Submissions

Author Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
[TO BE STRICTLY ADHERED TO]

The Proceedings accept original research papers, commentaries, reviews of important areas of science and science history, student award papers, book reviews, and excursion reports.

Papers may be submitted in either English or French and sent as a
WORD document to the Editor, Dr. Peter G. Wells, at oceans2@ns.sympatico.ca or Assoc. Editor, Dr David Richardson at david.richardson@smu.ca, with a copy to nsis@dal.ca. Submission of a manuscript will be taken to indicate that the work is completely original, i.e., it is the author’s own work, has not been published before, in part or in whole, is not being considered by another publication, and has not used AI in its preparation. All authors of a submission must approve it prior to it being submitted. Please include this information with the submitted manuscript.

Commentaries are short (less than 2000 words) discussions of topical scientific issues or biographies of prominent regional scientists who have been members of NSIS.

For review papers, authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published, must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) prior to submission. Please include this information with the submitted manuscript.

The word document for a research paper or review is to be no longer than 40 pages, including the figures and tables.

PAPERS SUBMITTED ARE TO STRICTLY FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. OTHERWISE, PAPERS WILL BE SENT BACK TO AUTHOR TO UPDATE.

For the general layout of papers, please refer to recent issues of the Journal. Pages of the submitted WORD document should be numbered. Provide a SUGGESTED running head for the paper.

The title should be followed by names, addresses and e-mails of all authors. A footnote with an asterisk and worded: *Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: with the relevant email address, should be placed at the bottom of page one of the manuscript. Example:

^* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed:
graham.daborn@acadiau.ca

An abstract of up to 200 words should follow, together with a list of five keywords or less.

As appropriate, sections within the paper should include Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and References. Canadian spelling and SI units should be used wherever possible. References cited in the text in brackets should be separated by commas and personal communications should be as follows: Smith A.J. (2001, pers. comm.). Scientific names are to be in italics, as well as abbreviations such as et al.

There are no superscripts on "th" or "st". Example: The 1st day of the month / The 5th day of the month.

No http:// in front of website (this is not needed to open a web page).

Please review your paper very carefully to avoid errors or deletions. Spell check the entire paper before submitting.

TABLES, FIGURES & PHOTOGRAPHS

All figures, photographs and other illustrations should be numbered and have a self-explanatory caption. Send manuscript with above embedded for reference only. This is what the editors / reviewers will use for editing before sending for layout then print. Do not send your manuscript as a pdf.

For printed layout, provide figures and photographs as high resolution (images to be 300 dpi, lineart 600) as separate files (jpg, eps, png, pdf) with all in a folder zipped/compressed for ease of sending through email. Please size to fit 4" wide. All tables can be in one file but separate from the manuscript.

Authors are encouraged to submit figures, photographs and illustrations in colour. Colour versions will be placed on the NSIS website and in the PDFs provided to authors. Black and white versions will be in the print copies, unless color output is otherwise requested.

REFERENCES

References are to be in alphabetical order – name first, followed by initials, with no space between initials. For cited papers, give the full title of the journal (in italics), volume and issue numbers where appropriate. Examples of formatted references, covering monographs, chapters in monographs and papers, and with close attention to spacing. Example:

Cushing, D. & Walsh, J. (1976). The Ecology of the Seas. W.B. Saunders
Company, Toronto, ON. xx p.

Lee, G.F. (1975). Role of hydrous metal oxides in the transport of heavy metals in the environment. In: Krenkel, P.A. (ed.). Heavy Metals in the Aquatic Environment. Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK. p. 137-147.

Nielsen, K.J. & France, D.F. (1995). The influence of adult conspecifics and shore level on recruitment of the ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa (Dillwyn). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 188(1): 89-98.

Please note: where a province is listed, add the abbreviated symbol for the Canadian province after the city name with Canada not added. For other countries listed city/state/country with abbreviated state and country (no periods in the abbreviation). Example:

Whitcher, W.F. (1876). Eighth annual report of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, for the Year 1875. Printed by MacLean, Roger & Co., Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON.

Warner, K. (1965). Fishery management in the fish river drainage. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game. Augusta, Maine, USA. 59 p.
catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010364514

Website Citation should follow this pattern: Author (year) title, URL and date accessed. No periods after website. Capital A on "Accessed" with no period at end. No space after doi or period after. Examples:

Graymont Western Canada Inc. (2015). Giscome Quarry and Lime
Plant Project Application for an Environmental Assessment Certifi-
cate. Environmental Assessment Office.
projects.eao.gov.bc.ca/p/giscome-quarry-and-lime-plant/docs
(Accessed Dec. 18, 2017)

Wan, H., Wang, X.L. & Swail, V.R. (2010). Homogenization and trend analysis of Canadian near-surface wind speeds. Journal of Climate 23: 1209-1225. doi:10.1175/2009JCL13200.1

Please ensure that if including hyperlinks that URLs or dois have the correct hyperlink.

Please note:

Authors will receive page proofs from the Production Editor. They are responsible for correcting them as soon as possible after receipt and for resubmitting to that Editor. Particular attention should be made to the correct formatting of references, and to the general formatting of the manuscript. Authors are responsible for correcting and returning page proofs within 1 week.

Authors will be provided with a HIRES PDF of their article, free of charge. NSIS members are able to access the new Issue as soon as published as part of their annual membership. Authors can receive a hard copy upon request. All new Issues of the Proceedings become open access after a six months embargo. All articles are copyrighted with the NSIS, but contributors are free to distribute their articles to interested parties as they wish. Each published article is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier) that identifies its location on the
internet.

Each issue will continue to be printed for members and other associated parties. Copies of any Special Issues of the NSIS proceedings published in hard copy may also be purchased from NSIS at a charge established by the NSIS. See the website www.nsis.chebucto.org/ for details.

No portion of this work may be used for training artificial intelligence  (AI) without written permission from the author.