BOLETÍN. INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA

An scientific publication dedicated to the marine sciences and oceanography in their different branches: biology, ecology, geology, physics, chemistry, fishing, aquaculture and pollution.

Research papers, thematic reviews, notes, monographs, symposia and congresses may be published in BOLETÍN.

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS

Languages

Papers are accepted in Spanish or English.

Preparation of Originals

Text should be typed, double-spaced throughout, on DIN A-4 paper. In general, individual papers sent to BOLETÍN should have a maximum length of 15 printed pages (one printed page equals approximately two typed pages with 39 lines each, 62 characters/line).

Present the text as follows:

Title of the paper, names of authors and institution, mailing address (street, city, country), and the first author’s e-mail address and telephone and fax numbers.

Include an abbreviated version of the title.

An abstract, in Spanish and English versions, should follow the title heading, along with a Spanish (or English) translation of the title.

Whenever possible, divide the paper into: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References.

Chemical, physical or mathematical signs and symbols should follow standard international usage: SI (Système International d’Unités), ISO (International Standard Organization) and UNE (Una Norma Española). Therefore, these symbols should always be written without periods, and will remain unmodified when plural. Always refer to the ISO and UNE norms when preparing texts for publication.

In Spanish, accent capital letters, following correct spelling norms.

To simplify the reading of long numbers, they may be separated into appropriate groups, preferably with three places, counting from the decimal point in one or the other direction; these groups should be separated by a space, but never by a comma or other sign.

The decimal sign is a comma on the line. Texts in English may also use a point, on the line.

Numbers indicating years should follow this format: 1999 (for nineteen ninety-nine).

The first citation of the vernacular name of a species (in the Spanish and English titles, the abstract, the resumen, and the body of the text) should be followed by its scientific name, and then, whenever possible, by the name of the author who described it, and the year. Omit the author and the year in subsequent citations.

Italicize genus and species names, as well as the titles of journals, symposia, and books.

Footnotes will not be accepted.

Abstract and Resumen

Include English and Spanish versions of the abstract (resumen, in Spanish), no more than 125 words each, setting out the paper’s objectives, as well as the procedures followed and the most relevant findings and data obtained.

Include the title of the paper in Spanish at the beginning of the Spanish abstract. At the end of this section, list a maximum of eight key words, not included in the title and in order of importance, indicative of the paper’s contents.

Introduction

The introduction should not exceed 500 words, briefly indicating the study’s objectives and providing sufficient information to clarify the paper’s basic focus and the hypothesis being tested.

Materials and Methods

Make this section as concise as possible, while giving all the information necessary to enable any specialist to evaluate the methodology used.

Results

This section should be as clear as possible, and limited to findings essential for establishing the paper’s main points.

Discussion

Include a brief discussion regarding the validity of the results observed in relation to those of other published papers on the same topic, as well as a report on the paper’s significance. Extensive discussion of the literature is discouraged.

References

Limit bibliographies to those works cited in the text which have been published or are “in press”. If a paper is in press, this phrase should replace the year at the end of the bibliographic reference, in parentheses. For references in the text, cite the author’s surname (capitalizing the first letter only), followed by the year of publication in parentheses; when the entire reference is enclosed in parentheses, the surname(s) of the author(s) should be followed by a comma and the year. Cite unpublished observations, personal communiqués or works in preparation or under evaluation in the text only; rather than the year of publication, they should be followed by: “unpublished observation”, “manuscript” (“MS”) or “unpublished”, “personal communiqué” (“pers. comm.”), “in preparation” or “under evaluation” or “submitted”. When the publication has more than three authors, cite only the first, followed by et al. In the bibliography, however, all authors’ names should appear, separated by commas. Alphabetize bibliographic references; references by the same author should be put in chronological order. The names of journals should, preferably, not be abbreviated. Journal abbreviations should follow those indicated in Periodical Title Abbreviations. Eighth Edition. Gale Research Inc. Detroit; London. 1992. If this is not possible, they should be written without abbreviation.

Examples of bibliographic references:

–   Of a journal:

     Guirg, M. D. 1974. A preliminary consideration of the taxonomic position of Palmaria palmata (Linnaeus) Stackhouse = Rhodymenia palmata (Linnaeus) Greville. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. (UK) 54: 509-529.

–   Of a book:

     Sinderman, C. J. 1970. Principal diseases of marine fish and shellfish. Academic Press. London; New York: 870 pp.

–   Of an article from a book which forms part of a series:

     Fraga, F. and R. Prego. 1989. Condiciones hidrográficas previas a la purga de mar. In: Las purgas de mar como fenómeno natural. Las mareas rojas (Cuadernos da Área de Ciencias Mariñas). F. Fraga and F. G. Figueiras (eds.) 4: 21-44. Ediciós do Castro. Seminario de Estudos Galegos. Sada (A Coruña), Spain.

–   Of an article from a symposium:

     Figueiras, F. G. and F. Fraga. 1990. Vertical nutrient transport during proliferation of Gymnodinium catenatum (Graham) in Ría de Vigo, Northwest Spain. In: Toxic Marine Phytoplankton Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Toxic Marine Phytoplankton (June 26-30, 1989. Lund, Sweden). E. Graneli et al. (eds.): 144-148. Elsevier. New York.

Authors will be responsible for the completeness and accuracy of their bibliographic references.

Tables, figures, plates, maps and photographs or slides

All illustrations (figures, plates, maps and photographs or slides) should be originals, presented apart from the type-written text. Line illustrations may be submitted as high-quality photographic prints or as computer software files (along with laser-printed copies). Include them only if they show special data; do not present data twice in the text, tables or illustrations.

The thickness of the lines and the size of letters and other symbols should enable them to be clearly visible when reduced (if necessary) for publication, to the size or one or two columns on the page. Originals will not be reduced more than 60 %, and reduced symbols will not be smaller than 1.5 mm.

In preparing tables and figure captions, use the Times font, or, if that is not possible, some other Roman font (such as Prestige or Dutch).

Figure captions should use lowercase letters, without boldface type.

Do not present originals made with transfers.

Illustrations should not be in colour or formatted lengthways.

Figures should be drawn with a boxed-in format, closing the abscissas and ordinates with parallel lines. The names of variables should always be placed along the axes, flush with the ends.

Tables, however, should never have vertical lines.

Indicate the definitive published position of tables and illustrations in the margins of the original.

Tables should bear roman numerals: table I., etc. Use arabic numerals for illustrations (figures, plates, maps and photographs or slides), and title all of them figures: figure 1., etc. List all captions on a separate page.

Submissions

Originals sent to BOLETÍN must be unpublished. Simultaneous submissions or papers which have been accepted by or presented to another publication will not be accepted.

Send the type-written text and tables, along with three copies of the text and tables and three copies of the illustrations, to the editor, care of the Subdirector General de Investigación (Deputy Director of Research) of the IEO, Avda. de Brasil 31, 28020 Madrid, Spain. We recommend that originals be sent by certified mail. Reception of these originals will be confirmed. Authors should keep their own copy of the original.

Originals of the illustrations should be sent to the editor after the paper has been accepted.

Papers not meeting the norms of this publication will be returned to their authors for correction before they are reviewed.

Papers will be critically reviewed by at least two referees.

After evaluation, papers will be returned to the first author so that they may be revised in keeping with the referees’ comments and criticism. Authors should return the revised original and one copy to the corresponding coordinator. The editor will then accept or reject the paper.

Return the corrected original within two weeks; if not, the editor will be able to change the reception date of the original to be included in the published version, substituting the reception date of the corrected original.

If authors fail to meet the aforesaid two-week deadline, the editor reserves the right to publish the paper without the authors’ revisions, declining any responsibility for errors which could appear in the published version.

Once the paper has been accepted, a software copy should be sent, in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect format. Illustrations should, preferably, be programmed in Excel, Harvard Graphics, Surfer, Map View, Corel Draw, or Power Point. Illustrations should be submitted in the same program that was used to create them.

Software copies should be submitted on 3.5 inch discs, or compact discs (CD), compatible with MS-DOS or Windows Microsoft operative system.

Please present the text without paragraph indentations or any tabulations.

Deadline for reception of originals

Submissions received after the first week of September cannot be included in the following year’s editorial programming. Therefore, their publication during that year cannot be guaranteed.

Proofs

Authors must limit their proof corrections to printing errors. Corrected proofs should be returned within two weeks; after this period, the editor reserves the right to publish the paper uncorrected by the authors or cancel its publication.

Courtesy copies

In the case of issues comprising a single paper, 10 courtesy copies will be sent to the author (if the issue is by several authors, courtesy copies will be sent to the first author).

If the issue has several papers, 50 courtesy offprints will be sent to the first author of each paper. The editor will decide whether to send all the offprints to the coordinator, who would then be responsible for distributing them to the authors.