Instructions to Authors
The following instructions and guidelines will assist authors preparing to submit manuscripts to the ICES Journal.
For the full Author Guide, Word List and Guest Editor Guidelines, please see http://www.ices.dk/products/icesjournal.asp
Please click here for the Guide for Authors.
Please click here for the Word List.
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GENERAL POLICIES
ICES Journal of Marine Science authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory licence form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.
For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for ICES Journal of Marine Science vary depending on the institution at which the Corresponding author is based:
Optional Oxford Open charges:
For a Corresponding author based at an institution with an online subscription to ICES Journal of Marine Science:
Regular charge per paper – £800 / $1500
List B developing country charge* – £400 / $750
List A developing country charge* – £0 / $0
For a Corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:
Regular charge per paper – £1500 / $2800
List B developing country charge* – £750 / $1400
List A developing country charge* – £0 / $0
*Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries
The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and colour charges that might apply.
If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge formonline. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to ICES Journal of Marine Science. Therefore please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution please use the Subscriber Test link for ICES Journal of Marine Science.
Orders from the UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from elsewhere in the EU you or your institution should account for VAT by way of a reverse charge. Please provide us with your or your institution’s VAT number.
OFFPRINTS
The corresponding author will receive free online access to their paper (which can then be circulated to co-authors) and 25 free offprints of their article. If the offprint order form is not returned with the proofs, the corresponding author will automatically receive electronic access to their paper. Additional offprints may be purchased at the rates indicated on the order form which must be returned with the proofs. The offprints order form can be found here.
LICENCE
It is a condition of publication that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford Journals or the society of ownership. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently, and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own material in other publications, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford Journals is notified in writing and in advance. On acceptance, copyright licence forms should be returned immediately by fax to us, and a copy must be posted by airmail/first class within 24 hours. Work submitted for publication must be original, previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If previously published figures, tables, or parts of text are to be included, the copyright-holder’s permission must have been obtained prior to submission. The author bears the responsibility for checking whether material submitted is subject to copyright or ownership rights, e.g. photographs, illustrations, trade literature and data. Where use is so restricted, the Editors and the Publisher must be informed with the submission of the material.
Once your paper has been accepted, please download the form and fax a copy to: +44 (0)1865 355875. Please send the original to: ICES Production Team, Journals Production Department, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom.
