期刊名称：BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Description
Behavioural Processes is dedicated to the publication of high-quality original research on animal behaviour from any theoretical perspective. It welcomes contributions that consider animal behaviour, from behavioural analytic, cognitive, ethological, ecological, evolutionary, neurological and physiological, points of view. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, and papers that integrate theory and methodology across disciplines are particularly welcome. The quality of research and focus on these aspects are the sole criteria for acceptance. Papers reporting solely on human behaviour are not generally within the journal's purview but may be considered for publication if they relate closely to non-human research within the journal's remit. Authors of papers reporting research on human subjects are invited to contact the editors for advice prior to submission, as they are for papers of all kinds.
Behavioural Processes publishes three categories of paper. First, regular Research Reports present the results of original experiments or outline novel theoretical positions. Second, invited, critical Mini-Reviews are polemical reviews of an area of animal behavioral research accompanied by a number of responses by peers in the area. Though these reviews are invited, prospective authors are encouraged to contact the editors with their ideas for such papers. Third, Rapid Reports are short communications reporting the outcome of a single experiment in no more than 2000 words and a total of two tables or figures. To expedite review, the authors of Rapid Reports are encouraged to email these to an editor as Word, WordPerfect, Adobe Acrobat or rich text format (rtf) files.
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Instructions to Authors
The journal publishes papers reporting results of original research, review papers, short reports (less than 2000 words), book reviews, conference abstracts and announcements.
Submission of contributions
Typescripts should be submitted to either:
F. Cézilly, Behavioural Processes, Equipe Ecologie-Evolutive, UMR CNRS 5561 Biogéosciences, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France, Email: fcezill@u-bourgogne.fr (papers on ethology and behavioural ecology) or
C.D.L. Wynne, Behavioural Processes, University of Florida, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL 32611-2250, USA, Email: behproc@grove.ufl.edu (papers on behaviour analysis, comparative cognition and experimental psychology).
The original typescript plus two photocopies need to be supplied (three prints of any photographs). If the paper is by more than one author, the author to whom correspondence should be addressed must be indicated.
Language
The official language of the journal is English. Prospective authors whose mother tongue is not English should have their work checked for style, syntax and grammar by someone well versed in the language.
Typescript layout and preparation
The preferred medium of final submission to the accepting editor is on disk with accompanying reviewed and revised manuscript (see "Electronic manuscripts" below).
Typing.
The entire text should be typed with double spacing, filling as much as possible the maximum type width of 16 cm without word-breaks (maximum type length: 24 cm), on plain, white A4-size paper. Word-breaks at the end of a line should not be used. Typing must be of high quality: a black carbon typewriter ribbon (or a NEW fabric ribbon) or letter-quality printer must be used. DO NOT use a dot-matrix printer. Texts transmitted by telefax are unacceptable.
Handwritten annotations cannot be recognised by OCR; corrections, if any, should be made in the same typeface and on the same type of paper as the page, then cut out and pasted over the error, or should be typed over uniformly applied correction fluid, taking care to avoid blurring. Use of italics and bold-type should be avoided. Words that should appear in italics should be underlined.
Any special symbols that are not on your typewriter/printer must be drawn carefully in BLACK ink, and an explanation of what the symbol is written in the margin in RED ink.
Layout. The title should not be capitalized. It should be brief, not exceeding two lines, and should use significant words that best express the nature of the study.
The authors' names should appear following at least one line space, initials preceding surnames (not capitalized).
The authors' addresses (name of institute, location) should appear after a line space. Superior letters should be used to identify addresses with respect to authors when there are more than two. If the address of the author(s) at the time of when the paper will appear is other than than the institute in which the work was carried out, it may be given in a footnote as Present address:...
Every paper should include an abstract of less than 200 words; this should be understandable without reference to the paper.
The heading Keywords: should appear after a line space, followed by 3- 6 keywords (taken from Index Medicus), singular and in alphabetical order, separated by semicolons.
The text should be organised into sections under the following headings: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion (may be combined with Results), Acknowledgements, References. The start of each paragraph should be indented 3-4 spaces.
Use abbreviations with restraint. If abbreviations are used, the first mentioned should be spelled out in full. Abbreviations should be avoided in the title. SI units should be used and biological nomenclature should follow the accepted international codes. In formulas, symbols, not acronyms, should be used.
All tables and figures should be mentioned in the text. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals.
References in the text should be cited as the name of the author(s) followed by the year of publication. The reference list should be in alphabetical order. Periodicals, books and multiauthor-edited books should accord with the following examples:
Brown, R.E. and Douglas, S., 1991. The behaviour of adult Long-Evans rats Rattus norvegicus towards pups of different ages. Behav. Process., 23: 89--102.
Gray, J.A., 1987. The Psychology of Fear and Stress. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 422 pp.
Rodgers, R.J., 1981. Drugs, agression and behavioural methods. In: P.F. Brain and D. Benton (Editors), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Agression Research, Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 325--340.
All questions arising after acceptance of a typescript by the editors, especially those relating to proofs, publication and reprints, should be directed to Elsevier Ireland Ltd., Elsevier House, Brookvale Plaza, East Park, Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland; Tel.: +353 61 709600; Fax: +353 61 709100.
Elsevier will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and as accurately as possible, both online (ScienceDirect) and in print. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Subsequent corrections will not be possible, so please ensure your first sending is complete.
On-line submission to the journal prior to acceptance
Authors should submit their article as a LaTeX, Microsoft?(MS) Word? WordPerfect? PostScript or Adobe?Acrobat?PDF document via the "Author Gateway" page of this journal http://authors.elsevier.com, where you will also find a detailed description on its use. The system generates an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article which is used for the reviewing process. Authors, Reviewers and Editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary. Note: compuscripts submitted are converted into PDF for the review process but may need to be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards. For this an "editable" file format is necessary. See the section on "Electronic format requirements for accepted articles" and the further general instructions on how to prepare your article below.Also note that contributions may be either submitted online or sent by mail. Please do NOT submit via both routes. This will cause confusion and may lead to your article being reviewed and published twice!
Electronic manuscripts
Electronic manuscripts have the advantage that there is no need for the rekeying of text, thereby avoiding the possibility of introducing errors and resulting in reliable and fast delivery of proofs. Please do not split the article into separate files (title page as one file, text as another, etc.). Ensure the letter `l' and digit `1' (also letter `O' and digit `0') have been used properly, and structure your article (tabs, indents, etc.) consistently. Characters not available on your wordprocessor (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc.) should not be left open but indicated by a unique code (e.g., gralpha, @, #, etc., for the Greek letter alpha). Such codes should be used consistently throughout the entire text. Please make a list of such codes and provide a key. Do not allow your wordprocessor to introduce word splits and do not use a `justified' layout. Please adhere strictly to the general instructions on style/arrangement and, in particular, the reference style of the journal. It is very important that you save your file in the wordprocessor format. If your wordprocessor features the option to save files `in flat ASCII', please do not use it. Format your disk correctly and ensure that you submit only the relevant file. Also, specify the type of computer and wordprocessing package. After final acceptance, one, final, printed and exactly matching version (as printout) should be submitted together to the accepting editor. It is important tht the file and the printout are identical. Both will then be forwarded by the editor to Elsevier. Further information may by obtained from the Publisher.
Author enquires Authors can also keep a track on the progress of their accepted articles, and set up email alerts informing them of changes to their manuscript status, by using the "Track a Paper" feature of Elsevier Author Gateway http://authors.elsevier.com.
Full details of electronic submission of artwork can also be obtained from the Author Gateway.
Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided when an article is accepted for publication.
Reprints
25 reprints will be supplied free of charge. Additional reprints may be ordered by filling in and returning to the publishers the order form sent to the authors on acceptance of their paper. Reprints ordered after the article has been printed will be charged for at a substantially higher price than that quoted on the order form.
There will be no submission or page charges.
Editorial Board
Editors:
F. C¨¦zilly
| Equipe Ecologie Evolutive, UMR CNRS 5561, Biog¨¦osciences, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France, Email: behproc@u-bourgogne.fr |
C.D.L. Wynne
| University of Florida, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL 32611-2250, USA, Email: behproc@grove.ufl.edu |
Book Reviews Editor:
M.I. Cherry
| Stellenbosch, South-Africa |
J.T.A. Dick
| Belfast, Northern Ireland |
R. Zayan
| Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
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