Provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published should be summarized, and indicated by a reference. If quoting directly from a previously published method, use quotation marks and also cite the source. Any modifications to existing methods should also be described.
  • Results and discussion: Results and discussion may be combined into a single section. Results should be clear and concise. Discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Cite tables and figures consecutively in text with Arabic numerals.
  • Conclusion: The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of Results and Discussion section.
  • Acknowledgments: Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references.
  • References: Responsibility for the accuracy of references cited lies entirely with the authors.

 

Reference style: Citations in the text should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association (APA).

 

Citation in text: Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list, they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'.

  • The APA referencing style is an "author-date" style, so the citation in the text consists of the author(s) and the year of publication given wholly or partly in round brackets.
  • The author's last name and the year of the publication are inserted in the actual text of the paper, for example: (Field, 2005).
  • Author's name in parentheses:

One study found that the most important element in comprehending non-native speech is familiarity with the topic (Gass & Varonis, 1984).

  • Author's name part of narrative:

Gass and Varonis (1984) found that the most important element in comprehending non-native speech is familiarity with the topic.

 

  • One author: (Field, 2005)
  • Two authors: (Gass & Varonis, 1984)
  • Three to five authors:

First citation: (Tremblay, Richer, Lachance, & Cote, 2010)

Subsequent citations: (Tremblay et al., 2010)

  • Six or more authors: (Norris-Shortle et al., 2006).

 

More Examples:

  • A few researchers in the linguistics field have developed training programs designed to improve native speakers' ability to understand accented speech (Derwing, Rossiter, & Munro, 2002; Thomas, 2004).
  • This was identified earlier (Yasumoto, 2005)
  • A recent review by Habibi et al. (2021) identified some of the data gaps
  • as reviewed by Friedman et al. (2017)
  • This was reported by previous researchers (Tsumuraya et al., 2014; Tsumuraya & Hirama, 2019).
  • This was reported by previous researchers (Dickey & Plakas, 2010; U.S. Food Drug Administration, 2020)

List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.

Examples:

  • Reference to a journal publication:
    Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J. A. J., & Lupton, R. A. (2010). The art of writing a scientific article. Journal of Scientific Communications,163, 51–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sc.2010.00372.

  • Reference to a journal publication with an article number:
    Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J. A. J., & Lupton, R. A. (2018). The art of writing a scientific article. Heliyon, 19, Article e00205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00205.

  • Reference to a book:
    Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (2000). The elements of style(4th ed.). Longman (Chapter 4).

  • Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
    Mettam, G. R., & Adams, L. B. (2009). How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In B. S. Jones, & R. Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the electronic age(pp. 281–304). E-Publishing Inc.

  • Reference to a website:
    Powertech Systems. (2015). Lithium-ion vs lead-acid cost analysis. Retrieved from http://www.powertechsystems.eu/home/tech-corner/lithium-ion-vs-lead-acid-cost-analysis/. Accessed January 6, 2016

  • Reference to a dataset:
    [dataset] Oguro, M., Imahiro, S., Saito, S., & Nakashizuka, T. (2015). Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions. Mendeley Data, v1. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.

  • Reference to a conference paper or poster presentation:
    Engle, E.K., Cash, T.F., & Jarry, J.L. (2009, November). The Body Image Behaviours Inventory-3: Development and validation of the Body Image Compulsive Actions and Body Image Avoidance Scales. Poster session presentation at the meeting of the Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

  • Reference to software:
    Coon, E., Berndt, M., Jan, A., Svyatsky, D., Atchley, A., Kikinzon, E., Harp, D., Manzini, G., Shelef, E., Lipnikov, K., Garimella, R., Xu, C., Moulton, D., Karra, S., Painter, S., Jafarov, E., & Molins, S. (2020, March 25). Advanced Terrestrial Simulator (ATS) v0.88 (Version 0.88). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3727209.

Submission Preparation Checklist

You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review.

  1. Cover letter: Manuscript submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter. The corresponding author must state explicitly in a paragraph how the paper fits the Aims and Scope of the journal. The cover letter should also outline the novelty and impact of the work.

Authors are invited to briefly comment on how the work presented in the manuscript advances the knowledge in the field. For review articles, authors must also clearly disclose how the article adds new insights to the field and how it differs from recently published review articles in the same or similar subjects.

 

The cover letter should mandatorily include

  1. The type of article being submitted (Research article / Review article/ Research note).
  2. The total word count of the Main text, number of references and number of tables and/or figures in the MS.
  3. Declarations:
  4. Competing Interests: Any statement regarding conflict of interest or duplicate submission should be included in this section in cover letter. All financial and non-financial competing interests must be declared in this section. If you do not have any competing interests, please state "The authors declare that they have no competing interests" in this section.
  5. Approvals of the ethical committee: When the work involves human or animal experiments it must also be disclosed in the cover letter.
  6. Author Contributions: For the purposes of transparency, the journal requires authors to submit a statement outlining the individual contributions of each author(s) to the manuscript, to be placed in the Declarations on the Cover letter. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed by all authors.
  7. Reviewer suggestions: List of at least three potential reviewers with contact details (i.e., Full name, designation affiliations and official address, phone number, official e-mail and alternate email, if available). None of the reviewers should be from the author’s own institution; and 1 out of the 3 reviewers (One reviewer is from International and two from  National) preferably should be from countries other than the one to which the Authors belong.

 

  1. Title page: The title page should include an informative title, name of the author(s), author(s) affiliations, corresponding author & his contact details.

Title: A concise and informative title. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems.

Author names and affiliations: Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the email address of each author.

Corresponding author: The name of the corresponding author to whom inquiries about the paper should be addressed at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post publication must be marked with an asterisk. Ensure that the e-mail address is given is active and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.

Present/permanent address: If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a "Present address" (or "Permanent

address") may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Use superscript Arabic numerals for such footnotes.

 

  1. Research highlights/ Graphical abstract (Optional):

Research highlights:

  • Place research highlights on a separate page preceding the manuscript.
  • The research highlights should consist of short collection of bullet points.
  • Please use 'Highlights' in the file name and include 3 to 5 bullet points (maximum 100 characters, including spaces, per bullet point).
  • Highlights should identify and capture novel outcomes of your work and must be stand-alone.

Graphical abstract: It should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership online. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described in the article.

 

  1. Main text: Manuscript with abstract, keywords and references
  2. Tables and Graphs/Figures:
  • Please submit tables as editable text and not as images.
  • Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end.
  • All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals. Table number and title should be above the table.

Example:

Table 1. Details of the capture and morphological features of the fishes examined in this study.

  • Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body.
  • Each table, should have an overall title explaining the components of the table and each column within the table must have a heading. The title should be understandable without reference to the text. Details should be put in footnotes, not in the title.
  • Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).
  • Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
  • Figures should be in a high-resolution original form.
  • All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals (Example: 1. Changes in the biogenic amine content of Indian Oil Sardine during storage at 2 oC.). Figure number and title should be placed below the figure.
  • Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure.
  • A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration.
  • Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.

 

Before submission, please ensure that the following items are present:

  • One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
  • E-mail address
  • Full postal address
  • All necessary files have been uploaded:
  • Cover Letter, clearly stating the novelty of your research
  • Manuscript:
  • Include keywords
  • All figures (include relevant captions)
  • All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
  • Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
  • Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable)
  • Supplemental files (where applicable)

Further considerations

  • Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'.
  • All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa.
  • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet).
  • A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare.
  • Journal guidelines have been reviewed.
  • Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements.

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