Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, DOIs in URL form for the references have been provided.
  • The manuscript has been prepared using the NAMMCO Manuscript Template for Authors, or alternatively, the author is willing to reformat their paper using the required template if the article is accepted for publication
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

For a summary of the Author Guidelines, please visit the About section. A full version of the guidelines is available as a PDF.

Manuscript Submission

Authors need to submit one electronic copy of the manuscript in Microsoft Word (.doc or docx) format through the NAMMCO Scientific Publications website. This requires that the author submitting the manuscript first register as a user. After establishing a user account, instructions for submission will be provided through the online portal. The required information on all authors should also be filled out in the online form when submitting.

Authors are requested to write and submit their manuscripts in the NAMMCO Scientific Publications Template for Authors. This template has all the necessary formatting and styles already defined. Further information on this is available in the template itself. Although initial submissions may be sent in any format, all accepted papers will be required to be submitted in the template format so authors are encouraged to use the provided template from the beginning of the submission process. 

Note that the template is in the Word Template format (.dotx), however, manuscripts should be saved and submitted in the normal Word format (.docx).

If you are unfamiliar with Word styles, please see this guide to applying styles in Word. Note that the author template styles cannot be modified.

Authors are encouraged to suggest three to four reviewers with the relevant expertise to evaluate their work. These suggestions are for the editors' reference only.

Articles

Articles are welcome from all disciplines and should present original research. All articles are peer-reviewed. 

Workshop Reports

Reports from international expert workshops relevant to the management of marine mammals in the North Atlantic. 

Reviews

Reviews provide a critical synthesis of relevant scholarly literature on a selected topic. All literature reviews will be subject to peer-review before publication.

Notes

Notes are short manuscripts that provide either technical descriptions of new innovations (Technical Note) or summaries in non-technical language of new and/or emerging issues that are of relevance for managers and policy makers (Policy Note). 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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