Aims: The  New Zealand Journal of Botany aims to disseminate peer-reviewed research relevant to the botany, mycology, and phycology of New Zealand and the southern hemisphere.
Scope of submissions: The New Zealand Journal of Botany publishes original research papers, review papers, perspectives, short communications, forum articles, letter and book reviews. We welcome submissions relevant to all aspects of the botany, mycology, and phycology of the South Pacific, Australia, South America, and Southern Africa. The journal’s subject matter encompasses biosystematics and biogeography, ecology, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, reproductive biology, structure and development, taxonomy, ethnobotany, palaeobotany, bryology, lichenology, mycology, plant pathology, and phycology.
Prospective contributors should consult recent issues of the journal and see whether a planned submission is appropriate.
No page charges for publication
Free colour printing
Articles published online before quarterly print publication
Open Select options available for open access publication (e.g., Gold OA)
Electronic and printed issues are published quarterly (B5 format).
Peer review policy
All manuscripts are screened by the editorial office to assess their match to the journal’s aims and scope. The senior editor assigns those manuscripts deemed to be appropriate for peer-review to an associate editor.
The New Zealand Journal of Botany operates a single blind peer-review system. Reviewers will be sourced from both domestic and overseas institutions. All manuscripts are normally reviewed by two experts but where there is disparity regarding the merits of the work, an additional review may also be requested or one of the journal’s editors may give an evaluation. The exception to this is short taxonomic note manuscripts which are reviewed by one expert in the field.
Supplementary material is subject to editorial oversight and is made available to reviewers.
Direct correspondence between reviewers and authors is not permitted; all correspondence between these parties must be made through the editor.