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Prepare your manuscript for Marine Biology Research.

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Article types

Review
Editorial
Research Article
Original Article
Review Article
Book Review
Letter
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Lectio
Systematic Review
Commentary
Perspective

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Each manuscript should have 4 to 6 keywords to be included below the abstract.
  • Taxonomic papers: Any taxa newly described or revised should be mentioned by name and short diagnoses be given in the abstract.
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  • There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, author affiliation, figures, tables, funder information, and references.
  • Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: Title Page (including Acknowledgements and Funding ), Abstract, key policy highlights (if appropriate); Keywords, Manuscript Proper, References, Table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); Figure caption(s) (as a list); Figure(s) (each as a separate file); Supplementary online material, Suggestions for reviewers.

Keywords

  • Provide 4-6 keywords chosen by the author.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references in Harvard style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • As Outis (2006) writes, Vermin—always the negative, the “inedible” in the vermin/livestock dichotomy—are taboo cuisine because their behavior in human domiciles, suggestive of licentious freedom and an amoral proclivity to revel in the unclean matter their cohabitants strive to keep secret, offends. (71) Warning | Not controlled when printed Maintained by the Head of Copyediting | Taylor & Francis Journals Page 4 of 54 Information Classification: General 2BAuthors One author Citations of a reference with one credited author include the author’s surname and the publication year. [Example] Two authors Citations of a reference with two credited authors include the surnames of both authors and the publication year.
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  • Digits in the thousands, hundred, and/or tens places of the opening page number that are repeated in closing page number are not suppressed in the reference entry’s page range. [Example of book chapter reference] Warning | Not controlled when printed Maintained by the Head of Copyediting | Taylor & Francis Journals Page 11 of 54 Information Classification: General 11BAuthor-supplied translated titles Under most circumstances, if a reference entry features a non-English title, an author should supply an English-language translation of the title.
  • Citation examples Flamsteed (1677) [narrative]; (Flamsteed 1677) [parenthetical] 133BDocument with state/province location, accession number, and filing information *Each document should be registered as a unique reference entry if the text cites multiple documents from the same paper collection.
  • Citation examples Weiner (1963) [narrative]; (Weiner 1963) [parenthetical] 134BDocument with approximate (“circa”) date and accession number *Each document should be registered as a unique reference entry if the text cites multiple documents from the same paper collection.
  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
  • Authors should avoid extensive reviews or excessive references in the Introduction and Discussion.
  • Hyperlinking between the text and the reference list should not be used.
  • Unpublished results and personal communications must not appear in the reference list and reference to unpublished master’s and doctoral theses should be avoided.
  • In references, journal names should not be abbreviated, and DOIs should always be included for all the references.
  • Authors should provide all the genus/species names in Italic both in text and reference as per style while submitting the source.
  • Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Parenthetical citations should usually be placed at the end of a sentence, before the terminal punctuation (e.g., period).
  • Dashes should not replace names repeated in the author listings of successive reference entries.
  • Authors do not need to include DOIs for published journal articles when preparing manuscripts.
  • Working Paper No.: 2022/01. https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/129774 Citation examples Lam and Mercure (2022) [narrative]; (Lam and Mercure 2022) [parenthetical] Archival models 132BDocument with accession number *Each document should be registered as a unique reference entry if the text cites multiple documents from the same paper collection.
  • Review Article / Book Review: Authors who wish to publish a Review article, Taxonomic revision, Book review, or Obituary and bibliography should preferably contact the editors to reach agreement on the topic and structure, schedule for submission, and maximum length.
  • Reference to unpublished results and personal communications should be restricted to a maximum of three occurrences in the manuscript overall; full name of the person(s) involved and year of origin should be provided.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.
  • The surnames are separated by “and” in both narrative citations and parenthetical citations. [Example] Three or more authors Citations of a reference with three or more credited authors include the surname of the first author, followed by “et al.” and the publication year. [Example] Organizational authors Citations of a reference with a credited organizational author feature an abbreviation of the organization’s name if the reference entry’s author listing includes the abbreviation. [Example] If the reference entry’s author listing omits an abbreviation, citations should display the organization's name in full and should not introduce an abbreviation. [Example] No credited author Narrative citations of a journal article, book chapter, magazine article, or newspaper article reference with no credited author display the reference's title with title case formatting (headline capitalization) inside quotation marks.
  • In the reference entry for a journal article or a book chapter, an English translation should be provided only for a non-English article or chapter title, not for the journal or book title.
  • The author records the date on which he or she accessed the webpage if he or she cannot identify a publication or revision date and must mark the year of publication as “[date unknown].” An access date is also added before the URL in the reference entry for software if no version number can be identified. [Example of webpage without access date], [Example of webpage with access date], [Example of software with access date] DOIs Digital object identifiers (DOIs) are commonly featured in reference entries for journal articles, as well as in entries for other types of electronic resources.
  • Submissions should be written in correct English (UK style) and must be prepared by strictly following the Author Instructions provided below, including journal formatting of references.
  • In a parenthetical citation, the author surname(s) and the publication year appear together in parentheses.
  • For such journals, providing English-language translations for titles throughout the reference section may not be desirable.
  • The reference entry for an article that has published in a journal whose volumes are divided into issues features a volume number and an issue number, enclosed in parentheses, even if issues within the volume are continuously paginated.
  • A brief note identifying the resource’s original language closes the reference entry, unless the entry ends with a URL or DOI, as is the case with a journal article’s reference entry. [Example of translated title for journal article], [Example of translated title for book], [Example of translated title for book chapter] Journals that publish non-English content may not uphold this style convention.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2).
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  • Minimum resolution for all figures is 300x300 dpi, line art preferably at 600x600 dpi; all figures should be submitted at the maximum size they are intended to appear in the print version and no smaller than c.
  • Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing.
  • Points of insertion of figures and tables should be indicated in the final revision.
  • Reports with large species numbers should preferentially include those details in a table.
  • Figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals; figure legends should be self-explanatory.
  • Please submit each Figure as a separate file and in the highest quality possible.
  • Scale bars should be used to indicate the size of any objects shown in figures.
  • For figures composed of several parts. each part should be labelled in alphabetical order.
  • 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.
  • Scientific species names should always be provided and written in full at first occurrence in each section, subsection, table or figure legend, and at the beginning of sentences.
  • Excessive use of tables should be avoided.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, 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].
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  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript, and then any acknowledgements or funding information.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.Please note that only the corresponding author is eligible to request funding from their institution, and it is not possible to change the corresponding author to achieve eligibility after submission.

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Include or confirm the data availability statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • 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.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.

Title page and author information

  • Author affiliations should be given using letters in superscript to distinguish clearly between each affiliation.
  • One author should be identified as the corresponding author.
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  • Acknowledgements should be kept brief and included on the title page of the manuscript.
  • 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.

Article structure and word limits

  • 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.
  • This should be a single paragraph limited to a maximum of 200 words.
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  • Key policy highlights (optional). (3 to 5 in total) should have approximately 100 words, which set out the main findings of the paper that are of specific relevance to policy makers only.
  • These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Use these instructions if you are preparing a manuscript to submit to Marine Biology Research ( MBRJ ).
  • Findings on the range extension of marine organisms must be accompanied by: detailed biogeographic information,.
  • Findings on the range extension of marine organisms must be accompanied by: systematically oriented comparative data featuring alpha-taxonomic accounts.
  • Findings on the range extension of marine organisms must be accompanied by: ecological data revealing impacts or interactions.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
  • Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
  • The title must be short and concise, followed by the full names of the authors.
  • These key policy highlights should be presented as a bulleted list of concise but complete sentences.
  • Numbers accompanying all axes of two- or three-dimensional diagrams should be horizontally oriented.
  • The listing of synonymies in taxonomic papers should be kept at a minimum.
  • This comparative work should be carried out by the personal involvement of at least one of the authors and/or his/her former taxonomic publications.
  • Authors should restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary on scientific, and not merely cosmetic, grounds.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • Instead, the repeated names should be displayed.
  • Each entry should repeat full information about the collection.
  • 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.
  • Research Article: Short reports should be no longer than six printed pages and may either represent short research articles or, published under a separate subcategory: Comments on recent article(s) in MBRJ.
  • Any submission featuring one or several taxonomic account(s) (e.g. new species descriptions, new species records, synonymizations, regional reviews, taxonomic revisions, etc.) should provide thorough comparisons of each treated taxon with related taxa that (may) co-occur and/or are similar.
  • Each file should be saved, with a dots per inch (dpi) value, in 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).
  • For algae and plants the year shall not be given.
  • A limited number of colour images can be published for free in each printed issue; additional ones can be reproduced at the author’s expense.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Blinded manuscript

  • If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your LaTeX source files with the PDF).The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.

Manuscript structure

  • All manuscripts that include a Taxonomy section with one or several taxonomic accounts of species or higher taxa should follow the structure and formatting in Neves et al. (Marine Biology Research (2016) 12:455–70), available here, and consider the style template available here.
  • It must be informative and complete in itself and – in qualitative terms – report on the main result or discovery presented in the paper.
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  • Material and Methods should be condensed, but contain sufficient details to allow reproduction of experimental procedures.
  • Footnotes will not be accepted and hyperlinking within the document should not be used.
  • Full names of persons mentioned in this section should be provided.
  • These should be given a concise heading and numbered with Roman numerals in the order in which they appear in the manuscript.
  • Furthermore, the comparative material examined should be listed or referred to at the end of the Material & Methods section.
  • Section headings should be concise.
  • In cases where no such comparative material is available (type material missing, extremely rare species, etc.), this should be explicitly stated at the end of the Material & Methods section.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.

Article type and manuscript length

  • 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).

Language and text style

  • Submissions must be prepared in sufficiently good English to pass the quality check and subsequent reviewing process.
  • When preparing a manuscript for a journal that publishes content written in a language other than English, an author should consult with the journal's editorial office about the preferred convention.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
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What your package checks

Keywords: 4-6 keywords
References: Harvard
Declarations: Funding, Acknowledgements, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.

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