1、投稿方式：在线投稿。

2、刊内网址（202504期）：

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/avian-research

https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/avian-research/

https://www.sciopen.com/journal/2055-6187

3、投稿系统：

https://www.editorialmanager.com/avres/default1.aspx

4、出刊日期：季刊，逢季末月出版。

5、官方微信公众号：Avian Research

6、官网信息：2026年12月31日前投稿不收APC。

2026年1月28日星期三

Guide for Authors

【官网信息】

Introduction

Types of Article

Contributions

falling into the following categories will be considered for

publication: Original research paper, Review, Mini review, Methodology,

Letter to the editor, Perspective, and Commentary. Authors are advised

to contact the editorial office for inquiry about submission of Letter

to the editor, Perspective, and Commentary.

Please

ensure that you select the appropriate article type from the list of

options when submitting your manuscripts to regular issues of the

journal. Authors contributing to (virtual) special issues should ensure

that they select the correct abbreviated special issue title and

indicate the article type in the title page of the manuscript.

Original

research papers are full length papers which are the main type of

article of our journal. This type of article focuses on theoretical and

applied research in all subjects of avian science. (No word limit,

normally no less than 5000 words, including title, author information,

abstract, main text, declarations, and references, but excluding

supplementary files)

Reviews

provide syntheses of topical themes and they should also offer new

insights or perspectives to guide future research efforts. We

particularly welcome reviews that set a clear agenda for future research

within the focal area. Reviews can be written in essay format with the

subject headings selected according to the content of the manuscript.

(No word limit, normally no less than 8000 words)

Mini

reviews are shorter than standard reviews, covering focused aspects of a

current area of investigation and its recent developments. They offer a

succinct and clear summary of the topic, allowing readers to get

up-to-date on new developments and/or emerging concepts. (About 6000

words)

Methodologies

present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method

described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of

an existing method. The article should describe a demonstrable advance

on what is currently available. (Normally no more than 6000 words)

Letters

to the editor communicate brief reports of data from original research

that editors believe will be of broad interest to many researchers, and

that will likely stimulate further research in the field. (Max two

printed pages, about 1800 words, no more than one figure/table and 15

references, written in essay format, abstract not required)

Perspectives

present a viewpoint on a specific area of investigation. They could

discuss current advances and future directions, provide clear

presentation of the authors’ perspective, and may include original data.

(Max three printed pages, about 2700 words, no more than two

figures/tables and 15 references, written in essay format, abstract not

required)

Commentary

articles provide critical comments on previous publications in Avian

Research (which is highly preferred) or in other journals. (Max two

printed pages, about 1800 words, no more than one figure/table and 10

references, not containing unpublished or original data, written in

essay format, abstract not required)

Submission Checklist

You

can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before

you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section

in this Guide for Authors for more details.

Ensure that the following items are present:

One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:

• E-mail address

• Full postal address

All necessary files have been uploaded:

Manuscript:

• Include keywords

• All figures (include relevant captions)

• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)

• Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided

Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable)

Supplemental files (where applicable)

Further considerations

• Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'

• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa

• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)

• A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare

• Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed

• Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements

For further information, visit our Support Center.

Before you begin

Ethics in publishing

For

information on Ethics in Publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal

publication see https://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and

https://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.

Submissions

to KeAi journals are automatically screened using iThenticate's

CrossCheck within the editorial system to detect plagiarism issues

including instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted

manuscripts. Details can be found here. Highly similarity papers will be

desk rejected.

Declaration of competing interest

Corresponding

authors, on behalf of all the authors of a submission, must disclose

any financial and personal relationships with other people or

organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work.

Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment,

consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent

applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. All authors,

including those without competing interests to declare, should provide

the relevant information to the corresponding author (which, where

relevant, may specify they have nothing to declare). Corresponding

authors should then use this tool to create a shared statement and

upload to the submission system at the Attach Files step. Please do not

convert the .docx template to another file type. Author signatures are

not required.

Submission declaration and verification

Submission

of an article implies that the work described has not been published

previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or

academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for

more information), that it is not under consideration for publication

elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly

or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried

out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the

same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically

without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify

compliance, your article may be checked by Crossref Similarity Check and

other originality or duplicate checking software.

Use of inclusive language

Inclusive

language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is

sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Content

should make no assumptions about the beliefs or commitments of any

reader; contain nothing which might imply that one individual is

superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity,

culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition; and use

inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is

free from bias, stereotypes, slang, reference to dominant culture and/or

cultural assumptions. We advise to seek gender neutrality by using

plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as default/wherever

possible to avoid using "he, she," or "he/she." We recommend avoiding

the use of descriptors that refer to personal attributes such as age,

gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or

health condition unless they are relevant and valid. When coding

terminology is used, we recommend to avoid offensive or exclusionary

terms such as "master", "slave", "blacklist" and "whitelist". We suggest

using alternatives that are more appropriate and (self-) explanatory

such as "primary", "secondary", "blocklist" and "allowlist". These

guidelines are meant as a point of reference to help identify

appropriate language but are by no means exhaustive or definitive.

Author contributions

For

transparency, we require corresponding authors to provide co-author

contributions to the manuscript using the relevant CRediT roles. The

CRediT taxonomy includes 14 different roles describing each

contributor's specific contribution to the scholarly output. The roles

are: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding

acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration;

Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization;

Roles/Writing - original draft; and Writing - review & editing. Note

that not all roles may apply to every manuscript, and authors may have

contributed through multiple roles. More details and an example.

Changes to authorship

Authors

are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before

submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors

at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or

rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only

before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the

journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the

following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change

in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all

authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In

the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation

from the author being added or removed.

Only

in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition,

deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been

accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the

manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been

published in an online issue, any requests approved by the Editor will

result in a corrigendum.

Copyright

This

journal is a peer-reviewed, fully open access journal owned by Beijing

Forestry University, who retains copyright of the overall compiled

journal and the compiled issues. For the single article, Authors will

retain copyright alongside scholarly usage rights, and KeAi

Communications Co., Ltd. and Editorial Office of Avian Research will be

granted non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights.

Responsible sharing

Find out how you can share your research published in Elsevier journals.

Funding source

You

are requested to identify who provided financial support for the

conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly

describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the

collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the

report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If

the funding source(s) had no such involvement, it is recommended to

state this.

Open Access

Avian

Research is an open access journal, which means that all articles will

be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

Permitted third party (re)use is defined by the following Creative

Commons user licenses.

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY):

Allows

users to copy, to create extracts, abstracts and new works from the

Article, to alter and revise the Article and to make commercial use of

the Article (including reuse and/or resale of the Article by commercial

entities), provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to

the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the

license, indicates if changes were made and the licensor is not

represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of

the license are available at

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):

Allows

users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for

commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the

Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user

gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through

the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor

is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full

details of the license are available at

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Article Processing Charges

Providing

open access incurs an article publishing charge (also known as an APC)

which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their

research funder or institution. The APC for Avian Research is US$ 1000,

excluding taxes. For all papers submitted before the 31st of December

2026, the APC will be waived making it free to submit to the journal.

Elsevier Researcher Academy

Researcher

Academy is a free e-learning platform designed to support early and

mid-career researchers throughout their research journey. The "Learn"

environment at Researcher Academy offers several interactive modules,

webinars, downloadable guides and resources to guide you through the

process of writing for research and going through peer review. Feel free

to use these free resources to improve your submission and navigate the

publication process with ease.

Language and Language Services

Please

write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,

but not a mixture of these). For all accepted manuscripts, the

Editorial Office has the right to invite experienced native speakers to

revise English as necessary. Authors who require information about

language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission also

may visit https://webshop.elsevier.com/language-editing/ or our customer

support site at https://service.elsevier.com for more information.

Full Online Submission

Submission

to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines

to prepare your article. Via the homepage of this journal

https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/avian-research/ you will be

guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files.

The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe

Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review

process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are

converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source

files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All

correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and

requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the author's

homepage.

ORCiD ID: Our journal supports the use of ORCiD ID. Authors are encouraged to provide ORCiD ID at submission.

Suggesting reviewers (optional)

When

submitting the manuscript, you are advised to provide names and

institutional e-mail addresses of no more than 6 potential reviewers.

You should not suggest reviewers who are your colleagues, or who have a

close collaboration with you during the last three years. Editors do not

invite reviewers who have potential competing interests with the

authors. Finally, you should not include existing members of the

journal's editorial board. Note that the editor has the right to decide

whether or not to invite your suggested reviewers.

Additional Information

Tables

and figures may be presented with captions within the main body of the

manuscript; if so, figures should additionally be uploaded as high

resolution files.

Preparation

Peer Review

This

journal adopts a single anonymized review process. All contributions

are sent to a minimum of two independent reviewers to assess the

scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the

decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's

decision is final. For more information on the types of peer review,

please visit: https://www.elsevier.com/reviewers/what-is-peer-review

1.

The editorial office will have a pre-check on the manuscripts. Any

papers that fail to meet the basic standard of the journal would be desk

rejected for reasons like out of scope, ethic issues, high

similarities, etc. Then, the editorial office would reassign selected

papers to (deputy) Editor-in-Chief. Papers that are considered reaching

the benchmark level of the journal will be further assigned to an

Editor.

2. Editor would invite multiple reviewers to review this paper.

3.

After at least two reviewers give their reviews and comments, the

Editor would provide feedbacks based on review comments to the authors

including his own review.

4. When authors submit the revised manuscript, Editor would make a final decision.

5.

Submissions contributed by the editors themselves, their colleagues or

friends will be handled by other journal editors independently,

following all of the journal's usual procedures.

Use of word processing software

It

is important that the file be saved in the native format of the word

processor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the

layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be

removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not

use the word processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words.

However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. When

preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for

each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used,

use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be

prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see

also the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier. Note that source files of

figures, tables and text graphics will be required whether or not you

embed your figures in the text. See also the section on Electronic

artwork.

To

avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the

'spell-check' and 'grammar-check' functions of your word processor.

Article Structure

Manuscripts in general should be organized in the following order:

Title

Name(s) of author(s)

Affiliations

(The institutions at which the work was carried out and their postal

addresses), including email addresses, phone and fax numbers for the

corresponding author(s)

Abstract (one-paragraphed, 200-300 words) followed by 3-8 keywords

Introduction (no need for giving the heading)

Materials and Methods

Results

Discussion

Conclusions (optional)

Acknowledgments (where applicable)

References

Figures and their captions

Tables

Appendix (where applicable)

Please let all the above parts involved in one Word file.

For

questions about the editorial process (including the status of

manuscripts under review) or for technical support on submissions,

please visit our Support Center

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