Instruction to authors
Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica (CN 42-1230/Q, ISSN 1000-3207), launched in 1955,
is sponsored by the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the
Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology.
Covered scope:
Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica is a comprehensive academic journal dedicated to the
timely publication of original research ideas and results in all fields of hydrobiology
in the forms of research articles, brief reports, and reviews. A wide range of papers is
published, including ecology, physiology, pathology, biogeography, aetiology,
toxicology, methodology and taxonomy. The aim of the Journal is to spread up-to-date
information to readers who are staff members and students of university departments
of biological science and fishery, as well as scientific and technical staff of related
research organizations and enterprises. The readers of the journal are spread all over
the world including scientific researchers, decision-making and management
personnel, and teachers and students in higher education institutions in related fields.
Requirements for submissions:
Submission of an article implies that the work described is requested to be
original and has not been published previously and copyrighted, that it is not under
consideration for publication elsewhere, and its submission has been approved by all
the authors and by the institute where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted,
it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other
language without the written consent of the publisher. Before the files of an article are
transmitted, authors should read the explanation with regard to the format of the
Journal carefully. Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign the
Copyright Transfer Agreement. This transfer will ensure the widest possible
dissemination of information.
Manuscript preparing:
The article should be written in good English. The title should be concise and
informative. Author names and affiliations should be presented. E-mail address and
complete postal address of corresponding author should be provided. The abstracts
should be able to stand alone, stating briefly the purpose of the research, the principal
results and major conclusions. The Introduction of the article should state the
objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed
literature survey or a summary of the results. The Experimental section should
provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced (Methods already
published should be indicated by a reference). In Results and Discussion section,
results should be clear and concise; the discussion should explore the significance of
the results of the work, not repeating them. A short Conclusion section should also be
presented in the end. Research papers are no less than 6,000 words; Short
communications are no less than 3,000 words, and, if accepted, it will not be
published elsewhere in the form of Research papers, in English or in any other
languages; Reviews are no less than 7,000 words.
Figures and Tables should be consecutively numbered with Arabic numerals in
accordance with their appearance in the text; footnotes indicating them should be
placed below the table or figure body. Each figure should have a descriptive legend.
Drawings should be of professional quality or generated by high-resolution computer
graphics.
Nomenclature and units should follow internationally accepted rules and
conventions: use the international system of units (SI). If other quantities are
mentioned, give their equivalent in SI.
References to the literature should be cited in the text by Arabic numerals in
square brackets in accordance with their appearance in the text, and listed numerically
at the end of the paper.
Submission:
All manuscripts should be submitted through the column of “Online Submission”
on the website of the journal—http://ssswxb.ihb.ac.cn. Please prepare a single file
(allowed formats: Word) containing all schemes, figures, and tables integrated in the
text. Then follow the instructions on the submission website. A successful electronic
submission of a manuscript will be followed by a system-generated acknowledgement
to the principal/corresponding author of the manuscript. After successful submission,
the author can check the whole course through the column of “Online checking” on
the website of the journal. Authors must rewrite the portions of the article that do not
meet the requirements of the Journal and submit the revision of manuscript via the
web site. After the print publication, one journal and 20 offprints of each article will
be provided free of charge.
Submissions are greatly welcome！