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2025年12月10日星期三
《动物学报（英文版）》投稿须知
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Submission and contacting the editorial office
All manuscripts are submitted and reviewed via the journal's Manuscript Central site. New authors should create an account prior to submitting a manuscript for consideration. Questions about submitting to the journal should be sent to the editorial office at zool@ioz.ac.cn
Language Editing Pre-submission
Language editing, if your first language is not English, to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers is optional. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication.
Please note that edited manuscripts will still need to undergo peer-review by the journal.
Peer Review Process
This journal operates single-anonymised peer review, meaning that the Authors identity is known to the Editor and to the Reviewers, but that the Reviewers’ identities are known only to the Editor and are hidden from the Authors. For full details about the peer review process, see Fair editing and peer review.
All submissions to the journal are initially reviewed by one of the Editors. At this stage manuscripts may be rejected without peer review if it is felt that they are not of high enough priority or not relevant to the journal. This fast rejection process means that authors are given a quick decision and do not need to wait for the review process.
Manuscripts that are not instantly rejected are sent out for peer review, usually to three independent reviewers. Based on the feedback from these reviewers and the Editors' judgment a decision is given on the manuscript. The average time from submission to first decision is five weeks.
If a paper is not acceptable in its present form, we will pass on suggestions for revisions to the author.
Publication Ethics
Authors should observe high standards with respect to publication ethics as set out by the Commission on Publication Ethics (COPE). Falsification or fabrication of data, plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the authors' own work without proper citation, and misappropriation of the work are all unacceptable practices. Any cases of ethical misconduct are treated very seriously and will be dealt with in accordance with the COPE guidelines.
Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively to CURRENT ZOOLOGY, that is, they have not been and nor will be submitted or published elsewhere (either in whole or in part) while CURRENT ZOOLOGY is handling the manuscripts.
Manuscripts may also be screened, including with services provided by third parties, to help detect integrity issues such as inappropriate image alteration and papermill activity.
Experimental Ethics
When reporting animal experiments authors should indicate whether the institution's, national research council's, or any other law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Plagiarism
Manuscripts submitted may be screened with iThenticate anti-plagiarism software in an attempt to detect and prevent plagiarism. Any manuscript may be screened, especially if there is reason to suppose part or all of the text has been previously published. Prior to final acceptance any manuscript that has not already been screened may be put through iThenticate. Please see more information about iThenticate.
Authorship
All authors should have made substantial contributions to the article, including:
The conception and design of the study, or the acquisition of data, or the analysis and interpretation of data.
Drafting of the article or critical revision of important intellectual content.
Final approval of the submitted version.
All authors should agree to take responsibility for all aspects of the work to ensure that issues relating to the accuracy or completeness of any part of the work are properly investigated and resolved.
Changes to authorship
The editors of Current Zoology generally will not consider changes to authorship and/or author affiliations once a manuscript has been submitted. It is important that authors provide a definitive author list and author affiliations at original submission.
The policy of Current Zoology around authorship and/or author affiliations changes:
All authors must be listed in the manuscript and their details in the submission system.
Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list and author affiliations should only be made prior to acceptance, and only approved by the journal editor.
Requests to change authorship and author affiliations should be made by the corresponding author, who must provide the reason to the journal editor with written confirmation from all authors.
Publication of the manuscript may be paused while a change in and/or author affiliations request are being considered.
Any authorship and/or author affiliations change requests approved by the journal editor will result in a correction if the manuscript has already been published.
Any unauthorised authorship and/or author affiliations changes may result in the rejection of the article, or retraction, if the article has already been published.
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Open Access
Current Zoology is a fully open access journal, and all articles are published in the journal under an open access licence immediately upon publication. Manuscripts submitted after 6th April 2025 will be charged an OA fee once accepted, at the rate of $1,300 for a CC BY licence.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
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Manuscript Preparation
Manuscript format and structure/style
On the first page please include the title of paper, author names, and the address (including email) of the corresponding author. If there are multiple corresponding authors then nominate one for communication with the editorial office.
There is no word limit for papers submitted to Current Zoology. Non-essential content should be placed in an appendix.
We suggest a maximum length of 250 words for the Abstract. Avoid reference citations and abbreviations in the Abstract. The abstract should describe briefly the purpose of and method used in the study, outline the major findings, and state the main conclusions. Both the common and scientific names of organisms should be provided at the first mention unless they are given in the title. Please list the key words on a separate line below the abstract. Do not use more than six key words.
Tables and figures should be accompanied by a legend. Please use a common image format for figures (e.g. pdf, eps, gif, tif, jpg). Legends for tables and figures should be concise and self-explanatory, without repeating the information presented in the text or tables. Further information on figures.
Videos can be published in the online article, with a still image of the video appearing in the print version. Please submit videos in MP4 format. Any supplementary videos that you do not want to be included in the article itself can be uploaded as supplementary data. All videos should have an accompanying legend.
References can be formatted following most recently published papers by this journal.
Acknowledgements and details of funding sources should be included at the end of the text. Please refer to your funding organizations to acknowledge their support. PubMed Central links will require a specific grant number to be referenced.
Please list all author contributions upon submission of the manuscript.
Please also define non-standard abbreviations at the first occurrence and number figures and tables consecutively.
Letters to the Editor are short experimental papers focused on outstanding findings, which may present as little as a single experiment or observation and should constitute unusually interesting data combined with a discussion of what the data might mean, or an explanation of why the data contradicts current paradigms. No abstracts and headings (e.g., Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results) are required. However, the opening paragraph should present sufficient background information to allow readers to appreciate the rationale of the work, to put the study in a proper perspective, and the paragraph should conclude with clear research aims or hypotheses to be addressed in the paper. Generally, the information on materials and methods is submitted as a supplementary data. The content for ‘Discussion' should be placed at the last paragraph of the paper, just below the last paragraph of ‘Results' presented in the letter. The word count for the main text (including references and figure legends) should be no more than 2000, the letter should include no more than two tables/or two figures/or one figure plus one table, and no more than 10 references. If additional figures/tables are required in the 'Results' section, they can be published as Supplementary Data.
Upon revision papers should be submitted in Word format and figures should be submitted as separate, high-resolution, files.
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