Submissions to Invertebrate Biology fall into four main types: Research Article, Review Article, Book Review, and In Memoriam.
Research Articles must be based on complete studies that represent a substantive advance in knowledge of the organisms. New species descriptions and taxonomic revisions may form a secondary component of a research article in which the primary focus of the study is some aspect of the biology (rather than the classification) of the organisms. Descriptions of a new method may be considered for publication as a Research Article. The new method must be shown to work, and it must either satisfy a problem of broad general application in research on invertebrates, or the new method must be applied to make a substantive advance in knowledge of some specific aspect of the biology of the study organism(s). Review Articles and Book Reviews are welcomed. Authors are encouraged to consult the editor-in-chief before submitting a review article or book review.
Please provide a descriptive and information title. The abstract should be less than 300 words and include no citations. Provide up to five keywords that are not in the title or abstract.
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I have all additional electronic files of supplementary materials (e.g. datasets, images, audio, video) ready.
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All individuals who make significant contributions to work reported in a manuscript should be authors. All authors should review and ensure the accuracy and validity of results prior to submission.
Each author should have contributed to the design and completion of the study and to the scholarly content of the manuscript. Those contributions should be sufficient for each author to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content, and to be accountable for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work can be appropriately investigated and resolved.
Authors are encouraged to submit ORCID iDs to ensure appropriate credit for their contributions.
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or general administrative support). Nonhuman artificial intelligence, language models, machine learning, or similar technologies do not qualify for authorship because they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work.
Author order should be agreed on by all authors as should any changes in authors and order that occur while the manuscript is under review or revision. Requests for changes in authorship must be submitted to the editor-in-chief. Changes to authorship are not permitted after acceptance of a manuscript.
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CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
All authors must declare all relevant interests that could be perceived as conflicting. Examples include patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. Authors should explain why each interest may represent a conflict. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If no conflicts exist, the authors should state this.
DATA AVAILABILITY
Nucleotide sequence data must be submitted in electronic form to a major collaborative database (e.g., DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank). Genome or transcriptome sequences should be uploaded to a suitable data archive (e.g., Sequence Read Archive); assemblies may also be uploaded to an online repository (e.g., Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly Database). Descriptions of molecular structures (e.g., spectroscopy or crystallography) and the associated experimental data must be deposited in the appropriate databank (e.g., Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre; Protein Data Bank; BioMagResBank). Other data may be submitted to a repository (e.g. FigShare, Dryad) or uploaded with the manuscript as supplementary materials.
When access to sensitive data is restricted by law, authors should describe the process by which researchers can apply for access. When data are available on request, please do use one individual as the only contact for obtaining access to the data.
FUNDING STATEMENT
Authors must state how the research and publication of their article was funded, by naming financially supporting body(s) (written out in full) followed by associated grant number(s) in square brackets (if applicable). Authors are responsible for correctly identifying funders. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature. If the research did not receive specific funding but was performed as part of the employment of the authors, please name this employer. If the funder was involved in the manuscript writing, editing, approval, or decision to publish, please declare this.
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Upload the main manuscript with figures and tables embedded with the text. Authors are strongly advised to use formatting tips provided in the research article manuscript template.
A cover letter is welcome, especially for new manuscripts that describe a new method, or for revised manuscripts where the cover letter explains the revisions and the author responses to reviewer and editor criticisms or suggestions.
Supplementary materials should be uploaded separately (one file for each supplementary table, figure, video, or other item cited in the main text). Please also upload the image file for each figure (in addition to the figures embedded in the main manuscript file)
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