Submissions

Author Guidelines

AUTHOR GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

1. GUIDELINES FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION

The author should first register as author and/or offer to be a reviewer via the following address: https://jurnal.unikal.ac.id/index.php/akuatika/about/submissions#onlinesubmissions The author should complete those sections of the form marked with a star in as much detail as possible and when author register and then choose and tick on “Author: Able to submit items to the journal”. Following the completion of all the text boxes, the author clicks on the “Register” button to activate the registration process. The author is then brought to the online author submission interface where he/she should click on “New Submission”. In the “Start a New Submission” section, click on “Click Here: to go to Step One of the five-step submission process”. The following are the five steps of the online submission process:

1.  Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e. Original Research Articles, Review Article, or Short Communication. The author must check-mark on the submission checklists.
2. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click on “Browse” on the “Upload Submission” file item, select the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click on the “Upload” button.
3. Step 3 – Entering Submission Metadata: In this step, detailed author metadata should be entered, including the marked corresponding author. The manuscript title and abstract must then be uploaded by copying the text and pasting it into the textbox, including keywords.
4. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: A supplementary file should be uploaded containing a Covering/Submission Letter,. Click on the “Browse” button, choose the files and then click on the “Upload” button.
5. Step 5 – Confirming the Submission:  Authors should conduct a final check of the uploaded manuscript documents at this stage. To submit the manuscript to Pena Akuatika: Jurnal Ilmiah Perikanan dan Kelautan), press the “Finish Submission” button after the document’s content has been verified. The corresponding author or principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging onto the journal’s web address site.

Following submission, authors who submit a manuscript will receive an email confirming receipt enabling them to track their submission status at any time by logging onto the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes both the status of the manuscript review and editorial process.

2. GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Type of paper

Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Research Article, Short Communication, and Review, that are accepted which have not been submitted and would not be submitted elsewhere.

1. Research Article

Present an original and important major advance in fisheries or marine science having a wide research scheme and deep discussion of the findings. The structure of the article consists of Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgment (optional), and References. This article should be typed within not excess than 15 pages or 3500-7000 words (including figures and tables).

2. Short Communication

Based on urgency, research scope and/or depth of discussion, an article can be published as a short communication. The structure of the article consists of Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgment (optional), and References. The short communication (1500-3000 words) receives the same in-depth review as the Research Article.

3. Review Article

A survey, evaluation and critical interpretation of recent research, data, and concepts in the field of fisheries or marine sciences. A review article is only submitted based on an invitation by Editor-in-Chief. This article should be typed within more than 15 pages or minimum 7000 words (including figures and tables).

ACCEPTED FILE FORMATS

- Materials to Submit 

Authors must use the Microsoft Word template to prepare their manuscript. Using the template file will substantially shorten the time to complete copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts. The total amount of data for all files must not exceed 120 MB. If this is a problem, please contact the editorial office ariadi_heri@yahoo.com. Accepted file formats are:

• Microsoft Word: Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in Microsoft Word. Please insert your graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) in the main text after references.
• Supplementary files: May be any format, but it is recommended that you use common, non-proprietary formats where possible (see below for further details).
• Assemble manuscripts in this order: title page, abstract page, text, references, tables, figure captions. Tables may be included at the end of the article file or may be submitted as separate files. Figures should not be embedded in the article file and should be submitted separately. 
• Authors are strongly encouraged to submit a word processing file in either Word or plain text format. 
• Figures/images should be in EPS or TIFF (preferred) formats, and tables should be in Excel or Word formats. 
• Word count is extremely important. (See limits for article types above.) 
• The cover letter should explain how your paper is the authors contribution, highlight research, type paper, and ethical approval (If available). It should also include a list of potential reviewers who can provide an unbiased, informed, and thorough assessment of the manuscript. The cover letter can also be used to provide further explanation if part of the information has been published or presented previously. 

- General Instructions

• Consult current issues for additional guidance on format. 
• Manuscripts should be single-spaced, including tables, references, and figure captions. 
• Leave at least a 2.5 cm-in margin on all sides. Indent all paragraphs. Number pages sequentially and use continuous line numbering, 
• Use dictionary preference for hyphenation. Do not hyphenate a word at the end of a line. Use Chicago Manual of Style to answer grammar or usage questions. 
• The first mention of a common name should be followed by the scientific name in parentheses. Our standard is the current edition of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. For other aquatic species, authors should follow the companion publications World Fishes Important to North Americans and Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada (the volumes Mollusks, Decapod Crustaceans, and Cnidaria and Ctenophora are currently available in the latter series).
• Define abbreviations the first time they are used in the text. 
• Spell out one-digit numbers unless they are units of measure (e.g., four fishes, 3 mm, 35 sites). Use 1,000 instead of 1000; 0.13 instead of .13; % instead of percent. 
• Use the name-and-year system for references in the text as follows: 

1. One author: Ariadi (2020) or (Linayati, 2015); 
2. Two authors: Syakirin and Dwi (2007) or (Ariadi and Wafi, 2020); 
3. Several authors: Luthfiaana et al., (2017) or (Dwitha et al., 2015). But include author names in references. 
4. Manuscripts accepted for publication but not yet published: Mardiana and Soeprapto (in press) or (Mardiana and Soeprapto in press). 
5. Personal communications: (J. Ghoyatul, Institute for Aquatics, pers. comm.). 
6. Within parentheses, use a semicolon to separate different types of citations (Figure 1; Table 2; Table 5), (Akmad and Mulyani, 2008; Syarafina, 2009; Nina and Fauzan, 2015). Arrange lists of citations chronologically (oldest first) in a text sentence. 

• DO NOT cite more than three references for a specific point. 
• Institutional authors may be cited as acronyms in the text but must be defined in the reference list.
• Avoid the expressions “the mean length of goramy fish was 45.2 ± 3.84 mm” and “the mean (±SD) length was 45.2 ± 3.84 mm” because they are at best awkward and at worst inaccurate. Use the expressions “the mean ± SD length of goramy fish was 45.2 ± 3.84 mm” or “the mean length was 45.2 mm (SD, 3.84)” instead.
• Only symbols and abbreviations included in Webster’s dictionaries or listed at the end of these guidelines (as well as at the back of each printed issue of the journal) may be used without definition. All others should be defined at first use (e.g., index of biotic integrity [IBI]). Abbreviations should not be introduced unless they are used at least two more times.
• All measurements should be given in metric units. The only exceptions are a few quantities that are typically expressed only one way (e.g., g [of medication]/lb [of feed]).
• Single-digit numbers should be spelled out unless they are used with units of measure or in conjunction with larger values (e.g., 2 mg/L; 8 Walleyes and 16 Saugers). Numbers with four or more digits should contain commas; those less than 1.00 should be preceded by zeroes.
• Ratios involving two values or units of measure should be indicated by forward slashes (e.g., 0.30 g/d); ratios involving three such terms should be indicated by negative exponents (e.g., 0.01 g · g–1 · d–1).
• Ages of fish should be expressed by Arabic numerals and not contain plus signs (e.g., a fish is age 1 [not age 1+] from the January 1 after it hatches to the following December 31).
• Dates should be expressed as month–day–year (e.g., January 11, 2011). Note that the term “Julian day” does not mean day of the year and should not be used in that context.
• Time should be expressed in terms of the 24-hour clock followed by the word “hours” (e.g., 14:35 hours rather than 2:35 p.m.).

Preparation of Manuscript

Author(s) must abide by the author guidelines of this journal.

Language

Pena Akuatika only accepts manuscripts written in full Indonesian and processes submitted original script related of scope to fisheries and marine science and not being published by other publishers. 

Originality

Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works. Pena Akuatika: Jurnal Ilmiah Perikanan dan Kelautan considers plagiarism as a serious offense and will blacklist authors who knowingly cite or use material from other published works without proper acknowledgment. Authors are recommended to use plagiarism checking program to check the similarity from prior publication before submission and publish. Every manuscript that is also submitted to this journal will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin Program  before submission and publish by Pena Akuatika Editor

Manuscript Style:

The manuscript should be uploaded to Pena Akuatika journal system and arranged in Pena Akuatika standard format: Title (Indonesian language and English language), Authors, Address and Email, Abstract (Indonesian language and English language), Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Result and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgment, and References. Manuscripts are written using 1 space line, in a single column,11 font Time New Roman, in justified text, and margins on all four sides are 2.5 cm. Figures and Tables placed separated on the last page of the manuscript (single file).