Author Guidelines

Why submit:

As an established aquaculture magazine, with readership extending to industry professional, researchers and aquaculture enthusiasts, International Aquafeed has already marked its territory in the aquaculture realm. Published monthly in English, Aquafeed is the only Journal serving the global aquaculture sector which is published, printed and distributed in three languages.

Our peer-review process is fast with an average publication time of six weeks. The peer review is also double-blinded to ensure fairness. Articles will be widely promoted by e-Newsletter, social media channels and at numerous industry events across the globe. With offices and staff on every continent we are the only aquaculture Journal attending and distributing our magazines and the Journal at more than 30 exhibitions and conferences globally every year.

How to submit:

Authors can email the manuscript to journal@perendale.co.uk

Types of articles:

International Aquafeed offers multiple article types to maximise your options for disseminating your work. All articles are peer-reviewed, (receive a DOI), are citable, published in PDF and HTML format and submitted for indexing in relevant digital archives.

Original research:

Original research are reports of primary research conducted by the authors. They need not necessarily be un-published given they are submitted according to our Journal guidelines. Original Research articles are peer-reviewed, have a maximum word count of 2500 -3000 and may contain no more than 10 Figures/Tables. References should be in Harvard. Authors are required to pay a fee (see A-type article) to publish an Original Research article. Original research articles should have the following format: 1) An Abstract, 2) An Introduction, 3) Materials and Methods, 4) Results and 5) Discussion.

Features:

Features are articles that are an in-depth study of any relevant topic. It need not necessarily have a structure but included subheadings are encouraged. Articles are peer-reviewed, have a maximum word count of 2500-3000 words and may contain no more than 10 Figures/Tables. References should not be included and authors are required to pay a fee (see A-type article) to publish a Feature article. Authors must also provide a short unattributed abstract in a separate document on submission, which will not be published.

Mini-reviews:

Mini Review Articles cover focused aspects of a current area of investigation and its recent developments. They offer a succinct and clear summary of the topic, allowing readers to get up to date on new developments and/or emerging concepts, as well as discuss the following: 1) Different schools of thought or controversies; 2) Current research gaps and 3) Potential future developments in the field. Mini Review Articles are peer-reviewed, have a maximum word count of 1500-2000 words and may contain no more than three or four Figures/Tables. Authors are required to pay a fee (see B-type article below) to publish a Mini Review Article. References should be in Harvard. Mini Review Articles should have the following format: 1) An Abstract; 2) An Introduction; 3) Subsections relevant for the subject and 4) Discussion.

Species focus/ Case studies:

Case Studies are short research reports that look into how any specific type of fish species is cultivated. Articles can also look into conditions that improve growth conditions, nutritional requirements, etc of a specific species. Case studies have a maximum word count of 1500-2000 words and may contain no more than five Figures/Tables. Authors are required to pay a fee (see B-type article below) to publish a Case Study article. References should be in Harvard. Authors must also provide a short unattributed abstract on submission which will not be published.

Commentary:

Commentary could be a discussion of the author’s viewpoint on a particular area of relevant research, impact of new technology on research and treatment, or a discussion of changes in peer review and their effect on research.

While a Commentary may be critical of an article published in the journal, it is important to maintain a respectful tone that is critical of ideas or conclusions but not of authors. Commentary can have two-to-three images/ tables and word count should be within 1000-1200 words. Authors are required to pay a fee (see C-type article below). References should be in Harvard. Authors must also provide a short unattributed abstract on submission which will not be published.

Ethics statement:

Studies involving animals must include a statement on ethics approval, include the name of the ethics committee that approved the study and the committee’s reference number if appropriate and, for experimental studies involving client-owned animals, authors must also include a statement on informed consent from the client or owner.

Preprint policy:

Aquafeed Journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

Copyright statement:

Authors of articles published in Aquafeed journal retain copyright on their articles, except for any third-party images and other materials added by us, which are subject to copyright of their respective owners. Authors are therefore free to disseminate and re-publish their articles, subject to any requirements of third-party copyright owners and subject to the original publication being fully cited. The ability to copy, download, forward or otherwise distribute any materials is always subject to any copyright notices displayed. Copyright notices must be displayed prominently and may not be obliterated, deleted or hidden, totally or partially.

Publishing fees:

Author Guidelines:

Title

The title should be concise, omitting terms that are implicit and, where possible, be a statement of the main result or conclusion presented in the manuscript. Abbreviations should be avoided within the title.

Witty or creative titles are welcome, but only if relevant and within measure.

In extreme cases, the editorial office may veto a title and propose an alternative.

The running title should be a maximum of five words in length.

Author names

All names are listed together in a separate word file and separated by commas. Provide exact and correct author names as these will be indexed in official archives. Affiliations should be keyed to the author’s name with superscript numbers

Correspondence

The corresponding author(s) should be marked with an asterisk in the author list which should be in a separate word file. Provide the exact contact email address of the corresponding author(s) in a separate section.

Equal contributions

The authors who have contributed equally should be marked with a symbol (†) in the author list of the docs file.

Please use the appropriate standard statement(s) to indicate equal contributions:

• Equal contribution: These authors contributed equally to this work
• First authorship: These authors share first authorship
• Senior authorship: These authors share senior authorship
• Last authorship: These authors share last authorship
• Equal contribution and first authorship: These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship

Abstract

As a primary goal, the abstract should render the general significance and conceptual advance of the work clearly accessible to a broad readership. In the abstract, minimise the use of abbreviations and do not cite references, figures or tables. Briefly summarise your manuscript’s contribution to, and position in, the existing literature in your field.

Keywords

All article types require a minimum of five and a maximum of eight keywords.

Text

The manuscript should be written in Word and sent as a docs file.

Acknowledgments

This is a short text to acknowledge the contributions of specific colleagues, institutions or agencies that aided the efforts of the authors. Should the content of the manuscript have previously appeared online, such as in a thesis or preprint, this should be mentioned here, in addition to listing the source within the reference list.

Figure and table guidelines

All figures, tables and images will be published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license, and permission must be obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including re-published/adapted/modified/partial figures and images from the internet). It is the responsibility of the authors to acquire the licenses, follow any citation instructions requested by third-party rights holders and cover any supplementary charges.

Figure requirements and style guidelines

Perendale Publishers Limited requires figures to be submitted individually, in the same order and should be named as they are referred to in the manuscript.

For figures with more than one panel, panels should be clearly indicated using labels (A), (B), (C), (D), etc. For graphs, there must be a self-explanatory label (including units) along each axis.

Our production office might require high-resolution files of the figures included in the manuscript in JPEG format.

Captions

Captions should be preceded by the appropriate label, for example: ‘Figure 1.’ Figure captions should be placed at the end of the manuscript. Figure panels are referred to by bold capital letters in brackets: (A), (B), (C), (D), etc.

Chemical structures

Chemical structures should be prepared using ChemDraw or a similar program.

Table requirements and style guidelines

Tables should be inserted in between the manuscript in an editable format. If you use a word processor, build your table in Word.

Table captions must be placed immediately before the table. Captions should be preceded by the appropriate label, for example: ‘Table 1.’

Please use only a single paragraph for the caption.

Kindly ensure that each table is mentioned in the text and in numerical order.

Please note that large tables covering several pages cannot be included in the final PDF for formatting reasons. These tables will be published as supplementary material.

Tables which are not according to the above guidelines will cause substantial delay during the production process.

Supplementary material

Data that are not of primary importance to the text, or which cannot be included in the article because they are too large or the current format does not permit it (such as videos, raw data traces, PowerPoint presentations, etc.), can be uploaded as supplementary material during the submission procedure and will be displayed along with the published article in the website. All supplementary files are deposited to Figshare for permanent storage and receive a DOI.

Supplementary material is not typeset, so please ensure that all information is clearly presented without tracked changes/highlighted text/line numbers, and the appropriate caption is included in the file. To avoid discrepancies between the published article and the supplementary material, please do not add the title, author list, affiliations or correspondence in the supplementary files.

The supplementary material can be uploaded as:

• Data sheet (Word, Excel, CSV, CDX, FASTA, PDF or Zip files)
• Presentation (PowerPoint, PDF or Zip files)
• Image (CDX, EPS, JPEG, PDF, PNG or TIF/TIFF)
• Table (Word, Excel, CSV or PDF)
• Audio (MP3, WAV or WMA)
• Video (AVI, DIVX, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG or WMV)

Technical requirements for supplementary images:

• 300 DPIs
• RGB colour mode