About Journal
Format-free submission – To save the valuable time of the researchers we now accept manuscript submissions using a format-free style. It means that you can submit your paper without needing to worry about formatting your manuscript to meet that journal's requirements, yet a consistent text (IMRAD, Introduction, Material and methods, Results, Discussion) and general citation format is acceptable to start the review. Once accepted, then we do the major work of formattings the manuscript to the journal style. At this step, we may ask the authors for some necessary items. If you are yet willing to format your manuscript please follow the instruction.
Aim and Scope — Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics (JIBS) is an international peer-reviewed journal accepting original articles and reviews dealing with insects and other arthropods diversity and systematics, both extant and extinct taxa. The scope of articles that we publish includes, but is not limited to: taxonomic revisions, catalogues, monographs, nomenclatural notes, descriptions of the new taxa, applications of biology and anatomy in taxonomy, biodiversity, historical biogeography, phylogeny, evolution, Paleontology, theoretical methodology in systematics, biogeographical distributional patterns as well as regional checklists. The accepted submissions are not restricted to any geographical region and we consider papers in the mentioned areas from all parts of the world. Extensive faunistic revisions on a specific arthropod group throughout a country or wider biogeographical region are highly encouraged. Read more ...
Open Access Policy — Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing. The Journal contents and the individual articles are freely available to readers without subscriptions or payments through the journal website or its permanent repositories.
Authors fees — There is no page charge for publishing with JIBS. Publication of color figures in online edition is also free of charge. Each author will receive a free e-reprint (PDF) that can be freely distributed or deported in public libraries or websites. Read more ...
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Publishing Ethics — Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics follows all the terms and conditions of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. Authors may refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors for comprehensive information. Read more ...
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Address — Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Postal Code: 1497713111, P.O Box: 14115 -336, Tel.: +98-21-48292326, E-mail: jibs@modares.ac.ir
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