Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed international journal for rapid publication of high quality papers on any aspect of systematic zoology, with a preference for large taxonomic works such as monographs and revisions. Zootaxa considers papers on all animal taxa, both living and fossil, and especially encourages descriptions of new taxa.  All types of taxonomic papers are considered,  including theories and methods of systematics and phylogeny, taxonomic monographs, revisions and reviews, catalogues/checklists, biographies and bibliographies, identification guides, analysis of characters, phylogenetic relationships and zoogeographical patterns of distribution, descriptions of taxa, and nomenclature. Open access publishing option is strongly encouraged for authors with research grants and other funds. For those without grants/funds, all accepted manuscripts will be published but access is secured for subscribers only.

For more details, see the guideline here.

 

Section Policies

Editorial

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Review

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Article

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Correspondence

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Erratum

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Monograph

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Biography

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Memorial

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts will be subjected to peer review before acceptance by editors.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

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