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MS菌物科学Mycological Science
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Article Types and Languages

  • Research Articles: original research, in Chinese or English (English encouraged)

  • Reviews: comprehensive surveys of a research area, usually by invitation

  • Short Communications: rapid reports of significant preliminary results

Chinese manuscripts must include English titles, abstracts and keywords; English manuscripts must include Chinese titles and abstracts.

How to Submit

Click "Submit Online" in the navigation, fill in the manuscript information and upload your manuscript (Word format, ≤50MB). A manuscript code (e.g., MS-2026-0001) is issued immediately upon submission.

Track Your Manuscript

After submission, check the review status anytime on the Track Manuscript page with your manuscript code and corresponding email.

Manuscript Format

  • Structure: title, authors and affiliations, abstract (200–300 words), keywords (3–8), main text (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion), acknowledgements (if any), references

  • References follow the numeric style of GB/T 7714—2015

  • SI units; fungal Latin binomials in italics with the full genus and species names at first mention

  • Figures and tables with bilingual captions; images at least 300 dpi

  • Accession numbers or culture collection identifiers required for sequences and strains

Peer Review Process

All submissions undergo double-agnostic peer review by at least two experts, followed by a final decision by the editor-in-chief. The whole process normally takes no more than 8 weeks.

Ethics Statements

  • Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere

  • All listed authors must have made substantial contributions and approved the manuscript

  • Studies involving human or animal subjects must comply with ethical requirements

  • Manuscripts are screened for plagiarism before publication

Charges and Copyright

Articles are published open access under CC BY 4.0. To sustain the journal's editorial and publishing operation, a modest page charge applies to accepted manuscripts. The rate for 2026–2027 is CNY 1,000 per page (approximately 1,300 characters per page).