DEEP SEA RESEARCH PART I: OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS
Guide for Authors
Online submission
All submissions are handled online at http://ees.elsevier.com/dsr1 Once you have logged on
as author using your JOURNAL username and password you will be guided through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically
converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that
even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further
processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place
by e-mail and via the Author's homepage only. Therefore users need to keep their contact coordinates on the registration page up-to-date
with the "UPDATE MY INFORMATION" option.
If authors are requested to revise the manuscript, the following time limits apply:
Minor revisions should be returned within 30 days after the Editor's decision.
Moderate revisions should be returned within 60 days
after the Editor's decision.
Major revisions should be returned within 90 days after the Editor's decision.
DRSI aims to hold
to quick publication times. Therefore, if authors fail to meet these deadlines, the manuscript will have to be turned down.
There
is no submission fee or paper charges.
Legal and Copyright
Submission of an article implies that the work described
has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is
not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all Authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible
authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or
in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign
a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance
of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding
author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this
agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation
within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other
derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult http://www.elsevier.com/permissions).
If excerpts
from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s)
in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Funding body agreements and policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors who publish
in Elsevier journals to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To
learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies
Word processors
Save the file in the native format of the word processor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of
the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use
the word processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc.
Do not embed "graphically designed" equations or tables, but prepare these using the word processor's facility. When preparing tables,
if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs,
not spaces, to align columns. Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly
in the electronic text. To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spellchecker" function of your word processor.
Article
Supplementary data.
Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific
research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences,
high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the
electronic version of your article in Elsevier web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In
order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file formats.
Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each
file. For more detailed instructions please visit http://authors.elsevier.com
Language. Articles must be written
in good English
Title. Concise and informative. Avoid abbreviations and formulae.
Author names and affiliations.
Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly using appropriate script (capital cases as
first letter of authors' first and surnames followed by lower cases). The Present the Authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual
work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the Author's name and
in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and, if available,
the e-mail address of each Author.
Corresponding Author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at all
stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided
in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
Abstract. A concise abstract should briefly state the
purpose of the research and the main results. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
Manuscripts should be typewritten, with numbered lines, with wide margins and
double spacing throughout, i.e. also for abstracts, footnotes and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page,
references, tables, etc. should be numbered in the upper right-hand corner. However, in the text no reference should be made to page
numbers; if necessary, one may refer to sections. Avoid excessive usage of italics to emphasize part of the text.
In typing the manuscript,
titles and subtitles should not be run within the text. They should be typed on a separate line, without indentation. Use bold face,
lower-case letter type for titles; use non-bold, italic letter type for sub-titles. Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered
sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ?), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use
this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to "the text".
References
(a) References in the
text consist of the surname of the author(s), followed by the year of publication in parentheses. All references cited in the text should
be given in the reference list and vice versa.
(b) The reference list should be in alphabetical order and on sheets separate from
the text.
Citing and listing of Web references. As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (Author
names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the
reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
Reprints
The corresponding
author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints. The PDF file
is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining
the terms and conditions of use.
Submission checklist
• One Author designated as corresponding Author: •
E-mail address • Full postal address • Telephone and fax numbers • All necessary files have been uploaded
• Keywords • All figure captions • All tables (including title, description, footnotes) • Manuscript
has been "spellchecked" • References are in the correct format for this journal • All references mentioned in the Reference
list are cited in the text, and vice versa • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources
(including the Web)
