1、投稿方式：在线投稿。

2、刊内网址（202504期）：

https://academic.oup.com/cz

3、投稿系统：

https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/currentzoology

4、主办单位官网：

http://www.ioz.cas.cn/gb2018/cbw/xsqk/201805/t20180507_5007417.html

（中国科学院动物研究所）

5、官网电话：010-64807091

6、官网邮箱：zool@ioz.ac.cn

7、出刊日期：双月刊，逢双月出版。

2025年12月10日星期三

《动物学报（英文版）》投稿须知

【官网信息】

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.

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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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Conflict of Interest

Oxford

University Press requires declaration of any conflict of interest upon

submission online. If the manuscript is published, conflict of interest

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Crossref Funding Data Registry

In

order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name

their funding sources, or state if there are none, during the submission

process. For further information on this process or to find out more

about CHORUS, visit the CHORUS initiative.

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.

As

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journal's continued operation, and we ask authors to ensure they are

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acknowledge this is not always possible for all authors. Corresponding

authors based in Low and Middle Income countries and regions may receive

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further details, please see our open access waiver policy.

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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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