Journal Title：Journal Of Herpetology

The Journal of Herpetology accepts manuscripts on all aspects on the biology of amphibians and reptiles including their behavior, conservation, ecology, morphology, physiology, and systematics, as well as herpetological education. We encourage authors to submit manuscripts that are data-driven and rigorous tests of hypotheses, or provide thorough descriptions of novel taxa (living or fossil). Topics may address theoretical issues in a thoughtful, quantitative way. Reviews and policy papers that provide new insight on the herpetological sciences are also welcome, but they must be more than simple literature reviews. These papers must have a central focus that propose a new argument for understanding a concept or a new approach for answering a question or solving a problem. Focus sections that combine papers on related topics are normally determined by the Editors. Publication in the Long-Term Perspectives section is by invitation only. Papers on captive breeding, new techniques or sampling methods, anecdotal or isolated natural history observations, geographic range extensions, and essays should be submitted to our sister journal, Herpetological Review.

The Journal of Herpetology 接受有关两栖动物和爬行动物生物学各个方面的手稿，包括它们的行为、保护、生态学、形态学、生理学和系统学，以及爬虫学教育。我们鼓励作者提交以数据为依据且对假设进行严格测试的手稿，或提供对新分类群（生物或化石）的全面描述。主题可以以深思熟虑的定量方式解决理论问题。对爬虫科学提供新见解的评论和政策文件也受到欢迎，但它们必须不仅仅是简单的文献评论。这些论文必须有一个中心焦点，提出一个新的论点来理解一个概念或一个回答问题或解决问题的新方法。结合相关主题论文的焦点部分通常由编辑确定。长期展望部分仅受邀发表。有关圈养繁殖、新技术或采样方法、轶事或孤立的自然历史观察、地理范围扩展和论文的论文应提交给我们的姊妹期刊 Herpetological Review。