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Address: 

Editor of  Invertebrate Zoology
Department of Invertebrate Zoology,
Biological Faculty, Moscow State University,
Moscow 119992, Russia

E-mail:Invertebrate.Zoology @ gmail.com

Instructions to authors

The journal publishes papers written in English or Russian. All English texts are provided by authors, the Russian translations of English titles, abstracts and figure captions of the papers written by non-Russian authors can be provided by the editors.

The manuscripts should be submitted  on floppy diskettes or compact disks (CDs), preferably in the format of IBM-compatible text processors. The diskette or CD may be submitted simultaneously with two typewritten copies. The text can be accepted on disk or by e-mail; figures can be accepted on disk only. Do NOT send figure files by e-mail. After obligatory reviewing and editing, the diskette will be returned to the author(s) for final corrections, if need be. To resubmit an accepted manuscript, authors should provithea corrected text.

Typewritten manuscripts are to be submitted in duplicate including all figures, tables, and captions. Text should be typed on one side of A4 paper, 1.5-spaced throughout including tables and references. All pages should be numbered sequentially throughout.

The journal follows certain semiological rules which the authors must respect. Generic and specific names should be typed in italics. Names of new taxa, synonyms, etc., should be followed by sp.n., gen.n., syn.n. given in bold.

Authors should strictly follow the last edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. A species mentioned in the text for the first time and in the legends of figures must be supplied with its author(s) and the year of publication. If the paper contains descriptions of new species-group taxa, the author(s) should indicate the museum where types (type series) are deposited together with the respective registration numbers of the type specimens.

ARTICLES. The manuscript sent to the editors should be arranged as follows.

· running title in the language of the paper;

· the title of the paper in two languages (the first one in the language of the paper);

· name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) in two languages;

· key words in two languages;

· brief (up to 20 typewritten lines) abstract in two languages;

· introduction;

· main part of the paper;

· acknowledgements;

· references;

· tables;

· figure captions in two languages on separate sheets.

TABLES. Each table should be typed on a separate sheet, and numbered with Arabic numerals.

ILLUSTRATIONS. Line drawings, maps, graphs and photographs are designated as “Fig(s)” in the English texts. They must be numbered in a sequential order according to the sequence of references in the text. If a figure consists of several parts, they should be lettered in small Latin letters. All figures should be completely ready for publication. The maximal size of line drawings and photographs is 20 x 28 cm. The author(s) name(s) and title of the paper should be indicated in pencil either on the upper edge by an arrow or on the opposite side. Illustrations can be returned to the author(s) after publication on request.

For schematic figures and graphics, we prefer to receive figures in Photoshop or high-resolution tiff format. Tiff file (.tif) is the format we prefer for raster image files. Tiffs should be provided as black-and-white (for line drawings) or 256 grayscale (for scan photos or tone drawings). Please make sure that the resolution of any raster files is high enough to ensure a high-quality printed image. Images should be of the same size or larger than they appear in the journal for optimal resolution. The resolution should be at least 600 dpi for line drawings and 300–400 dpi for scan photos or tone drawings.

REFEREnCES. For the English manuscripts, titles of Russian papers (or other papers using non-Latinized alphabets) should be translated while the titles of Russian journals or books of collected papers should be transliterated (e.g. Trudy instituta okeanologii), original language should be indicated in square brackets. Journal titles remain unabbreviated unless international. Volumes and numbers of the journals are to be indicated in the language of publication, e.g. Bd. (Band), T. (Tome, Tomus), Vol. (Volume), H. (Heft), Fasc. (Fascicle), etc.