Guidelines for authors 
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Failure to follow these guidelines 
and failure t© correspond with editors 
in a timely manner will delay 
publication of a manuscript. 
Submission of manuscript 
Submit manuscript online at the ScholarOne website. 
Commerce Department authors should submit papers 
under a completed NOAA Form 25-700. For further 
details on electronic submission, please contact the As¬ 
sociate Editor, Kathryn Dennis, at 
kathryn.dennis@noaa.gov 
When requested, the text and tables should be submit¬ 
ted in Word format. Figures should be sent as separate 
PDF or EPS files. Send a copy of figures in the original 
software if conversion to any of these formats yields a 
degraded version of the figure. 
Questions? If you have questions regarding these 
guidelines, please contact the Managing Editor, Sharyn 
Matriotti, at 
sharyn.matriotti@noaa.gov 
Questions regarding manuscripts under review should 
be addressed to Kathryn Dennis, Associate Editor. 
