The Croatian Journal of Fisheries (CJF) is celebrating 77 years of publishing. We are pleased to mention that the quality of the Journal continues to improve as evident in Thomson Re-uters accepting the CJF for SCI database evaluation in 2014. The decision from Thomson Reuters is awaited. Many papers were submitted as short communications to the Threatened Fishes of the World (TFW) series, which has received great acceptance. To increase the impact and the visibility of TFW within the global conservation community, we modify the format in a way that all information required for the inclusion of a species to the official IUCN Red List of Threatened Species TM is incorporated. Papers published in TFW will not represent official IUCN Red List assessments but they will be a compilation of data to present them in a format usable for the IUCN Red List assessment. Additional reviews by the IUCN will be subsequently needed to translate TFW then into a formal IUCN assessment. This step forward will make TFW more useful to the broader scientific ABSTRACT By changing its editorial system, the Croatian Journal of Fisheries is moving toward more rigorous review which will subsequently strengthen its quality and impact. This editorial provides information on the published articles in 2014 as well as a list of reviewers who participated in the review process. Many papers were submitted as short communications to the Threatened Fishes of the World (TFW) series in 2014. To be more useful to the broader scientific community, guidelines about preparation of manuscripts for the TFW series based on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species TM is provided. Also, after having several years of experience in reviewing, processing and editing of manuscripts, it has been noted that authors repeat the same mistakes. Therefore, we present here a paper that discusses the most common mistakes encountered during manuscript preparation which can result in its rejection.