The journal publishes original research articles, short communications, and review papers in the fields of:
Aquaculture (Biology, Technology, Economics, Marketing)
Fish Genetics and Improvement
Aquarium Sciences
Fisheries and Ichthyology
Aquatic Ecology
Conservation of Aquatic Resources
Aquatic-related Legislation and Policy
The journal welcomes contributions from researchers worldwide.
Our journal is a good opportunity for you to publish your papers on time, color, both printed and online, open access, unlimited pages. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions. This is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
AACL Bioflux is an international peer-reviewed journal. Each published article was independently seen before by two Scientific Reviewers and at least one lingvist. Peer-review policy in AACL Bioflux: double blind peer-review. The editors use a soft for screening the plagiarism. Acceptance rate: about 50%. Electronic submission is required.
Because many authors withdrew their manuscript in final form just before the payment of the publication fee, our policy has changed (30 January 2023). The publication fee was replaced by a processing fee (300 USD), which is paid after a preliminary evaluation (not at the end). Our evaluation has two steps. 1)A preliminary evaluation by the editor (the author gets a preliminary acceptance or rejection); 2)An external double blind peer-review (at this point the author gets a final decision: acceptance or rejection). Please note that if the manuscript will not be published, the author or his/her institution gets the money back (except the cases of poor feedback from authors or withdrawal/rejection due to multiple submissions). We inform the authors about our final decision (acceptance or rejection) in 3-8 weeks after their submission. The average overall time from submission of the manuscript to publication is 10 weeks. Faster processing involves a tax of priority (200 USD).
Manuscript processing fee: 300 USD (or equivalent in EURO or RON);
Manuscript processing fee with priority: 500 USD (or equivalent in EURO or RON);
Publication fee: 0 USD.
The journal has a waiver policy for developing country authors (only for cases of very good quality manuscripts). When the manuscript's first author is a member of the Editorial Board Expanded (AACL Bioflux), there is no processing fee. Please attach a scanned payment document and email to ioan.mag@usamvcluj.ro
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Statement of human and animal rights
When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals"- February 2006 – cited by Pubmed, Medline database).
Statement of informed consent
Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should identify individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance. Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals"- February 2006 – cited by Pubmed, Medline database).
Conflict-of-interest statement
Public trust in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how well conflict of interest is handled during writing, peer review, and editorial decision making. Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author's institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties). These relationships vary from those with negligible potential to those with great potential to influence judgment, and not all relationships represent true conflict of interest. The potential for conflict of interest can exist whether or not an individual believes that the relationship affects his or her scientific judgment. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal, the authors, and of science itself (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals"- February 2006 – cited by Pubmed, Medline database). However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition or intellectual passion, and the Chief Editor will do his best to avoid them, using specific policies in the process of peer-review.
Authors responsibilities
- All authors have significantly contributed to the research
- All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes, in case of detection
- List of references should be provided by authors
- Information on financial support should be provided by authors in Acknowledgement section
- It is forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.
Peer-review, publication policies, and publication ethics
- Judgments is external and objective
- Reviewers have no conflict of interest
- Reviewed articles are treated confidentially prior to their publication
- Bioflux Publishing House takes reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred
- In the event that the publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately
- Corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies are accepted. Correction of any published article after the official publication date is not allowed in the same document. A scientific journal is not a website. Corrections, clarifications and apologies written by the authors are allowed by separate Note or Erratum. Retracting of a manuscript is made by publisher in the case when plagiarism or other particular issues are reported.
-Post-publication discussions are encouraged and may take the form of letters to the editor, commentaries, or formal responses to published articles. Such contributions are subject to editorial evaluation and, where appropriate, peer review. The journal reserves the right to publish author replies to comments.
- This is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- In the case that our journal is no longer published, Bioflux Publishing House has agreements with several databases which are allowed to conserve and republish the old content at any time and unlimited number of copies, both as electronic and hardcopies. Bioflux Publishing House is archived by The Legal Deposit Bucharest (National Library) and by The County Legal Deposit in Cluj-Napoca (Octavian Goga Library).
Data Sharing Policy
1. Policy Statement
AACL Bioflux is committed to promoting transparency, reproducibility, and integrity in scientific research. We support responsible data sharing as an essential component of scholarly communication and encourage authors to make the data underlying their findings openly available whenever possible.
This policy applies to all manuscripts submitted to the journal and is consistent with international standards for editorial best practices and research transparency.
2. Author Responsibilities
Authors are required to:
Authors are strongly encouraged to deposit their data in recognized public repositories appropriate to their discipline.
3. Data Availability Statement
All manuscripts must include a Data Availability Statement specifying one of the following:
Example statement:
"The data supporting the findings of this study are available in [repository name] at [DOI or URL], or from the corresponding author upon reasonable request."
4. Recommended Data Repositories
Authors are encouraged to use trusted repositories that provide:
Examples include institutional repositories, discipline-specific repositories, or general repositories such as Zenodo, Dryad, Figshare, or equivalent platforms.
5. Ethical and Legal Considerations
Data sharing must comply with:
Sensitive data involving human participants must be de-identified prior to sharing, unless explicit consent for identifiable data sharing has been obtained.
Where legal or ethical restrictions prevent public sharing, authors must clearly state these limitations.
6. Editorial and Peer Review Access
Editors and peer reviewers may request access to underlying data during the review process to evaluate the scientific validity of the manuscript. Authors must provide such data upon request, unless prohibited by legal or ethical constraints.
Failure to provide requested data may result in rejection of the manuscript.
7. Compliance and Enforcement
Failure to comply with this policy may result in:
The journal reserves the right to request data verification at any stage before or after publication.
8. Exceptions
Exceptions to data sharing requirements may be granted in cases involving:
Such exceptions must be clearly justified in the Data Availability Statement.
9. Policy Scope and Alignment
This policy is aligned with international editorial standards and supports the principles of:
The journal periodically reviews and updates this policy to maintain compliance with evolving indexing and ethical standards.
10. Contact Information
Questions regarding this policy should be directed to the Editorial Office at:
ioan.mag@usamvcluj.ro
Archiving Policy: We send hardcopies, regularly (according to Romanian legislation), to Legal Deposit at "Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei" (six samples) and also to a local Legal Deposit in Cluj-Napoca: Biblioteca Judeteana "Octavian Goga" (one sample).
Advertising Policy
Our journals do not accept or display any form of advertising, sponsored content, or commercial promotions. No third-party advertising networks are used, and there is no advertising revenue associated with our publications.
Statement on the use of Generative AI
Our journal permits the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools in the preparation of manuscripts, provided that:
Malpractice disclaimer
The publisher and our editors make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the content published. However, the journal, its editors, and publisher disclaim any responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of information contained in this publication. The opinions and conclusions expressed in articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the journal or its editorial board. Readers are advised to use professional judgment and consult appropriate experts before acting on the information provided.
AACL Bioflux is a fully open access journal. All articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription fees or registration barriers.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The AACL Bioflux journal welcomes original manuscripts containing new
insights to various aspects of aquaculture, ichthyology, aquarium sciences,
fish genetics and improvement, fisheries, aquatic ecology, conservation of
aquatic resources, and legislation (in connection with aquatic issues). All
manuscripts are subjected to peer-review by two independent specialists and to
a linguistic review. It is considered that manuscripts were not published
elsewhere and were not submitted to any other journals.
The manuscript should be submitted by e-mail to Editor-in-Chief, Dr.
Ioan Valentin Petrescu-Mag (ioan.mag@usamvcluj.ro).
It can be an original article (4 to 30 pages), a short communication, opinion,
critical note (3 to 4 pages), or a review (10 to 30 pages), written taking into
account one of the two presented models of structure. The editors reserve the
right to adjust style to certain standards of uniformity. In order to speed up
the process of review, manuscripts should be prepared very carefully. Manuscripts
will be subjected to review and the authors given the opportunity to make final
changes in the manuscript prior to publication.
The title of the paper should unambiguously reflect its contents, and it
should not exceed 120 characters. The title should be followed by author(s)
name(s) and affiliation(s). The name(s), institution(s) and its(their) full address(es),
own full postal address(es) and e-mail address(es) should be presented at the
end of the paper. When an author has moved permanently or temporarily to a new address,
this should be indicated. All joint communications must indicate the author to
whom correspondence should be addressed if this is not the first-mentioned author.
All manuscripts must have a short Abstract in English with Key Words
listed at the end of the abstract (5 to 8 words).
The text should be typed directly in the
model document. It is essential that the author retain a copy of the final
version of both the text and illustrations. Only the names of species and
genera should be italicised. When species is mentioned in the text for the
first time, its name should be given in full, e.g. Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus, 1758). Later it should be abbreviated,
e.g. C. carpio. When used in the title,
specific name should be followed by descriptor’s name and year only if
taxonomical ambiguities are involved. If not, it should be omitted (e.g. "Domestication
of the common carp Cyprinus carpio” not “Domestication
of the common carp Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758”). Especially in the
cases when the subject of the study is other than fish, Authors should also consider
making a statement in the title regarding the name of higher taxa, e.g. “Diet
of the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra (Mustelidae)”.
All symbols should be defined either in a
notation list or at their first mention in the text. The SI system of units should be used throughout the text (e.g. g mL-1
not g/mL); if, in certain instances, it is necessary to quote other units, SI
equivalents should be added in parentheses. Footnotes should be avoided,
especially if they contain information which could equally well be included in
the text. Tables (numbered
consecutively with Arabic numerals) have to by self-explanatory, and they should
be typed directly in the model document and placed at the appropriate point in
the text. All Tables should be discussed and cited in the text, e.g., ‘‘see
Table 1”.
References
should be cited at the appropriate point in the text by author’s name and year,
e.g. “according to the literature (Hubbs & Lagler, 1958; Baker et al., 2008)”,
“as it was shown by Smith (1975)”. Full details should be listed in
alphabetical order in a reference list. All names written with non-Roman alphabets
should be transliterated (not transcribed) according to international
standards. All titles in languages other than English should be translated to
English and given in parentheses. More than 80% from references should be taken
from the principal flux of information (Clarivate indexed journals, Scopus
Journals, journals indexed in other International Databases) or books having
ISBN code. The DOI (digital object identifier) number should be also provided
when only it is possible. References should be arranged as following:
Kyne P. M., Courtney A. J., Bennet M. B.,
2008 Aspects of
reproduction and diet of the Australian endemic skate Dipturus polyommata (Ogilby)
(Elasmobranchii: Rajidae), by-catch of a commercial prawn trawl fishery. J Fish
Biol 72:61-77. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2007.01655.x
Berg L. S., 1949
[Freshwater fishes of the USSR and adjacent countries]. Izd. AN SSSR,
Moscow-Leningrad [in Russian].
Goryczko K., 2000 [The rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss]. In: [The
freshwater fishes of
Editorial office:
Post address
SC Bioflux SRL, 54 Ceahlau street, Cluj-Napoca 400488, Romania, European Union.
E-mail: ioan.mag@usamvcluj.ro
For submission inquiries, please use the online submission system or contact the editorial office directly.
