MISS: Minorities in Shark Sciences

Integrative and Comparative Biology (ICB), formerly American Zoologist, is one of the most highly respected and cited journals in the field of organismal biology. 

ICB publishes works of original research, reviews, and perspectives. 

MISS authors publishing their article in ICB are entitled to 12-15 free-to-publish pages (roughly 600 to 700 words per page) upon acceptance. 

Color figures are free online. 

Manuscripts submitted before January 31, 2025 will get a free color figure in print as well.

ICB is a subscription model journal, and all articles are free to read online after one year from publication. Some special issues and articles are free to read upon publication.

For further details see: https://academic.oup.com/icb

Initial submission. In order to publish in September 2025, please submit your manuscript between October 1, 2024 and March 1, 2025.

Authors who submit between October 1, 2024 and January 31, 2025 receive a free colored figure in print; all figures are in color online for free.

Developing your manuscript. Writing workshops and information sessions about the submission process will be held virtually on Zoom on Sept 17, Sept 24 and Oct 1 from 3 to 5 pm Pacific time. ICB will email you a Zoom invite or contact Suzanne Miller (icbjournal@sicb.org). 

You can find the slide decks for these and other workshops on this website under the tab Writing.

To facilitate peer feedback, we invite authors to share their manuscript drafts with other authors participating in this special issue.

For more info on this special issue, you can also contact:

ceo@misselasmo.org 

ICB accepts many types of articles. Find out more about some of our article formats under the tab Article types. 

ICB publishes original research, reviews, perspectives, and is always open to exploring new ways to uplift scholarly voices.

Our most recently introduced format is the Vignette article, a new format that is well suited to share multiple perspectives and to report out from workshops, town halls, and panels.

👁️‍🗨️Instructions and examples of Vignettes

ICB is dedicated to an inclusive publishing process. Please reach out to ICB with your manuscript idea and we are happy to provide advice and guidelines to support your writing process.

Please check out the resources on the collaborative writing page, including an article on transdisciplinary fisheries research from 2022.