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Instructions
for authors
Manuscripts
submitted to the PanamJAS must be original, not published before
(except in the form of an abstract, or as part of a published
lecture, or thesis), not under consideration elsewhere and approved
by all authors as well as by the responsible authorities - tacitly or
explicitly - at the institute where the work has been carried out
prior to submission. Our
Journal will not be held legally responsible should there be any
claims for compensation.
Authors
must be responsible by the content of the submitted manuscripts.
Papers should be written in clear English (preferred), Spanish or
Portuguese. Sentences must not start with an abbreviation. Acronyms
must be written in full on their first occurrence and SI units should
be used. Scientific names should be italicized (not underlined) and their first mention after the Abstract should be
followed by the authority, except where reference is made to a work
in which the authority appears.
Authors are also responsible in obtaining the consent of their co-authors in order to use their names in the publication. Only the authors would be responsible for any disagreement arising after its publication is published online at PanamJAS. Once published, it will not be accepted any request from any of the co-author to delete his/her name from the publication, or any sort of modification in the publication’s content. In order to avoid these or related co-authorship issues, authors must submit, along with the manuscript, a signed letter explaining that all co-authors in the paper were informed and agreed with the manuscript content and with the submission to Panamjas.
Following
submission, the manuscript will be pre-reviewed by the Editors and
forwarded to three reviewers according to the scope and specific
area. The anonymity of the authors and the reviewers will be
preserved.
Acceptance
will be based on the quality of the science and the appropriateness
of the manuscript for our journal. Each manuscript must stand on its
own merits and be a substantial contribution to the field.
Language
quality also matters. Authors may have to submit the manuscript to a
native speaker or translator before submitting it to PanamJAS.
Original
manuscripts must be electronically submitted in a document attached
to a formally sent e-mail to the Editors. Text in “ODT”, “SXW”,
“DOC” or “RTF” file formats are preferred. Authors are
suggested to use Times New Roman 12 font and 1.5 lines as paragraph
spacing. Figures can be formatted as “JPEG”, “BMP”, “TIFF”,
with high quality to allow electronic (“PDF”) viewing with enough
details.
Submitted
files must not exceed 2 MB in total to allow e-mailing. If high
quality images are to be included in the article and this increases
the size of the file too much, authors may send it separately to the
Editors who will create a draft version with enough quality to be
sent to the Referees. Full quality pictures will be included in the
article when editing the final (corrected) version.
Please
submit, along with the manuscript, the names and e-mail addresses of
3 potential Referees. All manuscript must be sent by e-mail to the
following address: panamjas @ gmail.com.
Manuscripts
arrangement:
1)
Research articles:
Title page
should contain:
Title: concise and informative, in English and in the language of the second
abstract or the manuscript itself. The higher taxa containing
the taxa dealt with in the paper should be indicated in
parentheses: e.g. A taxonomic revision of the genus Atlantoraja (Elasmobranchii, Rajidae).
Author(s):
first names, middle names/initials, last names; postal addresses and
e-mail addresses (Telephone/Fax number is no required).
Abstract:
(in English) plus one Resumen (in Spanish) or Resumo (in Portuguese). It must concisely outline the scope of the
manuscript (no more than 200 words for Research articles or three lines for Short Communications), informing the main findings and conclusions without
methodologies or discussions. Any new names or new combinations
proposed in the paper should be mentioned. The second language
abstract must include the corresponding language title of the
article.
Key
Words: up to five, that do not appear in the title, in English
and in the language of the second abstract or the manuscript itself.
Following
pages should include: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results,
Discussion, Acknowledgments* (optional) and References, as usual.
*Acknowledgments:
identify individuals by first initial and full surname (do not list
professional titles), and institutions. Author may include collecting
permits, institutional animal care protocols, and accession numbers
for molecular data, if required to effect research in the manuscript,
acknowledgments and any additional information concerning research
grants, etc.
If
used, voucher-specimens must be identified with catalog number and
name of the institution.
Tables:
Should be numbered consecutively in Roman numerals and preferably
embedded in the manuscript. If sent as a separate file (ex. in a
spreadsheet file) consider that either the length or the width must
fit an A4 page with 2 cm margins. Avoid abbreviations, except in the
case of units. Each table must have its own title on the top. In the
text, tables should be referred as Table I, Tables II and III, Tables
II-V, etc.
Figures:
as for Tables, all figures can be embedded in the text or sent in
separate files. In both cases choose high resolution pictures. Prefer
figures with the following extensions: jpg, tiff, bmp, gif. Other
formats may be accepted if previously requested. Please, try not to
exceed 1 MB per file during reviewing process. High quality color or
black and white photographs, or computer-generated figures (e.g.
maps) will be accepted. After the article's acceptance authors may be
asked to send original, higher resolution figures. Figures should be
referred to in the text as Figure 1, Figures 1 and 2, Figures 1-4,
Figure 2a, (Fig. 1), etc. Use a bar scales to indicate the size of
photographed items. The legends must be concise but informative.
Formulas:
Formulas may be written in a single line even if they require special
fonts (Symbol, Courier New or Wingdings) or may be part of the text.
Ex: E=mc2 or H2O, etc. We strongly recommended
the use of an appropriate equation editor for better results.
Citations:
Author citations in the text must follow the pattern: Garcia et
al. (2004) or (Garcia et
al. 2004), Velasco et al. (2007), (Loebmann & Vieira 2006).
Several publications must be cited in chronological order; e.g. (Bertalanffy 1938, Kinas 2000, Christensen & Walters 2004).
Two or more publications by the same author must be cited as (Haddad
2004, 2005) or (Haddad 2004a,b, 2005).
References
Format: see examples below. Grey literature must be avoided. If
included (for example, being the only publication of a particular
subject), Monographs and Thesis must include the full name of the
institution. Please do not cite symposia abstracts.
Books:
Margalef,
R. 1995. Ecología. Omega, Barcelona, 951 p.
Seeliger,
U., Odebrecht, C. & Castello, J. P. (Eds.). 1997. Subtropical
Convergence Environments: The
coastal and sea in the Southwestern Atlantic.
Springer, Berlin, 380 p.
Book
chapters:
Chao,
L. N., Vieira, J. P. & Pereira, L. E. 1985. Estuarine fish
community of the dos Patos Lagoon, Brazil: A Baseline Study. Pp.
429-450. In: Yañes-Arancibia. (Ed.). Fish community
ecology in estuaries and coastal lagoons: Towards an ecosystem
integration. UNAM Press, Mexico, 654 p.
McDiarmid,
R. W. 1994. Diversidad e historia natural de los anfibios: Una
síntesis. Pp. 5-15. In:
Heyer, W. R., Donnelly, M. A., McDiarmid, R. W., Hayek, L. A. C. &
Foster, M. S. (Eds.). Medición
y monitoreo de la diversidad biológica: Métodos
estandartizados para Anfibios. Editora Universitaria de la Patagonia,
Chubut, 348 p.
Journal
papers:
Araújo,
J. N., Mackinson, S., Stanford, R. J., Sims, D. W., Southward, A. J.,
Hawkins, S. J., Ellis, J. R. & Hart, P. J. B. 2006. Modelling
food web interactions, variation in plankton production and fisheries
on the Western English Channel ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress
Series, 309: 175-187.
Calliari, D. & Antezana, T. 2001. Diel feeding rhythm of zooplankton size-fractions from Coliumo Bay, Central Chile. Scientia Marina, 65(4): 269-274.
Workshop
and Symposium Proceedings:
Castello,
J. P. 1990. Synopsis on the reproductive biology and early life
history of Engraulis
anchoita and related environmental conditions in Brazilian waters. Annex
VII. IOC Workshop on Sardine/Anchovy Recruitment Project (SARP) in
the Southwest Atlantic,
UNESCO, 65: 1-5.
Piola,
A. R., Campos, E. J. D., Möller, O. O., Charo, M. &
Martinez. C. 1999. Continental shelf water masses off eastern south
America – 20° to 40° S. 10th Symposium on global change studies,
Dallas, 9-12.
Thesis
and Monographs:
Reis,
E. G. 1992. An assessment of the exploitation of the white croaker Micropogonias
furnieri (Pisces,
Sciaenidae) by the artisanal and industrial fisheries in coastal
waters of southern Brazil. PhD.
Thesis.
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 223 p.
Electronic
publications:
Oddone,
M. C., Marçal, A. S. & Vooren, C. M. 2004. Egg capsules of Atlantoraja
cyclophora (Regan, 1903) and A. platana (Günther, 1880) (Pisces,
Elasmobranchii, Rajidae). Zootaxa,
426: 1-4. Accessible at
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/ z0426f.pdf.
Electronic
resources:
Froese,
R. & Pauly, D. 2007 (Eds.). FishBase - World Wide Web electronic publication, accessible at
http://www.fishbase.org. (Accessed MM/DD/YYYY).
2)
Scientific notes (Short communications):
Must
include the title page as the regular papers (see above), the two
abstracts, and the text written without sections. Acknowledgments,
References, Tables and Figures must follow just as in the Research
articles.
3)
Original scientific illustrations *:
Our Journal
also publishes original scientific illustrations. The article must
include author’s full information, specimen information and
scientific data, with comments from the artist (one page).
*Obs.:
These images cannot be used by other people without direct
authorization from the artist.
4)
Original scientific photographs *:
Scientific
photos including author’s full information, specimen and site
information and scientific relevant data, with comments from the
photographer (one page).
*Obs.:
These images cannot be used by other people without direct
authorization from the photographer.
The latter two items (original illustrations and photographs) will not have neither the “full article” nor the “short note” status but will be considered as scientific diffusion material, only.
*Brazilian researchers: please cite this material as “other production” in the Lattes Platform C.vitae.
5)
Short Videos attached:
In the case of
behavior studies, for instance, authors may need to associate short
video files to the articles. If so, a compacted AVI, MPEG or MOV file
must be attached to the text and a proper link included on it (when
clicking on the link in the text, readers should be able download the
related movie). After publication of the article, the video could be
available at the author’s web-site (preferred) or the Journal’s.
If the movie file is particularly small, it could be available with
the PDF file (both compacted in a unique package).
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