About the Journal

Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research

ISSN: 0122-9761 | e-ISSN: 2590-4671

Focus and Scope

Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research (title abbreviation: Bull. Mar. Coast. Res.) is an open-access, semi-annual, indexed publication, refereed under the single-blind modality. It is aimed at the scientific community and people related to environmental issues in coastal and marine areas, with particular emphasis on tropical America. It considers unedited works about research topics on the sea or coastal aquatic environments, undertaken in the tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas.

The journal is edited since 1967 by the “José Benito Vives de Andréis” Marine and Coastal Research Institute (INVEMAR). Until volume 8 it was called Mitteilungen aus dem Instituto Colombo-Alemán de Investigaciones Científicas Punta de Betín, and between volumes 9 and 24, it was called Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Since 2008, two issues are published per annual volume, a frequency that has been maintained to date. The first issue is published in June and the second in December.

Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research receives research articles, review articles, and scientific notes on an ongoing basis. It is published in English and Spanish in PDF format and can be consulted at www.invemar.org.co/boletin . The journal is indexed on Scopus since 2016 (Q4 Scimago Journal Ranking on "Animal Science and Zoology" category) and on Publindex (category C). 

Editorial Policies

• Section Policies
• Open Access Policy
• Publication Ethics

Open Access Policy

Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research is an open-access journal, so there is no charge for reading or downloading information, based on the principle that providing free access to research helps to increase global knowledge exchange. Its distribution and dissemination are free, respecting each credit and authorship of the manuscripts.

Publication Ethics

Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research follows the recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) to ensure transparency in the publication process for all parties involved (authors, reviewers, editors). 

Contributions are the complete responsibility of their authors, not of the Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research, its editorial board, or INVEMAR. Submission of a manuscript is understood as an explicit statement by the authors that it has not been published or accepted for publication in another journal or scientific dissemination medium. If the manuscript includes texts, tables, or figures with reserved rights, the authors declare in the submission letter that they have the authorization to reproduce them.

The journal does not charge for publication and does not pay peer reviewers. Also, the work of our Editorial Committee is ad honorem.

Confidentiality: All manuscripts submitted to the Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research are treated as confidential documents.

The Editorial Committee is committed to protecting the integrity and confidentiality of each author's work and the anonymity of each reviewer. For their part, the evaluators are committed to protecting the confidentiality of the assigned manuscript, taking into account that the evaluation process is single-blind, that is, the authors do not know the identity of the evaluators, but the evaluators know the identity of the authors.

Copyright: Bulletin of Coastal and Marine Research is published under Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Declaration of Conflict of Interest: When authors submit their manuscript to the Bulletin of Coastal and Marine Research, they must accompany the submission with a letter of submission in which they declare, among other things, that they have read and approved the submitted manuscript in its content, organization, presentation, and order of authorship, so that no conflict of interest exists between them. In the letter, the authors can also request that a person not be chosen as an evaluator couple when they consider that a conflict of interest could arise.

The members of the Editorial Board, who act as commissioned editors within the journal, have the responsibility to declare whether they have a conflict of interest with the assigned manuscript. Similarly, peer reviewers must declare whether they present a conflict of interest by knowing the name of the authors of the assigned manuscript, considering that the evaluation process in the journal is single-blind.

Authors' Responsibilities: Authors are required to participate in the evaluation process by respecting the stipulated review times and meeting deadlines. Manuscripts that take more than sixty (60) days when corrections are requested will be automatically withdrawn from the journal and must be resubmitted, , except in duly justified cases.

The submission of a manuscript must be accompanied by a submission letter addressed to the journal's editor-in-chief, where the authors sign and declare that: 

- All of them have read and approved the manuscript submitted in its content, organization, presentation, and order of authorship, so there is no conflict of interest.

- The manuscript is the result of an original work, which has not been published, is not under consideration in any publication, and will not be submitted to another journal until to know the response of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research.

- If the manuscript is accepted, its publication, reproduction, and dissemination are authorized under the rules and license established by the journal. 

- The manuscript does not include text, tables, or figures with copyright. If you have them, you have the authorization for their use and reproduction.

- The manuscript does not contain citations or transcriptions of works that lack properly cited bibliographic references. 

- All of them accept all terms and conditions expressed in the author’s guide.  

Reviewers’ Responsibilities: Reviewers are researchers invited by the journal to revise ad honorem the manuscripts submitted. Every semester, the respective volume includes at the beginning of the complete list of reviewers who participated in the review. The functions of the reviewers are:

- Evaluating assigned manuscripts and giving a substantiated decision.

- Adopting an impartial, critical, and constructive position towards the manuscripts they evaluate.

- Protecting the confidentiality of the manuscripts reviewed.

- Declaring whether there is a conflict of interest.

Editorial Board Responsibilities: The Editorial Board is responsible for the journal's management. It is composed of researchers from national and international institutions, ensuring plurality in the different disciplines and research lines of marine and coastal topics. The functions of the Editorial Board are:

- Guaranteeing the quality of the content of the articles and scientific notes submitted to the journal. 

- Declaring whether there is a conflict of interest.

- Protecting the integrity and confidentiality of the authors' work and the anonymity of each reviewer.

- Accepting or refusing the submitted manuscripts.

- Promoting correction or retraction in the publication, in case of errors.

Sanctions: In any violation of the above paragraphs, the following sanctions will be applied: 

- Immediate rejection and withdrawal of the manuscript from the journal.

- Prohibition for all authors to submit new manuscripts to the journal, either individually or collectively. This sanction will be in force for two years from its notification. 

- The general editor and the director of the journal reserve the right to impose additional sanctions to those described above, if they consider it necessary.