Call for content: Journal of Ocean Technology winter 2021 issue

May 31st, 2021

By Jeff Green

Call for content: Journal of Ocean Technology winter 2021 issue

The Journal of Ocean Technology invites the submission of technical papers, essays and short articles for its winter 2021 issue focused on ocean pharmaceuticals with guest editor Dr. Deepika Dave.

In this issue, the journal will look at the medical potential of ocean-based resources from a technology perspective: what resources are used; how they are used and benefits; how they are extracted and processed; etc.

This might include fishery discards, aquaculture and fish processing wastes, marine bio-products, seaweed, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, algae, etc. for application in functional foods, drug ingredients, feeds, anti-aging, etc.

The journal is inviting the submission of technical papers, essays and short articles for this issue.

For more details, please see here.

Important deadlines

Technical paper submissions: Aug. 6, 2021. This should be the full paper.

Expressions of interest for essays and short articles: Aug. 6, 2021.

After Aug. 6, the JOT team will meet to review all submitted expressions of interest (EOI) and prepare a content outline. Should your EOI be accepted, the deadline for submission of materials is Oct. 22.

Expressions of interest for essays and short articles should contain the following information:

  • Proposed title of article
  • Type of article (essay – up to 3,000 words; or short article – up to 900 words)
  • Name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s)
  • Short summary of article (no more than 200 words)

Submit both technical papers and expressions of interest to: dawn.roche@mi.mun.ca.

Jeff Green is manager of communications in the Office of the Vice-President (Research). He can be reached at jeffg@mun.ca.