Systematics and Biodiversity is devoted to whole-organism biology. It is a quarterly, international, peer-reviewed, life science journal, without page charges, which is published by Taylor & Francis for The Natural History Museum, London. The criterion for publication is scientific merit. Systematics and Biodiversitydocuments the diversity of organisms in all natural phyla, through taxonomic papers that have a broad context (not single species descriptions), while also addressing topical issues relating to biological collections, and the principles of systematics. It particularly emphasises the importance and multi-disciplinary significance of systematics, with contributions which address the implications of other fields for systematics, or which advance our understanding of other fields through taxonomic knowledge, especially in relation to the nature, origins, and conservation of biodiversity, at all taxonomic levels.
 
The journal does not publish single species descriptions, monographs or applied research nor alpha species descriptions. Taxonomic manuscripts must include modern methods such as cladistics or phylogenetic analysis. 
 
Each issue contains a main section devoted to formal peer-reviewed original research papers, and a shorter, more informal 'Perspective' section. As well as taxonomic discovery, description, revision and recording, the research section carries studies of adaptation, anatomy, biodiversity patterns in time and space (including response to environmental and human factors, and to global change), biogeography, coevolution, conservation biology, development, evolutionary biology, functional morphology, growth and form, molecular science, phylogenetics, cladistics, speciation, and systematic ecology. State-of-knowledge reviews and papers on the theory and practice of systematics are also welcome. There are no restrictions on the geographical location of authors, their material and study areas, or on the institutional locations of their studied collections. The 'Perspective' section covers a similar range of subjects to the main section, but gives scope for debate and comment as well as reviews of books.

 Editor-In-Chief
Prof Elliot Shubert,  The Natural History Museum, London, UK 
  sysbio@nhm.ac.uk 

Associate Editors
Prof Dr Christoph, Bleidorn Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany 
Dr Andrew Brower, USDA APHIS PPQ Plant Health Programs, USA 
Dr Sven Buerki, Boise State University, USA 
Dr Nadia Bystriakova, St Petersburg, Russia 
Dr Kevin W. Conway, Texas A&M University, USA 
Dr Dimitar Dimitrov, University of Bergen, Norway 
Dr Steven Dodsworth, University of Bedfordshire, UK 
Dr Rosa Fernandez, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Spain 
Dr Adrian Glover, The Natural History Museum, UK 
Dr Polly Hayes, University of Westminster, UK 
Dr Barna Páll-Gergely, Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary 
Dr Malcolm Penn, The Natural History Museum, UK 
Dr Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK, and Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Sweden 
Dr Joanne S. Porter, Heriot-Watt University, UK 
Dr Ana Riesgo, The Natural History Museum, UK 
Prof Dr Thorsten, Stoeck University of Kaiserslautern, Germany 
Dr Sarah Siqueira, Oliveira Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil 
Dr Gary Voelker, Texas A&M University, USA 
Dr Andrea Waeschenbach, The Natural History Museum, UK 
Dr Mark Wilkinson, The Natural History Museum, UK

Editorial Board 

Aaron Bauer, Villanove University, USA 
Philippe Bouchet, Muséum Nationale d’Historie Naturalle,  France 
Paul Eggleton,  The Natural History Museum, UK 
Francis Gilbert, Nottingham University, UK 
Harold Heatwole, North Carolina State University, USA 
Ian Kitching,  The Natural History Museum, UK  
Reinhardt Mǿberg Kristensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 
H. Walter Lack,  Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Germany 
Francois Joseph Lapointe, University of Montreal, Canada 
Richard Mayden, St Louis University, USA 
Helga Ochoterena,  Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico 
Andrew Polaszek, The Natural History Museum, UK 
Pamela Rasmussen, Michigan State University Museum , USA 
Ted Schulz, Smithsonian Institution, USA 
Mark E. Siddall, American Museum of Natural History, USA 
Weibo Song, Ocean University of China, China 
Quentin Wheeler, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA 
David Williams, The Natural History Museum, UK 
Paul H Williams, The Natural History Museum, UK 
Volker Wissemann, Justus-Liebig Universitaet, Germany
 
Updated 29 November 2019