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Author Guidelines

Bangladesh Journal of Zoology (BJZ), a peer-reviewed journal, is published thrice in a year in April, August and December by the Zoological Society of Bangladesh. Submission of a manuscript or a scientific note implies that it has not been published or submitted elsewhere. Rejection or withdrawal is the way to submit it elsewhere. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology uses a double-blind review process maintaining strict confidentiality of the review process. Authors therefore need to ensure that their manuscript does not give away their identity. It is desirable that authors will refer to the relevant papers published in the BJZ in their manuscript.

Disclaimers

Responsibility for the accuracy of findings, observations and opinions, and for any other matters included in the manuscript, rests solely with the author(s). The BJZ, Zoological Society of Bangladesh as publishers, editors, reviewers and staff take no responsibility for these matters. Plagiarism or Similarity of more than 25% with published documents (except for author, affiliation, literature cited, and for any other insignificant section) might result in downright rejection of the manuscript.

Format

Manuscripts must be typed in standard word file (recent version), double spaced, on one side of good quality 8.5" × 11" paper with wide margins. Full papers should not exceed 16 printed pages. 'Scientific Note' should not exceed 6 printed pages. Taxonomic papers should be written in a concise telegraphic style. The cover letter of a manuscript must be signed by all author(s).

The first page of the manuscript should contain only the title and the name and address of the author(s); the second page, the title and abstract. The Abstract should be followed by key words not exceeding Eight words.

TITLE should be concise, followed by an abstract (not exceeding 250 words) mentioning the objective, precise result and conclusion of the study. A full paper should have the following subtitles: (a) INTRODUCTION; (b) MATERIAL AND METHODS; (c) RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; (d) CONCLUSION; (e) Acknowledgements (if any), and (f) LITERATURE CITED.

Language: The language will be standard English, scientifically sound, presented in small sentences avoiding jargons and repetitions of information.

Tables: Tables must be typed on separate sheets of paper. Columns in the tables must be suitably titled and units of measurements given in standard abbreviation(s). Large and cumbersome tables should be avoided. The same data must not be given both in Tables and in Graphs.

Illustrations: Drawings and graphs should be made by standard graphical software. The scale of the figures, where required, must be indicated by a scale line on the drawing itself. The plates will be reduced for publication to a size not exceeding 4.5 × 6.5 inches. Photographic plates should be numbered sequentially and separately (if possible) from text figure. Only sharp picture in jpg or png format are acceptable.

Literature cited: References in the text should be listed in a section entitled LITERATURE CITED at the end of the paper. Authors of papers and books shall be listed alphabetically. Two papers published by the same author in the same year must be cited as, e.g., Ahmed (2017a,b). In citing references, the author's name should be followed by the year of publication, title of the paper, name of the journal with volume and the pages included. Title of papers in languages other than English should be given in English translation, with the original language in brackets. Titles of the journals must be abbreviated according to the latest edition of the World List of Scientific Periodicals. When reference is made to a book as a whole the total number of pages should be mentioned; in the case of a paper, or more than one paper, only the concerned pages may be mentioned (see below). The authors must follow STRICTLY the reference style of the journal.

Journals:

BISWAS, V. 2019. Checklist of the Spider fauna of Bangladesh (Araneae : Arachnida). Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, 47(2), 185-227. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v47i2.44331

HASNATH, M., and KHAN, M.A.G. 2016. Community structure and Systematic study of Helminth parasites of Freshwater snails of the Chittagong University Campus. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, 44(1), 9-30. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v44i1.30173

BEGUM, M., KABIR, M.A., KHAN, H.R., and RAHMAN, M.F. 2012. Efficacy of Monosodium Glutamate in the Australian Blowfly, Lucilia cuprina Wiedmann (Diptera : Calliphoridae). Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, 40(1), 69-75. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v40i1.12896

Book or book chapters:

RAHMAN, A.K.A. 2005. Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 2nd ed., Zoological Society of Bangladesh, C/o- Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh, xviii+394pp.

ALI, S. and RIPLEY, S.D. 1973. Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Oxford Univ. Press, Bombay, London, New York. Vol. 8, xvi + 227 pp.

de BEER, G.R. 1940. Embryology and Taxonomy. In: The New Systematics. (Ed., Huxley, J.) Oxford Univ. Press, London, pp. 365-393.

Translated papers/ books:

CHOWDHURY, S.H. 1970. Functional changes in the midgut epithelium of the larva of Chaoborus obscruipes Van der Wulf (in Russian with English summary). Zool. Zh. 49: 249-256.

SHAFI, M. and QUDDUS, M.M.A. 1982. Bangladesher Matshya Sampad (Fisheries Resources of Bangladesh, in Bangla). 1st edn. Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 444 pp.

For Scientific note, there is no need for separate subtitles and abstract; LITERATURE CITED should, however, be listed following the BJZ style.

Processing cost and reprints: In-country authors have to pay BDT 5000 and BDT 3000 for a full paper and scientific notes, respectively. Papers from SAARC member countries and rest of the world will have to pay USD 50 and USD 100, respectively, for each publication. Payments should be made in advance to the society bank or online accounts. The author will receive 15 reprints free and the paper will be displayed in open access for readers. Excess pages of 16 for full paper and of 5 for scientific notes will cost extra fees. Additional order for colour plates and Extra reprints are processed following advance order on payment of additional cost. Please contact zoologybangladesh@gmail.com for Bank Account for money transfer or BKASH to +8801619-634955

MANUSCRIPTS for publication should be submitted through email at zoologybangladesh@gmail.com and copies to the Editor in Chief (mnnaser@du.ac.bd). Hard copies (two sets) could be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, C/o. Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh, by registered mail.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

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(Updated: 18 May 2018)