SUBMISSION OF NEW MANUSCRIPTS

We assume that by submitting your article to Annales Zoologici Fennici you accept our Terms and Conditions, and Copyright policy.

A manuscript should be prepared as described in the Instructions. Poor language, substantial departures from the instructions, and/or missing or incomplete submission form will result in returning the manuscript without review.

The authors should be arranged according to the degree of their contributions to the research and writing of the paper with the first contributing the most. The authors' order should not be changed after submission. Our expectation is that every person listed as an author of a paper has
• made substantial contributions to the conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data.
• drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content.
• given final approval of the version to be published.
• Individuals who have made lesser contributions such as supervision of the research group, or providing advice, occasional analyses, material, space, or who may have supported the research in other ways (e.g. by acquisition of data or funding), should only be acknowledged.

Please note that only one and the same author should be identified in the submission form and in the manuscript as the one responsible for correspondence. For practical reasons as well as to avoid confusion and contradictions we will communicate exclusively with this author.

To facilitate reviewing, lines of the text should be continuously numbered (e.g., in MS Word, select 'Layout', 'Line numbers' and 'Continuous').

Figures, tables and appendixes with their captions should be placed after References. All supplementary material (tables and figures) should be presented in appendixes.

Submissions are made by e-mail. To submit:

1. Convert the manuscript into one PDF file, including the tables, figures and appendixes placed at the end of the article after the references. The PDF file should not be protected in any way. Additionally, you may include the manuscript text without figures in MS Word format (.doc or .rtf). While not mandatory, providing the editable text file facilitates efficient processing of your submission.
2. Name your files using the surname of the first author [e.g. Smith.pdf].
3. Download the submission form from HERE, unzip it, and fill in the form using Adobe Acrobat (required fields should not be left empty). Personal e-mail addresses should only be used if institutional ones are not available. Rename the completed submission form by adding the surname of the first author [e.g. subm_form_Smith.pdf]. If you encounter problems with the form, please contact us directly at editor[at]sekj.org.
4. Click E-MAIL to start your e-mail application or send us an e-mail manually to editor[at]sekj.org (cc to sekj.journals[at]gmail.com). Attach the manuscript file(s) and the submission form, include your cover letter into the body text of the email.

After the submission, you and all the co-authors will receive acknowledgement of receipt of the paper, usually within a few working days. If you do not hear from us, please inquire by sending an e-mail to editor[at]sekj.org (cc to sekj.journals[at]gmail.com).

PLEASE NOTE that purely descriptive, morphometric, correlative and biogeographic (predictive modelling or correlative approach) studies, faunistic notes (incl. new records), papers on numerical taxonomy, insect parasites, pests and their control, as well as studies of restricted geographical or taxonomic interest are not considered unless they address generally important research questions. We also discourage submitting papers presenting environmental studies based on proxies (such as e.g., elevation, location) rather than on in-situ measured environmental variables (such as e.g., temperature, precipitation).

Evaluation procedure

All submitted manuscripts are first scrutinised by the editor. This includes verification whether an article is original and previously unpublished, fulfils our requirements presented in the instructions to authors, the subject is within the scope of the journal, the introduction sufficiently presents the background for the study and research objectives, description of the methods used is sufficient, data valid, and the results sound considering the methods and data used. Papers deemed suitable for publication are sent to unbiased experts (most often two) for evaluation. Exceptionally, a member of the journal's advisory/editorial board may also act as a reviewer. Identities of the reviewers are kept confidential unless they specifically state that they do not wish to remain anonymous. However, identities of the authors are made known to reviewers. Knowledge about the existence of a manuscript under consideration and its content is restricted to the editorial staff and assigned reviewers only, and full confidentiality is maintained throughout the evaluation process. Final decisions regarding a manuscript's acceptance or rejection are made by the editor-in-chief based on the evaluations. Manuscripts whose subjects are outside the scope of the journal or do not fulfil our above-mentioned requirements are returned without consideration.