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guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.
Use these instructions if you are preparing a manuscript to submit to Marine Biology . To explore our journals portfolio, visit http://www.tandfonline.com/ , and for more author resources, visit our Author Services website.
Marine Biology considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that
- the manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
- the manuscript has been submitted only to Marine Biology ; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
- the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
Please note that Marine Biology uses CrossCheck™ software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material. By submitting your manuscript to Marine Biology you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your manuscript may have to undergo during the peer-review and production processes.
Any author who fails to adhere to the above conditions will be charged with costs which Marine Biology incurs for their manuscript at the discretion of Marine Biology ’s Editors and Taylor & Francis, and their manuscript will be rejected.
This journal is compliant with the Research Councils UK OA policy. Please see the licence options and embargo periods here .
Contents List
Contacts for author queries
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Editorial Office (for submission queries and manuscripts under review):
marinebiology@imr.no
General guidelines
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Scope of this journal
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Marine Biology Research welcomes the submission of research reports on all aspects of marine biology (ecology, biodiversity, evolution, physiology, and behavior). Regional studies should include more than local populations or communities composed only of higher order taxa and should be presented in a broader and comparative context. The Journal will only publish lists of regional fauna and flora when these are part of a research article. The Journal will consider applied aspects (i.e., environmental or fisheries management) insofar as they contribute to biological insight on rates or processes, but not purely descriptive sets of biological oceanography or environmental background data. Work containing biotechnological (molecular, cellular or biochemical) components will be considered only if the focus is primarily on studying environmental problems in a wider ecological context. Submissions should be written in correct English (in either UK
or US style) and must be prepared by strictly following the Author instructions provided below, including journal formatting of references. For additional information on journal scope see also the
Marine Biology Research Aims & Scope under 'Journal information' in the left hand menu on this page.
The following categories of submissions will be considered:
1.
Original articles
2.
Invited reviews
3.
Short reports
4.
Book reviews
Invitations for reviews may come directly from the editors. Authors who wish to publish an Invited Review should contact the editors to reach agreement on the topic and maximum length.
Short reports should be not longer than six printed pages and may either represent short research articles or, published under separate subcategories,
Mini-Reviews or
Comments on recent articles in
Marine Biology Research . Online samples of the latter are available for free download by clicking the link above.
Findings on the range extension of marine organisms must be accompanied by:
1. detailed biogeographic information,
2. systematically oriented comparative data, or
3. ecological data revealing impacts or interactions.
Please also consult the
Editorial on this matter with published examples.
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Thematic Issues in
Marine Biology Research are devoted to specific research themes and present the results of larger collaborative efforts deriving from projects or meetings. Thematic Issues will appear as regular issues with a coordinator (‘Thematic Issue Coordinator’) having responsibility for concerted submission after having reached the agreement with the editors. For further information and instructions open the 'Special issues' window under 'About this journal' in the left hand menu above. Upon interest, consult the Editorial Office (
marinebiology@imr.no ) already in the early planning stage towards Thematic Issues.
Preparation and submission of manuscripts
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All submissions should be made online at the
Marine Biology Scholar One Manuscripts website. New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website.
1. Click on ‘ Online Submission ’ which directs you to the log-in page. Here authors may either create a new account or enter an existing account.
2. Click on ‘ Author Center ’ to upload manuscripts. If authors have difficulties in submitting their manuscripts, the ‘Get Help Now’ link appears at the upper right-hand corner of every screen.
3. Upload manuscript text and tables as Microsoft Word documents.
4. Each manuscript must begin with a title page that includes the authors’ full names and addresses including e-mail addresses, and a short and concise Running head below. The main text starts on the next page with Abstract and Key words. At the end the tables and figure legends can be included.
5. Figures have to be loaded as separate files each created in either JPG, EPS, or TIFF format. All uploaded figure files need to have a minimum 300x300 dpi at final size.
All submissions will be acknowledged by an e-mail which includes the Manuscript ID number. This ID number must be referred in the subject line of any correspondence with the Editorial office, marinebiology@imr.no . Status of submitted manuscripts can be viewed via the author center of Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mbr
All submissions will be checked for technical consistency, language quality, and scientific scope according to Marine Biology Research standards and then overtaken by selected editors who supervise the refereeing process. Decisions on publication are usually based on the opinions of at least two anonymous reviewers, after having passed pre-review by the editors. At the time of submission, authors can provide the name and e-mail address of up to five potential referees with recognized competence in the respective area of research.
Click
here for information regarding anonymous peer review.
After manuscripts have been returned for revision, authors must resubmit the revised manuscript within 30 days for minor revisions and within 60 days for major revisions. Revised manuscripts must be resubmitted using ScholarOne Manuscripts URL site and upload the revised manuscript, as a marked copy of the original version, indicating where changes have been made, any figures in separate electronic files, and confirmation of modification or rebuttals in response to the referees’ and editor’s comments.
Style and format guidelines
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All manuscripts must conform to the journal style and manuscript format explained below (or int heback of the printed version of the journal). Manuscripts that do not conform will be returned for revision before the review process starts.
- Description of the Journal’s article style .
- Description of the Journal’s reference style .
- Guide to using mathematical scripts and equations .
- Word templates are available for this journal. If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other template queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk .
- All manuscripts must be original research written in English (British or American). Oxford English Dictionary spelling and punctuation being preferred, in 12 pt Times New Roman or 11 pt Arial font and 1.5 or double-spaced. They should be as brief as possible, succintly written, and only exceptionallyexceed 10 printed pages.. Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
- Non-standard abbreviations and acronyms should be avoided - and, if absolutely necessary, they should be spelled out the first time appearing int he text followed by the abbreviation in parentheses.
- SI-units should preferably be used; use “ n ” (italicized) for Number and “ P ” (italicized) for “Probability”.
- When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
- Where appropriate authors must also incorporate a Disclosure Statement which will acknowledge any financial interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.
- Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal. For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms must not be used.
Manuscript format
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: Title Page, Abstract, Keywords, Manuscript Proper, Acknowledgements, References, Table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); Figure caption(s) (as a list); Figure(s) (as seperate files each); Supplementary material .
1. Title Page . The title must be short and concise, followed by the full names of the authors. Below all authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, email addresses, and the telephone number of the corresponding author. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted.
All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
At the bottom include a Running head (max. 60 units)
2. Abstract . This should be a single paragraph limited to a maximum of 300 words. It must be informative and complete in itself and – in qualitative terms – report on the main result or discovery presented in the paper.
Each manuscript should have 4 to 6
keywords to be included below the abstract.
3. Manuscript Proper . This is usually organized into an Introduction, Material and Methods, Results (or Taxonomy), and Discussion. Material and Methods should be condensed, but contain sufficient details to allow reproduction of experimental procedures. Points of insertion of figures and tables should be indicated in the final revision. Authors should avoid extensive reviews or excessive references in the Introduction and Discussion. Section headings should be concise. Footnotes will not be accepted.
4. Acknowledgements should be kept brief and placed before the reference section. Full names of persons mentioned in this section should be provided, with details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies at the end.
Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, as follows:
- For single agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx]."
- For multiple agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency 1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency 2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency 3] under Grant [number xxxx]."
5.
References . For correct reference formatting in both the text and the reference list, see recent journal issues or download the template with worked
examples .
Unpublished results and personal communications must not appear in the reference list and reference to unpublished master’s and doctoral theses should be avoided.
6. Species Names and Citations . Scientific species names should be always provided and written in full at first occurrence in each section, subsection, table or figure legend, and at the beginning of sentences. At first mention in the main text (but not in title or abstract) each scientific species name should be accompanied by the name of the taxonomic authority followed by the year of publication (separated by a comma). For algae and plants the year shall not be given. In taxonomic papers this citation may be also included in the reference list. Reports with large species numbers should preferentially include those details in a table.
7. Tables . These should be given a concise heading and numbered with Arabic numerals.
Excessive use of tables should be avoided.
8. Figure Legends and Figures . Figure legends should be self-explanatory. Color illustrations are very welcome and will be published in the electronic issues, if quality allows. A limited number of color images can be published for free in each printed issue. Additional ones can be reproduced at the author’s expense.
- Please submit each Figure as a separated file and in the highest quality possible. Make sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution of 300x300 dpi.
- Each file should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), or JPG and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC). Minimum resolution for all figures is 300x300 dpi, line art preferably at 600x600 dpi.
- All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
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Supplementary material. Excessive tables, supporting material (tables, figures, text) or video clips shall be referred to in the text as “Supplementary table, figure, text, or footage” and provided with numbers, if there are several of the same category. All supplementary material needs to be provided at the very end of submission as separate file(s). Consult the publisher’s website for further information at:
http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/multimedia.asp
10.
Taxonomic manuscripts . Taxonomic accounts should follow the structure and formatting in Uiblein & Heemstra (2011; Marine Biology Research 7(7):637-650), of which a sample copy can be downloaded
here .
11. Language editing . Submissions must be prepared in a sufficiently good English to pass the quality check and subsequent reviewing process. Marine Biology Research offers language editing only for submissions that have been positively reviewed and are close to acceptance.
Publication charges
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Submission fee
There is no submission fee for this Journal.
Page chargesThere are no page charges for this Journal.
Colour charges
Authors should restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary on scientific, and not merely cosmetic, grounds. Colour figures will be reproduced in colour in the online edition of the journal free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in colour in the print version, a charge will apply. Charges for colour pages are £250 per figure ($395 US Dollars; $385 Australian Dollars; 315 Euros). If you wish to have more than 4 colour figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($80 US Dollars; $75 Australian Dollars; 63 Euros).
Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to
Value Added Tax .
Reproduction of copyright material
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If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplementary material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.
The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.
For further information and FAQs on the reproduction of copyright material, please consult our
Guide .
Supplementary online material
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Authors are encouraged to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
To assure the integrity, dissemination, and protection against copyright infringement of published articles, you will be asked to assign us, via a Publishing Agreement, the copyright in your article. Your Article is defined as the final, definitive, and citable Version of Record, and includes: (a) the accepted manuscript in its final form, including the abstract, text, bibliography, and all accompanying tables, illustrations, data; and (b) any supplementary material hosted by Taylor & Francis. Our Publishing Agreement with you will constitute the entire agreement and the sole understanding between you and us; no amendment, addendum, or other communication will be taken into account when interpreting your and our rights and obligations under this Agreement.
Copyright policy is explained in detail
here .
Free article access
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As an author, you will receive free access to your article on Taylor & Francis Online. You will be given access to the
My authored works section of Taylor & Francis Online, which shows you all your published articles. You can easily view, read, and download your published articles from there. In addition, if someone has cited your article, you will be able to see this information. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article and have provided
guidance on how you can help . Also within
My authored works , author eprints allow you as an author to quickly and easily give anyone free access to the electronic version of your article so that your friends and contacts can read and download your published article for free. This applies to all authors (not just the corresponding author).
Reprints and journal copies
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Article reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when you receive your proofs. If you have any queries about reprints, please contact the Taylor & Francis Author Services team at
reprints@tandf.co.uk . To order a copy of the issue containing your article, please contact our Customer Services team at
Adhoc@tandf.co.uk .
Open Access
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Taylor & Francis Open Select provides authors or their research sponsors and funders with the option of paying a publishing fee and thereby making an article permanently available for free online access –
open access – immediately on publication to anyone, anywhere, at any time. This option is made available once an article has been accepted in peer review.
Full details of our Open Access programme
Last updated 14 February 2014
