Journal of Natural History is an international zoological journal publishing original research and reviews in evolutionary biology and ecology. It maintains its historical niche by publishing a broad range of systematics papers on all animal phyla from Porifera to Chordata, encompassing traditional taxonomic revisions and descriptions, cladistic analyses and molecular phylogenetics and phylogenomics. The journal has recognized strengths in entomology and marine invertebrates, but also welcomes papers on the natural history of all animal species and on the interactions of species with their environment. Preference is given to in-depth papers and extensive taxonomic reviews: single species descriptions and checklists are not normally considered. Authors wishing to suggest a review paper should contact the relevant editor.

Peer Review Statement

All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne manuscripts.

Editor-in-Chief  
Andrew Polaszek -  Natural History Museum, London, UK
Andrew is currently a Researcher in Entomology at NHM, and former Head of Department. He has published more than 130 scientific papers, including 2 books (as editor), and has received major research grants from the Netherlands, UK and USA governments.  The main priority of his research is the systematics and biology of “Microhymenoptera”, especially those of economic importance. More recently, molecular characterisation of new species has become an integral part of these studies, including the use of these markers to elucidate phylogenies. Much of his work has been collaborative and of an applied nature, with successful classical biological control projects, and input into the development of integrated pest management programmes, especially in the tropics. He is committed to public outreach, science education, and the facilitation of descriptive taxonomy using modern techniques. A current priority is the use of high-quality images to inform society at all levels about the importance of parasitoids and other wasps, as well as bees and ants, as ecosystem service providers.
 
Associate Editors
 
Anna Phillips - National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Anna is a Research Zoologist and curator of clitellate annelids and parasitic worms at the NMNH. Her research focuses on alpha-taxonomy, systematics, evolutionary history, and host associations of parasitic worms, particularly leeches and tapeworms. She has curatorial responsibility for the US National Parasite Collection.
 
Jeffrey Streicher -  Natural History Museum, London, UK
Jeff is a curator in the herpetology group at the NHM. These collections are used by an international research community to understand the historical drivers of biodiversity and causes of current declines. Jeff is an integrative biologist; his research explores amphibian diversification and speciation via analyses of high-throughput DNA sequences, morphology, and spatial data. His research programme is rooted in an appreciation of natural history and includes laboratory and field components.
 
Jann Vendetti - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA
Jann is the Twila Bratcher Chair in Malacological Research at NHMLA. Jann studies land and sea snails and their phylogenetic relationships and systematics. She oversees NHMLA's Snails and slugs Living in Metropolitan Environments (SLIME) citizen science initiative and was a founding member of the Museum's Urban Nature Research Institute in 2016. Along with a staff of collections managers, Jann supervises NHMLA's malacology collection of nearly 5 million specimens and its invertebrate paleontological collection of 7-9 million specimens. She is an advisor to the Nature Conservancy’s Biodiversity Analysis in Los Angeles (BAILA) project and served as the president of the Western Society of Malacologists in 2017.

Bronwyn Williams - North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, USA
Bronwyn is a Research Curator of Non-Molluscan Invertebrates; her research focuses on the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of crayfishes and two groups of obligate crayfish symbionts, namely branchiobdellidans (crayfish worms), and entocytherid ostracods. She is particularly interested in understanding the evolutionary patterns and processes that shaped the diversity of each of these groups of organisms independently as well as in a community context. Bronwyn uses an integrative research approach, merging data and tools from a wide variety of disciplines including systematics, biogeography, genomics, phylogenetic, phylogeography, population genetics, and community ecology.
     
 
Editorial Board 
Annelida/Nematodes: Anya Schulze (Associate Professor, Texas A&M University Galveston Campus, USA)
Aves: Alison Beresford (Conservation Scientist, RSPB, UK)
Bryozoa: Judith Winston (Curator of Marine Biology, Virginia Museum of National History, USA)
Cephalopoda : Louise Allcock (Zoology Lecturer, NUI Galway, Ireland)
Coleoptera: Caroline Chaboo (Insect Research and Conservation Institute, University of Kansas, USA)
Crustacea: Darren Yeo Chong Jinn (Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore)
Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Mostafa Sharaf (Associate Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Lepidoptera: Scott Miller (Curator, Smithsonian, Washington DC)
Mammalia: Roberto Portela Miguez (Senior Curator, Natural History Museum London, UK)
Marine biodiversity: Julia Sigwart (Research Sabbatical, University of California Berkley, USA)
Marine invertebrates: Martin Thiel (Principal Investigator, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile) 
Polychaeta, Nemertea, Porifera: Sergio Taboada Moreno (Researcher, Natural History Museum, London, UK)
Porifera: Ana Riesgo Gil (Research Leader Invertebrates Division, Natural History Museum London, UK)