GCB Bioenergy is an international journal publishing original research papers, review articles and commentaries that promote understanding of the interface between biological and environmental sciences and the production of fuels directly from plants, algae and waste. The scope of the journal extends to areas outside of biology to policy forum, socioeconomic analyses, technoeconomic analyses and systems analysis. Papers do not need a global change component for consideration for publication, it is viewed as implicit that most bioenergy will be beneficial in avoiding at least a part of the fossil fuel energy that would otherwise be used.
Key areas covered by the journal:
Bioenergy feedstock and bio-oil production: energy crops and algae their management,, genomics, genetic improvements, planting, harvesting, storage, transportation, integrated logistics, production modeling, composition and its modification, pests, diseases and weeds of feedstocks. Manuscripts concerning alternative energy based on biological mimicry are also encouraged (e.g. artificial photosynthesis).
Biological Residues/Co-products: from agricultural production, forestry and plantations (stover, sugar, bio-plastics, etc.), algae processing industries, and municipal sources (MSW).
Bioenergy and the Environment: ecosystem services, carbon mitigation, land use change, life cycle assessment, energy and greenhouse gas balances, water use, water quality, assessment of sustainability, and biodiversity issues.
Bioenergy Socioeconomics: examining the economic viability or social acceptability of crops, crops systems and their processing, including genetically modified organisms [GMOs], health impacts of bioenergy systems.
Bioenergy Policy: legislative developments affecting biofuels and bioenergy.
Bioenergy Systems Analysis: examining biological developments in a whole systems context.
Studies may be at all levels of organization from gene discovery and crop feedstock genetics to systems analysis of biofuel production operations and global projections. They may be experimental, observational or theoretical, and may concern higher plant and algal systems, biological mimicry, biotechnology, ecosystem services, environmental impacts and / or whole production system analysis.
The journal does not accept papers that solely concern advances in the physico-chemical conversion of biomass to fuels, for example design of biomass boilers or thermochemical conversion of biomass to fuels, unless these are part of analysis of a complete system.

Chief Editor
Steve Long, University of Illinois, USA
Executive Editor
Rhea Bruno University of Illinois, USA
E-mail: GCB-bioenergy@igb.uiuc.edu
Assistant Editor
Rachel Shekar, University of Illinois, USA
Subject Editors
Shaolin Chen, Northwest A&F University, China
Michael Jones, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois, USA
Lawrence Smart, Cornell University, Geneva, USA
Peter Smith, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK
Sabrina Spatari, Drexel University, USA
Editorial Advisory Board
Paul R Adler, USDA Agricultural Research Service, University Park, PA, USA
Giorgio Alberti, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Stefano Amaducci, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Piacenza, Italy
Bruce Babcock, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Susanne Barth, Teagasc Crops Environment and Land Use Programme, Co. Carlow, Ireland
Pieter Billen, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Annie Borland, Newcastle University, UK 
Raj Cibin, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Kevin Coleman, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
Mark D Coleman, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
Evan DeLucia, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Axel Don, Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Braunschweig, Germany
Jerome Dumortier, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University - Purdue
Puneet Dwivedi, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. 
John M Finnan, Teagasc, Crops Research Department, Ireland
Benoît Gabrielle, Agro ParisTech INRA Paris-Saclay University, Thiverval-Grignon, France
Ilya Gelfand, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 
Astley Hastings, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Emily A Heaton, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Tara Hudiburg, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
Armen Kemanian, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Iris Lewandowski, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Niall McNamara, Center for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, UK
Bruce Osborne, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Vance N Owens, South Dakota State University, SD, USA
Ghasideh Pourhashem, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Zhangcai Qin, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA
Rebecca Rowe, Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, UK
Erik Sacks, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Rowan F Sage, University of Toronto, Canada
Matt Saunders, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland
Marty Schmer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, NE, USA
Gancho T Slavov, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
Caroline Taylor, EarthShift, Global, Kittery, ME, USA
Ron Zalesny, USDA Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI, USA
Jesko Robert Gerrit Zimmermann, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland