Manuscripts must be submitted to the journal in electronic version only via the online submission system. If you encounter a problem during the submission, please contact us.

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You can download the Title Page from here.

You can download the Full Paper Template from here.

• Please add both documents to the manuscript submission system.

  • Please choose "Cover Page File" for the Title Page.

  • Please choose "Full text" for the Full Paper.

• Please do not forget to upload the plagiarism report.

• Please choose "Additional file for editor" for the plagiarism report (upload .doc or .docx document).

 

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 research by the 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 reports; should be included on matters of topical interest and not exceeding 10000 words or 10 manuscript pages (including tables and figures)

 

Article Processing Charges (APC)

Acta Natura et Scientia does not charge any article submission, processing, or publication 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
    • e) Funding
    • f) Data Availability Statement
  • 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 them 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 the contributions of the authors for the paper. Use the first letters of the names and surnames of the authors. You should use example of CRediT at https://credit.niso.org/. See below for an example.

SA: Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Funding acquisition.

SB: Writing – original draft, Investigation, Formal Analysis.

SK: Investigation, Methodology.

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 are 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.

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.

(For Turkish authors) Kindly see the ethical principles flow chart of ULAKBIM-TR DIZIN given below.

 

 

e) Funding

Example of statement to be used when no funding for the study:

Not applicable.

Example of statement to be used when funding is available:

This study was financially supported by […Institution…] with grant/project number […Grant number/Project number…].

 

• f) Data Availability Statements

Data Availability Statements should be placed in the back matter of the manuscript, just before References.

Examples of Data Availability Statements

• The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [author initials], upon reasonable request.
• Data availability is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.
• The authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article [and/or its supplementary materials].
• The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at http://doi.org/[doi], reference number [reference number].
• The data that support the findings of this study are available from [third party]. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for this study. Data are available [from the authors / at URL] with the permission of [third party].
• Raw data were generated at [facility name]. Derived data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author [initials] on request.
• The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author, [initials]. The data are not publicly available due to [restrictions e.g. their containing information that could compromise the privacy of research participants].
• The data that support the findings of this study will be available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI link] following a [3 month] embargo from the date of publication, to allow for the commercialization of research findings.

 

References

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

 

Preprint Article References

• Ideally, use and cite the final, published version of a work. However, if you used the preprint version of a work, cite that version, as shown in the following examples.
• Preprint versions of articles may or may not be peer-reviewed or may be the author’s final, peer-reviewed manuscript as accepted for publication.
• Two common repositories for preprint articles are PsyArXiv and PubMed Central. Follow the same format for other preprint archives.

Zhu, L., Liu, Q., Liu, X., & Zhang, Y. (2021). RSST-ARGM: A Data-Driven Approach to Long-term Sea Surface Temperature Prediction. Researchsquare. https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-468686/v1_stamped.pdf

Hampton, S., Rabagliati, H., Sorace, A., & Fletcher-Watson, S. (2017). Autism and bilingualism: A qualitative interview study of parents’ perspectives and experiences. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/76xfs

Hetland, B., McAndrew, N., Perazzo, J., & Hickman, R. (2018). A qualitative study of factors that influence active family involvement with patient care in the ICU: Survey of critical care nurses. PubMed Central. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736422/?report=classic

 

Articles in non-English languages

Acarlı, D., Kale, S., & Kocabaş, S. (2020). TCSG-132 gemi batığı yapay resifinin (Gökçeada, Kuzey Ege Denizi) biyoçeşitliliği [Biodiversity of TCSG-132 shipwreck artificial reef (Gökçeada, North Aegean Sea)]. Acta Aquatica Turcica, 16(3), 313-329. https://doi.org/10.22392/actaquatr.677175

 

Book:

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

 

Books in non-English languages

Erkoyuncu, İ. (1995). Balıkçılık biyolojisi ve populasyon dinamiği [Fisheries Biology and Population Dynamics] (1st ed.). Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Yayınları.

 

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 the 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, and 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.

e) Funding