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General Provisions

The journal publishes the results of research in all areas of biological sciences.
The following materials are accepted:
- finished original works that have not been issued anywhere;
- description of original methods and devices;
- review articles;
- materials and reports on events of scientific life;
- book reviews.
Articles are published in Ukrainian and English.

Basic Requirements for Manuscript Text

The text of the experimental article should consist of the following sections: "Introduction", "Methodology" ("Objects and methods of research"), "Results", "Discussion" (joint section "Results and discussion" is possible), "References”. Manuscripts are created in MS Word using the font Arial – 10 pt; paragraph – 1 cm; single line spacing; margins: upper and bottom – 3.5 cm; left – 2.5 cm, right – 2 cm.
The text of the article begins with the UDC index, followed by the title (Arial – 12 pt), initials and surnames of the authors (Arial –10 pt), full names of the scientific institutions, e-mail address (Arial – 9 pt).
Then the abstract (Arial – 9 pt) in English is given (if the article is written in Ukrainian), as well as the authors' names, the title and the list of key words. Each of two abstracts of a paper should contain not less than 1.800 phonetic symbols.
Tables and figures are placed in the text.
References in the text are given in parentheses with the author's surname and year of publication.

The list of references is given at the end of the manuscript in the alphabet order, without numbering. The APA (American Psychological Association) reference style is used.

Include a DOI for all works that have a DOI. 

An example of the reference:

Polchaninova, N., Prokopenko, E. (2019). An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters, 57(1), 60-64. https://doi.org/10.30963/aramit5711

Electronic versions of articles should be sent to the Editorial Office by e-mail. 
Together with the electronic version, a printed copy signed by the authors should be sent to the Editorial Office.
On a separate page, the full names of all authors, telephones, e-mail addresses, full postal addresses and ORCID iDs are indicated, in Ukrainian and English.
The articles are sent to reviewers which accept the article for publication or reject it. If comments are present, the article is returned to the author for revision.

Payment Policy

The Journal provides publishing of articles for free (as well as access to issues of the Journal).

The journal has no publication fee. The journal does not charge authors any fees at any stage of the publication process, including manuscript submission, peer review, editorial processing, or publication. All services are provided free of charge to authors, including PhD candidates and other third-cycle (doctoral level) researchers.