Publishing in NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE 



Manuscript Qualification 



This series represents a secondary level of scientific pub- 

 lishing in the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). For 

 all issues, the series employs thorough internal scientific review, 

 but not necessarily external scientific review. For most issues, 

 the series employs rigorous technical and copy editing. Manu- 

 scripts that may warrant a primary level of scientific publishing 

 should be initially submitted to one of NMFS's primary series 

 (i.e., Fishery Bulletin, NOAA Technical Report NMFS, or Ma- 

 rine Fisheries Review). 



Identical, or fundamentally identical, manuscripts should 

 not be concurrently submitted to this and any other publication 

 series. Manuscripts which have been rejected by any primary 

 series strictly because of geographic or temporal limitations may 

 be submitted to this series. 



Manuscripts by Northeast Fisheries Science Center 

 (NEFSC) authors will be published in this series upon approval 

 by the NEFSC's Deputy Science & Research Director. Manu- 

 scripts by non-NEFSC authors may be published in this series if: 

 1) the manuscript serves the NEFSC's mission; 2) the manu- 

 script meets the Deputy Science & Research Director's ap- 

 proval; and 3) the author arranges for the printing and binding 

 funds to be transferred to the NEFSC's Research Communica- 

 tions Unit account from another federal account. For all manu- 

 scripts submitted by non-NEFSC authors and published in this 

 series, the NEFSC will disavow all responsibility for the manu- 

 scripts' contents; authors must accept such responsibility. 



The ethics of scientific research and scientific publishing 

 are a serious matter. All manuscripts submitted to this series are 

 expected to adhere -- at a minimum -- to the ethical guidelines 

 contained in Chapter 1 ("Ethical Conduct in Authorship and 

 Publication") of the CBE Style Manual, fifth edition (Chicago, 

 IL: Council of Biology Editors). Copies of the manual are 

 available at virtually all scientific libraries. 



Manuscript Preparation 



Organ ization : Manuscripts must have an abstract, table of 

 contents, and - if applicable - lists of tables, figures, and 

 acronyms. As much as possible, use traditional scientific 

 manuscript organization for sections: "Introduction," "Study 

 Area," "Methods & Materials," "Results," "Discussion" and/or 

 "Conclusions," "Acknowledgments," and "References Cited." 



Style: All NEFSC publication and report series are obli- 

 gated to conform to the style contained in the most recent edition 

 of the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. 

 That style manual is silent on many aspects of scientific manu- 

 scripts. NEFSC publication and report series rely more on the 

 CBE Style Manual, fifth edition. 



For in-text citations, use the name-date system. A special 

 effort should be made to ensure that the list of cited works 

 contains all necessary bibliographic information. For abbrevi- 

 ating serial titles in such lists, use the most recent edition of the 

 Serial Sources for the BIOSIS Previews Database (Philadelphia, 

 PA: Biosciences Information Service). Personal communica- 

 tions must include date of contact and full name and mailing 

 address of source. 



For spelling of scientific and common names of fishes, 

 mollusks, and decapod crustaceans from the United States and 

 Canada, uscSpecial Publications'Ho. 20(fishes), 26(moIlusks), 

 and 1 7 (decapod crustaceans) of the American Fisheries Society 

 (Bethesda, MD). For spelling of scientific and common names 

 of marine mammals, use Special Publication No. 4 of the 

 Society for Marine Mammalogy (Lawrence, KS). For spelling in 

 general, use the most recent edition of Webster 's Third New 

 International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged 

 (Springfield, MA: G.&C. Merriam). 



Typing text, tables, and figure captions: Text, including 

 tables and figure captions, must be converted to, or able to be 

 coverted to, WordPerfect. In general, keep text simple (e.g., 

 don't switch fonts, don't use hard returns within paragraphs, 

 don't indent except to begin paragraphs). Especially, don't use 

 WordPerfect graphics for embedding tables and figures in text. 

 If the automatic footnoting function is used, also save a list of 

 footnotes as a separate WordPerfect file. When the final draft is 

 ready for review, save the text, tables, figure captions, footnotes, 

 and front matter as separate document files. 



Tables should be prepared using all tabs or all spaces 

 between columnar data, but not a combination of the two. 

 Figures must be original (even if oversized) and on paper; they 

 cannot be photocopies (e.g., Xerox) unless that is all that is 

 available, nor be on disk. Except under extraordinary circum- 

 stances, color will not be used in illustrations. 



Manuscript Submission 



Authors must submit one paper copy of the double-spaced 

 manuscript, one magnetic copy on a disk, and original figures (if 

 applicable). NEFSC authors must include a completely signed- 

 off "NEFSC Manuscript/Abstract/Webpage Review Form." 

 Non-NEFSC authors who are not federal employees will be 

 required to sign a "Release of Copyright" form. 



Send all materials and address all correspondence to: 



Jon A. Gibson, Biological Sciences Editor 

 Northeast Fisheries Science Center 

 National Marine Fisheries Service 



166 Water Street 

 Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026 USA 



NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER 



Dr. Michael P. Sissenwine, Science & Research Director 

 CAPT John T. Moakley, Operations, Management & Information Services Chief 

 Teri L. Frady, Research Communications Chief 

 Jon A. Gibson, Biological Sciences Editor & Laura S. Garner, Editorial Assistant 



