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2026年2月27日星期五

Information for authors

【2025年04期信息】

The

current journal is mainly focused on zoological systematics. According

to Systematics Agenda 2000 (1994), systematics is the science built on

the following tasks: Taxonomy—the science of discovering, describing,

and classifying species or groups of species (together termed taxa);

Phylogenetic analysis—the discovery of the evolutionary relationships

among a group of species; and Classification—the grouping of species,

ultimately on the basis of evolutionary relationships.

1 General

Manuscripts

should be written in English and in either RTF or Word format. If

possible, use Times New Roman 10 point font;minimize formatting by using

bold and italics only where necessary; indent the beginning of all

paragraphs by 4 characters. Taxonomic names must agree with the articles

and recommendations of the International Code of Zoological

Nomenclature.

hyphens "-": for words. For example: fishtail-shaped; finger-like.

n-dash "–": for ranges. For example: Leg I–III; 1977–1981; Figs 5–34.

m-dash

"—": for appositions that may replace commas, colons and parentheses.

For example: It is hard to recognize the Camellia fruit

borer—Neoblastobasis camelliae—a new species of Blastobasidae.

Do not insert spaces when using either n-dashes or m-dashes.

2 Title, authors and affiliations

The

title of the paper should be informative yet concise. Indicate higher

taxonomic categories using parenthesis and list in hierarchical order

(Order: Family: Subfamily 1, Subfamily 2). Place a colon “:” between

different hierarchical levels and a comma "," between the same levels.

Give common names to facilitate reading by non-specialists. For example:

A taxonomic revision of the hawk moth genus Lapara (Lepidoptera:

Sphingidae).

Give the full name of all authors and start each name with capital letters. For example: Xiaoming Wang.

The

author addresses should be in italics as follows: institutional

affiliation (university, institute), city, state/province (if

applicable),postal code, country, E-mail. Designate one corresponding

author. For example: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

Beijing 100101, China; E-mail: dwfl@ioz.ac.cn.

3 Abstract

The

abstract should be a concise summary of the significant content and

salient conclusions of the work. Explicitly mention all taxonomic

changes proposed in the paper. For example: Our analyses revealed three

new taxa: taxon A, taxon B and taxon C.

From

three to eight key words should follow the abstract and separate using

commas. The key words should not be present in the title and abstracts.

4 Main text

The main text should include an Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References.

If

applicable, list the Funding support before the Acknowledgements. For

taxonomic works, the Materials and methods can include the deposition of

specimens, methods used for drawings and photos, terminology in text,

etc.

Use

either simple or short compound sentences for clarity. Authors who are

not native English-speakers are strongly encouraged to have their

manuscript read by native speakers before submission. For taxonomic

works, use complete sentences rather than the "subject+object" model in

the description section of the Introduction, Diagnosis, Remarks, etc.

4.1 Number the heading levels

The following format is suggested for Zoological Systematics.

1 Introduction

2 Material and methods

3 Results/Systematics/Taxonomy

3.1 Result 1

3.1.1 …

3.1.2 …

3.2 Result 2

4 Discussion

4.1 ……

4.2 ……

Funding

Acknowledgements

References

4.2 Table

Tables should immediately follow the References. The font should be in Times New Roman and 9 point.

4.3 Figures

Figures

should be in JPG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF or PNG files of publishable quality.

For the review, lower-quality figures can be embedded

in

the Word document after the tables, if they do exist. Figures of higher

quality may be required upon acceptance. Color photographs and drawings

are preferred, although B&W figures are also acceptable. Softwares,

such as Adobe Illustrator® or Adobe Photoshop®, can be used to clean up

the background and number the figures. For the initial submission,

please combine all figures into one large PDF file.

Size the document to ≥575px×400px and ≥300dpi (Word size: 10 points).

In

the text, refer to figures as follows: Fig. 1; Figs 2, 3. Number

compound figures sequentially first from top to bottom then from left to

right. Provide scales in all figures depicting morphological

characters.

Figures 1–3. Adults. 1, species A; 2, species B. Scale bar = 25px.

Figure 1. Genus species. A, Habitus; B, C, male genitalia; D–F, head (D), thorax (E) and abdomen (F). Scale bar = 25px.

4.4 References

Journal:

Authors.

Year. Title of the paper. Title of the journal (in full when possible),

volume number (issue number): page range. doi number (if possible).

Book chapter:

Authors. Year. Title of chapter. In: Editor(s) (ed./eds), Title of the book. Publisher, Publisher location. pp. page range.

Book:

Authors. Year. Title of the book. Publisher, Publisher location. Pages pp.

Internet resource:

Authors. Year(s). Title of website, database or other resources. Available from http://....../ (Date of access).

For example:

Klimoski,

R., Palmer, S. 1993. The ADA and the hiring process in organizations.

Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research,45(2): 10–36.

doi:10.1037/1061-4087.45.2.10

Caselli,

D., Carraro, F., Castagnola, E., Ziino, O., Frenos, S., Milano, G.M.,

Aric, M. 2010. Morbidity of pandemic H1N1 influenza in children with

cancer. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 55: 226–228.

Hartley,

J.T., Harker J.O., Walsh, D.A. 1980. Contemporary issues and new

directions in adult development of learning and memory. In:Poon, L.W.

(ed.), Aging in the 1980s: Psychological issues. American Psychological

Association, Washington, DC. pp. 239–252.

McKibben, B. 1992. The age of missing information. Random House, New York, NY. 482pp.

Beccaloni,

G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B.,

Hine, A., Lyal, C. (eds). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index

(LepIndex). Available from http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex

(accessed 6 January 2007).

4.5 Description of a species

When describing a taxon, the following order is suggested.

1)

Taxon name. Scientific name (with author and year); citation. All

citations of the taxon should be listed in the references section.

2) Diagnosis. Only diagnostic characters from similar species.

3) Description. All characters of the taxon.

4) Material examined.

Holotype. ♂,

China: Beijing, Badaling (40.35ºN, 116.02ºE; elevation 1300m), 5

September 1992, leg. Xinming Wang (Deposition and register no.).

Paratypes. 5♀, same data as holotype. Other material examined. Country: State, locality A (geographic coordinates and elevation), ♂♀, date, collecter (Collection and registration no.); locality B (geographic coordinates and elevation), ♂♀, date, collector (Collection and registration no.).

5) Biology. Biological habits, life cycle, hosts, etc.

6) Distribution. For example: China (Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Tianjin); India, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia.

7) Etymology. Language of origin for word (stem) (Latin, Greek); adjective, noun in apposition.

8) Remarks/Notes/Discussion/Other.

5 Molecular data

When applicable, all DNA sequence data must be deposited in a public repository, such as GenBank, before publication.