期刊名称：ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Adaptive Behavior is a highly ranked, international peer reviewed journal that publishes original research and review articles on adaptive behavior in living organisms and autonomous artificial systems.
For over 17 years it has offered ethologists, psychologists, behavioral ecologists, computer scientists, neuroscientists and robotics researchers a forum for discussing new findings and comparing insights and approaches across disciplines. The journal explores mechanisms, organizational principles, and architectures that can be expressed in computational, physical, or mathematical models related to the both the functions and dysfunctions of adaptive behavior.
The journal publishes articles, reviews, short communications, target articles and commentaries addressing challenges in the cognitive and behavioral sciences and including topics such as perception and motor control, embodied cognition, learning and evolution, neural mechanisms, action selection and behavioral sequences, motivation and emotion, characterization of environments, decision making, collective and social behavior, navigation, foraging, communication and signalling.
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Instructions to Authors
Adaptive Behavior is hosted on Manuscript Central™, a web based online submission and peer review system - SAGETRACK. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and then simply visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ad-behav to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is possible that you will have had an account created.
To be published in Adaptive Behavior, an article should report substantive new results that significantly advance understanding of adaptive behavior in animals (including humans) or artificial systems. Critical reviews of existing work will also be considered. Contributions can originate from a range of disciplines, including psychology, biology, behavioral ecology, ethology, cognitive science, robotics, artificial intelligence, and others.
The ideal article will suggest implications for both natural and artificial systems. Authors should aim to make their methods, findings, and the significance of their results clear and understandable to the journal's multidisciplinary audience. Very general, speculative, or narrowly specialized papers, papers with substantially incomplete development, or papers irrelevant to the subject of adaptive behavior may be returned to authors without formal review.
Submitted Manuscripts
- Manuscripts must be in English, with American spelling preferred. Briefly define terms that may not be familiar to readers outside your specialty. Avoid jargon and nonstandard abbreviations. Use established technical terms before making up new ones.
- Authors should adhere to the following guidelines or papers may be returned for reformatting prior to review. Unless otherwise specified here, authors should adhere to the style described in the Fourth Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. This Manual is widely available in bookstores and libraries. It can also be ordered from the American Psychological Association: APA Order Department, PO Box 2710, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA.
- Manuscripts may be submitted in single-spaced one-column form (though accepted manuscripts must be double-spaced-see below.) Manuscripts for normal articles should not normally exceed the equivalent of 20 printed journal pages (about 10,000 words. More space is allowed for review articles, but the situation should be discussed with the editor before submission. Manuscripts for short communications should not normally exceed 4, 000 words. It is highly recommended to contact the editor before submitting a manuscript that significantly exceeds the allowed length as there is a risk that the manuscript may not be sent to review and the authors may be asked to shorten it.
The title page (page 1) should include:
- The paper's title (typically 12 words or less)
- A short running title (not more than 50 characters, including punctuation)
- The names and affiliations of the authors (e.g., William D. Hamilton, University of Oxford, Department of Zoology)
- The phone, fax, email, and mailing address of the author with whom the editor, publisher and readers should correspond
- The second page should contain an abstract of about 150 words or less, summarizing the main questions and results presented in the paper. This should be followed by a list of up to six key words.
- Begin the text of the article on page 3. Divide the text into short logical sections and subsections to aid the reader, and number them consecutively, e.g. 1, 1.1, 1.2, 2. Endnotes may be used sparingly. Follow the text with any endnotes and acknowledgements listed on separate pages.
- Begin the reference list on a new page following the acknowledgements page. References (not numbered) and citations, e.g. (Hamilton, 1963), must conform to the style in the Fourth Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Carefully check all citations and references for correctness, completeness, and consistency. The names (last names and initials) of all authors must be given in the reference list. The last names of all authors must be mentioned in the first text citation; after that, the first author and "et al." may be used if there are three or more authors.
- Figures and tables can appear placed appropriately in the text in the submitted paper (but not in accepted manuscripts-see below). Number each table and figure using Arabic numerals. Include a brief title above each table. See the APA manual for specific details about typing tables. Each figure must have a caption. Figures should provide essential information, not merely illustrate the text. High-contrast black and white graphics and high-quality black and white photographs are both acceptable. Graphics and lettering should be clear and sharp enough to accommodate probable reduction for publication. Figures should be designed to be either 8 cm or 16 cm wide and no more than 22 cm tall.
- Supplementary material can be hosted online, alongside the full-text of articles. Please be sure to read the guidelines on submitting supplementary material for hosting: http:/www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/doc/Supplemental_data_on_SJO-Guidelines_for_Authors.doc
- Color graphics can only be used on payment of a page fee for each printed page of color graphics. Computer graphics should be saved in TIFF (LZW compression enabled) or EPS format. Contact the publisher before submitting other formats. All graphics must have a minimum resolution of 300 dots per inch (118 dots per cm). Quality and the ability to reproduce the figures are the main considerations.
Conflict of Interest and Funding
Authors are responsible for recognising and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work.
Published Statement of Informed Consent
Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should identify Individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance.
Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note.
Published Statement of Human and Animal Rights
When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Accepted Manuscripts
The following items for each author must accompany the manuscript: a black and white head and shoulders photograph, a short introductory biography of 100 words or less, and the author's email and mailing addresses.
Book Review Section
Anyone interested in reviewing a book or in suggesting a book for review should contact the Editor at editor@adaptive-behaviour.org. Publishers are also invited to submit copies of relevant books.
Editorial Board
Editor:
Ezequiel A Di Paolo Ikerbasque - University of the Basque Country
Associate Editors:
Peter M Todd Indiana University, USA
Randall D Beer Indiana University, USA
Joanna J Bryson University of Bath, UK
Seth Bullock University of Southampton, UK
Kerstin Dautenhahn University of Hertfordshire, UK
Dario Floreano Swiss Fed Inst of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
John Hallam University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Inman Harvey University of Sussex
Takashi Ikegami The University of Tokyo, Japan
Jason Noble Southampton University, UK
Stefano Nolfi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISTC), Italy
Frank Paseman Institute of Cognitive Science, Germany
Erol Sahin Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Jeffrey Schank University of California, USA
Anil K Seth University of Sussex, UK
Olaf Sporns Department of Psychology, Indiana University, USA
Jan Tani RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Editorial Board:
David H. Ackley University of New Mexico, USA
Michael Arbib University of Southern California, USA
Andrew Barto University of Massachusetts, USA
Rodney A Brooks Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Holk Cruse University of Bielefeld, Germany
Daniel Dennett Tufts University, USA
Marco Dorigo Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Jorg Peter Ewert University of Kassel, Germany
Rolf Pfeifer University of Zurich, Switzerland
Nicolas Franceschini Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Charles Gallistel Rutgers University, USA
David Goldberg University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA
John Grefenstette George Mason University, USA
Stephen Grossberg Boston University, USA
John H Holland University of Michigan, USA
Keith Holyoak University of California, Los Angeles, USA
James R Hurford University of Edinburgh, UK
Phil Husbands University of Sussex
ALvaro Moreno EHU-UPV, FICE, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
Barbara Webb Edinburgh University
Jean-Arcady Meyer Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris, France
Herbert L Roitblat Dolphin Search, Inc.
Luc Steels VUB - Free University of Brussels, Belgium
F M Toates The Open University, UK
Stewart Wilson Prediction Dynamics, USA
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