The journal  Oceanologia  publishes original papers on marine research with the emphasis on fundamental aspects. Papers dealing with processes in the marine environment are preferred to purely descriptive ones; they should contribute to the understanding of the functioning of marine ecosystems, including their abiotic aspects. All scripts received will be reviewed by the editors and at least two independent experts. The scripts should be written in good, scientific English. Every effort will be made to expedite publication.  Oceanologia is an international quarterly open to all contributors.
Please note: the full texts of all articles published in  Oceanologia  will be accessible on the Internet on the  Oceanologia  home page. Submission of an article for publication in  Oceanologia  will therefore be understood as consent on the part of the author(s) for its publication both in  Oceanologia  and on the Internet as indicated above.

The LAYOUT of the article should be as follows:

a title page bearing the name(s), affiliation(s) and correspondence address(es) of the author(s) with e-mail and, if applicable, the grant support should be appended as a footnote;

an Abstract of no more than 100 words - a resumé of the subject, results and conclusion - followed by 3-5 keywords (indexing terms);

Introduction - containing a formulation of the subject, a statement on its current stage of development and a clear definition of the aim of the paper;

Material and methods - the description must be sufficiently detailed to enable the procedure to be reproduced by other researchers;

Results - only the author's own results should be given under this heading;

Discussion - a comparison of the author's results with those of other workers, an elucidation of theoretical and logical aspects, deductions and conclusions etc.;

Acknowledgments;

References.

COMMUNICATIONS are restricted to papers describing brief but complete studies. They should not exceed three(3) printed pages in length (including figures and tables), should always begin with an abstract and should be written without subdivision into introduction, material and methods, results, discussion or acknowledgments.

TABLES should be typed on separate sheets, numbered with Arabic numerals, with a brief title above each table.

FIGURES and other illustrative material must be suitable for high-quality reproduction. All figures should also be included on a diskette in one of the vector formats available through the use of programs like CorelDraw, Excel, SigmaPlot, Surfer, Statistica etc. CDR (v.7-11) and WMF formats are preferred.

REFERENCES should be listed on a separate sheet in alphabetical order of authors' names. In the text they should be referred to by name and year, the year being placed in parentheses, e.g.

Wiktor (1985);

for periodicals:
the title in accordance with the World List of Scientific Periodicals, the volume number, and the first and last page numbers of the paper are required, e.g.

Smith W. L., 1956, Note of the relationship between total precipitable water and surface dew point, J. Appl. Meteor., 5, 726–727;

for books:
the publisher's name, the place of publication and the number of pages should be given, e.g.

Jerlov N. G., 1976, Marine optics, Elsevier, Amsterdam-Oxford-New York, 231 pp.

References which concern unpublished data should not be entered in the list; a work accepted for publication should be referred to as `in press1`.

PAYMENT:

the first 16 pages of a paper are printed free of charge. However, an excess-page charge per printed page will be made: USD 50.- for pages 17 to 25, and USD 100.- for pages 26 et seq. The author(s) will be informed whether or not his/her/their paper has been accepted for printing and will be billed for the excess-page charge (if any). This should be paid to:

Instytut Oceanologii PAN, Sopot,
BANK MILENIUM S.A., Al. Jerozolimskie 123a, 02-017 Warszawa, Oddz. Nr 386 Gdynia,
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The author(s) receive 30 reprints free of charge.