Adaptive Behavior -- Instructions to Contributors
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To be published in Adaptive Behavior, an article should report substantive new results that significantly advance understanding of adaptive behavior. Critical reviews of existing work will also be considered. Contributions will originate from a range of disciplines including robotics, artificial intelligence, connectionism, classifier systems and genetic algorithms, psychology and cognitive science, behavioral ecology, and ethology among others.
Ideally, an article will suggest implications for both natural and artificial systems. Authors should aim to make their results, and the results' significance, clear and understandable to the Journal's multi- disciplinary readership. Very general, speculative, or narrowly specialized papers, papers with substantially incomplete conceptual, experimental, or computational results, or papers irrelevant to the subject of adaptive behavior may be returned to authors without formal review.
Please send your manuscript in PDF format as an email attachment. Send the email to Peter M. Todd at ab-ed@isab.org.uk with the paper title as the subject.
Manuscripts must be in English, with American spelling preferred. Please briefly define terms that may not be familiar outside your specialty. Avoid jargon and non-standard abbreviations. Make every attempt to employ technical terms that are already in use before making up new ones.
The following guidelines should be adhered to, or papers may be returned for reformatting prior to review.
Double-space all materials including the reference list. Manuscripts should be typed (or laser printed) on 8 1/2 x 11 inch or A4 paper, one side only, with one-inch margins all around. Every page should be numbered in the upper right hand corner starting with the title page. Manuscript length should not normally exceed the equivalent of thirty journal pages.
The title page (page 1) should have:
- the paper's title, preferably not too long
- the names, affiliations, and complete addresses of the authors, including electronic mail addresses if available
- phone and fax numbers for the author with whom the editors or the publisher should correspond.
The second page should contain an abstract of 200 words or less, a list of six or fewer key words, and a shortened title for use as a running head.
Begin the text of the article on page 3. Aid the reader by dividing the text into logical sections and subsections. Footnotes may be used sparingly.
Follow the text with acknowledgements and figure captions on separate pages.
Begin the reference list on a new page following the figure captions page. References and citations should conform to the APA Publication Manual except: (1) do not cite page numbers of any book; (2) use the same format for unpublished references as for published ones. Please carefully check citations and references to be sure thay are correct and consistent. Note that the names of all authors of a publication should be given in the reference list and the first time it is cited in the text; after that "et al." may be used in citations if there are 3 or more authors. If a publication has more than three authors, "et al." may also be used in the first citation unless ambiguity would result.
Include figures and tables at the end of the manuscript. Number them consecutively using Arabic numerals. Include a brief title above each table. Indicate in the text an approximate position for each figure and table. Besides graphical material, figures consisting of high quality black and white photographs are acceptable.
Submit only clear reproductions of artwork. Authors should retain original artwork until the final version of the manuscript has been accepted. Color art should be submitted as glossy photographs or transparencies.
At the time of acceptance, each author should provide a black-and-white head-and-shoulders photograph, together with a short introductory biography.
Finally, it would be helpful if at the time of final acceptance authors would send a matching digital copy of the final version of their paper. Such submission could be made by electronic mail, floppy disk or cartridge. The preferred formats are plain TEX, LATEX, or AMS-TEX. Whenever possible, include Postscript files for figures. If you have prepared your paper in any other word processing program, you may send a copy of the corresponding file plus an ASCII version.
No page charges will be levied. There will be a $1200 per-page charge for color plates. Authors may order reprints when corrected proofs are returned.