The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology . For general information, please visit the Author Services section of our website.

• Papers are accepted in British or American English but the style must be accurate and consistent throughout. Please use double quotation marks.
• Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
• Full research papers should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; appendices (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list). All section headings except Abstract should be omitted in Short Communications.
• Abstracts of 100-150 words are required for all papers submitted.
• Each paper should have three to six keywords.
• Section headings should be in bold type and sub-headings in italics. Authors wishing to use further nesting of sub-headings should contact the Editor. All pages should be numbered consecutively through the document.
• All the authors of a paper should include their full names and institutional affiliations on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author and supply their Full Name and Title, postal address, phone, fax and email addresses at the bottom of the cover page.  
• Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
• For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
• Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
• When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or ™.
  

2. Style guidelines

• Description of the Journal's article style, Quick guide
• Description of the Journal's reference styles
• Guide to using mathematical symbols and equations
• Word templates are available for this journal. If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk

• It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour and halftones (photographs).
• Tables and figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed tables or figures in the paper file.
• Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), or JPEG. If you wish to use other formats please contact the Editor before submitting.
• All tables and figures must be numbered with consecutive Arabic numbers in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Table 1, Table 2, Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Table 1(a), Table 2(b), Figure 1(a), Figure 2(b)).
• Table and figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
• The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
• Authors do not need to indicate a preferred position for figures and tables in the text as these are placed as close to the first referral in the text subject to other layout and editorial values.

• Copyright permission letter template

• Information about supplementary online material

Papers for consideration should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor David L. Macmillan:

Department of Zoology University of Melbourne 3052 Victoria Australia Email: dlmacm@unimelb.edu.au

Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically. Electronic submissions should be sent as email attachments using a standard word processing program. If email submission is not possible, please send an electronic version on disk along with three paper copies together with one set of high-quality figures for reproduction. Please note that authors will be required to sign a Warranty form after acceptance and prior to publication.

This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.

Copyright and authors' rights

It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/copyright.asp. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

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