期刊名称：JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Journal of Fish Diseases enjoys an international reputation as the medium for the exchange of information on original research into all aspects of disease in both wild and cultured fish and shellfish. Areas of interest regularly covered by the journal include:
- host-pathogen relationships;
- studies of fish pathogens;
- pathophysiology;
- diagnostic methods;
- therapy;
- epidemiology;
- descriptions of new diseases.
Print ISSN: 0140-7775
Online ISSN: 1365-2761 |
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Instructions to Authors
If possible, we would like to receive your manuscripts as Word email attachments, submitted to the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Striling (ck4@stir.ac.uk). Please send hard copies of any colour or half-tone figures by conventional mail. If it is not possible to send by email, three copies of each manuscript (in English) should be sent to the Editors:
Professor R.J. Roberts
UI Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station
3059 F National Fish Hatchery Road
Hagerman
Idaho 83332
USA
or
Dr R. Wootten
Institute of Aquaculture
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA
Scotland
UK
(e-mail: ck4@stirling.ac.uk)
Papers are accepted on the understanding that they have not been and will not be published elsewhere. On acceptance, papers become the copyright of the Journal and all accepted papers should be accompanied by a copyright assignment form. To access this form please click here.
Preparation of Typescripts
Manuscripts should be typed (with a wide margin), double spaced, on one side of A4 (30 ?21 cm) paper.
A title page should contain the full title, author's name(s) and place of work, address for correspondence (including email) and short running title. Authors should retain one copy of text, tables and illustrations as the Editors cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss of manuscripts. Overseas authors may wish to consult an appropriate member of the Editorial Board prior to submission of material.
The text must be preceded by a short abstract not exceeding 200 words, followed by no more than six keywords, and should then proceed to sections of Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and Discussion. Pages should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, but tables, figure legends (including magnifications) and acknowledgements should be submitted on separate sheets. Tables and figures should be referred to in the text together with an indication of their appropriate position recorded in the text margin.
The full Latin specific name, including the authority with correct taxonomic disposition, should appear at least once for each species when first mentioned in the text or elsewhere, thus: Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., turbot, Scophthalmus maximus (L.), snakehead, Channa punctatus (Bloch), rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), i.e. authorities bracketed depending on first description (for further information see American Fisheries Society Special Publication No 12, A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada).
The reference list should be in alphabetical order and include the full title thus:
Chapman D.W. (1971) Production. In: Methods for the Assessment of Fish Production in Freshwater (ed. by W. E. Ricker), pp. 199-214. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
Wickens J.F. (1972) The food value of brine shrimp. Artemia salina L., to larvae of the prawn, Palaemon serratus Pennant. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 10, 151-170.
References in the text should use the Harvard System and be in full on first mention, e.g. (Brown, Smith & Williams 1975), subsequently abbreviated to (Brown et al. 1975). Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their references. References should only be cited as 'in press' if they have been accepted for publication. Manuscripts in preparation, unpublished reports and reports not readily available should not be cited. Personal communications should be cited as such in the text.
Spelling should conform to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Units of measurement, symbols and abbreviations must be given in metric units but British or other equivalents may be included in parentheses. Where any doubt arises as to the correct abbreviations, reference should be made to Quantities, Units and Symbols, 2nd edition, 1975, published by the Royal Society, London (ISBN: 0 85403 071 9). Full stops are not used with abbreviations. The following are suggested as internationally accepted units: %, ºC, mm, cm, cc, mL, L, m, km, mg, g, kg, s, min, h, ha.
Illustrations
Hard copies should be labelled with the figure number and author's name in soft pencil on the back identifying the top edge. Photographs should be glossy bromide prints of good contrast and well matched, mounted on card and with a transparent overlay for protection. Masking, lettering or arrows should be applied directly on to the photograph using rub-down lettering. Specific features may be identified for electron micrographs either directly on the prints or on the overlay. Scales may be indicated on the overlay or magnifications included in the figure legends.
Photographs should not exceed 200 ?124 mm and authors may be asked to contribute to the cost of printing if the space requested for illustrations is considered excessive. In the case of electron micrographs it is desirable that full page width should be utilized. Colour photographs will be allowable but the authors will be required to contribute towards the cost of reproduction, which is often high. Please see section below. Free or reduced-price colour is available at the Editor's discretion. Line diagrams should be drawn with black ink on tracing paper or white card or supplied as glossy prints.
In the full-text online edition of the journal, figure legends may be truncated in abbreviated links to the full screen version. Therefore, the first 100 characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the figure.
Colour illustrations
It is the policy of Journal of Fish Diseases for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their colour artwork.
Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Blackwell Publishing require you to complete and return a colour work agreement form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF* from the internet. The web address for the form is:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/Sub3000_X_CoW.pdf
If you are unable to access the internet, or are unable to download the form, please contact the Production Editor at the address below and they will be able to email or FAX a form to you.
Once completed, please return the form to the Production Editor at the address below.
Production Editor
Journal of Fish Diseases
Blackwell Publishing
101 George Street
Edinburgh EH2 3ES
UK
email: jfd@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com
Any article received by Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned.
*To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this program, this is available as a free download from the following web address:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Electronic artwork
We would like to receive your artwork in electronic form. Please save vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) in Encapsulated Postscript Format (EPS), and bitmap files (e.g. half-tones) in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). Ideally, vector graphics that have been saved in metafile (.WMF) or pict (.PCT) format should be embedded within the body of the text file. Detailed information on our digital illustration standards is available at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp. Avoid using tints if possible; if they are essential to the understanding of the figure, try to make them coarse. Always enclose a hard copy of digitally supplied figures.
Proofs and offprints
Proofs will be sent via e-mail as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file. The e-mail server must be able to accept attachments up to 4 MB in size. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following Web site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available; in your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs. Proofs should be returned to the publishers within 3 days of receipt. Alterations in the text, other than corrections, may be charged to the author.
Twenty-five offprints of each paper, including Short Communications (see below), will be provided free of charge and additional copies may be ordered when proofs are returned. A scale of charges will be sent with the proofs.
Short Communications
These should differ from full papers on the basis of scope or completeness, rather than quality of research. They may report significant new data arising from problems with narrow, well-defined limits, or important findings that warrant rapid publication before broader studies are complete. Their text should neither exceed 1500 words (approximately 6 pages of typescript) nor be divided up into conventional sections. When submitting Short Communications, authors should make it clear that their work is to be treated as such.
Mini-reviews
One feature of Journal of Fish Diseases which has been particularly popular in the past, has been the occasional mini-review of a particular disease condition, sector of fish pathology or disease agent. It has been decided to increase the frequency of these and to make available up to 25 pages of several issues each year to this purpose if reviews are offered in sufficient numbers.
Such mini-reviews can cover any subject within the journal's remit. They will be peer reviewed via the Editorial Board and prospective authors are encouraged to review their ideas and raise any questions with a Board Member or with the Editors, should they wish.
Mini-reviews should define the present level of understanding of their subject and suggest new insights or possible avenues for future investigation. The text should be produced on the same editorial basis as standard research papers in the Journal of Fish Diseases.
We also hope to produce a clinical edition each year, with reports on new conditions improvements in clinical diagnosis and new treatments.
No academic journal can operate without the generous support of its referees. We wish to thank all of you who have helped us with the peer review process over the years. Without this support, all scientific standards are placed in jeopardy. We also hope that our enhanced journal will encourage you to continue to offer your quality papers to us for review. With your help, we will be striving to ensure that as it moves into its second quarter century, the Journal of Fish Diseases will continue to be the automatic choice for quality papers in fish and shellfish pathology.
Disks
Disks should be IBM-compatible. An accurate hard-copy must accompany each disk, together with the details of the type of computer used, the software employed and the disk system if known. Do not justify. Particular attention should be taken to ensure that any articles submitted in this form adhere exactly to the journal style in all respects. A file description form should also be completed and sent with the disk: (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/fdf.pdf). Further details can be obtained from the Publisher; the Editors will supply 'disk submission' forms on acceptance of a manuscript. Disks will not be returned to the author
Editorial Board
R.J. Roberts FRSE
Heron Associates
9 Alexander Drive
Bridge of Allen
Stirling FK9 4QB
E-mail: heronpisces@compuserve.com
R. Wootten
Institute of Aquaculture
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland, UK
E-mail: rw3@stirling.ac.uk
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