EDITORIAL 2015: EFFORTS TOWARDS BETTER QUALITY IN THE Croatian Journal of Fisheries (Ribarstvo)

Abstract

Many papers were submitted as short communications to the Threatened Fishes of the World (TFW) series, which has received great acceptance. To increase the impact and the visibility of TFW within the global conservation community, we modify the format in a way that all information required for the inclusion of a species to the official IUCN Red List of Threatened Species TM is incorporated. Papers published in TFW will not represent official IUCN Red List assessments but they will be a compilation of data to present them in a format usable for the IUCN Red List assessment. Additional reviews by the IUCN will be subsequently needed to translate TFW then into a formal IUCN assessment. This step forward will make TFW more useful to the broader scientific ABSTRACTBy changing its editorial system, the Croatian Journal of Fisheries is moving toward more rigorous review which will subsequently strengthen its quality and impact. This editorial provides information on the published articles in 2014 as well as a list of reviewers who participated in the review process. Many papers were submitted as short communications to the Threatened Fishes of the World (TFW) series in 2014. To be more useful to the broader scientific community, guidelines about preparation of manuscripts for the TFW series based on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species TM is provided. Also, after having several years of experience in reviewing, processing and editing of manuscripts, it has been noted that authors repeat the same mistakes. Therefore, we present here a paper that discusses the most common mistakes encountered during manuscript preparation which can result in its rejection. CODEN RIBAEG ISSN 1330-061X (print), 1848-0586 (online)community. Please see the IUCN Red List criteria at http:// www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/categories-andcriteria. By doing so, we aim to increase the profile of the TFW papers towards the transfer of the data to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species TM . Papers in the TFW series must include details about species including a good quality image (photo or drawing) and a detailed distribution map and text. The publication of comprehensive, georeferenced, site scale records is strongly recommended for all species with limited geographical ranges. TFW will consider only global scale species assessments and not national or regional assessments. We call especially for papers pertaining to species that have not yet been assessed by The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species TM as well as papers about species already assessed as being threatened (CR, EN or VU). Papers in the second category must help greatly improve the existing assessment by providing new information relevant to the conservation of the species. Minor additions or corrections will not be accepted as well as papers about species not qualifying for one of the threatened species categories (EX, CR, EN, VU). In Table 1 NEW ASSOCIATE EDITORS AND PROOF-READERLast year, and at the beginning of this year, for maintaining and developing specific topics...

Editorial 2018: The Croatian Journal of Fisheries: Ribarstvo 80th Anniversary

“…The way in which the Journal has developed, altered and thrived has recently been described (Piria et al, 2015;Matulić, et al, 2016;Matulić and Tomljanović, 2017). Over 2/3 of the papers accepted last year come from overseas, which emphasises the international appeal the Journal has achieved.…”