The Bulletin of Marine and Coastal research (ISSN 0122-9761) is a scientific journal that publishes unedited works about research topics on the sea or coastal aquatic environments, undertaken in the tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas. It has been edited since 1967 by Marine and Coastal Research Institute -José Benito Vives de Andréis--INVEMAR (Marine and Coastal Research Institute). Volumes 1-8 were called -Mitteilungen aus dem Instituto Colombo-Alemán de Investigaciones Científicas Punta de Betín- and between volumes 9 and 24 it was called -Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras-. Since 2008, the journal has published two issues per annual volume. Since 2016 the journal has been indexed in Scopus, one of the most important international data bases and, since it´s #50 anniversary, become a bilingual publication adjusted to international standards. It is distributed in more than 40 countries around the world by exchange or donation modality.