UDC (universal decimal classification) XXX.XX.XX/XXX

Title of the article

A. A. Author1, B. B. Author2
1Affiliation, city, country
2Affiliation, city, country
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Abstract (Up to 600 words, fully reflecting the content of the work; the abstracts should display the relevance, aims, material and methods, results, and conclusions; the titles of these sections in the abstracts should not be included).
Keywords: (3–10 words or collocations, which will be used for the article search; they should reflect the subject matter specifics, the object, and the results of the research)

Introduction. Is aimed at presenting current state of affairs in the scientific problem the article purports to solve, outlines the relevance of the research topic, and presents a brief review of literature on the subject matter, the formulation of the problem, the aim and objectives of the study.

Material and Methods
The expeditionary research areas and the research vessel cruise number, the methods and schemes of experiments/observations are indicated to allow other scientists to reproduce the results using only the text of the article. Materials, instruments, equipment, samplings, and conditions of experiments/observations are specified.

Results
Actual results of the study: text, tables, graphs, diagrams, equations, photographs, figures.
Subtitle_1 (if necessary). Text of the section.
References in the text: (Author1, 2015; Author2, Author3, 2019; Author4 et al., 2023).
Mention of figures in the text: (Fig. 1, Fig. 2a and c, Figs 3 and 4).

Fig. 1. The description

Figures, graphs, photographs, etc. are accepted as .tiff, .png or .jpg files with high resolution (at least 300 dpi).
Figs are named as follows: Smith_et_al_fig1.jpg, Smith_et_al_fig2.jpg.
Subtitle_2 (if necessary). Text of the section.
Mention of tables in the text: (Table 1).

Table 1. The description
	Text, g·L−1	Text:	Text	
		text, g·m−1	text, kg		
Text	0.01	−	0.01	Text	
Text	−	0.01	−	Text	

Discussion
Contains an interpretation of the results of the study, inter alia the agreement of the results obtained with a hypothesis of the study, the area of the research and generalization of its results, and proposals for practical applications and future research.
References in the text: (Author1, 2010; Author2, Author3, 2021; Author4 et al., 2023).
Mention of figures and tables in the text: (see Fig. 1, Table 4).
Conclusion. The text can be structured (3–5 items summarizing the key findings of the study) or given in one or several paragraphs.
References to the source of financial support for the research (the number of grant, state assignment, etc.); specifying of the fact that materials of a collection or a biorepository were used.
Acknowledgment. (Expressing appreciation to colleagues for their help, to the keepers of collections and biorepositories for the material used, etc.).

References
(Includes only sources having the status of scientific publications used in preparing the article and cited in the body of the article in accordance with the standard adopted in Marine Biological Journal. Citation of abstracts of conference reports and abstracts of dissertations is undesirable and is allowed in exceptional cases.)