Marine Biology publishes original and internationally significant contributions from all fields of marine biology. Special emphasis is given to articles which promote the understanding of life in the sea, organism-environment interactions, interactions between organisms, and the functioning of the marine biosphere. While original research articles are the backbone of Marine Biology, method articles, reviews and comments are also welcome, provided that they meet the same originality, importance and quality criteria as research articles. Articles of exceptional significance are published as highlight articles. They are accompanied by an editorial comment, and they are promoted in social media.Aspects of particular interest include:marine biogeochemistryecology of marine populations and communitiesmarine ecophysiologybehavioural biology of marine organismsdevelopment and life cycles of marine organismsbiochemistry and physiology of marine organismsevolution of marine organismspopulation genetics of marine organismsmarine conservationtechnology developments in marine biologyIrrespective of the area, preference will be given to articles contributing to the advancement of growing research areas and/or the solution of present day theoretical debates.Acknowledgement of ReviewersReviewers contribute significantly to the quality of a publication. Therefore Marine Biology offers the acknowledgement of reviewers on published articles. If reviewers agree to disclose their identity, their names will appear on the first page of the published article, below the name of the handling editor. However, they will remain anonymous throughout the entire reviewing period, regardless of whether or not they prefer to disclose their identity.

海洋生物學(xué)出版來自海洋生物學(xué)所有領(lǐng)域的原創(chuàng)和國際上重要的貢獻(xiàn)。特別強(qiáng)調(diào)的是促進(jìn)對(duì)海洋生命、組織-環(huán)境相互作用、有機(jī)體之間的相互作用和海洋生物圈功能的了解的文章。雖然原創(chuàng)性研究論文是海洋生物學(xué)的支柱，但只要原創(chuàng)性、重要性和質(zhì)量標(biāo)準(zhǔn)與研究論文相同，方法論文、綜述和評(píng)論也受歡迎。具有特殊意義的文章作為重點(diǎn)文章發(fā)表。它們還附有編輯評(píng)論，并在社交媒體上得到推廣。特別感興趣的方面包括:海洋生物地球化學(xué)海洋種群和群落生態(tài)學(xué)海洋生態(tài)生理學(xué)海洋生物行為生物學(xué)海洋生物的發(fā)育和生命周期海洋生物的生物化學(xué)和生理學(xué)海洋生物進(jìn)化海洋生物種群遺傳學(xué)海洋保護(hù)海洋生物學(xué)的技術(shù)發(fā)展不論在哪個(gè)領(lǐng)域，對(duì)有助于促進(jìn)不斷增長的研究領(lǐng)域和(或)解決目前理論辯論的文章將給予優(yōu)先考慮。確認(rèn)的評(píng)論家審稿人對(duì)出版物的質(zhì)量有很大的貢獻(xiàn)。因此，海洋生物學(xué)為已發(fā)表的文章提供了審稿人的認(rèn)可。如果審稿人同意公開他們的身份，他們的名字將出現(xiàn)在發(fā)表文章的第一頁，在處理編輯的名字下面。然而，在整個(gè)審查期間，他們將保持匿名，不管他們是否愿意透露自己的身份。