期刊名称：ANIMAL COGNITION
 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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Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal publishing current research from various backgrounds and disciplines (ethology, behavioral ecology, animal behaviour and learning, cognitive sciences, comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology) on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary framework.
The aim of the journal is to establish the course of the evolution of "intelligence", of the mechanisms, functions and adaptive value of basic and complex cognitive abilities from invertebrates to humans.
Animal Cognition publishes original empirical and theoretical work, reviews, short communications and correspondence on the mechanisms and evolution of biologically rooted cognitive-intellectual structures.
Experiments and field studies with animals and humans and the comparative method will be given preference, but simulation models and theoretical analyses will be also considered.
Papers on the following topics are particularly welcome:
How do animals categorize and recognize individuals (potential mates, offspring), food, spatial patterns?
How do animals form concepts?
Which rules of logic and decision are used and how do these work?
What satisficing heuristics do animals use?
How do animals reason about their social world?
How do animals learn by observation, imitation and instruction?
Animal time perception and use; causality detection
Innate reaction patterns and innate bases of learning
Numerical competence and frequency expectancies
Symbol use; communication
Problem solving, animal thinking and use of tools
Modularity of the mind
How do these topics relate to the natural ecology of the species concerned?
Abstracted/Indexed in:
BIOSIS, Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences, Index Medicus/MEDLINE, Psyc-INFO, Zoological Record
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Instructions to Authors
Submission of manuscripts
Editorial office
Legal requirements
Manuscript preparation
Figures and Tables
Further technical instructions
Templates
Electronic supplementary material
Proofs
Submission of manuscripts
Animal Cognition publishes four types of papers: Reviews, Original Papers, Short Communications and Commentaries. All manuscripts are subject to peer review. Papers must present scientific results that are essentially new and that have not been submitted for publication or published elsewhere.
Authors should submit their articles to Animal Cognition online to facilitate even quicker and more efficient processing. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens the overall publication time.
Please log directly onto the link below and upload your manuscript following the on-screen instructions.
Online submission
Editorial office
Tatiana Czeschlik
Chief Editor
Editorial Office Animal Cognition
Muehltalstrasse 9
D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany
e-mail: animal.cognition@t-online.de
Fax: +49-6221-418315
Legal requirements
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis); that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities - tacitly or explicitly - at the institute where the work has been carried out.
Manuscripts must be accompanied by the "Copyright Transfer Statement" completed and signed by the corresponding author. This form ist regularly published in this journal or can be downloaded below and has to be returned with the proofs, at the latest.
Copyright Transfer Statement
Manuscript preparation
All manuscripts must be in English and type-written (12pt) with double spacing and wide margins. Lines should be numbered consecutively throughout text.
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Reviews
should cover a topic of current interest and present novel insights or conclusions. Reviews should include at least the following sections: Abstract, Introduction, Discussion / Conclusions, References (see below for more details).
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Original papers
must present scientific results that are essentially new and that have not been published or are not being considered for publication elsewhere.
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Short Communications
should also report novel results. Their length is limited to 15 000 characters including spaces and 2 figures or tables.
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Title page (including all authors' full names and affiliation(s); e-mail address, phone and fax number for the corresponding author). The title of papers focusing on a particular species should include both the genus/species name and the common name.
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Abstract (no more than 250 words)
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Key words: 3-5
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Introduction
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Methods
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Results
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Discussion
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Acknowledgements (if applicable). Please include, at the end of the acknowledgements, a declaration that the experiments comply with the current laws of the country in which they were performed. The Chief Editor reserves the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned requirement. The author will be held responsible for false statements or for failure to fulfil the above-mentioned requirements.
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References
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Do not use ampersands ( & ) between authors' names.
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References
at the end of the paper should be listed in alphabetical order by the first author's name:
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Journal paper
name(s) and initial(s) of all authors; year; full title; journal title abbreviated in accordance with international practice; volume number; first and last page numbers.
Examples:
Call J (2000) Representing space and objects in ms and apes. Cogn Sci 24:397-422
Miklósi ? Polgárdi R, Topál J, Csányi V (2000) Intentional behaviour in dog-human communication:an experimental analysis of 'showing' behaviour in the dog. Anim Cogn 3:159-166
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Single contributions in a book
name(s) and initial(s) of all authors; year; title of article; editor(s); title of book; edition; volume number; publisher; place of publication; page numbers.
Example:
Schusterman RJ, Reichmuth Kastak C, Kastak D (2002) The cognitive sea lion: meaning and memory in the lab and in nature. In: Bekoff M, Allen C, Burghardt G (eds) The cognitive animal. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp 217-228
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Book
name and initial(s) of all authors; year; title; publisher; place of publication.
Example:
Whiten A, Byrne RW (eds) (1997) Machiavellian intelligence II. Extensions and evaluations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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Example:
Hirsch BT (2002) Social monitoring and vigilance behavior in brown capuchin ms (Cebus apella). Behav Ecol Sociobiol DOI 10.1007 / s00265-002-0536-5
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Species names
should be in italics. The common names of animals should not be capitalized
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Footnotes
should be kept to a minimum, placed at the foot of the page to which they apply, and numbered consecutively throughout the paper.
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Figures and Tables
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Figure legends
should be typed together on a sheet separate from the figures.
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Tables must be numbered consecutively using arabic numerals; each table should be typed on a separate page together with a clear descriptive title.
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Illustrations
should be kept to the minimum needed to clarify the text. They should be submitted on separate sheets, each bearing the figure number and the author's name.
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Figure parts should be identified by lower-case Roman letters
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For colour illustrations the authors are expected to make a contribution (534 plus VAT 16%) per article (not per figure) towards the extra costs.
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Line-drawings
should be of good quality. The inscriptions must be clearly legible. Capital letters should be about 2 mm high in the final version.
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Illustrations
prepared in digital form must be in accordance with the technical instructions for manuscripts and illustrations in electronic form.
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Further technical instructions
Layout guidelines
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Use a normal, plain font (e.g., Times Roman) for text.
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Other style options:
-for textual emphasis use italic types.
-for special purposes, such as for mathematical vectors, use boldface type.
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Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
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Do not use field functions.
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For indents use tab stops or other commands, not the space bar.
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Use the table functions of your word processing program, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
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Use the equation editor of your word processing program or MathType for equations.
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Place any figure legends or tables at the end of the manuscript.
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Submit all figures as separate files and do not integrate them within the text.
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Illustrations
The preferred figure formats are EPS for vector graphics exported from a drawing program and TIFF for halftone illustrations. EPS files must always contain a preview in TIFF of the figure. The file name (one file for each figure) should include the figure number. Figure legends should be included in the text and not in the figure file.
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Scan resolution: Scanned line drawings should be digitized with a minimum resolution of 800 dpi relative to the final figure size. For digital halftones, 300 dpi is usually sufficient.
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Color illustrations: Store color illustrations as RGB (8 bits per channel) in TIFF format.
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Vector graphics: Fonts used in the vector graphics must be included. Please do not draw with hairlines. The minimum line width is 0.2 mm (i.e. 0.567 pt) relative to the final size.
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Save your file in two formats:
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RTF (Rich Text Format) or Microsoft Word compatible formats.
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pdf (a single pdf file including text, tables and figures).
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Templates
The template is available:
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via ftp:
Address: ftp.springer.de
User ID: ftp
Password: your own e-mail address
Directory:/pub/Word/journals
File names: sv-journ.zip or sv-journ.doc and sv-journ.dot
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via browser:
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/Word/journals
File names: sv-journ.zip or sv-journ.doc and sv-journ.dot
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The zip file should be sent unencoded.
download template
Electronic supplementary material
Video clips, sound recordings, or large tables that are not essential for the understanding of a printed article, but yet of interest can be published free of charge electronically only on the journal's website Such material has to be submitted in electronic form (see the special instructions) and will also be reviewed. Reference to this material will be made in the printed article and vice versa. Electronic supplementary material is to be numbered and referred to as S1, S2, etc.
Proofs
Authors are informed by e-mail that a temporary URL has been created from which they can obtain their proofs. The proofs should be printed out, corrected and faxed as soon as possible to the publisher.
Two complimentary copies of the issue in which a paper has appeared are sent to the corresponding author. Offprint orders can be placed by returning the order form with the corrected proofs. Authors ordering offprints are entitled to receive, in addition, upon request, a pdf file of their article for their own personal use.
Articles will be published online about one week after receipt of the corrected proofs. Papers published online can be cited by their DOI instead of by issue and page numbers, which are not available until just before release of the print version.
Editorial Board
Chief Editor
Tatiana Czeschlik
Editorial Office
Animal Cognition
Muehltalstrasse 9
69121 Heidelberg, Germany
e-mail: animal.cognition@t-online.de
Fax: +49-6221-418315
Editorial Assistant
Cindy Weidner
Editorial Board
Richard Byrne
School of Psychology, The University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9JU, UK
e-mail: rwb@st-and.ac.uk
Juan Delius
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Postfach 5560, D44, 78434 Konstanz, Germany
e-mail: juan.delius@uni-konstanz.de
Jean-Louis Deneubourg
United'Eco-Ethologie, Facult.des Sciences, Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine CP 231, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
e-mail: jldeneub@ulb.ac.be
Luc-Alain Giraldeau
Department of Biology, Concordia University, 1455, Blvd. de Maisonneuve W, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada
e-mail: giraldeau.luc-alain@uqam.ca
Marc Hauser
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 980 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
e-mail: hauser@wjh.harvard.edu
Adolf Heschl
Konrad-Lorenz-Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Adolf-Lorenz-Gasse 2, 3422 Altenberg/Donau, Austria
e-mail: adi@kla.univie.ac.at
Vincent Janik
School of Biology, Bute Building, University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9TS, UK
e-mail: vj@st-and.ac.uk
Ádám Miklósi
Department of Ethology, Eötvös University, Pazmany P. s. 1/c, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
e-mail: miklosa@ludens.elte.hu
Irene M. Pepperberg
The Media Lab, MIT Bldg. E15-318, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
e-mail: impepper@media.mit.edu
Dietmar Todt
Institute of Behavioral Biology, FU Berlin, Haderslebener Strasse 9, 12163 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: todt@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Michael Tomasello
Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstrasse 22, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
e-mail: tomas@eva.mpg.de
Giorgio Vallortigara
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita' di Trieste, Via S. Anastasio 12, 34123 Trieste, Italy
e-mail: vallorti@univ.trieste.it
Jacques Vauclair
UFR de Psychologie et PsyCLE (EA 3273), Universit de Provence, 29, ave. R. Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France
e-mail: vauclair@up.univ-aix.fr
Shigeru Watanabe
Department of Psychology, Keio University, Mita 2-15-45, Minatio-Ku, Tokyo 108, Japan
e-mail: swat@flet.mita.keio.ac.jp
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