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• 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 lon¬ 
gitude (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, and 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 explanation for 
including such material should be sent at the time of ini¬ 
tial submission of the paper to the journal. 
• Metadata, figures, and tables should be submitted in 
standard digital format (MS Word or PDF file) and 
should be cited in the general text, for example, as 
“... was determined (Suppl. Table 3, Suppl. Fig. 1).” 
• 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. Authors should 
consider whether a short video uniquely captures what 
text alone cannot capture for the understanding of a 
process or behavior under examination 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 Bulletin, 
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 a manuscript online at the ScholarOne Manu¬ 
scripts website for Fishery Bulletin. Commerce Depart¬ 
ment authors should submit papers under a completed 
NOAA Form 25-700. For further details on electronic 
submission, please contact the associate editor, Cara 
Mayo, at 
cara.mayo@noaa.gov. 
When requested, the text and tables should be submitted 
in MS Word format. Each figure should be sent as a sep¬ 
arate PDF, TIFF, or EPS file. Send a copy of a figure 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 guide¬ 
lines, please contact the managing editor, Kathryn 
Dennis, at 
kathryn.dennis@noaa.gov. 
Questions regarding manuscripts under review should be 
addressed to Associate Editor Cara Mayo. 
Please note that Sharyn Matriotti has retired after 
serving for 29 years as the managing editor of Fishery 
Bulletin. 
