Deadline to receive a free color figure in the printed issue: January 31
Deadline to submit: February 28
Page charges: the first 12 pages are free
Only speakers who submit a manuscript are reimbursed by SICB for their registration fee
General author instructions for preparing your manuscript are available through the official ICB website of Oxford University Press and through an author support website created by the ICB editor.
ICB is also happy to offer workshops on scholarly publishing if there is enough interest.
Manuscripts must be submitted through the ICB manuscript submission site.
For more information about the journal, including recent issues, see the Integrative and Comparative Biology website.
ICB offers a wide range of article types and is happy to discuss custom manuscript types that best suit your voice and your expertise. To find which article types works best for you and to find instructions for different article types, visit the author support website created by the ICB editor.
ICB publishes, among others,
research articles
reviews and perspectives
biology practice articles
vignette articles
methods articles
The people at ICB are supportive of non-academic knowledge experts and are dedicated to including their expertise in their voice in the academic literature. ICB aims to facilitate the sharing of knowledge created by the SICB community and its collaborators. Please reach out to ICB with any questions and ideas about your manuscript.
More details at the author support website created by the ICB editor.
The people at ICB are supportive of early-career and non-academic knowledge experts and are dedicated to including their expertise in their voice in the academic literature. ICB aims to facilitate the sharing of knowledge created by the SICB community and its collaborators. Please reach out to ICB with any questions and ideas about your manuscript.
ICB offers a suite of workshops to support authors in developing their manuscript idea and get it their work to submission. Reach out to the ICB editor to find out about workshop events and resources. Stay tuned as ICB is developing more resources to be posted online. For more information, visit the author support website created by the ICB editor.
All ICB manuscripts are peer reviewed. ICB invites peer reviews from the list of suggested peer reviewers provided by authors, from peer reviewers identified by ICB editors, and from the ICB editorial reviewers. ICB aims to provide authors with two to three peer reviews.
The ICB editors will work with the authors to keep the round of revisions to a minimum by providing constructive feedback.
To learn more about the editorial process, visit the author support website created by the ICB editor.
Manuscript must be submitted through the ICB manuscript submission site.
To learn more about the submission process, visit the author support website created by the ICB editor.