The Trout Journal of Atatürk University

Atatürk University Journal of Trout (TJAU) aims to publish scientific original research articles, case reports, short articles and review studies made in rivers and still waters, culture environment and laboratories in the internationally.

Atatürk University Journal of Trout Aquaculture accepts scientific articles on Population Dynamics, Aquaculture Fishing; Mollusc and Shellfish Breeding and Hunting, Food Processing, Food Biotechnology and Technology, Feed and Feed Technology, Biology, Veterinary, Biochemistry, Animal Science, Pharmacy, Environmental Engineering, Economics, Limnology, Ecology, Aquatic Toxicology, Fish Diseases, Environmental Engineering, Microbiology, Algal Biotechnology, Water Pollution, Wildlife, Global Warming, Climate Change, Sustainability, Genetics, Fish Nutrition and Biochemistry and Water Chemistry and Pollution, Conservation of Water Resources and Administration,

Writing Rules

General Rules

The Trout Journal of Atatürk University (TJAU) is published twice a year (June and December). The publication language of the journal is English and Turkish.

All studies are subject to the referee evaluation process by at least 2 qualified referees. Submitted studies are published after final approval by the editor-in-chief.

Articles can be presented in symposiums, but only the abstract can be published by citing the source in the proceeding’s booklet. All or part of the article cannot be used anywhere without showing the source.

Article Types

Original research articles; review articles, short communication. Original research articles; Original full-length research articles (including tables and drawings) that have not been previously published and should not exceed 7500 words or 25 article pages Review articles; Short communications on topical topics and up to 10,000 words or 25 manuscript pages (including tables and figures); Identify works that may be of a preliminary nature (preferably no more than 3000 or 10 manuscript pages, including tables and figures).

Preparation of Manuscripts:

Papers should be written in Turkish or English. Prepare your text using word processing software and write ". doc" or ". docx" formats. Manuscripts should be structured in the following order;

Title
Author names, affiliations
Corresponding author's e-mail
Main text
Abstract (100-350 words)
Keywords (3-5 words)
Introduction,
Material and Method,
Results and Discussion
Acknowledgments (if necessary)
References

Table(s) with captions (in appropriate position in text)
Figure(s) with captions (in appropriate position in text)
And attachments (if any).

References throughout the manuscript should be 12 pt (Times New Roman preferred), including table captions and figure captions, and 25 mm margins on each side of A4 size paper. The spacing should be 1.5 spaces.

In particular, it is preferable not to use hyphenated words. Genus and species names should be given in italics.

All pictures, figures and tables should be placed at the appropriate points in the text, not at the end of the text. (Details on the preparation of pictures and tables are listed below).

References

The references to be given in the References section should be listed as "7th Edition of APA Citation" .

Figures and Tables

Only table and figure expressions should be used in the manuscript, and each table and figure must be cited in the manuscript. The font of figure title, contents, and footnote must be 10-points, normal, and left-justified. The smallest font character in the figure must be 8-points. The title should be written in bold on the top of the figure; The first letter of the title should be uppercase, and following letters must be lowercase in normal thickness, the sentence must not be finished by a dot. The line spacing of the figure title and its contents should be 0 pt from the top and bottom. The first lines of the table columns must be bold and the initial of the words should be uppercase.

Tables should never be adjusted in the horizontal page structure. Tables that do not fit on the vertical page should be divided and given as two separate tables. While writing the values in the table rows and columns, spaces should never be given at the beginning or end of the values by using the space key. Figure titles should be written as "Figure 1" with 10-point, the initial letter should be uppercase and all other letters should be written in lowercase with normal thickness, and the dot should not be placed at the end of the title. Figure title should be below the figure. The quality of the figures must be suitable (at least 300 dpi); Complicated mathematical equations, complicated chemical structures should be in high-quality vector or bitmap images, etc.

All scientific abbreviations contained in the article should be given according to the International System of Units. In numerical notation, the dot should be used as decimal separator in numeric notation (for example 1.25), and the comma should be used as a thousands separator (for example 2,000,000). The numerical expressions of thousands should be avoided in the text (for example approximately 2.5 million instead of 2,455,632). Giving the exact values of such large numbers in tables prevent confusion.

There should be one space between number and unit (e.g. 10 kg), no space should be present before the symbol % (e.g. 35%).

Files Expected to Be Sent with the Manuscript

• Copyright Transfer Form: The Copyright Transfer Form of the articles should be downloaded from here, signed and then passed through the browser and uploaded to the system as a PDF. Publications of authors who do not submit this form cannot be printed.

• Ethics Committee permission/approval letter: All articles based on animal research studies, surveys, focus-group discussions and observations. (If required)

• Permission letter: In manuscripts obtained from secondary sources, authors must obtain a letter of permission from the original copyright holders for the scales, surveys and photographs used. (If required)

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check whether their work complies with all the articles in the writing rules.

Research articles approved by the referee board are published in the journal. Publications produced from graduate theses
It is sent to the referees with the phrase "Produced from the postgraduate thesis".