International Bear News (IBN) is a joint newsletter of the International Association of Bear Research and Management (IBA) and Bear Specialist Group (BSG). Copies can be freely downloaded from the IBA website, here.
Anyone can submit an article for publication in IBN (membership in IBA or BSG is not required).
However, the BSG has a separate process (see flow diagram here) for articles authored by BSG members (i.e., if a BSG member is listed as a coauthor, in any position on the author list). The reasons and benefits of this process, as well as a table outlining the steps can be found here.
The two key steps are:
