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Submission Process
Manuscripts for Limnology and Freshwater Biology should be submitted online at limnolfwbiol.com. The submitting author, who is generally the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list (read the criteria to qualify for authorship) and that they have all read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript.
Accepted File Formats
Accepted file formats are:
- Manuscript: Manuscripts (.doc, .pdf or .rtf) must be converted into a single file before submission. Please insert your graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) and tables in the main text after the paragraph of its first citation.
- Supplementary files: May be any format, but it is recommended that you use common, non-proprietary formats where possible (.tiff, .png, .bmp, .pdf, etc.).
General Structure of the Manuscript
- The text of the manuscript should be divided into sections: Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Conflict of interests and References.
- If necessary, you can merge the sections as Results and discussion or Discussion and сonclusions.
- Abstract and keywords are mandatory elements of the manuscript.
- Manuscripts should be written in English.
Manuscript Preparation
The body of the text should be organized as follows: title of the manuscript, author names and affiliations, abstract, keywords, text of the article, figure captions, figures (each in a new page with a caption) and tables. All figures should be also downloaded separately as TIFF or JPG files (with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi) and supplied with a caption in the appropriate fields of the online system. Additionally, the manuscript should be supplied with the approval of all co-authors for publication. Authors are welcome to suggest 2-3 potential reviewers for the manuscript (names and e-mail addresses).
Example of a correct article structure:
- Title of the manuscript
- Surname and name of each author
- Authors' affiliations (full postal address of each affiliation)
- Corresponding author
Lake Baikal's response to remote earthquakes: Lake-level fluctuations and near-bottom water layer temperature change
Granin N.G.1*, Radziminovich N.A.2, De Batist M.3, Makarov M.M.1, Chechelnitcky V.V.4, Blinov V.V.1, Aslamov I.A.1, Gnatovsky R.Yu.1, Poort J.5, Psakhie S.G.6
1 Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Batorskaya Str., 3, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia
2 Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lermontov Str., 128, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia
3 Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Department of Geology, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S8, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
4 Baikal Division of the Geophysical Survey, Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lermontov Str., 128, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia
5 Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (ISTeP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC/CNRS), Case Courrier 129 - 4, Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France
6 Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademicheskii, 2/4, Tomsk, 634055, Russia
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: nick@lin.irk.ru (N.G. Granin)
Abstract
The abstract should preferably contain 150 – 300 words briefly reflecting the aim, main results and conclusions of the study. Non-standard or uncommon abbreviations (except for generally accepted abbreviations of measures, physical and mathematical values and terms), as well as references, figures and tables should be avoided.
Keywords
Provide 5-6 words or short word combinations, which can be used for indexing purposes.
Text formatting
Times New Roman 12 pt, single spacing, automatic numbering of pages and lines, indentation 1 cm.
Headings
The numbering of the headings begins with the Introduction section (for example: 1. Introduction, 2. Materials and methods, 3. Results, 3.1. Material composition, 3.2. Distribution, 4. Discussion, 5. Conclusions).
Sections Abstract, Acknowledgements, Conflict of interests, and References must not be numbered.
Each heading should be in bold and begin with a new line without indentation.
Acknowledgments
Place the Acknowledgments section at the end of the article before Conflict of interests section. List in this section individuals, grants, funds, etc. assisting in the research. If necessary, you can fully specify the sponsoring and funding organizations.
Conflict of interests
All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include but are not limited to financial interests (such as membership, employment, consultancies, stocks/shares ownership, honoraria, grants or other funding, paid expert testimonies and patent-licensing arrangements) and non-financial interests (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, personal beliefs).
The corresponding author must include a summary statement in the manuscript in a separate section “Conflicts of Interest” placed just before the reference list. The statement should reflect all the collected potential conflict of interest disclosures in the form.
See below for examples of disclosures:
Conflicts of Interest: Author A has received research grants from Company A. Author B has received a speaker honorarium from Company X and owns stocks in Company Y. Author C has been involved as a consultant and expert witness in Company Z. Author D is the inventor of patent X.
If no conflicts exist, the authors should state:
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
References
References cited in the text must be given in parentheses with the name of the author and comma-separated year of publication. Several references should be ordered chronologically and semicolons-separated. References to the same author published in the same year should be cited with addition of small letters to the year of publication in alphabetical order.
For example:
- The research spans many disciplines (Smith, 1995).
- This result was later supported by Goldman and Petrov (1999).
- We used the method of Zhou et al. (2016) to estimate the timing of the onset of the HO.
- This effect has been widely studied (Jewson et al., 2000a; 2000b; Karlson and Smith, 2005; Firsov et al., 2010).
There should be no references to unpublished works, since all works cited must be listed in the References section.
References should be arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the first author. Several publications by the same author should be arranged in chronological order. If there are more than three authors, give the names of only the first three followed by ‘et al.’.
Titles of non-English publications must be translated, and the original language should be given in parentheses. The names of editions in non-Latin characters without English versions should be transliterated using Latin alphabet and supplied with the translation in brackets. The non-English names of editions in Latin characters should be translated in brackets. Those editions having English version should be cited according to this version.
For example:
Articles (Cite DOI, when available. The name of the journal must be written in full.)
- Koene J.M. 2017. Sex determination and gender expression: reproductive investment in snails. Molecular Reproduction and Development 84: 132-143. DOI: 1002/mrd.22662
- Timoshkin O.A., Moore M.V., Kulikova N.N. et al. 2018. Groundwater contamination by sewage causes benthic algal outbreaks in the littoral zone of Lake Baikal (East Siberia). Journal of Great Lakes Research 44: 230-244. DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2018.01.008
- Kenny N., Plese J.B., Riesgo A. et al. 2019. Symbiosis, selection, and novelty: freshwater adaptation in the unique sponges of Lake Baikal. Molecular Biology and Evolution 36(11): 2462-2480. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz151
- Kuznetsov S.I. 1951. Comparative characteristics of the biomass of bacteria and phytoplankton in the surface water layer of the Central Baikal. Trudy Baikalskoi limnologicheskoi stantsii AN SSSR [Proceedings of the Baikal Limnological Station of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR] 13: 217-225. (in Russian)
- Cholodny N. 1929. Methodology of quantitative research of bacterial plankton. Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene A [Central Journal of Bacteriology, Parasite, Infectious Diseases and Hygiene A] 77: 179-193. (in German)
Books
- Atlas of Lake Baikal. 1993. In: Galazy G.I. (Ed.). Moscow: Roskartografia. (in Russian)
- Watson R., Noble I., Bolin B. et al. 2000. Land use, land-use change, and forestry. A special report to IPCC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book chapters
- Erbaeva E.A., Safronov G.P. 2009. Diptera, Chironomindae in Angara River and its reservoirs. In: Timoshkin O.A. (Ed.), Index of animal species inhabiting Lake Baikal and its catchment area. Novosibirsk, pp. 348-396. (in Russian)
- Kaufman L., Rousseeuw P. 1987. Clustering by means of medoids. In: Dodge Y. (Ed.), Statistical data analysis based on the l1-norm and related methods. North-Holland, pp. 405-416.
Synopsis of a thesis
- Moustakas N. 1990. Relationships of morphological and physicochemical properties of Vertisols under Greek climate conditions. PhD Thesis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.
- Sizova L.N. 2017. The effect of large-scale atmospheric circulation on the elements of ice-thermal and water regime of Lake Baikal. Cand. Sc. Dissertation, Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia. (in Russian)
- Zemskaya T.I. 2007. Microbial processes of carbon cycle in bottom sediments of Lake Baikal: the structure and functioning of microbial communities. Dr. Sc. Dissertation, Buryat State University, Ulan-Ude, Russia.
Abstracts
Egorov A.V., Nigmatulin R.I., Rimskii-Korsakov N.A. et al. 2010. Gas hydrate hills on the bottom of Lake Baikal. In: 10th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments, pp. 102.
Figures and tables
All figures should be downloaded separately as TIFF or JPG files (with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi) and supplied with a caption in the appropriate fields of the online system.
Number the figures and tables, as follows: Fig. 1 or Table 1. For citing them in the text, use parentheses.
Table should have a title at the top. The note should be placed below the table.
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