General Information

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria welcomes the submission of articles presenting original and significant research that are within the journal's scope. welcomes the submission of articles presenting original and significant research that are within the journal's scope.

Acceptance of manuscripts is the responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with the Editorial Board. All manuscripts are subject to a formal process of peer review and are considered on the understanding that they are the result of original research that has not appeared, and will not appear, elsewhere in substantially the same form.

When preparing a manuscript for publication, authors should follow as closely as possible the journal style and layout, which can be inspected in an issue online. Detailed guidelines are set out in the Author Instructions.

Note: Royal Society of Victoria’s Proceedings 1854 to 2006 are available online, free of cost, for personal use at the State Library of Victoria in their ‘Digitised Collections´.

There are currently no article processing charges (APC), nor subscription, submission or page charges for Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria.

The journal is published online in digital format.

Formal reprints are not provided, but CSIRO Publishing supplies the corresponding author with a free PDF of the published article. Authors may create links to their articles from their personal web pages. Electronic versions of all articles are available from the journal’s website.

The journal is indexed/abstracted in a variety of databases.

To submit your paper, use our online journal management system ScholarOne Manuscripts. Please contact the Editor-in-Chief at editor@rsv.org.au if you encounter difficulties.

For general enquires about submitted papers please contact:
Proceedings of Royal Society of Victoria
CSIRO Publishing
Email publishing.rs@csiro.au

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