The Working Paper Series has been introduced to serve as a 'placeholder' for papers that are destined for publication in the primary literature. Such a series will help to make Fisheries Centre work available to our colleagues in a timely fashion, and well before the works appear in the primary literature. It will also help us to get timely comments from colleagues. Another advantage of having a Working Paper Series is the ability to cite a working paper, which most journals would not allow you to do with an unpublished manuscript. It should be noted that some journals will not allow the publication of a working paper for papers to be published in them (e.g. Fish and Fisheries, Nature and Science). Authors are therefore advised to check before they publish a working paper.

A Note on Logistics, Costs

An important principle here is that producing a working paper should impose (almost) zero marginal cost on the authors and the FC. Hence, the following steps for doing so:

• You have a manuscript which you intend to publish in the primary literature
• You format it along the guidelines of the journal you plan to publish it in
• You make a pdf of the paper and send it to the PI of your research group, or a person designated by the PI, who will sign off on the paper to verify that spelling and basic formatting requirements have been satisfied (i.e., there are no glaring spelling or formatting errors);
• This designated person sends the paper to the FC Working Paper editors (Rashid and Steve) for the cover page and a serial number to be assigned
• The editors then forward the paper to office@fisheries.ubc.ca for upload on to this website.

NOTE: There is no hard-copy production, so minimal cost to the Fisheries Centre.