Guide to Manuscript Preparation and Editorial policy

Guide to Manuscript Preparation  

 

Proceedings ZIN accept papers with results, which correspond to main directions of ZIN basic research.

Review papers, brief communications and book reviews are accepted only with a special permission from the Editors. Faunistic lists, applied papers and manuscripts on philosophy or history of science are not accepted.

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement requirements:

  1. Editorial Board

  1. Authors and Authors responsibilities

  • Proceedings of the Zoological Institute is published at the expense of the Zoological Institute RAS. No page charges are required from the authors.
  • Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process.
  • All authors are expected to have made a significant scientific contribution to the manuscript.
  • All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
  • Authors should explicitly mention all funding sources for their research and should give proper acknowledgment of the work of others.
  • Articles submitted for peer review should represent the original research and should not be published previously or under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  1. Peer-review process

  • All of the journal's content is subjected to peer review as described on the journal's website https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/reviewing.html. Reviewed articles are treated confidentially. Reviewers are expected to have no conflict of interest with any of the authors on the submission and requested to provide objective judgement and point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
  1. Publication ethics

  • Publishers and editors take all reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.
  • Such misconducts are not allowed in any case.
  • In the event that a journal's publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor will deal with allegations appropriately.
  • Publishers and editors will always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
  • Editorial board should consider retracting a publication if it has clear evidence that:
    1. the findings are unreliable as a result of major error, fabrication or falsification;
    2. the publication constitutes plagiarism;
    3. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper attribution to previous sources or authorization for use;
    4. copyright has been infringed or there is some other serious legal issue;
    5. the publication reports unethical research.
  1. Copyright and Access

  • The copyright to the published paper is owned by the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences and the authors of the paper.
  • All articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
  • The journal content can be downloaded for free from the journal's website (https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/contents.html).
  1. Archiving

  • All contents of the Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences are stored and available for free download on the journal's website (https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/).

 

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