The authors of Journal of Oceanography can now select Open Choice for their papers when they are accepted; http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/springer-open-choice.

With the Open Choice, the authors can keep the copyright and distribute their pdf files freely. Anybody can download the pdf files and use the figures and tables in the paper as long as they write the reference and link to Creative Commons License.

To select Open Choice, the authors have to pay the publication charge of US$3000 or EUR2200 to Springer. The Member of the Oceanographic Society of Japan is exempted to pay the listing fee of ¥20,000 to Oceanographic Society of Japan.

From the submission of October 1, 2016, we limit the length of the Short Contribution less than 3500 words with less than 5 figures and/or tables, and the abstract should be shorter than 100 words. Details can be found in the Instruction for the authors of homepage of Journal of Oceanography.

Joji Ishizaka

Editor-in-Chief