1. THE ISRAELI JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE - BAMIDGEH
Guidelines to Authors
(Updated December 2010)
Manuscripts should be sent by e-mail to: Dan Mires, Editor, The Israeli Journal of
Aquaculture Bamidgeh, at ija-editor@siamb.org.il.
Submission of articles is restricted to original unpublished articles not submitted
elsewhere, except in preliminary form such as a conference presentation. Only
aquaculture-related manuscripts that concur with the IJA aims, scope, and guidelines
will be considered and peer-reviewed by experts in the relevant discipline. Papers
submitted must have clear relevance to improving aquaculture practices or potential
application. Manuscripts, tables, and illustrations should be submitted as virus-free
electronic files, preferably saved in MS Word. Unless otherwise specified below, text
should be written in Verdana 10 with single line spacing. Margins should be 2 cm on
the top, 1.2 cm on the bottom, and 1.5 cm on the right and left. The second and
following paragraphs in each section should be indented 0.63 cm. The language
should be set as English (US).
Please check our style of headings, text, citations, tables, figures,
references, etc., in recently published papers on our IJA open access
website, http://www.siamb.org.il or download our Guidelines_2011. Authors
are requested to adhere strictly to IJA guidelines. Articles not complying with the IJA
format will be returned and the authors requested to make necessary adaptations
before consideration. A brief summary of our style follows.
File name: Please use the following sequence as a file name for your submitted
article: [Name].[Keyword(s)].[PPR], for example, [Mires.TlapiaFeeds.PPR]. Once
received, the article will be given an Individual IJA Code (IIC) that will be used in all
subsequent correspondence with the editor and be annexed to titles of papers
appearing on the IJA website.
Title page: Should include the title of the paper in bold Verdana 12 with major
words capitalized, author(s) name(s) in bold Verdana 10, and address(es) of the
institution(s) at which the study was conducted in italicized Verdana 10. The name of
the corresponding author should be followed by an asterisk. The asterisk will refer to

2. an asterisk in a footer showing the e-mail address of the corresponding author. An e-
mail address must be provided for the corresponding author as communication
between the editor and authors will be conducted exclusively by e-mail. The title
page should also include a short running title and suggested key words.
Abstract: A concise but complete summary of the work, not longer than 5% of the
manuscript. The abstract should be indented 1 cm from the right and left margins.
Text: The text should be organized in the following sections: Introduction, Materials
and Methods, Results, and a separate Discussion.
Authors are required to assure the following: (a) experiments must be reproducible;
(b) quantitative results must derive from no fewer than three replicates; and (c)
differences between replicates must not be due to random variation. The use of
abbreviations should be limited to those in common use and should be explained in
full once, at their first mention. Results should be reported only once, in either the
text or a table or a figure.
Acknowledgements: Individuals other than authors can be acknowledged by a
brief statement immediately following the text. Acknowledgements of grant support
should also be placed here.
References: Except for review articles, references should number no more than 25
(30 maximum). Only up-to-date references directly related to and serving as
background for the experimental work at hand should be cited. Avoid the use of
second hand citations that report on work performed by third parties. Theses and
dissertations may be cited only if they contain otherwise unpublished data. We
strongly request that authors review earlier issues of the IJA on our open
access Internet site http://www.siamb.org.il for relevant papers to cite.
Within the text, citations should be listed in chronological order, giving the name(s)
of the author(s) followed by the year of publication in parentheses. Work by more
than two authors should give the name of the first author followed by et al. The
reference list should be in alphabetical order. Names of journals should be italicized
and abbreviated according to the Bibliographic Guide for Editors and Authors.
Examples:
Journal article: Zohar G., Rappaport U. and S. Sarig, 1985. Intensive culture of
tilapia in concrete tanks. Bamidgeh, 37(4):103-111.

3. Article in book: Sarig S., 1984. Trends in Israeli aquaculture. pp. 1-6. In: H.
Rosenthal, S. Sarig (eds.). Research on Aquaculture. Spec. Publ. 8, Eur. Mariculture
Soc., Bredene. 293 pp.
Book: Hepher B. and Y. Pruginin, 1981. Commercial Fish Faming. John Wiley &
Sons, New York. 261 pp.
Tables: Should be numbered consecutively, according to the order in which they
appear in the text. All tables must be cited in the text. Tables should be prepared
using the simple table format in the Word program. Table titles should appear
above the table with legends and footnotes appearing below, both in Verdana 9.
Column headings should be italicized. The font size within the tables should be
Verdana 8 or 9. The tables should follow the reference section, in numerical order.
Please check other details of table style by viewing papers on our website:
http://www.siamb.org.il.
Figures and photographs: Figures should be numbered consecutively, according to
the order in which they appear in the text. All figures and photographs must be
mentioned in the text. Titles and explanatory details should appear beneath the
figure or photograph, in Verdana 9. Figures should preferably be submitted in MS
Word or Excel format and follow the tables. Figures should be as compact as possible
and occupy no more space than the size of our page format (14 x 20 cm). As most
figures will be reduced to a width of no more than 7 cm, make sure that symbols,
letters, and numbers are of sufficient size to be clearly legible when reduced to
publication size. Please check other details of figure style by viewing papers on our
website: http://www.siamb.org.il. Figures not following our style will be returned to
the author for revision. Photographs should be submitted as high resolution (>300
dpi) JPG files. Color photographs will be accepted free of charge.
Reprints: No printed reprints will be supplied. Corresponding authors are invited to
register to the IJA Open Access project and receive free access to their article and all
IJA other archived articles. PDF files of published articles may be provided to
colleagues requesting a reprint (See explanations on our home page at
http://www.siamb.org.il.)
ADMINISTRATION
Questions regarding registrations or submission of articles should be addressed by

4. mail to: Dan Mires, Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz, D.N. Ashrat 25210, Israel, or by e-mail to
ija-editor@siamb.org.il.