《動物分類學(xué)報》是一本國內(nèi)外頗具影響的學(xué)術(shù)性期刊，是中國自然科學(xué)核心期刊之一，國內(nèi)外公開發(fā)行。主要報道有關(guān)動物分類學(xué)、形態(tài)學(xué)、系統(tǒng)發(fā)育和動物地理學(xué)等領(lǐng)域的最新研究成果；歡迎動物系統(tǒng)進(jìn)化及分類理論研究、區(qū)系淵源探討，新技術(shù)和新方法在分類學(xué)上的應(yīng)用以及重要學(xué)科發(fā)展綜述等論文。對于國家重大、重點(diǎn)項(xiàng)目及國家自然科學(xué)基金項(xiàng)目和有突破性進(jìn)展的研究成果，給予優(yōu)先發(fā)表。為促進(jìn)國際交流，刊登英文撰稿。

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　　《動物分類學(xué)報》主要欄目：研究論文，簡報。讀、作者對象：國內(nèi)外有關(guān)該領(lǐng)域的大專院校師，科研院所的研究人員及動物愛好者。

　　1 General.

　　Manuscript submissions should be written in English and in either RTF or Word format. If possible, use Times New Roman 10 point font; minimize formatting by using bold and italics only where necessary; indent the beginning of all paragraphs by 4 characters. Taxonomic names must agree with the articles and recommendations of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

　　hyphens "-": for words. For example: fishtail-shaped; finger-like.

　　n-dash "–": for ranges. For example: Leg I–III; 1977–1981; Figs 5–34.

　　m-dash "—": for appositions that may replace commas, colons and parentheses. For example: It is hard to recognize the Camellia fruit borer—Neoblastobasis camelliae—a new species of Blastobasidae.

　　Do not insert spaces when using either n-dashes or m-dashes.

　　2 Title, authors and affiliations

　　The title of the paper should be informative yet concise. Indicate higher taxonomic categories using parenthesis and list in hierarchical order (Order: Family: Subfamily 1, Subfamily 2). Place a colon “:” between different hierarchical levels and a comma ",": between the same levels. Give common names to facilitate reading by non-specialists.

　　For example: A taxonomic revision of the hawk moth genus Lapara (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae).

　　Give the full name of all authors and start each name with capital letters. For Chinese names, the given name should be connected by a hyphen "-" if it is not a single character. For example: Xiao-Ming Wang.

　　The author addresses should be in italics as follows: institutional affiliation (university, institute), city, state/province (if applicable), postal code, country, E-mail. Designate one corresponding author. For example: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China, E-mail: dwfl@ioz.ac。cn.

　　3 Abstract

　　The abstract should be a concise summary of the significant content and salient conclusions of the work. Explicitly mention all taxonomic changes proposed in the paper. For example: Our analyses discovered three new taxa: taxon A, taxon B and taxon C.

　　From three to eight key words should follow the abstract and separate using commas. The key words should not be present in the title and abstracts.

　　4 Main text

　　The main text should include an Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References. If applicable, list the Funding support before the Acknowledgements. For taxonomic works: the Materials and methods can include the deposition of specimens, methods used for drawings and photos, terminology in text, etc.

　　Use either simple or short compound sentences for clarity. Authors who are not native English-speakers are strongly encouraged to have their manuscript read by native speakers before submission. For taxonomic works, use complete sentences rather than the "subject+object” model in the description section of the Introduction, Diagnosis, Remarks, etc.

　　4.1 Number the heading levels

　　The following format is suggested for Zoological Systematics.

　　1 Introduction

　　2 Material and methods

　　3 Results/Systematics/Taxonomy

　　3.1 Result 1

　　3.2 Result 2

　　4 Discussion

　　Funding

　　Acknowledgements

　　References

　　4.2 Table

　　Tables should immediately follow the References. The font should be in Times New Roman and 9 point.

　　4.3 Figures

　　Figures should be JPG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF or PNG files of publishable quality. For the review, lower-quality figures can be embedded in the Word document after the tables, if they exist. Figures of higher quality may be required upon acceptance. Color photographs and drawings are preferred, although B&W figures are acceptable. Software, such as Adobe Illustrator? or Adobe Photoshop?, can be used to clean up the background and number the figures. For the initial submission, combine all figures into one large PDF file. Size the document to ≥23cm×16cm and ≥300dpi (Word size: 10 points).

　　In the text, refer to figures as follows: Fig. 1; Figs 2, 3. Number compound figures sequentially first from top to bottom then from left to right. Provide scales in all figures depicting morphological characters. For example: Figs 1–3. Adults. 1, species A; 2, species B. Scale bar =1cm. Fig. 1. Genus species. A, Habitus; B, C, male genitalia; D–F, head (D), thorax (E) and abdomen (F). Scale bar = 1cm.

　　4.4 References

　　Journal:

　　Authors. Year. Title of the paper. Title of the journal (in full when possible), volume number (issue number): page range. doi number (if possible).

　　Book chapter:

　　Authors. Year. Title of chapter. In: Editor(s) (ed./eds.), Title of the book. Publisher location: Publisher. pp. page range.

　　Book:

　　Authors. Year. Title of the book. Publisher location: Publisher. Pages pp.

　　Internet resource:

　　Authors. Year(s). Title of website, database or other resources. Available from http://....../ (Date of access).

　　4.5 Description of a species

　　When describing a taxon, the following order is suggested.

　　1) Taxon name. Scientific name (with author and year); citation. All citations of the taxon should be listed in references section.

　　2) Diagnosis. Only diagnostic characters from similar species.

　　3) Description. All characters of the taxon.

　　4) Material examined.

　　Holotype ♂, China: Beijing, Badaling (40.35?N, 116.02?E; elevation 1300m), 5 September 1992, leg. Xin-Ming Wang (Deposition and register no.). Paratypes 5♀, same data as holotype. Other material examined. Country: State, locality A (geographic coordinates and elevation), ♂♀, date, collecter (Collection and registration no.); locality B (geographic coordinates and elevation), ♂♀, date, collector (Collection and registration no.).

　　5) Biology. Biological habits, life cycle, hosts, etc.

　　6) Distribution. For example: China (Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Tianjin); India, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia.

　　7) Etymology. Language of origin for word (stem) (Latin, Greek); adjective, noun in apposition.

　　8) Remarks/Notes/Discussion/Other.

　　5 Molecular data

　　When applicable, all DNA sequence data must be deposited in a public repository, such as GenBank, before publication.

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