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• Capitalize the first letter of the first word in all la¬ 
bels within figures. 
• Do not use overly large font sizes in maps and for 
axis labels in graphs. 
• Do not use bold fonts or bold lines in figures. 
• Do not place outline rules around graphs. 
• Place a North arrow and label degrees latitude and 
longitude (e.g., 170°E) in all maps. 
• Use symbols, shadings, or patterns (not clip art) in 
maps and graphs. 
Supplementary materials that are considered essential, 
but are too large or impractical for inclusion in a paper 
(e.g., metadata, figures, tables, videos, websites), may 
be provided at the end of an article. These materials 
are subject to the editorial standards of the journal. 
A URL to the supplementary material and a brief ex¬ 
planation for including such material should be sent 
at the time of initial submission of the paper to the 
journal. 
• Metadata, figures, and tables should be submitted 
in standard digital format (Word docx) and should 
be cited in the general text as (Suppl. Table, Suppl. 
Fig., etc.). 
• Websites should be cited with a url in the general 
text. 
• Videos must not be larger than 30 MB to allow a 
swift technical response for viewing the video. Au¬ 
thors should consider whether a short video uniquely 
captures what text alone cannot capture for the un¬ 
derstanding of a process or behavior under exami¬ 
nation in the article. Supply an online link to the 
location of the video. 
Copyright law does not apply to Fishery Bulletin, which 
falls within the public domain. However, if an author 
reproduces any part of an article from Fishery Bulle¬ 
tin, reference to source is considered correct form (e.g., 
Source: Fish. Bull. 97:105). 
Failure to follow these guidelines 
and failure to 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 sepa¬ 
rate pdf, tiff, 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. 
