PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Proceedings B is the Royal Society’s flagship biological research journal, accepting original articles and reviews of outstanding scientific importance and broad general interest. The main criteria for acceptance are that a study is novel, and has general significance to biologists. Articles published cover a wide range of areas within the biological sciences, many have relevance to organisms and the environments in which they live. The scope includes, but is not limited to, ecology, evolution, behavior, health and disease epidemiology, neuroscience and cognition, behavioral genetics, development, biomechanics, paleontology, comparative biology, molecular ecology and evolution, and global change biology.Many more good manuscripts are submitted than we have space to print, and we give preference to those presenting significant advances of broad interest. Submission of preliminary reports, of articles that merely confirm previous findings, and of articles that are likely to interest only small groups of specialists, is not encouraged. Articles will only be considered where they have clear relevance to fundamental biological principles and processes. All articles are sent to an Editorial Board member for an initial assessment, and may be returned to authors without in-depth peer review if the paper is unlikely to be accepted because it is either too specialized, not sufficiently novel, or is deficient in other respects.

《英国皇家学会学报B》是英国皇家学会的旗舰生物研究期刊，接受具有突出科学重要性和广泛普遍兴趣的原创文章和评论。接受的主要标准是一项研究是新颖的，对生物学家具有普遍意义。发表的文章涵盖了生物科学的广泛领域，其中许多与生物体及其生存环境有关。范围包括但不限于生态学、进化论、行为学、健康与疾病流行病学、神经科学与认知学、行为遗传学、发展学、生物力学、古生物学、比较生物学、分子生态学与进化论以及全球变化生物学。提交的好稿件比我们印刷的空间要多得多，我们优先考虑那些具有广泛兴趣的重大进展的稿件。不鼓励提交初步报告，不鼓励提交仅仅证实以前调查结果的文章，也不鼓励提交可能只引起少数专家组兴趣的文章。只有在与基本生物学原理和过程有明确相关性的文章才会被考虑。所有的文章都将被发送给编辑委员会成员进行初步评估，如果论文因为过于专业、不够新颖或在其他方面存在缺陷而不太可能被接受，则可能在没有经过深入同行评审的情况下退回给作者。