湖沼學和海洋學:方法將考慮原稿，其主要重點是方法學，并處理水科學的問題。手稿可以提供新的測量設備，分析觀察或樣本的技術，理解和解釋信息的方法，分析元數據以檢查方法的有效性，邀請和貢獻的評論和合成，以及水生科學的交流和教學技術。

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods will consider manuscripts whose primary focus is methodological, and that deal with problems in the aquatic sciences. Manuscripts may present new measurement equipment, techniques for analyzing observations or samples, methods for understanding and interpreting information, analyses of metadata to examine the effectiveness of approaches, invited and contributed reviews and syntheses, and techniques for communicating and teaching in the aquatic sciences.