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1、投稿方式：在线投稿。

2、期刊网址：https://www.springer.com/journal/40

3、投稿网址：https://www.editorialmanager.com/inso

4、官网邮箱：如下。

5、期刊刊期：季刊，逢季中月出版。

2021年6月26日星期六

期刊邮箱【官网信息】

Editor-in-Chief

Miriam Richards

Department of Biological Sciences

Brock University

500 Glenridge Ave

St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1

Canada

E-mail: mrichards@brocku.ca

Associate Editors

Terrence P. McGlynn

California State University Dominguez Hills

Department of Biology

CSU Dominguez Hills

1000 E. Victoria Street

Carson, CA 90747 USA

terry.mcglynn@gmail.com

Maria Cristina Lorenzi

LEEC-Laboratoire d'Ethologie Expérimentale et Comparée

Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité

99 avenue J.-B. Clément

93430 Villetaneuse, France

Email: cristina.lorenzi@leec.univ-paris13.fr

Kenji Matsuura

Laboratory of Insect Ecology

Graduate School of Agriculture

Kyoto UniversityOiwakecho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyoku,

Kyoto City, Japan

kenjijpn@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Graham Thompson

Department of Biology

Western University

Lndon, Ontario, Canada

N6A 5B7

Email: graham.thompson@uwo.ca

Reviews Editor

Margaret J. Couvillon

Department of Entomology

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061

USA

E-mail: mjc@vt.edu

Contact the journal

Submission-related enquiries

Queries about submission issues, peer review process, or the status of your manuscript should be sent to Aishwarya Kamalakannan (Aishwarya.Kamalakannan@springernature.com).

Publication-related enquiries

Queries about accepted manuscripts in production or post-publication corrections should be sent to Jayaprakash Pappichetty (Jayaprakash.Pappichetty@springer.com).

Other editorial enquiries

Any other queries about the journal or presubmission enquiries should be sent to Hannah Waterhouse (hannah.waterhouse@biomedcentral.com).

投稿须知【官网信息】

Submission guidelines

Instructions for Authors

Editorial Policy

Insectes Sociaux is the Journal of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI). It publishes original reviews, research articles and short communications on all aspects related to the biology and evolution of social insects and other presocial arthropods. The various areas it covers include Ecology, Ethology, Morphology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Reproduction, Communication, Sociobiology, Caste Differentiation and Social Parasitism.

Each manuscript is subject to the refereeing process. For further details on the submission procedure see the following paragraphs.

Manuscript Submission

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Online Submission

Please follow the hyperlink “Submit manuscript” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.

Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files. Failing to submit these source files might cause unnecessary delays in the review and production process.

Types of Papers

Insectes Sociaux publishes Commentaries, Reviews, Research Articles and Short Communications.

All manuscripts should begin with an introduction that describes why the work is relevant and puts it in the context of the current knowledge on the subject. All manuscripts should end with a discussion of the significance of the results and their relation to other work. Whether the manuscript follows the usual format of “Introduction”, “Materials and methods”, “Results” and “Discussion” is at the author’s discretion and depends on the type of paper. However, this standard format is recommended for empirical studies. As much as possible, submissions, including the references section, should be formatted to fit the journal’s style.

All types of paper are first vetted by an editor for appropriateness to the focus of the journal and for scientific quality and interest. Submissions that fit the journal’s scientific concentration and minimum quality standards are then sent out for peer review. The editors’ decisions reflect the reviewers’ input as well as the editors’ own judgement. Revised papers may be sent out for re-review prior to further consideration.

Commentaries

Commentaries are opinion pieces about current issues in the study of social insects. The author(s) may represent their opinions and beliefs, but statements may not mispresent facts and personal attacks or ad hominen arguments are not permitted. Commentaries are peer reviewed and, if appropriate, the editor may invite a rejoinder from scientists with different points of view on the issue. This type of paper is not intended for critiques of specific articles published in Insectes Sociaux, but rather for broader questions.

Reviews

Review manuscripts are subject to the standard peer review process. Manuscripts that mainly summarize published or unpublished data by the review's author(s) will not be considered. Review articles should not exceed 10 pages unless the editor’s permission has been gained (a page of text is about 900 words and about 40 references fill a page). Authors also have the option to upload Supplementary online materials.

Authors interested in writing reviews are invited to send a short summary (1-2 paragraphs) that explains the intended topic, why the review would be timely, a brief indication of the structure, including a list of addressed topics, to Margaret Couvillon (mjc@vt.edu).

Research Articles

Research articles are scientific research reports in standard scientific journal format and style of presentation. Research articles should not exceed a length of 10 printed pages. Including figures and tables. A page of text is about 900 words and about 40 references fill a page. When calculating the potential final published length of a paper please consider that the title and abstract consume about half a page and also factor in the space taken by tables, figures, and figure legends. Nearly all research articles follow the usual format of “Introduction”, “Materials and methods”, “Results” and “Discussion”, but editors may allow flexibility depending on the content of the article.

Short communications

Short communications are usually focused on a single test of a hypothesis or on an experiment of limited scope. They are published as short reports of general interest and are by no means articles that are not of sufficient interest to be published as full papers.

English Language Support

For editors and reviewers to accurately assess the work presented in your manuscript you need to ensure the English language is of sufficient quality to be understood. If you need help with writing in English you should consider:

Getting a fast, free online grammar check.

Asking a colleague who is proficient in English to review your manuscript for clarity.

Visiting the English language tutorial which covers the common mistakes when writing in English.

Using a professional language editing service where editors will improve the English to ensure that your meaning is clear and identify problems that require your review. Two such services are provided by our affiliates Nature Research Editing Service and American Journal Experts. Springer authors are entitled to a 10% discount on their first submission to either of these services, simply follow the links below.

Free online grammar check

English language tutorial

Nature Research Editing Service

American Journal Experts

Please note that the use of a language editing service is not a requirement for publication in this journal and does not imply or guarantee that the article will be selected for peer review or accepted.

If your manuscript is accepted it will be checked by our copyeditors for spelling and formal style before publication.

Please note

Insectes Sociaux publishes papers in English; submitted manuscripts must be in acceptable English to be considered for review. Manuscripts may be returned to authors for editing if spelling, grammar and syntax deviate from standard usage. American English spellings and grammatical conventions should be followed.

Title Page

Please make sure your title page contains the following information.

Title

The title should be concise and informative.

Author information

The name(s) of the author(s)

The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country

A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author

If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)

If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published.

For authors that are (temporarily) unaffiliated we will only capture their city and country of residence, not their e-mail address unless specifically requested.

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

For life science journals only (when applicable)

Trial registration number and date of registration

Trial registration number, date of registration followed by “retrospectively registered”

Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

Declarations

All manuscripts must contain the following sections under the heading 'Declarations'.

If any of the sections are not relevant to your manuscript, please include the heading and write 'Not applicable' for that section.

To be used for all articles, including articles with biological applications

Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)

Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)

Availability of data and material (data transparency)

Code availability (software application or custom code)

Authors' contributions (optional: please review the submission guidelines from the journal whether statements are mandatory)

Additional declarations for articles in life science journals that report the results of studies involving humans and/or animals

Ethics approval (include appropriate approvals or waivers)

Consent to participate (include appropriate statements)

Consent for publication (include appropriate statements)

Please see the relevant sections in the submission guidelines for further information as well as various examples of wording. Please revise/customize the sample statements according to your own needs.

Text

Text Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.

Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.

Use italics for emphasis.

Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.

Do not use field functions.

Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.

Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.

Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.

Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).

Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.

LaTeX macro package (Download zip, 190 kB)

Headings

Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes

Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.

Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.

Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

Scientific Style

Taxonomic keys and online tools used in identifying species should be cited in the article references. If a museum collection was used to assist in identifications that resource should be mentioned in the text.

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