OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE BIOLOGY AN ANNUAL REVIEW GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS – VOLUME 60

OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE BIOLOGY: AN ANNUAL REVIEW GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS – VOLUME 60 Editor in chief: S.J Hawkins E-mail S.J.Hawkins@soton.ac.uk Editors: L Allcock, A Bates, M Byrne, A Evans, L.B Firth, A.J Lemasson, C Lucas, E Marzinelli, P Mumby, B Russell, J Sharples, P Smith , S Swearer, P Todd Editorial Assistant: A.J Lemasson E- mail anaelle.lemasspon@plymouth.ac.uk PUBLISHED BY CRC PRESS www.taylorandfrancis.com www.crcpress.com CONTENTS Aims, Scope, and Brief Overview Manuscripts Submission .4 Manuscript Categories and Requirements 3.1 Traditional literature reviews (Monographs and Short Reviews) .4 3.2 Systematic reviews and meta-analyses .5 Preparing Your Submission 4.1 Cover Letters .5 4.2 Parts of the Submission and Manuscript 4.3 Main Text File 4.4 Figures and Tables .6 4.5 Additional Files (Appendices) and Supplementary Information 4.6 Authorship and Contributor’s Agreement 4.7 References and In-Text Citations Formatting .9 5.1 Manuscript Length 5.3 Spelling .9 5.4 Latin terms and Species names .10 5.5 Other terms 10 5.6 Compass directions and Geographical coordinates 11 5.7 Units of measurement, Numbers, and Mathematical terms 11 5.8 Figures and Tables 12 5.9 References .12 Editorial Process and Author Licencing 12 6.1 The Editorial Process and Timeline (Manuscript processing steps) 12 6.2 Author Licencing (Green vs Gold Access) 14 APPENDIX 15 7.1 Submission Checklist .15 7.2 Permission Guidelines and Forms 16 7.3 Contributor Agreement forms 21 7.4 OMBAR Preferred Spelling 25 7.5 OMBAR Guidance for undertaking systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses 27 AIMS, SCOPE, AND BRIEF OVERVIEW Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography For nearly 60 years, OMBAR has been an essential reference for research workers and students in all fields of marine science The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of recent research A primary function of the reviews in this series is to provide a broad overview of past and present knowledge of a particular subject relating to oceanography and/or marine biology An international Editorial Board ensures global relevance and expert peer-review, with editors from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Singapore and the United Kingdom The series volumes find a place in the libraries of not only marine laboratories and oceanographic institutes, but also universities worldwide OMBAR now accepts various styles of reviews: traditional long monographs, shorter focussed reviews, Cochrane-style systematic reviews and meta-analyses (see section 3.2 for more details) OMBAR is currently published annually; any submissions must be sent before June st of any given year, for publication in the following year’s volume Late submissions will be accepted in discussion with the Editor in Chief More details regarding submission and manuscript categories are available in in sections and 3, respectively MANUSCRIPTS SUBMISSION All manuscripts and initial enquiries should be sent in the first instance to the Editor in Chief Steve J Hawkins at S.J.Hawkins@soton.ac.uk and cc’d to the Editorial Assistant Anaëlle J Lemasson (anaelle.lemasson@plymouth.ac.uk), unless instructed otherwise OMBAR welcomes suggestions for reviews from potential authors, but the editorial team will also actively invite experts to contribute to OMBAR The Editor in Chief requests outlines of potential reviews at an early stage (ahead of the June st deadline), or following invitation to contribute from any member of the Editorial Board When submitting your manuscript, please ensure that it complies with the OMBAR format (see section 5) and includes all necessary documents (see section and the Submission Checklist available in section 7) Submission of a manuscript to Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review implies that the review is original, unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS 3.1 Traditional literature reviews (Monographs and Short Reviews) OMBAR traditionally publishes long monographic reviews on a particular subject When preparing their review, authors should critically review as completely as possible all the recent literature, including relevant methods and instrumentation If this is the first time their subject has been reviewed, authors should feel at liberty to go as far back in the literature as they feel desirable An equally important function, however, is to identify gaps in existing knowledge Authors should therefore attempt more than a simple compilation of knowledge, by assessing the current ‘state of the art’ and pointing the way for future research In addition, longer monographic pieces of original science reporting new results will be published after consultation with the Editor in Chief; these could include history of science articles, historical marine ecology, taxonomic updates and revisions, and longer works (e.g., where past published data are incorporated with new data to give extensive time series) Shorter focussed reviews are welcome in addition to longer monographic reviews Please send any enquiries to the Editor in Chief 3.2 Systematic reviews and meta-analyses We now encourage the submission of Cochrane/CEE-style systematic reviews and quantitative reviews (meta-analyses) These use established bibliometric approaches and follow set guidelines OMBAR has produced a brief set of guidelines for authors to follow (see our “Guidance for undertaking systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses” available in section 7.5), but authors are encouraged to consult external sources for help (such as the Cochrane initiative or the Centre for Environmental Evidence [CEE]) OMBAR will also take reviews that include compilation of existing published data combined with new unpublished information to give a synoptic view of a subject, and reviews involving expert opinion or Delphi-style approaches Reviews incorporating substantial new data, meta-analyses, systematic reviews or models will be flagged as such to help authors based in countries with research assessments PREPARING YOUR SUBMISSION 4.1 Cover Letters While formal cover letters are not mandatory, when submitting your review an accompanying email highlighting the topic of your review and the reasons for considering OMBAR is encouraged 4.2 Parts of the Submission and Manuscript Your submission must contain the following documents: the main manuscript text file (text and references), all figure files, all table files, figure and table legends, any appendices or supplementary information, a permission verification form, all contributors’ agreement forms A checklist is available to help you prepare your submission (see section 7.1) 4.3 Main Text File Each review is different and so detailed guidance on format is not helpful, although authors would find it useful to look at a recent volume of the series before writing their contribution Nevertheless, the following guidelines apply to all articles: Title Page The title page should contain only the authors’ names, addresses including e-mail, and affiliations Abstract A short Abstract of about 200 words should precede the Introduction Content List (optional) Although it will not be part of the final version, a separate contents list is helpful in the initial submission for editorial and peer-review purposes Introduction We encourage a short snappy introduction outlining the rationale, scope and topic of the review Historical development/other post-introduction section (optional) Any background information such as historical development of the field or underlying concepts and terminology are best dealt with after the introduction in a separate section [Main body of the review] Knowledge gaps/Research needs In many reviews the penultimate section might identify knowledge gaps and research needs Conclusion/Synopsis We also encourage a short synoptic final section For submissions relating to systematic reviews and meta-analyses, please refer to the OMBAR Guidance for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses below 4.4 Figures and Tables Figures and tables should be carefully prepared before submission Initial submission can be sent with low quality figures and tables embedded into the text, to facilitate the peer-review process, but these must be removed prior to final acceptance All figures and tables must also be sent as separate documents in full resolution Figure and table legends must also be provided as a separate document from the text Permission to use exact or altered copies of published figures or tables should be obtained from the holders of the copyright, and evidence of such provided Guidelines for determining whether permission is required and how to obtain it, including pro formas, are included as in section 7.2 A Permission Verification Form, supplied separately (pro form in section 7.2), must be returned even if no permissions are required Authors are responsible for paying any fees that may be charged by the original publishers Figures: Colour illustrations should be kept to a minimum; please consider carefully whether colour is really necessary, as sometimes black and grey scales may be more appropriate Typically, authors opting for the Green Access will be allowed four coloured figures free of charge; Gold Access allows for unlimited coloured figures (see information on Access types in section 6.2) Figures should be sent as separate files, each named “[first author]_FigureX” (e.g Smith-Figure1) Accepted figure formats include: Adobe Illustrator and Adobe PhotoShop (.ai), PDF, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG (see the publisher’s ‘Art Preparation Guidelines’) Figures should be given Arabic numerals Parts of figures should be labelled with capital letters (A, B, C, etc.) Authors are requested to pay particular attention to figure quality Only high quality original figures should be submitted: photocopies are not acceptable Figures that are blurred or illegible in the original will remain so in the printed version and, in particular, the relationship between lettering and figure size should be considered As a rough guide, letters and numbers should be no less than mm high when reduced If in doubt, reduce the original to final size and check legibility Please avoid using shading unless absolutely necessary as it does not reproduce well In diagrams, cross-hatching is recommended instead When necessary a scale should be put on the actual figure not in the caption Authors are also asked to keep the page proportions in mind when organizing a figure Tables: Tables should be given Arabic numerals Small tables and their legends fitting within standard-size pages are acceptable as part of the main manuscript (each table on a separate page – stand alone) Use horizontal lines only and carefully consider the size and shape of the printed page when organizing tables Do not use bold characters in Tables Oversized, long or complicated tables can be printed (but every effort should be made to simplify them), but are better submitted as Supplementary material and will be available for viewing online only This is particularly important for very long tables or tables listing the studies included in a systematic review or meta-analysis (see section 4.5 below and systematic review/meta-analysis guidance in section 7.5) For guidance on format see a recent volume 4.5 Additional Files (Appendices) and Supplementary Information The use of additional files and/or supplementary information to support your main manuscript is encouraged While an appendix will be printed as part of the book and accessible by the readers at the end of the book, all supplementary information will only be accessible online Additional files: essentially short supplements that are necessary for the understanding of the main text (for instance, footnotes, which aren’t currently accepted for OMBAR reviews, can be added as a single Appendix at the end of the book) Supplementary Information: any other additional elements to your submission that are not necessary to the main text (e.g additional tables or figures), or that are oversized For systematic reviews and meta-analyses: please consult the guidance document The full list of studies included must be provided as supplementary material (unless short enough to be directly included in the text) If your methodology is too long to be included in full in your main text, a supplementary file should be provided detailing your methods (including the databases searched, the search string used, eligibility criteria, etc…) 4.6 Authorship and Contributor’s Agreement All authors and their affiliations must be listed on the title page Authorship must be finalised prior to peer-review and cannot be revised after submission (unless exceptional circumstances – to be discussed with the Associate Editor handling the submission) Each author listed must return a signed Contributor Agreement form There are two types of form depending on the Access chosen (Green or Gold – see section 6.2) Please ensure that all authors are returning the correct form 4.7 References and In-Text Citations In-text References should be given in the text by date of publication and, where more than one is quoted, in datal rather than alphabetical order Do not repeat the date with two references to the same author in the same year Thus: ‘Jones (1960) has shown the importance of….’ ‘Jones (1960) and Brown (1963a,b) have shown….’ ‘The importance of … has been shown by several workers (Jones 1960, Tate & Smith 1961, Brown 1963a,b, 1964) …’ Where there are two authors of a paper they should be given in full each time Three or more authors should always be given as, e.g., Jones et al (1960) Reference list Please check that all references quoted in the text are in the reference list, and vice versa, and that spelling of names and dates of publication agree in the text and list Reference lists should be arranged in strict alphabetical order irrespective of the number of authors The full list of authors should be given, and titles of journals should be given in full and in italics Volume numbers should be in bold Part numbers of volumes need only be included if each part is paginated separately and not continuously First and last page numbers should be given, but if the article is only one page long, follow the page number with the word ‘only’ When quoting an article in a symposium or book, only the title of the book or publication should be in italics Also, when quoting from a symposium or a book, state the page numbers of the article to which reference is made, not the page numbers of the whole publication Take special care that multiple references by the same author(s) in the same year are correctly discriminated by a, b, etc and correspond between the text and the list Manuscripts that contain numerous discrepancies will be returned to the author for revision Please be sure that you quote the authors’ names and initials and the title of the paper exactly as in the original publication Abstracting services make mistakes and some modify details to suit their own purposes so please not rely on them Reference lists in published papers may also contain errors, so you should check the original Reference lists should not be submitted in Endnote format To ensure consistency in indexing ensure that for authors with compound European names, the article, particle or particle phrase precedes the family name both in the text and the references For example, use the form “von Braun”, “de Gaulle”, or “van der Veer”; not “Braun, von”; “Gaulle, de”; or “Veer, van der” In cases where the name is followed by Jr or II, III, use the form Smith, J.S., Jr or Jones, D.N II not Smith Jr, J.S The Jr or II may need to be followed by a full stop or comma depending where the person comes in the list of authors, but not if followed by ampersand Examples - Please take careful note of the spacing and punctuation Journals Smith, L.W 1993 Title of paper Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 73, 15–20 Smith, L.W 2010 Title of paper Title of On-Line Journal 27, doi:12.3456/onlinej.9876 [NB: no full stop after the digital object identifier (doi)] Smith, L.W & Adams, A.S 1991 … [NB: no space between authors’ initials] Smith, L.W., Brown, I & Jones, A.S 1981 … Books Smith, J 1994 Title of Book in Capitals Place of publication: Publisher, ? edition (if other than the first) Jones, D (ed.) 1994 Title of Edited Book in Capitals Place of publication: Publisher, ? edition (if other than the first) Smith, J 1994 Title of paper In Title of Symposium, Conference Publication or Multi-author Book, A.S Jones (ed.) Place of publication: Publisher, page numbers of Smith’s article [NB: comma in roman type, not full stop, after the italicized title of the publication Editors’ initials come before the surname If two editors, use e.g., A.S Jones & T Brown (eds); if more than two editors use the convention A.S Jones et al (eds).] In italicized titles of books, theses, symposia, etc., reverse the italicization for any words that would otherwise be italicized, such as species names, e.g.: Birdseye, C 1974 Biology of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, in northern waters Nuuk, Greenland: Piscatorial Publishing Others (Corporate, Thesis, Reports, Websites) For abbreviations of corporate authors: CSTT (Comprehensive Studies Task Team) 1997 Title … [NB: abbreviation first to facilitate finding the reference associated with an abbreviated citation in the text.] Williams, P 1999 Title of thesis PhD thesis, University of ?, Country Young, K 1997 Title of report Full details of report, including place of publication [NB: titles of papers, theses and reports are all decapitalized except where a language convention would be violated.] When giving the city of a publisher based in the USA, please give the state in full rather than using twoletter state abbreviations, e.g., “Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press” Reference to web pages should be avoided if at all possible because of their ephemeral nature If it is essential, then they should be given in the main reference list with the publisher’s details (if known); medium (e.g., online); the full uniform resource identifier (URI), including the transfer protocol (e.g., HTTP); and the access date in parentheses For example: Smith, A 1997 Publishing on the Internet London: Routledge Online http://www.ingress.com/~astanart.pritzker/pritzker.html (accessed June 1997) FORMATTING 5.1 Manuscript Length Please refer to section 4.2 for a breakdown of the different sections Maximum: 200 pages of doublespaced typescript including figures and tables (for the initial submission – please remember to also send all Figures and oversized Tables as separate files and in high-resolution) Longer reviews will be taken from time to time in consultation with the Editor in Chief 5.2 Headings Manuscripts should be double-spaced and left-justified Headings and sub-headings as required within the text should be as follows: Heading class Heading class Heading class Text starts on next line … Heading class Text runs on … 5.3 Spelling Authors should attempt to write in the third person in as concise a style as possible Sparing use of the first person for emphasis or opinions is welcomed, especially in introductions, recommendation for future work, and discussions To preserve uniformity throughout each volume, and particularly to avoid unnecessary complications in indexing, it is editorial policy to use the forms of spelling and other styles of English that are used at present in the United Kingdom, rather than those prevalent in North America Authors should use the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as the standard reference work Other spellings not listed by the COED are dictated by the house style of the publisher and may be changed by the copy editor (see additional spelling of specific words in section 7.4) 5.4 Latin terms and Species names In the text, Latin names of organisms and the following expressions should be in italics: ad hoc, a priori, in situ, in vivo, in vitro, per se, sensu, vis-a-vis, ad lib., de novo, a posteriori Everything else, e.g., et al., i.e., viz, vice versa, cf etc., should be in romans (but see below for mathematical formulae) Do not insert Latin terms in Bold (Bold type is only used for headings or for volume numbers in the reference list) Generic names should only be abbreviated when immediately preceded in the text by mention of the same species or another of the same genus For example: “Carcinus maenas is frequently eaten by Gadus morhua and G luscus but G morhua and G luscus are rarely eaten by Carcinus maenas even though both C maenas, Gadus morhua and G luscus live in the same environment” Do not abbreviate a genus that comes at the beginning of a sentence Please also give genera in full at first mention in each new section, even if correctly abbreviated in the previous section, and elsewhere as required to maintain clarity Taxonomic authorities are not required unless considered essential for clarity When giving taxonomic authorities, follow ICZN format by including a comma between the name and year, e.g., Delphinus capensis tropicalis (van Bree, 1971) Following WORMS is advised as far as possible, and authors are encouraged to state this in the introduction, or to refer to the taxonomic work or checklist they are following 5.5 Other terms Unusual or special terms Should be given in single quotes (not italics, bold, underlining or other formatting) at first mention; e.g., “Darwin (1871) introduced the term ‘sexual selection’ to refer to evolutionary processes relating exclusively to reproduction in dioecious species.” Ships Use small capitals not italics, e.g., RRS JAMES COOK, RV ATLANTIS Seas and oceans Arctic Ocean and Black Sea, not Arctic ocean or Black sea but lower case in the general sense – ‘in the sea/ocean …’ Quotation marks Use “double quotes” when giving a direct quotation from another work, but ‘single quotes’ when using a word in an unconventional sense or for emphasis Hyphenation A continuing source of confusion between authors, editors and copy-editors It can be largely overcome by using a single reference source – see also section 7.4 Dates 1930s, 1970s, 1990s, not ‘thirties’ etc eighteenth century etc., not 18th century 3-dimensional rather than 3D or 3-D (also 2-dimensional); 2-fold (also 3-fold, 4-fold, etc.) 5.6 Compass directions and Geographical coordinates All compass points begin with lower case letters except when used in a noun (South Africa, the South, etc) Non-cardinal points are hyphenated both as nouns and adjectives, e.g north-west, south-east (see list of spellings below) The preferred format is degrees and decimal minutes, but degrees, minutes and seconds may be used if many coordinates already exist in this form Use no spaces between degrees and minutes (and seconds, if given), but include a space (not a comma) between latitude and longitude Use the correct symbols for degrees (°, not a superscripted ‘o’), minutes (single prime, not an apostrophe) and seconds (double prime, not double quotation marks) Examples: 35°15ʹN 10°73ʹW 35°15.25ʹN 10°72.67ʹW 35°15ʹ15N 10°72ʹ40W 5.7 Units of measurement, Numbers, and Mathematical terms Units Follow the International System of Units (SI) for units of measurement, and their abbreviation, multiplication and division (see www.bipm.org) There should be a space between a value and its abbreviated unit (e.g m not 5m or 5-m) Abbreviated units should not be hyphenated in adjectival use (e.g ‘a kg fish’ not ‘a 2-kg fish’), but normal rules of English apply to unabbreviated forms (e.g ‘a 2kilogram fish’) Further guidance on SI conventions is given at: http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/measurement-units/si-conventions/ Numbers ‘hundreds’ not 100s, 1000s etc In text use 1), 2) 3) etc., not i), ii), iii) Only use commas in numbers with more than four digits; e.g., 9999 not 9,999 and 12,300 not 12 300 or 12300 Use words for numbers 1 of the minor compass points) same species; ‘fishes’ refers to >1 species north-eastern fisher = PC form of fisherman north-west focused north-western Foraminifera or foraminiferans (but not offshore (adj and adv.), off shore (phrase) foramifera) onshore (adj and adv.), on shore (phrase) fresh water (n.) water that has been renewed on to preferred to onto (US usage) freshwater (adj.) not given as noun in COED per cent, but US usage is percent but an accepted scientific term for water percentage (adj) without salt porewater (n and adj.) gill net postglacial improvise pre – never hyphenated, except pre-adapt, preinshore (adj and adv.), in shore (phrase) exist, pre-empt intra – never followed by a hyphen programme (but program for computer inter – never followed by a hyphen programs) ise/ize endings – either acceptable (with some run-off exceptions) providing they are used salt marsh (n.) saltmarsh (adj.) consistently within a chapter But follow salt water (phrase), saltwater (adj.) COED (not spell check) large-scale sand dollar (adj.), large scale (phrase) sandeel is usual zoological usage but COED life cycle (n.) gives sand eel life history (n.), life-history (adj.) sand dune lifespan (n.) sea anemone lifestyle (n.) seabed log-normal (adj) seabird longshore (adj.) sea cow sea cucumber sea fan seafloor sea gooseberry seagrass sea hare sea horse sea ice (n.), sea-ice (adj.) sea lettuce sea lion seamount sea mouse sea pen sea salt seashell seashore sea slug sea snake sea squirt seastar sea surface (n.), sea-surface (adj.) sea urchin sea wall seawater (n and adj.) seaweed semi-diurnal semilunar south south-east (n.) south-west (n.) ‘sub’ words not hyphenated except for subaqua, sub-aquatic but not subaqueous! sublittoral substratum for the surface on which an organism lives and substrate for the substance on which an enzyme acts substratum (plural substrata) subsurface (n.) surf zone (n.), surf-zone (adj.) suspension-feeder (n.) suspension-feeding (adj.) synthesize timescale (n.) west western worldwide (adj and adv.) Double consonants before an ending, as in focussed, modelling etc 7.5 OMBAR Guidance for undertaking systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses OMBAR Guidance for undertaking systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses OMBAR is now accepting systematic reviews (SR) and meta-analyses (MA) as suitable contribution formats We ask that authors follow as best as possible the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) guidelines (CEE 2018) CEE (http://www.environmentalevidence.org/) is the authority for evidence synthesis for environmental science, and have produced useful guidelines for authors that wish to undertake such synthesis (i.e: systematic reviews, meta-analyses) You can find those guidelines here: http://www.environmentalevidence.org/guidelines If new to SR or MA, you can find here a free short online course that you may find helpful: https://systematicreviewmethods.github.io/ When submitting a SR or a MA to OMBAR, please ensure first that your review topic and/or research question is suitable for a SR/MA (you can find help in the CEE guidelines) Then, please check that the following information is included explicitly, rigorously, and transparently (you may want to use subheadings) Checklist:  Questions: Your main research question is clearly stated/formulated, as well as any other secondary objectives or questions  Scoping and search strategy: Clearly state whether you undertook hand-searches, keywords searches, or used a search string you built (using Boolean operators) Please also justify your choice of search strategy If you chose keywords or a search string, please provide the full list of keywords or the full search string, and justify the choice of terms (have you tried other terms but decided to exclude them?)  Literature source: Clearly state what type of literature you included (e.g peer-reviewed scientific publications, grey reports, any other types of documents, etc.) Provide the full list of sources you searched (name of databases, websites, search engines…) as well as the date they were searched and using which subscriptions (e.g “using the University of XXX subscription” - various organisations subscribe and have access to different amount of information.) If you decided on a search string strategy, but some sources did not allow it, please specify what strategy you decided on instead (e.g.: Google Scholar only accepts limited characters and you may need to either shorten your search string, or use selected keywords) Please also indicate if searches were undertaken in English only (and if so why) or if they were also undertaken in any other languages State the number of publications retrieved (before and after removal of duplicates)  Inclusion/exclusion (eligibility) criteria: Please explain the step-wise process you followed when deciding which studies to retain and which to exclude It can help to use the PI(C)O/PE(C)O components (see CEE guidelines) For instance, if your question is “What are the effects of seagrass restoration on seahorse populations?”, you might ask yourself the following question in this order: Is this study focussing or containing information on seahorses? Is this study about seagrass restoration techniques? Does this study contain relevant data/information on population effects (for instance diversity, abundance, distribution…)? It may also help to compile a list of reasons for exclusion, and to annotate rejected studies with a reason For meta-analyses in particular, you may want to include/exclude studies based on specific comparators (for instance you may only be interested in BACI designs); if so, please be explicit State the number of publications retained If you inclusion/exclusion criteria are particularly lengthy, you may want to include a short version in the main text, and a full-length detailed version as a Supplementary Material  Data coding and extraction: Describe which raw data you decided to extract or code, and why For meta-analyses, please ensure you extract the required data to be able to undertake the required necessary analyses You can find further information here: [Gurevitche et al 2001; Koricheva et al 2013; Weerasinghe 2014] and CEE guidelines section As part of your results, you may want to provide a data extraction table  Data synthesis: if you undertook some form of quantitative/statistical analyses – whether as part of the systematic review, for instance based on meta-data such as the geographical spread of studies or the temporal distribution of studies, or as part of a meta-analyses based on effects data – please provide all relevant information as to what data was analysed, why and how See CEE guidelines section  Supplementary files: Some of this information may be placed outside of the main text For instance the full list of sources searched with the strategy used of each and search date In which case, you may want to include in the main text the number of each sources type (e.g “ X databases were searched using the agreed search string; Y websites were searched using the agreed keywords Full list is provided in Supplementary File Z” The full list of retained studies must be provided as part of the submission; if numerous, this can be presented as an online supplementary file Any questions please get in touch with us, and we will be happy to assist you with your manuscript and the requirements for OMBAR References: Collaboration for Environmental Evidence 2018 Guidelines and Standards for Evidence synthesis in Environmental Management Version 5.0 (AS Pullin, GK Frampton, B Livoreil & G Petrokofsky, Eds) www.environmentalevidence.org/information-for-authors Gurevitch J, Curtis P, Jones M (2001) Meta-analysis in ecology Advances in Ecological Research 32: 200–247 Koricheva, J., Gurevitch, J., & Mengersen, K (Eds.) (2013) Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution Princeton University Press Weerasinghe, S (2014) Meta‐Analysis in Environmental Science In Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online (eds N Balakrishnan, T Colton, B Everitt, W Piegorsch, F Ruggeri and J.L Teugels) https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat07395 ... meta-analyses 27 AIMS, SCOPE, AND BRIEF OVERVIEW Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography For nearly 60 years,... section For submissions relating to systematic reviews and meta-analyses, please refer to the OMBAR Guidance for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses below 4.4 Figures and Tables Figures and tables... drafts before allocating a handling Associate Editor and continuing with formal submission for peer review A back-andforth between Authors and EiC may occur until the EiC deems the manuscript