About Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae

Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae is an open access journal published by the Czech Zoological Society and established in 1993.

Name of the journal: Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae

Standard ISO 4 abbreviation: Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem.

Informal abbreviation: ASZB

Website: https://www.aszb.cz

eISSN: 2788-1369
ISSN: 1211-376X
Registration number of the periodical press (in Czech: Evidenční číslo periodického tisku): E 18789

Scope of the journal

Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. is publishing research focused mainly on general, applied and systematic zoology.

Publisher

Czech Zoological Society (in Czech: Česká zoologická společnost), Viničná 7, CZ–128 00 Prague 2, Czechia

Our story

The journal started in 1927 as Zpráva o činnosti československé zoologické společnosti za léta 1927–1932. Since 1933, the Society has edited the scientific journal Věstník československé společnosti zoologické, the name of which changed in 1990 to Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemoslovacae and in 1993 to the present name. Contributions were at first written in Czech. Since 1990 all contributions are in English.

It is a direct continuation of:

(i) Vol. 1 (1927–1932): Zpráva o činnosti československé zoologické společnosti za léta 1927–1932;

(ii) Vol. 2–53 (1933–1989): Věstník československé společnosti zoologické (Věst. Čs. Společ. Zool.);

(iii) Vol. 54–56 (1990–1992): Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemoslovacae (Acta Soc. Zool. Bohemoslov.);

(iv) Vol. 57–89 (1993–2025): Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae (Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem.).

Editors-in-chief:
David Král 2004–present
Karel Hůrka 1990–2004
Jan Buchar 1988–1989
Miroslav Kunst 1973–1987
Otto Jírovec 1941–1972
Jaroslav Štorkán 1933–1942

Editorial board

Editor-in-chief

David Král
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, CZ-128 00, Prague 2, Czechia, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7930-1927
e-mail: kraldavid59@gmail.com

Managing editor

Petr Benda, Department of Zoology, National Museum, and Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia

Editor

Jakub Prokop, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czechia, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6996-7832

Digital publishing manager

Michal Maňas, Czechia, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-5140
e-mail: michal.manas@gmail.com

Editorial board members

Daniel Frynta, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czechia, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1375-7972

Alois Honěk, Czech Agrifood Research Centre, Prague, Czechia, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0460-4798

Jan Kubečka, Biology Centre, Institute of Hydrobiology, Czech Academy of Sciences: České Budějovice, Czechia, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9203-4854

František Moravec, Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences: České Budějovice, Czechia, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1086-1181

Ivan Rehák, Prague Zoo, Prague, Czechia, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5251-3022

Instructions to authors

Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae publishes in English original papers on general, applied and systematic zoology, and biographies. It is understood that manuscripts submitted are not offered to any other journal for prior or simultaneous publication. ASZB is an open access journal. Papers are published free of charge, first as online PDFs and subsequently (twice a year) in printed version. Authors of taxonomic papers must respect the articles of International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Fourth Edition, 2000, available from: https://www.iczn.org/) and observe its recommendations. All articles are peer-reviewed typically by two reviewers. Peer review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers expert in the field. Peer review process is closed and single-blind, the authors do not know who the reviewers are.

Manuscript should be structured as follows

Title of paper, full name(s) of author(s), place of work with full address, e-mail (e-mail is optional), ORCID full link (ORCID is optional and recommended) – on separate line. Abstract summarizing concisely the contents of the paper and indicating the relevance of the work, should not exceed 20 type-writen lines. Key words. Select a set (one or two lines) of key words (index terms). References. Within the text – Dryden (1968), (Lattin 1967), Kummari & Nair (1967), Tamiro et al. (1970), the full citation should be given in the list of references. Under the References authors should be cited in full periodical name. The number is to be given (in parentheses) only when individual numbers are paginated inde pendently (see example b). References to papers published in languages other than the major ones, or printed in characters other than Latin, should be content English translation, with an appropriate note at the end (see examples e, f, g). Examples:

(a) Dryden G. L. 1968: Growth and development of Suncus murinus on Guam. Journal of Mammalogy 49: 51–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/1377727

(b) Lonberg E. & Gustavson C. 1937: Contribution to the life history of the stripped wrasse. Arkiv för Zoologi 29(7): 1–16.

(d) Makin D. 1989: The status of bats in Israel. Pp.: 403–408. In: Hanák V., Horáček I. & Gaisler J. (eds.): European Bat Research 1987. Praha: Charles University Press, 718 pp.

(e) Schornikov E. I. 1969: A new family of Ostracoda from the supralitoral zone of Kuril Islands. Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 48: 494–498 (in Russian, English abstract).

(f) Nikolajev G. V. 1987: Plastinchatousye zhuki (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) Kazakhstana [Scarabaeoidaea (Coleoptera) of Kazakhstan]. Alma-Ata: Izdatelstvo Nauka KazSSR, 232 pp. (in Russian).

(g) Lekeš V. 1993: [Macrolepidoptera of the Polabí lowland]. Polabská Příroda 4: 19–20 (in Czech).

Graphics

Figures needs to be composed in plates. The minimal resolution required (at the size of publication): 600 dpi for line-art, graphs and schemes, at least 300 dpi for photos. (High resolution plates are only needed after the manuscript is accepted, but please be sure you have them ready). Graphics should be saved in Tagged Image Format (TIF) Plate size should not exceed 176 mm × 250 mm. In plates not filling the complete height of the page, ca. 50 mm of height needs to be left for the text on the same page. Also keep some space for the figure legend! References to illustrations and tables in the text: Fig. 1; Figs 1–2; Plate 1, Fig. 1 (for photographic plates); Table 1; Tab. 1; Tabs 1–2.

Proofs

Author(s) will receive one set of proofs, and will be asked to approve the final version of the paper before being published.

Copyright and Licensing

Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. is an open access and open content journal. Authors are required to ensure that they do not infringe any existing copyright or any other third party rights. Authors who publish in Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. retain copyright to their work. The authors must to agree to the following license agreement: Anyone is free to copy, distribute, transmit and to adapt the work under the following conditions: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). This is identical to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY). Authors are allowed to deposit all versions (submitted version, accepted version, published version) in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.

Address of the editorial office

Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., David Král, Viničná 7, CZ–128 00 Praha 2, Czechia; e-mail: kraldavid59@gmail.com