Submitted material will be reviewed for style, relevance and quality by the editors and by anonymous external reviewers. The desired style of writing is less technical and more compact than that typically used in scientific papers. The readership includes oceanographers from all traditional disciplines, as well as scientifically literate persons with a broad range of interests and responsibilities. Authors should strive for clarity and simplicity and avoid technical and mathematical jargon. Perhaps the best description of the expected style is the following.
Vigorous writing is concise.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White. Co., Inc. Reprinted with permission. References Oceanography does not use numbered footnotes.