Following the request of several participants of the ISOBAY 13 Congress the deadline for manuscript submission has been extended 1 month (30 June 2012).

Some information for the authors follows:

1. Deep-Sea Research 2 is a free of charge publication and the only cost is derived from the inclusion of color figures in the hard copy version.


2. The Special Issue will include all the topics of the Congress: Geology, sedimentation and erosion; Physical Oceanography; Plankton and nutrient dynamics; Biological diversity and Ecosystems; Fisheries and Aquaculture; and Anthropogenic impacts.


3. A guide to the authors can be found in elsevier web page. The link also includes the relevant information on ethics in publishing, copyright, changes to authorship, etc.


4. Send the manuscripts to the Guest Editor by email, including in subject the acronym DSR2. The Guest Editor will acknowledge the receipt of all the manuscripts. The initial manuscript will be submitted as a single pdf file (text and figures). If the manuscript has a large size, send a compressed file.


5. In the submission email include the name, email address, telephone and contact address of three potential reviewers who are expert on the topic of your manuscript. Contacted reviewers can be different from the ones proposed by the authors.


6. The papers are first accepted by the Guest Editor but the official acceptance will be communicated to the authors by the Chief Editor of Deep-Sea Research 2 after inspection of the final manuscripts and of the reviewer's final comments.