Acta Biologica
Faculty of Biology
University of Szczecin
e-ISSN 1230-3976
e-ISSN 1640-6818
e-ISSN 2353-3013
Acta Biologica is an international journal publishing original or review papers of all biological areas.. It is published by the Faculty of Biology, University of Szczecin.
Acta Biologica established in 2001, was formerly published in Polish language (until 2009) now in English. The journal was published as a hard copies till 2009, for 2010 is published on line.
Editor
Andrzej Zawal
Chair of Invertebrate Zoology and Limnology
Faculty of Biology
University of Szczecin
71-415 Szczecin
Wąska 13
Poland
zawal@univ.szczecin.pl
Managing Editor
dr hab. Agnieszka Grinn-Gofroń, prof. US
Plant Taxonomy and Phytogeography
Faculty of Biology
University of Szczecin
71-415 Szczecin
Wąska 13
Poland
agofr@univ.szczecin.pl
Language Editor
Warren Whitmore
Go! Languages. Kursy Języków Obcych
70-440 Szczecin
Ks. Bogusława 48/3
warren@golang.pl
Statistic Editor
Przemysław Śmietana
Faculty of Biology
University of Szczecin
71-415 Szczecin
Wąska 13
leptosp@univ.szczecin.pl
Editorial Board
Vladimir Pešić
Department of Biology
University of Montenegro
Cetinjski put b.b.
81000 Podgorica
Montenegro
vladopesic@gmail.com
Andreas Martens
(insects)
Department of Biology
Karlsruhe University of Education
Bismarckstraße 10
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany
martens@ph-karlsruhe.de
Stojmir Stojanovski
(parasitology)
Hydrobiological Institute
Naum Ohridski Str. 50
6000 Ohrid
R. Macedonia
stojstoi@gmail.com
Clémentine Fritsch
(ecotoxicology, ecology)
Department of Biology
University of Antwerp
Campus Drie Eiken
D.C.126 Universiteitsplein
12610 Wilrijk
Denmark
clementine.fritsch@univ-fcomte.fr
Leszek Jerzak
(vertebrate zoology)
Chair of Nature Conservation
Faculty of Biological Sciences
University of Zielona Góra
65-516 Zielona Góra
Prof. Z. Szafrana 1
Poland
l.jerzak@wnb.uz.zgora.pl
Maria Zając
(botany, phytogeography)
Department of Plant Taxonomy and Phytogeography
Istitute of Botany
Jagiellonian University
31-512 Kraków
Kopernika 27
Poland
zajac@ib.uj.edu.pl
Francesco Spada
(phytosocjology)
University of Rome „La Sapienza”Department of Plant Biology
Largo Cristina di Svezia
24 00165 Rome
Italy
francesco.spada@uniroma1.it
Barbara Płytycz
(physiology & genetics of animals)
Prof. dr hab. Barbara Płytycz
Zakład Immunologii Ewolucyjnej
Uniwersytet Jagielloński
30-060 Kraków
R. Ingardena 6
plyt@zuk.iz.uj.edu.pl
Prof. Joana Abrantes
(virology)
CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos
Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão
4485-661, Vairão
Portugal
jabrantes@cibio.up.pt
Prof. Pedro J. Esteves
(immunology)
Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências
Universidade do Porto, R. Campo Alegre s/n
4169-007, Porto
Portugal
pjesteves@cibio.up.pt
Manuscripts will be considered only on the understanding that they have not been published and are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be submitted via e-mail as an attached both pdf and doc files to the address of the proper of Editorial Board members. To shorten the review process, authors are asked to indicate 3 or 4 names of specialists working in the same scientific discipline (including their institution and e-mail addresses). The manuscript should be 1,5-spaced, with at least 2,5 cm left margin. It should not exceed 25 typed pages (including references, figures and tables), for bigger manuscripts former settlements are necessary. On all points of style regarding text and tables, follow a current copy of the journal. Words to be italicized (scientific names of genus and species only) should be typed in italics.
The manuscript should be started with a title page presenting the title of the paper, full forenames and surnames of author(s) and the full postal address of their work. Please provide a running title of not more than 60 characters (including spaces). Next the paper should contain a short abstract limited to 250 words, a list of key words and the text divided into standard chapters: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and references. Abstract should be informative not descriptive (specify the most important findings of your paper). Avoid using words from title as key words.
References in the text should be cited in the following form: Gerecke (2003) or Gerecke and Smit (2000) or (Smit 2001; Smit & Martin 1999). For three or more authors, use the form: Gerecke et al. (1991).
Examples of style for references:
1. citations of journal papers:
Pešić V. 2003. Three water mite species of the genus Protzia Piersig (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Balkan, with the description of one new species. Zootaxa, 216, 1–7
Di Sabatino A., Gerecke R., Smit H., Pešić V., Panesar A. 2003. Water mites of the family Torrenticolidae (Acari, Actinedida, Hydrachnidia) from the Eastern Mediterranean region. Archiv für Hydrobiologie Suppl., 139 (3), 1–39.
2. citations of chapter from books, monographs, congress proceedings:
Davids C., Di Sabatino A., Gerecke R., Gledhill T., Smit H., Van der Hammen H. 2007. Acari: Hydrachnidia I. In Gerecke R. (ed.) Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Vol. 7, 2-1, Elsevier GmbN, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, München, pp. 241–376.
3. citations of books and monographs:
Błaszak C. 2009. Zoologia. Bezkręgowce. Tom 1. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.
Figures and tables
All illustrations should be referred as „Fig.” and numbered consecutively, e.g. Fig. 1, or Figs. 3-5. They must be submitted separately from the text at the end of the paper. They should be suitable for double reduction of size in reproduction (it is specially important when the size of symbols, inscriptions, descriptions of plots, line thickness, etc. are selected). The captions to the figures should be compiled separately.
Tables should be as simple as possible and understandable without reference to the text.
All tables with their captions should also be prepared separately from the text at the end of the paper. The supplementary descriptions should be added under the table. Use Arabic numerals to number Tables. Give extra information as a footnote below the table.
Before submitting a manuscript for publication, the authors must complete and sign the „Statement of form” and after scanning sent it to the Editor.
1. The reviewing procedure is subject to the guidelines of the Polish Ministry of Science and National Education.
2. Each scientific paper shall be reviewed by two independent reviewers.
3. Scientific papers submitted for a review shall not feature the names and affiliations of their authors.
4. The list of reviewers shall be published in every issue of Acta Biologica.
5. Only the academics who obtained the qualification of habilitation or the rank of a professor may be appointed as reviewers.
6. Reviewers cannot be affiliated to the same research centre which the authors of the submitted scientific paper are affiliated to or the research centre responsible for publishing the journal (University of Szczecin); reviewers from outside Poland are preferable.
7. Reviewers shall be selected by topical editors who shall take into account the renown of a reviewer and the concurrence of the reviewer’s field of research with the subject of the scientific paper to be reviewed.
8. A potential reviewer shall receive a request for a review together with the title and abstract of a scientific paper. Having agreed to write a review, the reviewer shall receive a review form and the scientific paper in the form of a Word document file.
9. Both reviews shall be submitted to the topical editor who shall transfer them to the author(s) of the scientific paper together with the reviewers’ notes.
10. The authors shall send to the topical editor their answer to the reviewers’ notes.
11. The topical editor shall decide whether the scientific paper is to be published or re-reviewed.
12. If two negative reviews are submitted, the scientific paper shall not be published. In exceptional cases, well justified by the author(s) of the paper, the topical editor, having consulted the managing editor, may request for a re-review of the paper by other reviewers.
13. If one negative review is submitted, the topical editor, having consulted the managing editor, shall decide whether the article shall be published or re-reviewed by yet another reviewer.
Acta Biologica (Acta Biol.) publish papers on all topics of biology. We welcome submissions of original articles, review articles, short communications, and commentaries on any level of biological organization. Acta Biologica especially welcomes manuscripts linking some aspects of the taxonomy, biogeography, ecology, behavior, physiology and molecular biology. We also encourages submission of research related to conservation biology and wildlife management.
We guarantee rapid reviewing process. Because of electronic submission we can guarantee within four months authors will be informed about acceptation or rejection of the manuscript. The journal-print-looking electronic version (in PDF format) of accepted manuscripts should be available in three months after final acceptation.
Submissions are accepted only in electronic submission.
Acta Biologica is open to all scientists and no page charges apply.
