Publication and scope. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single blind. The journal emphasizes high quality and informative illustration, in both line drawings and photographs. Additional data files, such as raw data, documents, animations, 3D reconstruction, data for 3D reconstructions and so forth, can be presented as online supplementary material. Alternatively they can be deposited in permanent repositories and linked from the text.
The journal is published 6 issues per year, including original research articles, reviews, and short communications on palaeoentomology, fossil terrestrial arthropods and amber research, i.e. systematic palaeontology, morphology, diversity, palaeogeography, palaeoecology, palaeobehavior, evolutionary and phylogenetic studies on fossil insects and terrestrial arthropods, biostratigraphy, taphonomy, and amber (deposits, inclusions, geochemistry, curation). Descriptions of new methods (analytical, instrumental or numerical) should be relevant to the broad scope of the journal.
Editoral office. The editoral office is located at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Manuscript preparation. The format is the same as another journal of Magnolia Press (Zootaxa). The text should be single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. High resolution images can be submitted after acceptance. For large manuscripts with many images, these images can be submitted as supplementary files following the submission of the text part of the manuscript.
