Revised Manuscript checklist:
ACTION
Copyright Status Form filled in, signed, scanned, and enclosed
All live links (hypertext) removed (e.g., links of DOI to the internet)
Reference manager links removed/inactivated
Page format: A4
Margins: 4 × 25 mm
Line spacing: 1.5
Gutter: 0 mm
Header: 12.5 mm
Footer: 12.5 mm
Font: Times New Roman 12 pts.
Text NOT justified on the right-hand side (ragged right)
All tables and figures inserted into the revised MS (end of manuscript)
Inserted figures must be either screenshots (or low resolution figures)—otherwise
the file will be to big to be processed!
All figures sent as separate files (Please note that Table is NOT a figure)
Table headings placed individually above respective tables
Figure captions placed individually below respective figures
Table headings and/or Figure captions NOT repeated in the MS
Line numbers removed
Structured summary limited to 2300 characters (including spaces)
The text declared as English (UK)
Spell checking performed
All difficult words not covered by the spell checker verified using the Internet
All Latin names verified against FishBase
Common names of fishes consistent with FishBase
Cases where FishBase common name is unacceptable or not consistent with the
best known common name—must be reported to Editor AI&P
If FishBase does not suggest the name—the new proposed common name should
not be in conflict with any of the existing common names. Please notify the Editor
AI&P that you are proposing new common name for FishBase
Degree symbol (º) inserted from the Symbols menu (and NOT superscript letter
‘o’ or number ‘0’)
Multiplication symbol is centred dot (·)
Alternative multiplication symbol is (×) and NOT small letter ‘ex’ (x)
Dividing sign (/) replaced with multiplying sign (·)
(e.g., mg · L–1, mg · g–1, IU · kg–1, µg · g–1, NOT: mg/L, mg/g, IU/kg, µg/g)
Spaces inserted between numbers and units (e.g., 5 kg) and between
numbers/variables and mathematical symbols (+, ×, –, =, ±, <, >), but NOT
numbers and percent symbols (e.g., 33%; NOT: 33 %)
Increase- or decrease trends expressed in “percentage points” NOT in “%”
For percent ranges, use “%” sign after each value (e.g., 15%–30%; NOT 15–30%)
In all other ranges use the unit symbol only with the last value (e.g., 15–30 kg;
NOT 15 kg–30 kg)
Hyphen and N-dash sign (–) and M-dash sign (—) used where needed (do not
confuse hyphen, N-dash, and M-dash)
[tick if
completed]
N-dash sign (–) without spaces before- and after used for (numerical) ranges
(e.g., 3–6)
N-dash sign (–) with spaces before- and after used for arithmetical formulas
(subtraction) (e.g., 6 – 4 = 2)
Breaks of thought (stronger than those requiring parentheses) demarcated by an
M-dash sign (—) (without spaces before-and after) (NOT N-dash sign with spaces
before- and after)
Literature in text cited chronologically
The formulae should be editable (!) and constructed using MS Word Equation
Editor
Commas NOT inserted between the name of cited author and the year (e.g., Smith
1999; NOT: Smith, 1999)
Commas between the name and the year used ONLY for taxon authorities (e.g.,
Scorpaena loppei Cadenat, 1943)
Literature cited in text separated by comma, NOT semicolon (e.g., Kabata 1979,
Brown 1999)
Cited literature verified (All paper cited in the text should appear in References
and vice versa)
All tables and figures numbered consecutively (in the sequence they appear in the
text)
Title in sentence case (do not capitalise words if not necessary)
First name of all authors spelled out, while middle name abbreviate to a single
letter (If the author uses the middle name—it should be spelled out while the first
name abbreviated)
“Hour” abbreviated as “h” (NOT “hr”)
“Minute” abbreviated as “min” (NOT “min.”)
“Second” abbreviated as “s” (NOT “sec” or “sec.”
The suffixes of ordinal numbers (th, st, nd, and rd) NOT in superscript (e.g., NOT
2nd)
Single letter variables set in Italics (e.g., x, y, P, R2, Mj)
Two letter variables (more than one letter) NOT in Italics (e.g., TL, SL; NOT: TL)
Latin terms, commonly used in English (et al., in vitro, in vivo, in situ, etc.) NOT
italicised
All abbreviations defined at first mention (+ again in figure captions and/or table
footnote)
SI units used throughout the text (with exception of L for liquid volumes)
References arranged alphabetically (Please note that in a consequence of that
Smith et al. 1999 can be cited before Smith et al. 1988)
Taxon authorities not mentioned in the TITLE
Full fish name provided in Summary and again in Introduction; e.g.,
Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)
Later in the text the generic name should be abbreviated, But: First use of a fish
name in a paragraph should NOT be abbreviated. Generic name on the beginning
of sentence should NOT be abbreviated
Background sections of the structured summary contains a response to the
question: Why the study was initiated?
Background sections of the structured summary contains a response to the
question: Why this type of study is needed?
Background sections of the structured summary contains a response to the
question: What is the aim of the present paper?
(authors of short communication do not need to answer the three questions in the
Abstract, but they may do so in the main text)
See instructions for providing the figures in “Instructions for authors”
The footnote “Correspondence” on the first page must contain the name of the
corresponding author, preceded by the title (e.g., “Dr”), his/her work address in a
local language [Because the address below the author’s name is in English, citing
the affiliation in the original language increases the chance of finding the
institution in the Internet], phone, fax No., phone No., e-mail address (e-mail
addresses of other authors should also be provided)