Publication of the Symposium Proceedings

Professor Niels Daan, the Guest Editor for the ICES volume originating from the Symposium, will be present throughout the meeting. He will have an office near the meeting – please ask for the exact location at the registration desk. Manuscripts must be given to Professor Daan on the first day of the Symposium; he will be collaborating with authors during the meeting.

Selected papers from the Symposium will be published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science, subject to a full peer-review process. Registered participants will receive a copy of the special issue following its publication. The editorial team consists of Niels Daan, who will act as guest-editor, and the Convenors, Philippe Cury and Villy Christensen. In addition, the Journal editor Andy Payne will guide the publication process.

Authors intending to submit manuscripts for the proceedings should provide one hardcopy as well as an electronic version (a text file including references, tables and figure captions preferably in MSWord; figures in a separate file, preferably Excel or pdf; CD-R, ZIP, USB disks etc.) to the Symposium Secretariat upon arrival in Paris. If it is not possible to deliver electronic files, four hardcopies should be brought. Authors will be informed before the end of the Symposium whether their manuscripts has been selected for entering the review process.

Because of a strict page limit for the proceedings - and to ensure a broad coverage of the topics -, the main text of a manuscript must not exceed 4000 words (Introduction through acknowledgements; excluding abstract, references, tables, figures), while two or three printed pages are available for figures and tables. Layout must closely follow the ICES Guide for Authors available from the web site (Links 'Guide for Authors' and 'Artwork Instructions' near the top of the page). In addition note that, because graphs are re-lettered by Elsevier to enhance uniformity, it is most appreciated if two sets of figures are provided, one with labelling and one without labelling. A limited number of colour graphs can be reproduced free of charge, but it is up to the editorial team how these are best distributed.

Because it is intended to publish the proceedings within 15 months after the Symposium, it is of utmost importance to speed up the peer-review process. Therefore, contributing authors will be requested to review one or two of the other papers presented within one month after receipt. File exchange by e-mail has proven to cut down postal handling time significantly. Moreover, MSWord files allow suggestions for changes and comments to be made directly to the text in revision mode, which saves authors valuable time. We expect most contributors to use these tools and to observe the deadlines closely.

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