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Why Choose Bulletin of Marine Science for Your Conference Proceedings or Special Issue?

 

Dissemination to the scientific community: Institutional subscribers distributed worldwide. The Bulletin’s content is abstracted and indexed by all major indexing services including Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar.

 

Convenience: Guest editors can coordinate with the Editorial Office for online submission of contributions, either prior to the meeting or at a later date. Our online submission system allows authors to submit manuscripts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any location, facilitates the review process, and streamlines communication with contributors. Authors have the ability to check on the status of their manuscript at anytime as it proceeds through the review process and guest editors can easily monitor the progress of all special issue manuscripts through the submission/peer review process.

 

Flexibility: Most special issues contain a minimum of 10 to 15 articles. If the special issue will have fewer than 10 manuscripts, the Bulletin reserves the right to move the papers to a regular issue of the journal. In this case, a “special section” will be created to separate special-issue articles from other regular articles appearing in the same volume.

 

The opportunity to bring creativity to your publication. Examples include companion books and the opportunity to add supplementary data to online articles or to the whole special issue including text files, HTML files, images, presentations, PDFs, and movies.

 

No page limit for individual articles. This feature is useful for review articles or invited keynote articles, both common in conferences and symposia.

 

Online publication as soon as manuscripts are accepted: FastTrack™ publishing enables manuscripts to be available to the scientific community as soon as possible. In most cases, a manuscript is “live” within 72 hours after the mansucript is accepted for publication, reducing the risk of delay that may be caused by the coordination of numerous manuscripts for special issues.

Special Issues

(since 1997)

Proceedings of the Nemuro Workshop on Oceans and Fisheries ’95
Spiny and Clawed Lobsters, 18–22 November, 1995, Nemuro, Japan

Proceedings of the First William R and Lenore Mote International Symposium in Fisheries Ecology, November 20–23, 1996, Sarasota, Florida, USA
“Marine Stock Enhancement: A New Perspective” — Edited by Felicia C Coleman, Joseph Travis and Anne B Thistle

Proceedings of the Second William R and Lenore Mote International Symposium in Fisheries Ecology, November 4–6, 1998, Sarasota, Florida
“Essential Fish Habitat and Marine Reserves” — Edited by Felicia C Coleman, Joseph Travis and Anne B Thistle

Sixth International Polychaete Conference
Held at Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, August 2–7, 1998
Edited by Donald Reish and Paulo Lana

A Collection of Studies on the Effects of the 1997–98 El Niño–Southern Oscillation Event on Corals and Coral Reefs in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
Edited by Peter W Glynn and Susan B Colley

Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Aspects of Coral Reef Assessment, Monitoring, and Restoration
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 14–16, 1999
Edited by James Darwin Thomas

Open vs Closed Marine Populations — Synthesis and Analysis of the Evidence
Edited by Robert R Warner and Robert K Cowen

Proceedings of the Third William R and Lenore Mote International Symposium in Fisheries Ecology, October 31–November 2, 2000, Sarasota, Florida
“Targets, Thresholds, and the Burden of Proof” — Edited by Felicia C Coleman, Joseph Travis and Anne B Thistle

Cephalopod Biomass and Production — CIAC 2000
(Part I)
University of Aberdeen, July 3rd–7th, 2000
Edited by Peter R Boyle, Martin A Collins, Graham J Pierce and Jennifer J Watson

Cephalopod Biomass and Production — CIAC 2000
(Part II)
University of Aberdeen, July 3rd–7th, 2000
Edited by Peter R Boyle, Martin A Collins, Graham J Pierce and Jennifer J Watson

4th International Seagrass Biology Workshop
26 September–2 October 2000, Corsica
Edited by G Pergent, M C Buia, M Johnson, R J Orth, and C Pergent-Martini

Proceedings of the Blue Crab Conference 2000
University of North Carolina–Wilmington, March 2002
Edited by David Eggleston

Banco Chinchorro: Investigations on an Atoll-like Coral Reef System in the Mexican Caribbean Sea
Edited by E Suárez-Morales and T Camarena-Luhrs

A Collection of Studies Conducted from the Port Royal Marine Laboratory on the Status of Kingston Harbour, Jamaica, in Relation to Continued Organic Pollution
Edited by Mona K Webber and Dale F Webber

Proceedings of the Fourth William R and Lenore Mote International Symposium in Fisheries Ecology, November 5–7, 2002, Sarasota, Florida
“Confronting Trade-offs in the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management” — Edited by Felicia C Coleman, Carl J Walters, and Anne B Thistle

Back Reef Habitats: Ecological Analysis and Characterization
Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas, December 2001
Edited by John Marr

Proceedings of the World Conference on the “Scientific and Technical Bases for the Sustainability of Fisheries”
Miami, 26–30 November, 2001
Edited by Nelson M Ehrhardt

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Reefs and Artificial Habitats (CARAH), Palace Casino and Resort, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
April 10–14, 2005
Edited by Thomas Maher

Proceedings of the Fifth William R and Lenore Mote International Symposium in Fisheries Ecology, November 9–11, 2004, Sarasota, Florida
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Integrating Marine and Human Ecology into Fisheries Management” — Edited by Felicia C Coleman and Anne B Thistle

Proceedings of the 4th International Billfish Symposium, 31 October–3 November 2005, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California
Edited by Kim N Holland, Michael L Domeier, David B Holts, John E Graves, and Julian G Pepperell

Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Mangroves as Fish Habitat, 19–21 April 2006, Miami, Florida
Edited by Joseph E Serafy and Rafael J Araújo

Reproduction, Ecology, and Evolution in Marine Systems—A Meeting in Honor of Professor John S Pearse, 10–11 June 2006, Santa Cruz, California
Edited by Larry V Basch

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals—“Deep-Sea Coral Ecosystems: Biology and Geology,” Nov. 28–Dec. 2, 2005, Miami, Florida
Edited by Robert Y George and Stephen D Cairns

Proceedings of the Sixth William R and Lenore Mote International Symposium in Fisheries Ecology, November 14–16, 2006, Sarasota, Florida
“Life History in Fisheries Ecology and Management” — Edited by Felicia C Coleman, Robert R Warner, and Anne B Thistle

Proceedings of the Seventh William R and Lenore Mote International Symposium in Fisheries Management and Ecology, November 11–13, 2008, Sarasota, Florida
“The Spatial Dimensions of Fisheries: Putting It All in Place” — Edited by Felicia C Coleman and Anne B Thistle

Making Marine Science Matter — A special issue highlighting the First International Marine Conservation Congress
Edited by Ellen Hines, ECM Parsons, and John A Cigliano

Bulletin of Marine Science
60th Anniversary Special Issue

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circle Hooks in Research, Management, and Conservation, May 4–6, 2011, Coral Gables, Florida
Edited by Joseph E Serafy, Guillermo A Diaz, Mahmood S Shivji, and Yonat Swimmer

Proceedings of the Eight William R and Lenore Mote International Symposium in Fisheries Management and Ecology, November 8–10, 2011, Sarasota, Florida
“Species Interactions in Marine Communities: The Invisible Fabric of Nature” — Edited by Felicia C Coleman and Anne B Thistle

Environmental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Change in Seas Across the Isthmus of Panama
Edited by Aaron O’Dea and Laurel S Collins

Molecular Ecology and Evolution of the Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans
Edited by Eric D Crandall and Cynthia Riginos

Proceedings of the Ninth Florida State University William R & Lenore Mote International Symposium, 12–14 October, 2015, Sarasota, Florida
“Propagating TURFs into the 21st Century: The Value Constraints and Limitations to Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries” — A tribute to the life & works of José María (Lobo) Orensanz — Edited by Felicia C Coleman

Fish at Night: an international symposium, 17–20 November, 2015, Miami, Florida, USA
Edited by Steven J Cooke and Neil Hammerschlag

Marine ecology and conservation in Cuba
Edited by Joe Roman and Patricia González-Díaz

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference and Workshop on Lobster Biology & Management
Edited by Kari Lavalli and Richard Wahle

Fishes and invertebrates of oil and gas platforms off California

Cephalopod research across scales: from molecules to ecosystems
Edited by Heather Judkins, Michael Vecchione, and Michael Sweeney

Connecting the Hemispheres: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Mangroves as Fish Habitat
Edited by Amy Y Then

Proceedings of the Tenth FSU–Mote International Symposium on Fisheries Ecology and Sixth International Symposium on Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching
Edited by Kai Lorenzen, Kenneth M Leber, Neil R Loneragan, Ryan W Schloesser, and Matthew D Taylor

Bulletin of Marine Science
70th Anniversary Special Issue

Advances in Ecosystem-Scale Coral Reef Visual Surveys
Edited by Laura Jay W Grove, Steven G Smith, Brian K Walker

Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Coral Reef Symposium
Edited by Zeehan Jaafar, Lionel Ng, Peter Todd, Karenne Tun, Danwei Huang