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The full-text file must not include author information. Information about authors (names, affiliations, ORCID iD and e-mail addresses for all authors, corresponding author’s e-mail, Telephone) must be uploaded separately as "Title Page" by choosing "Additional file for editor" to ensure the double-blind peer-review process.

 

Acta Natura et Scientia puts the science first, then later formatting by format-free submission policy.

 

Acta Natura et Scientia is focusing on the quality and the importance of science in the manuscript submission stage. Therefore, time-consuming and frustrating formatting and technical requirements are not applied at Acta Natura et Scientia to make simpler the processes of manuscript preparation and submission to the journal and to provide a rapid publication of the papers. The only essential document is requested for maintaining a double-blind peer-review process.

Authors can submit the manuscript (including the main text, figures, and tables) in a single document file (doc, docx). This main document can be format-free. There is no restriction on the formatting, however, all manuscripts must include the essential parts (Title Page including information of authors, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References, Conflict of Interest, Ethical Statements, Tables and Figures with Captions) of a scientific paper that necessary for making an effective assessment of the manuscript.

Authors can use any format or style for References. Please make sure all references are correct and complete to find the relevant cited papers. Thus, all references must include:

• Author(s) name(s),
• Publication year,
• Title of article/chapter,
• Title of journal/book,
• Volume & issue,
• Pages,
• The authors are recommended to provide the DOI numbers of references.

If a paper is accepted for publication in the journal, the corresponding author will receive an email to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper. The reference formatting will be applied to the accepted papers by the journal editorial/publishing office at the final proof stage. Authors may be requested to provide the required items (high-quality figures, editable source files, etc.) necessary for the publication.

If your paper is rejected, kindly think that you have not spent your valuable time for preparing and formatting the submission. You saved more time for your researches by format-free submission policy of Acta Natura et Scientia.

 

 

The following submission guidelines are ready to help authors that have more time to prepare and format their manuscripts.

 

 

Types of Paper

 

Original research papers; review articles; short communications; case report.

 

• Original research papers; original full-length research papers which have not been published previously and should not exceed 25000 words or 35 manuscript pages (including tables and illustrations)
• Review articles; on topical subjects and up to 40000 words or 45 manuscript pages (including tables and figures)
• Short communications; describing work that may be of a preliminary nature (preferably no more than 10000 or 10 manuscript pages including tables and figures).
• Case report; should be included on matters of topical interest and not exceeding 10000 words or 10 manuscript pages (including tables and figures)

 

 

Publication charges

 

This journal has no publication charges or submission fees.

 

 

Preparation of Manuscripts

 

Papers must be written in English or Turkish. Prepare your text using word-processing software and save it in “.doc” or “.docx” formats. Manuscripts must be structured in the following order;

 

• Title page
  • Title
  • Author names and affiliations
  • Corresponding author’s e-mail, Telephone
  • ORCID iD and e-mail addresses for all authors
• Main text
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Introduction
  • Material and Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements (if required)
  • Compliance with Ethical Standards
    • a) Authors' Contributions
    • b) Conflict of Interest
    • c) Statement on the Welfare of Animals
    • d) Statement of Human Rights
  • References
• Table(s) with caption(s) (on appropriate location in the text)
• Figure(s) with caption(s) (on appropriate location in the text)
• And appendices (if any).

 

Use a 12-point font (Times Roman preferred), including the references, table headings and figure captions, double-spaced and with 25 mm margins on all sides of A4 size paper throughout the manuscript. Use 25 mm margins on all sides. The text should be in single-column format. In particular, do not use to hyphenate words. The names of genera and species should be given in italics and, when first mentioned in the text, should be followed by the authority. Authors should consult a recent issue of the journal for style if possible.

 

Title Page

 

The title page should include;

 

• Concise and informative title. Avoid abbreviations and formulae
• The first name(s) and surname(s) of the author(s) (The corresponding author should be identified with an asterisk and footnote. All other footnotes (Author(s) affiliation address(es)) should be identified with superscript numbers)
• Author(s) affiliation address(es) (followed by institution, faculty/school, department, city with postcode, and country) of the each author(s))
• The e-mail address and phone number of the corresponding author
• ORCID iD and e-mail addresses for all authors

 

Main Text

 

• Abstract (should be between 150 and 500 words. References and abbreviations should be avoided)
• Keywords (provide a maximum of 6 keywords)
• Articles must be structured in the conventional format such as Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, Compliance with Ethical Standards (Authors' Contributions, Conflict of Interest, Statements on Welfare of Animals / Human Rights) and References.
• Each page must be numbered, and lines must be consecutively numbered from the start to the end of the manuscript.
• Do not justify the right-hand margin.
• The first line of each paragraph must be indented. Do not put a blank line between paragraphs.
• The first mention in the text of any taxon must be followed by its authority including the year.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use only SI (international system) units.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Keep these to the absolute minimum and placed before the reference section.

Compliance with Ethical Standards

The corresponding author will include a summary statement in the text of the manuscript in a separate section before the reference list. See below examples of disclosures:

• a) Authors’ Contributions

Please provide contributions of authors for the paper.

Use first letters of name and surnames (e.g.; Author MS designed the study, MT wrote the first draft of the manuscript, SK performed and managed statistical analyses. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.).

• b) Conflict of Interest

Any existing conflict of interest should be given here.

If no conflict exists, the authors should state:

Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

• c) Statement on the Welfare of Animals

If animals used in the study;

The welfare of animals used for research must be respected. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate the following statement:

Ethical approval: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed.

Or, for retrospective studies; a summary statement in the text of the manuscript should be included as follow:

Ethical approval: For this type of study, formal consent is not required.

• d) Statement of Human Rights

When reporting studies that involve human participants, authors should include the following statement:

Ethical approval: The studies have been approved by the appropriate institutional and/or national research ethics committee and have been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Or, for retrospective studies; a summary statement in the text of the manuscript should be included as follow:

Ethical approval: For this type of study, formal consent is not required.

 

 

References

 

Please follow American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Style for references and citations. Please kindly see the guides on this page for citation in the text and reference list.

Citation in the text;

 

Please ensure that each reference cited in the text is also presented in the reference list. Cite literature in the text in chronological, followed by alphabetical order like these examples "(Berber et al., 2019; Acarlı et al., 2020; Kale & Acarlı, 2020)". If the cited reference is the subject of a sentence, only the date should be given in parentheses. Formatted like this example: "Sönmez (2017)".

 

• Single author: the author's name and the year of publication;
• Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication;
• Three or more authors: first author's name followed by "et al." and the year of publication.

 

Citation in the reference list;

 

References should be listed first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically at the end of the article. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters a, b, c, etc. placed after the year of publication.

 

 

The citation of articles and books (printed or published online) should conform to the following examples:

 

 

Article:

 

Sönmez, A. Y., Kale, S., Özdemir, R. C., & Kadak, A. E. (2018). An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to predict of cadmium (Cd) concentration in the Filyos River, Turkey. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 18(12), 1333-1343. https://doi.org/10.4194/1303-2712-v18_12_01

Kale, S., Hisar, O., Sönmez, A. Y., Mutlu, F., & Leal Filho W. (2018). An assessment of the effects of climate change on annual streamflow in rivers in western Turkey. International Journal of Global Warming, 15(2), 190-211. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2018.092901

Sönmez, A. Y., & Kale, S. (2020). Climate change effects on annual streamflow of Filyos River (Turkey). Journal of Water and Climate Change, 11(2), 420-433. https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2018.060

 

Book:

 

Leal Filho, W., & Sümer, V. (2015). Sustainable water use and management: Examples of new approaches and perspectives. Springer International Publishing.

 

 

Chapter:

 

 

Notev, E., & Uzunova, S. (2008). A new biological method for water quality improvement. Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of Small and Decentralized Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants, Greece, pp. 487-492.

 

 

Institution Publication:

 

FAO. (2016). The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture: Contributing to food security and nutrition for all. Rome. 200 pp.

 

Report:

 

FAO. (2018). Report of the ninth session of the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report No. 1188. Rome, Italy.

 

 

Internet Source:

 

Froese, R., & Pauly, D. (Eds.) (2020). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. Retrieved on July 11, 2020, from http://www.fishbase.org.

 

TurkStat. (2019). Fishery Statistics. Retrieved on December 28, 2019 from http://www.turkstat.gov.tr/

 

 

Table(s)

 

Tables, numbered in Arabic, should be on separate pages with a short descriptive title at the top. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Avoid vertical rules. The data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.

 

 

Figure(s)

 

All illustrations should be labeled ‘Figure’ and numbered in consecutive Arabic numbers, Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. m the text. If panels of a figure are labeled (a, b, etc.) use the same case when referring to these panels in the text. Figures, which are recommended for electronic formats such as PNG, JPEG. TIFF (min. 300 dpi) should be also arranged in available dimensions. All figures or tables should be presented in the body of the text. Font sizes size should be from 9 to 11 points.