系統(tǒng)和應(yīng)用微生物學(xué)涉及微生物多樣性和原核生物系統(tǒng)學(xué)的各個方面。它主要研究細(xì)菌和古細(xì)菌；只有在少數(shù)情況下才會考慮真核微生物。該雜志對微生物多樣性有著廣泛的理解，并鼓勵提交以下微生物學(xué)分支的手稿：系統(tǒng)學(xué)：涉及分類和分類學(xué)的理論和實(shí)踐問題，即：（i）原核生物類群的新描述或修訂，包括念珠菌類中尚未培養(yǎng)的類群的描述；（i i）確定分類和系譜關(guān)系的創(chuàng)新方法；（i i i）分類內(nèi)的評價。多學(xué)科方法的多樣性；（iv）識別方法。

Systematic and Applied Microbiology deals with various aspects of microbial diversity and systematics of prokaryotes. It focuses on Bacteria and Archaea; eukaryotic microorganisms will only be considered in rare cases. The journal perceives a broad understanding of microbial diversity and encourages the submission of manuscripts from the following branches of microbiology: Systematics: Theoretical and practical issues dealing with classification and taxonomy, i.e. (i) new descriptions or revisions of prokaryotic taxa, including descriptions of not-yet cultured taxa in the category Candidatus (ii) innovative methods for the determination of taxonomical and genealogical relationships, (iii) evaluation of intra-taxon diversity through multidisciplinary approaches, (iv) identification methods.