Author Guidelines

AQUACULTURA INDONESIANA is an official International scientific Journal of Indonesian Aquaculture Society that publishes peer reviewed original, short communication, review papers, Indonesian and English-language papers concern on the basic and applied tropical aquaculture including ornamental fish, live feed, seaweed and other aquatic plants. This journal also published the paper described  the case study on disease outbreak, environmental degradation, sustainable aquaculture, impact of climate changes and global warming on aquaculture,

  1. Nutrition,
  2. Diseases and environmental health management,
  3. Genetics and breeding,
  4. Aquaculture Biotechnology
  5. Physiological aspect of aquaculture,
  6. Aquaculture engineering,
  7. Aquaculture production system,
  8. Aquaculture business are subjects appropriate for the Journal.

However, articles concerned on the general aquaculture are not covered and out of the scope of this journal.
As AQUACULTURA INDONESIANA is a fully open access journal, your paper will be available to anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world.

All papers submitted to this journal must be written in good English. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their paper be checked before submission for grammar and clarity in a professional English editing services. Authors are recommended to use the following professional English Editing Services.

Please be noted that the submitted work should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. 

 1. GENERAL AUTHOR GUIDELINES 

All manuscripts must be submitted to AI Editorial Office using Online Submission Service at the following URL address: https://aquacultura.id/index.php/ai/Makesubmission

where Author should register first as Author role. If authors have any problems with the online submission, please contact Editorial Office at the following email: aquaculturaindonesiana@gmail.com  to ask supporting helps.

The following documents should accompany the manuscripts submitted by online through online submission interface (please upload as Supplementary Files section):

  • Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement for Publishing (CTAP) form originally (scan the document after signed or signed electronically). The Copyright Transfer Agreement for Publishing (CTAP) Form can be downloaded here: [Copyright Transfer Agreement for Publishing (CTAP) Form ] and Upload Form in This Links ]
  • A Covering Letter which outlines clearly the basic novel findings of the paper and its significance.

Three types of manuscripts are acceptable for publication: Original Research Articles, Short Communication (only for short novel findings article), Review Articles (only selected authors after contact to Editors), and Letter to Editor.

2. COVER LETTER AND JUSTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION

A cover letter is required confirming that all authors listed agree to the content and publication of the submitted manuscript and that the manuscript is original and not being considered for publication by another journal. 

A separate paragraph within the Cover Letter, consisting of one to two paragraphs, that justifies publication in the journal is also required. The justification should explain what new discovery, interpretation, understanding, concepts, or catalytic system is advanced in the manuscript, and how the content fits within the scope of the journal. Note that it is essential to describe how the content of the new submission differ significantly from existing literature information and its relevance to catalysis. This section plays an important role in editor's decision of whether or not the manuscript will be sent out to for peer review.

3. MANUSCRIPT TEMPLATE

The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word (doc, docx, pdf) article template format which can be downloaded here: AI TEMPLATE (.docx)

4. REVIEWING PROCESS OF MANUSCRIPTS

Every submitted paper is independently reviewed (see Peer-Review Process Policy) by at least two peer-reviewers. Authors may suggest up to three peer-reviewers when submitted the manuscript. The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection as well as assigning peer-reviewers are based upon their reports/recommendations and made solely by Editor.

However, if Editor(s) or Reviewers consider a manuscript unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement explaining the basis for the decision will be sent to the authors after the submission date after the preevaluation step.

5. REVISION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts sent back to the authors after revision should be returned to the Editorial Office without delay according to given deadline date.

The revised manuscript document files should be uploaded to the Online Submission Interface (https://aquacultura.id/index.php/ai/Makesubmission) in the "Upload Author Version" from Review task window in Author window. 

The revised document files should include three files:

  • One (1) file of "Revision Notes / Response to Reviewers Comments file in a table form" with respect to Reviewers comments including the location of the revision on the revised manuscript.
  • One (1) file of "Revised Manuscript file" according to The Template-based format (MS Word file) (please indicate blue-color texts in the highlighted revised sentences). 

NOTE: Do not delete previous version of manuscript files, because Editorial Office will choose the latest version of manuscript. Do not compress to ZIP or RAR your submitted revised version files.

6. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

A Good and Colorful Graphical Abstract of each article is mandatory for this journal.

Best Practice: A Good and Colorful Graphical Abstract make the Reader interests to your article and will be used for advertising of your article in Social Media. This graphic should capture the reader’s attention and, in conjunction with the manuscript title, should give the reader a quick visual impression of the essence of the manuscript without providing specific results.

Graphical abstracts should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system (as Supplementary Data File) or otherwise, can be submitted by email to bcrec@live.undip.ac.id after the manuscript has been accepted. Please state the manuscript number in your email subject.

Choosing/Creating a Graphical Abstract:

  • A Good and Colorful Graphical Abstract is respectful.
  • The graphic should be simple, but informative.
  • The use of color is encouraged.
  • The graphic should uphold the standards of a scholarly, professional publication.
  • The graphic must be entirely original, unpublished artwork created by one of the coauthors.
  • The graphic should not include a photograph, drawing, or caricature of any person, living or deceased.
  • Do not include postage stamps or currency from any country, or trademarked items (company logos, images, and products).
  • Avoid choosing a graphic that already appears within the text of the manuscript.

Image size: please provide an image with a size of 500 × 800 pixels (height × width).

Preferred file types: TIFF, JPG, PNG, PDF, or MS Office files.

7. GUIDELINE FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION

Author should first register as Author Role through the following (https://aquacultura.id/index.php/ai/Makesubmission

The author should fulfill the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, Author clicks on “Register” button to proceed with the registration. Therefore, Author is brought to online author submission interface where Author 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 five steps in the online submission process:

  1. Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e. Original Research Articles, Review Article, Short Communication, or Letter to Editor. Thus, the author must check-mark on the submission checklists. An author should type or copy-paste the texts of Covering Letter in Letter to Editor.
  2. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript MS Word file to this journal (do not upload as PDF file), click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file (.docx) to be submitted, then click "Upload" button until the file has been uploaded sucessfully. NOTE: Do not upload a cover letter and other supplementary files here.
  3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including the marked corresponding author. NOTE: Author must enter all Authors data here, not only the corresponding author. After that, the manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords.
  4. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file should be uploaded including: Covering/Submission Letter, Supporting Information (SI) (if any), and Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement for Publication (CTAP) Form. Therefore, click on the Browse button, choose the files, and then click on the Upload button.
  5. Step 5 – Confirming the Submission:  Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to BCREC journal, click the Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive a submission acknowledgment email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site. 

After this submission, the Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission automatically. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes a status of manuscript review and editorial process.