Journal of Ornamental Aquatics- About the Journal
About the Journal

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Abzian -e- Zinati (Ornamental Aquatics) is a multidisciplinary journal is published four times annually in January, April, July, November. This is a scientific journal reporting on research and education concerned with all aspects of Ornamental fish, aquatics and aquatics veterinary sciences. In pursuit of these, aquaculture, biology and environmentalist disciplines are invited to contribute their knowledge and experience. Abzian -e- Zinati publishes original research papers, research notes and reviews across the broad field of Aquatics in Persian language with English Abstracts and free of charge. Thus, high quality research papers or reviews dealing with any aspect of aquaticst are welcomed. Papers may be theoretical, interpretative or experimental.

Publishing Process
This journal uses Open Journal System 3.1.2, which is an open-source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public Licence.
The journal has been published since 2014 by Green Wave publication in cooperation with Iranian Ornamental Fish Society (IOFS).
All articles are Open Access and are immediately available online at no cost to read, distribute, and/or reuse.
Expert reviewers will evaluate the articles submitted to the journal.  While the objective of the peer review process is to ensure high quality science, peer reviewers do not make the final decision to accept or reject papers for publication. The decision-making authority rests solely with the journal editor and the journal’s editorial board. The journal decision-making process includes the following steps:
  1. Registration on the Journal’s website by the corresponding author and providing the full affiliation of all authors. Submission of the paper in proper format is required.
  2. After a paper is submitted to the journal, the Journal’s editor and/or a member of the editorial board will screen the manuscript and decide whether or not to send it for full peer review. At this stage the paper may also be returned to the author for reformatting or other corrections to meet the minimum requirements of the Journal.
  3. After clearing the initial screening up to three peer reviewers are allocated to review the manuscript. The editor or a member of the editorial board may also review the manuscript.
  4. The peer review is a double-blind process, which means that both the reviewers and authors identities are concealed throughout the review process.
  5. The Journal’s editor considers the peer reviewers’ reports, along with the evaluation form (completed by the reviewers), and makes a final decision as follows:
a. If at least two reviewers recommend to rejection, the editor may reject the paper at this stage.                 
b. If at least one reviewer requests a major correction, the paper is sent back to the author to provide corrections and/or appropriate responses to the reviewer’s comments.
c. If any of the reviewers decline to review the paper, or do not send their response about the paper within the predefined period of time, then another reviewer will be assigned by the editor.

           
6. As soon as the corrected version of the paper along with the responses to the reviewers’ comments are submitted to the journal (normally within 2 weeks), they will be checked by the editor and sent to one of the reviewers for final consideration and recommendation.

             7. Based on the full peer review process outlined above the final decision is made by the editorial board.

             8. A formal letter of acceptance is issued by the Journal’s office for the accepted papers.

             9. The papers are published in the journal based on a “first come, first served” policy.


Distribution of contents of this journal are licenced by Creative Commons attributions (BY-NC-SA 4.0):
  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Plagiarism
   All manuscripts submitted for publication to
Ornamental Aquatics, will be screened for plagiarism using iThenticate software. The similarity index should not exceed 25%.

Open Access Policy
   This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws

Author Fees 
The fee is free for authors to submit their manuscripts to our journal. 
Topic URL in Journal of Ornamental Aquatics website:
http://ornamentalaquatics.ir/find-1.12.23.en.html
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