Registering new animal names in ZooBank
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Not sure how to register your paper? Follow the instructions below.
Your paper has been accepted for publication
Your paper is formally registered in ZooBank
Click on
‘register content’
Your paper is published online
Go to ZooBank (www.zoobank.org) Login to your account, or create a new one if you haven’t before
Log back into ZooBank. Select publication status ‘This work has already been published’ and add the date of publication and any other details (volume, pages, etc.)
Select the publication status ‘This work has not yet been published’, and enter the mandatory details (author names, article title, journal) + any optional information you already know
Your paper will be assigned an LSID code. Give this to your editor or add it to the article proofs to make sure that the LSID will be included in your published paper
What is ZooBank?
• The official registry of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).
• An authoritative resource for scientific names in zoology.
• A register designed to record all published usages of scientific names for animals which represent nomenclatural acts as governed by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
My paper describing a new species of animal has been accepted for publication. Why should I register my paper in ZooBank?
• If your article is going to be published online, registration in ZooBank is required by the ICZN Code.
• Registering your paper in ZooBank ensures that it is officially recorded as the first paper to describe this species.
For further help registering with ZooBank please go to Zoobank.org/Help
ICZN approved
