The ICES Journal of Marine Science publishes papers in each of the following categories:
Original articles: traditional research papers. Generally 5-12 pages (approximately 3000- 7000 words) inclusive of text, appropriate references (target 50-60), figures, and tables.
Comment/Reply articles: comments on, or replies to, papers published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science; Generally 4 pages (approximately 2000 words).
Review articles: comprehensive and synthetic reviews on topics of wide general interest or on hot topics, sometimes solicited by the editorial board. Authors considering submitting a review article for consideration are advised to contact the Editor-in-Chief regarding topic and proposed length.
Food for Thought articles: articles on topical issues, preferably provocative or innovative in nature, solicited or offered to stimulate dialogue, research, and ideas generally.
Quo Vadimus articles: describing the future landscape/potential of a topic, issue, discipline or technology.
Stories from the front lines: substantive accounts of challenges, wins and losses on any aspect of ocean and coastal sustainability, written as narratives and drawing at least partly on the author(s) experience.
The following instructions and guidelines will assist authors preparing to submit manuscripts to the ICES Journal of Marine Science.
Submissions to regular journal issues should be made online - full instructions are available.
For additional guidance from the editorial office on how to ensure your paper is best suited to the journal see our How to get published in ICES Journal of Marine Science page.
For details of the article types accepted please see our 'about the journal' page.
For queries relating to submission please email Lynsey Rowland (ices.editorialoffice@oup.com). Additionally, contact details for the Journal's editors may be found on the editorial board page.
Authors are urged to provide a written justification as to why they believe that the content of the paper is relevant to the Journal, highlighting the primary scientific contribution and significance of the work reported.
Authors are expected to comply with the Council of Science Editors authorship criteria guidelines.
Authors are requested to identify the editor(s) and reviewers who they think would be appropriate to handle their manuscript. Authors should have no conflicts of interest with that editor or any reviewers whom they recommend. Please note that we cannot guarantee that their preferred editor or reviewers will be assigned.
This journal uses single blind peer review. For full details about the peer review process, see the page at Fair editing and peer review.
Please note that the journal now encourages authors to complete their copyright licence to publish form online. Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.
Please note that by submitting an this article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process.
ALL ARTICLES MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE. Once you have prepared your manuscript, visit the online submission website.
Instructions on submitting your manuscript online, along with the compulsory Word and LaTeX* templates, are available. [*If you use bibtex, please use the bibliography style named natbib.bst]. Help with inserting figures into the templates.
New submissions to ICES JMS do not have to be formatted in the Journal’s style and format. Nonetheless, they should be organized in a manner that is consistent with a standard research article (including length) and be formatted so that they are easy to read and comment on (e.g. with line numbers, double line spacing…).
On revision, provisionally accepted manuscripts should be carefully formatted to the Journal’s style.
After initial review, you may be asked to supply editable files that match journal formatting requirements, and high-resolution figures. For more information, please consult the journal’s style conventions below.
The manuscript should contain the following information: title; author(s); author addresses, plus email address, phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author; abstract; key words; core text; tables and figures.
Maximum word count for abstracts: 200 words
ICES JMS will consider submissions that are already publicly available on a non-commercial, community preprint server such as arXiv or bioRxiv provided that entries are updated to acknowledge that the article has been accepted/published by ICES JMS. ICES JMS acknowledges the right - but not the obligation - to consider the comments previously made on manuscripts posted to preprint servers during our peer review process.
Authors must inform the editorial office at submission if their paper has been posted to a preprint server(s), identify the preprint server(s) and the DOI(s) associated with the manuscript, and retain the copyright to the manuscript that appears on a preprint server.
No version of the manuscript may be posted to preprint servers while it is under consideration by ICES JMS, including during revision, resubmission, or following acceptance.
Once the manuscript has been accepted the authors must ensure that the preprint is modified to acknowledge that the article has been accepted for publication in ICES JMS. For example: “This preprint has been accepted for publication in ICES JMS ©: [year] [owner as specified on the article] Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of xxxxxx]."
See here for more details of the journal’s self-archiving policy.
Authors should contact the editorial office if they are in any doubt prior to submission.
Manuscripts that are deposited on a preprint or other type of platform on which they are freely available and have been or will be peer reviewed, leading to them being certified in some manner (e.g. “accepted”, “recommended” or “approved”), are considered previously published and are not eligible for submission to ICES JMS. If you are in doubt, contact the Editor-in-Chief.
Short abstracts, posters, being part of a PhD thesis, or posting online as a preprint that does not undertake a formal peer review (e.g. bioRxiv.org), does not constitute prior publication. However, if accepted by ICES Journal of Marine Science, documents posted as preprints should be updated to acknowledge this (as described in the section above).
The great variety of data sources and the ever-increasing sophistication of statistical methods used in marine science complicates a reader’s understanding of the extent to which the inferences drawn from those data and analyses are justified. In addition, many studies in marine science are observational in nature, lacking a pre-determined experimental design or true replication, further complicating the interpretation of results. In short, there is a need to accurately and fully describe the data collected and whether or not they are replicated.
In the interest of promoting best practice in the presentation of marine science studies that use data in observational and experimental settings, ICES JMS recommends that authors include a statement detailing the observations made (the raw data) and the level of replication.
While the following recommendations are applicable primarily to Original Articles, all articles that use data to support arguments are encouraged to include analogous statements if/when relevant.
ICES JMS publishes experimental and observational studies. For both types of study, it is recommended that authors provide a statement so that readers can understand the full extent – in time and space - of the data collected and reported and the basis for the inferences made.
This statement should be placed in the Materials and Methods, before the description of how the data were analyzed.
We recommend that authors provide statements that will allow readers to evaluate the degree of replication - at the scale relevant to the analysis - as well as unambiguous definitions of the experimental unit. Some examples follow.
i. Study of the photosynthetic and growth response of three species of seaweed to an increase in CO2 concentration.
Sentence in the Materials and Methods: A 25-day laboratory experiment used 16 individual seaweeds of each of three species to evaluate growth and photosynthetic activity under CO2 enrichment.
Table in the Materials and Methods:
| Scale of interference | Experimental unit | Number of replicates at this scale | Response variables and units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal seaweeds, 3 species | 50 l Tank | 16 per species | 1. Biomass production per unit time (g/day) 2. Net photosynthesis / respiration per gram (μmol O2 g-1 h-1) |
ii. Study on dispersal of striped bass larvae released from a hatchery into an estuarine tributary.
Sentence in the Materials and Methods: Approximately 6.5 million marked larvae of striped bass were released – at one location - into the estuarine system and were followed over four consecutive days using ichthyoplankton sampling.
Table in the Materials and Methods:
| Scale of interference | Experimental unit | Number of replicates at this scale | Response variables and units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spatial: The study’s estuarine system Temporal: 1 week | Individual ichthyoplankton hauls | Number of ichthyoplankton hauls | Larval density (number m-2) |
iii. Study on the assessment of the impact of a marine protected area on recruitment of scallops to a scallop bed.
Sentence in the Materials and Methods: A large unfished scallop bed composed of two branches was surveyed under a stratified random sampling design to determine abundance and age composition in each branch. In the subsequent three years one of the two branches was fished by three chartered trawlers while the other branch was declared a marine protected area inside of which trawling was banned. During the three years of fishing observers sampled the catch at random from the trawlers in the fished branch and annual surveys were conducted on the unfished branch to evaluate scallop recruitment using a stratified random sampling design.
Table in the Materials and Methods:
We recommend that authors provide statements that will allow readers to evaluate the spatial and temporal scope of data as well as unambiguous definitions of observational units. Some examples follow.
i. Study on stock assessment of swordfish in the Mediterranean using a new model that includes immigration and emigration.
Sentence in the Materials and Methods: A 35-year time series of monthly catch, effort and size distribution data of swordfish from three fleets was used to fit a stock assessment model with immigration and emigration from local fishing grounds across the western and central Mediterranean Sea.
Table in the Materials and Methods:
| Scale of inference | Observational unit | Number of observations at this scale | Response variables and units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temporal: decadal. Spatial: Western and Central Mediterranean Sea | Fishing trips aggregated over monthly time steps nested in three fishing fleets | Minimum: 127 fishing trips per month Mean: 179 fishing trips per month Maximum: 196 fishing trips per month | 1. Abundance of swordfish (tonnes) 2. Net migration rates in thousand fish vectors (numbers per direction of movement) 3. Mortality rates (yr-1) 4. Harvest rates (tonnes yr-1) |
ii. Study on the vertical distribution of copepods (Calanus spp.) in polar northern seas.
Sentence in the Materials and Methods: A total of 84 vertical zooplankton hauls – from a depth of 25 m to the surface - were undertaken during six surveys conducted from 2015 to 2020 at one sampling station in the Barents Sea.
Table in the Materials and Methods:
| Scale of inference | Observational unit | Number of observations at this scale | Response variables and units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temporal: multi-annual Spatial: Barents Sea | Individual zooplankton hauls | 14 stations per survey nested in six annual surveys | Number of Calanus spp. m-3 |
iii. Study on fish colonization of artificial reefs.
Sentence in the Materials and Methods: Fifteen visual surveys by trained divers to count fish along 100 m x 6 m wide transects, randomly located across 5 km2 of artificial reef, were conducted bimonthly over five years to evaluate recruitment of 35 species of fish.
Table in the Materials and Methods:
| Scale of inference | Observational unit | Number of observations at this scale | Response variables and units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Species: 35 species of coastal and oceanic fish Spatial: 5 km2 of artificial reefs Temporal: Bimonthly surveys for five years | 100 m long line transects with 6 m wide observation window | 15 transects per survey | Number of fish of each species m-2 |
Where ethically feasible, ICES Journal of Marine Science strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. Authors are required to include a Data Availability Statement in their article.
We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, or deposited in a public repository whenever possible.
ICES have a well-established Data Centre, which manages a number of large dataset collections related to the marine environment. By maximizing the availability of data to the community at large, ICES promotes the use of these data, thereby ensuring that their maximum value can be realized. Authors are encouraged to read the ICES data submission guidelines and policy.
Alternately, PANGAEA® is a data archive that is certified by the International Council for Science (ICSU) World Data System (WDS). Data can be submitted in any format in accordance with PANGAEA’s general data submission guidelines. There are many alternative archives that may suit a particular data set, including the Dryad repository for ecological and evolutionary biology data. For gene sequence data and phylogenetic trees, deposition in GenBank or TreeBASE, respectively, is often appropriate.
Accession numbers for GenBank, TreeBASE, and Dryad should be included in accepted manuscripts.
For primary biodiversity data authors are encouraged to place all species distribution records in a publicly accessible database such as the national Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) nodes or data centres endorsed by GBIF, including BioFresh for freshwater data.
Additionally, for papers published in ICES Journal of Marine Science, supplementary material (including data) can be submitted as online Supplementary Material.
The inclusion of a Data Availability Statement is a requirement for articles published in ICES Journal of Marine Science. Data Availability Statements provide a standardized format for readers to understand the availability of data underlying the research results described in the article. The statement may refer to original data generated in the course of the study or to third-party data analyzed in the article. The statement should describe and provide means of access, where possible, by linking to the data or providing the required unique identifier.
ICES Journal of Marine Science supports the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and requires that all publicly available datasets be fully referenced in the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier such as a digital object identifier (DOI). Data citations should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite:
*The inclusion of the [dataset] tag at the beginning of the citation helps us to correctly identify and tag the citation. This tag will be removed from the citation published in the reference list.
Preregistration of your research plan, such as your hypotheses, methodology and data analysis – before the research is conducted or the data are collected - can reduce bias and increase the transparency and credibility of your study. ICES JMS supports, but does not require, preregistration in an archived registry such as the Open Science Framework, protocols.io and ASPREDICTED. Authors should mention any preregistered material in their cover letter and provide links to any preregistered material in their article’s data availability statement.
ICES Journal of Marine Science now requires authors to enter their ORCID ID when submitting through ScholarOne. The ORCID ID will be persistent throughout changes in a researcher’s own name, or throughout changes in affiliation with research institutions, ensuring that published research or other research outcomes can be unambiguously identified as belonging to a specific author. By including an ORCID ID, you can be sure that your work will be properly attributed and referenced, and made easily discoverable. An author’s ID will be visible on each paper, allowing readers to click through to see your full research history and publication list – which will update automatically once a new paper is published.
If you have not already done so, register your ORCID ID. The sign up process takes under a minute, and only needs to be done once
Please use British spelling throughout. Dates should appear in the day-month-year format. Measurements should be metric and use the SI conventions for units and abbreviations.
The journal follows Oxford SCIMED style. Please refer to these requirements when preparing your manuscript after initial review. More information is available in our mini style sheet.
Cite references in the text in the ‘name, date’ format. If there are two authors, give both names. If there are three or more authors: Smith et al . (1988) or (Smith et al ., 1988). For unpublished material such as personal communications, give the author’s first initial(s): (F. Fry, pers. comm.). Preprints cited within the text should be identified as not peer reviewed; for example: (Author et al. 2021, preprint: not peer reviewed). Preprints should also be identified as such in the reference list (see how to cite preprints, below).
The reference list at the end of the article should be restricted to work already published, or definitely accepted for publication (in press). Unpublished material, including work submitted to a journal but not yet formally accepted, should not be included. List entries alphabetically by the first author’s surname, followed by initials. In cases of multiple authorship: Fry, F., Plie, I. I., and Soglia, I. Give the names of all authors, unless there are more than seven, in which case, list the first seven authors followed by et al . Spell out names of journals in full.
Endnote style files for ICES Journal of Marine Science references can now be downloaded.
Instructions for citing online references – please give url and access date.
If you use EndNote and/or Reference Manager to facilitate referencing citations (not required for submission), this journal's style is available for use.
The journal does not use footnotes.
ICESJMS allows authors to cite preprints in community preprint servers such as bioRxiv. Our policy is not to cite papers from Sci-Hub, ResearchGate and Academia.edu because they are considered to be unreliable.
The citation style for preprints is as follows:
Author, A. (year) ‘Title of manuscript’, Database, doi/location number, date stamp, preprint: not peer reviewed
The in-text citation for preprint references should also identify them as not peer reviewed (detailed above) and should otherwise match journal style, i.e. (Author, year).
At submission authors should upload their work in either pdf or word doc format via the online submission system. If you have written your manuscript in LaTeX and it is accepted for publication you will be asked to upload your source files before your manuscript is sent to the production team.
For submission of TeX manuscripts, ICES Journal of Marine Science strongly recommends the use of its TeX template. All TeX related files should be submitted to the journal, such as the .bib, .sty, and .bst files. No additional styles should be used unless necessary (e.g., to include figure files, to set diagrams, etc.). The use of private macros is discouraged. Only macros used in the manuscript should be supplied with the article (i.e, whole macro libraries from authors’ sites should not be submitted).
References should be supplied in standard ICES Journal format using \bibitem and thebibliography environment. No private programs or counters should be used to generate the style of citations and references.
Authors are asked to use the LaTeX tags like \ref, \cite, etc., for the automatic referencing to figures, tables, reference citations, etc. If these are not used, the manuscript will be held up in acceptance and pre-production stages.
For more information please see the OUP Journals FAQ.
As defined by the Linguistic Society of America, “Inclusive language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities”. We encourage authors to consider using inclusive language and images when preparing your manuscript. For guidelines, see the Council of Science Editors' resources on inclusive language.
All illustrations should be referred to as figures and should be numbered in a single sequence in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. For any figures that include captions or legends, please include the caption or legend in text format immediately after the manuscript references.
Electronically submitted figures should be in high resolution and in one of the following formats: tiff, bitmap (.bmp), jpeg (.jpg), portable data format (.pdf) or postscript (.ps or .eps). The minimum resolution for greyscale and colour images required for publication is 300-500 dpi. For line art the resolution should be at least 1200 dpi. Please be sure to embed the fonts correctly in your eps and pdf files to ensure that they convert to pdf.
For any figures that have been previously published, permission must be sought from the previous publisher to reproduce them. It is the authors’ responsibility to secure any required permissions prior to submission. Articles cannot be published before permission is secured. Permission must be granted for online publication in perpetuity. These rules apply even if the original figure has been modified. For further advice, please see Access and purchase resource centre.
Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.
Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs.
Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article.
The journal encourages authors to produce all of their figures in colour to enhance the online HTML and PDF versions of their articles. Colour figures must have a resolution of at least 300 dots per inch at their final size.
IMPORTANT: authors should size their figures to fit either into one column (85 mm wide) or double column/page width (170 mm wide), but preferably not in between. Remember to assess how much space your figure legend will take.
Supplementary information and/or data, which are preferred to Appendices, may be submitted. However, it should not contain material crucial to the understanding of the manuscript, which must be able to stand alone. The availability of online supplementary material should be indicated at the appropriate point in the text and in a section entitled “Supplementary material”, placed immediately before the Acknowledgements section. The section should begin with a statement such as, “The following supplementary material is available at ICESJMS online”, and should include a brief description of the supplementary material. The citation of references within the supplementary section is discouraged because the references are not hyperlinked as they are in the main text. If such a citation is necessary, however, the full reference(s) should be included at the end of the supplementary material.
Supplementary materials should be submitted as separate files.
Please supply a Title Page for the Supplementary Material. This should be identical to the format of the title page of the manuscript, with the addition of “Supplementary Material” at the top of the title page. The designation for the file should be “Supplementary Material”.
Please note that Supplementary materials will not be edited or amended in any way by the editors or the publisher. Authors are responsible for ensuring that they are rendered correctly.
ICESJMS requires an author contribution statement that should be placed after the acknowledgements.
An author is someone who has made significant and substantial contributions to the study being reported. This includes conceptualization, design and methodology, participating in performing experiments or the collection of data, analysis of the findings, and drafting and revising the manuscript. Following from the Council of Science Editors and the Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines on authorship, general supervision of a graduate student, provision of equipment or reagents, and financial support are not on their own criteria for authorship but rather for acknowledgement. Those who have made contributions to the work that do not rise to a level supporting authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgements with their role or involvement specified.
Visit this page for a detailed taxonomy of contributor roles.
Papers must be submitted with the agreement of all authors, and all authors should give final approval of the version to be published. If the author list is modified after the first submission, this must be done with the agreement of all authors.
Natural language processing tools driven by artificial intelligence (AI) do not qualify as authors, and the Journal will screen for them in author lists. The use of AI (for example, to help generate content or images, write code, process data, or for translation) should be disclosed both in cover letters to editors and in the Methods or Acknowledgements section of manuscripts. Please see the COPE position statement on Authorship and AI for more details.
Natural language processing tools driven by artificial intelligence (AI) do not qualify as authors, and the Journal will screen for them in author lists. The use of AI (for example, to help generate content or images, write code, process data, or for translation) should be disclosed both in cover letters to editors and in the Methods or Acknowledgements section of manuscripts. Please see the COPE position statement on Authorship and AI for more details.
ICESJMS expects that authors will observe the highest standards with respect to publication ethics. For example, the following practices are unacceptable: (1) falsification or fabrication of data, (2) plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the authors' own work in whole or in part, (3) misappropriation of the work of others such as omission of qualified authors, (4) withholding information of relevance to assess possible conflicts of interest (e.g. financial support), etc. Allegations of unethical conduct will be discussed initially with the corresponding author. In the event of an unresolved dispute, the matter may be referred to the author's institution and funding agencies for investigation and adjudication.
ICESJMS strives to ensure that any submission from the Editor-in-Chief or a member of the journal’s Editorial Board receives the same objective and unbiased evaluation as submissions from any other author. This is achieved by assigning any manuscripts submitted by the Editor-in-Chief or an Editorial Board member to an impartial member of the Editorial Board who oversees the assessment process and makes the decision. Editors, including the Editor-in-Chief, are automatically blinded to all aspects of the review process by the ScholarOne Manuscripts software.
ICESJMS applies plagiarism detection software ( iThenticate ) to submitted manuscripts. The Journal reserves the right to decline submissions suspected of plagiarism at any point during the assessment process and will retract articles found to violate plagiarism guidelines after publication. In addition, the Journal reserves the right to report any suspicion of plagiarism to the senior author's institution.
Oxford University Press, publisher of the ICESJMS, is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Journal adheres to the COPE code of conduct and guidelines.
Research submitted for publication in ICES JMS must have been conducted in compliance with international standards for the use of animals in research such as the European Commission’s legal framework for the protection of animals used for scientific purposes, the legal requirements of the country in which the work was carried out, and any institutional guidelines. Authors should state (in the Methods section) the name of the local and/or national body that grants approval for the use of animals in research and the reference number for animal ethics approval of the protocols applied in the work. Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and in field work with wild animals should also be adhered to. Authors should be aware of the expanding list of animal groups the use of which is regulated, including invertebrates such as cephalopods and decapods.
Authors must provide details (in the Methods section) of any animals used in their study, including information such as species, number, sex, age, weight, housing conditions, welfare, the fate of the animals at the end of the experiment, and details of steps taken to reduce and alleviate suffering. The ARRIVE guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) should be followed.
If ethical considerations arose in the course of the study, the author should describe in the manuscript how those considerations were addressed. In exceptional cases, where unresolved ethical questions remain, the manuscript may be sent to appropriate experts in the ethical use of animals in research for additional refereeing. In such cases, the decision as to whether the manuscript is accepted for publication remains with the journal Handling Editor or, in the final instance, the Editor-in-Chief.
ICESJMS requires a conflict of interest statement that should be placed after the statement of author contributions. Even when there are no conflicts of interest, a statement such as “The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare” should be provided
At the point of submission, the journal’s policy requires that each author reveal any financial interests or connections, direct or indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated - including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the individual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academic competition. When considering whether you should declare a conflicting interest or connection please consider answering the following question: Is there any arrangement that would embarrass you or any of your co-authors if it was to emerge after publication and you had not declared it?
As an integral part of the online submission process, Corresponding Authors are required to confirm whether they or their co-authors have any conflicts of interest to declare, and to provide details of these. If the Corresponding Author is unable to confirm this information on behalf of all co-authors, the authors in question will then be required to submit a completed Conflict of Interest form to the Editorial Office. It is the Corresponding Author’s responsibility to ensure that all authors adhere to this policy.
Page proofs are sent to authors as a PDF file by e-mail. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked immediately for typographical errors and returned as instructed in the proof e-mail. Essential changes of an extensive nature may be made only by insertion of a Note Added in Proof. Authors will be charged for extensive changes made in proof.
In order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name their funding sources, or state if there are none, during the submission process. For further information on this process or to find out more about CHORUS, visit the CHORUS initiative.
ICES Journal of Marine Science is a fully open access journal, and all articles are published in the journal under an open access licence immediately upon publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.
CC BY licence – GBP £2,714
Corresponding authors based in countries and regions, that are part of the developing countries initiative are eligible for a full waiver of publishing fees in our fully open access journals. For further details, please see our APC Waiver Policy.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Partial or full APC waivers for authors not covered by the above schemes will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Waiver requests should be directed to the ICES editorial office after manuscript acceptance, but presubmission waiver enquiries may also be made.
Authors required to publish under crown or government licences may choose to do so. More information is available here.
It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive license to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the license agreement, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication.
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