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Oceanography
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OBJECTIVE OF OCEANOGRAPHY
Oceanography is an open-access journal whose main goal is
cross-disciplinary communication in the ocean sciences. The
journal publishes peer-reviewed articles that present significant
research, noteworthy achievements, and exciting new technol-
ogies, and that address aspects of undergraduate and graduate
education in the ocean sciences.
LANGUAGE STYLE
Submitted manuscripts should be of broad interest to our read-
ership. The desired writing style is less technical and more com-
pact than that typically used in scientific papers. Strive for clar-
ity and simplicity. Target your manuscript to graduate students,
professional oceanographers of all traditional disciplines, and
other scientifically literate audiences.
PUBLICATION CHARGES
The fee for publishing Feature Articles that are not part of
invited special issues is $2,000. The publication fee for Breaking
Waves, Meeting Reports, Commentaries and Perspectives, and
Ocean Education articles of up to six magazine pages in length
will be $1,000. Authors can request a waiver from TOS (email
to info@tos.org) for all or part of the publication fee if they doc-
ument their inability to cover the expense.
WHAT GETS OUR ATTENTION
FEATURE ARTICLES (<7,000 words) provide an outlet for
making significant advances in oceanography accessible to a
broad readership. They can include review papers that summa-
rize the current state of knowledge of a particular topic, synthe-
sis papers that discuss new findings and how they significantly
revise our thinking about a topic, and more traditional scientific
research papers from across the full spectrum of ocean sciences.
BREAKING WAVES (<3,500 words) articles describe novel
approaches to multidisciplinary problems in oceanography.
These provocative papers present findings that are synthetic by
design and have the potential to move the field of oceanography
forward or in new directions.
OCEAN EDUCATION (<3,500 words) is a place to learn about
the ocean. These peer-reviewed articles should inspire teachers
in higher education to try new active, student-centered instruc-
tion (ranging from short activities to curricula) and provide
ideas/materials to do so.
DIY OCEANOGRAPHY (<3,500 words) shares all of the rel-
evant information on a homemade sensor, instrument, or soft-
ware tool(s) so that others can build, or build upon, it. These
short articles also showcase how this technology was used suc-
cessfully in the field.
See the online Oceanography Author Guidelines and the Manuscript Guide for a full listing of
manuscript categories and descriptions, for article length limitations, and for details of the manuscript submission process.
https://tos.org/oceanography/guidelines