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Editors: Schedule of Dates
All due dates must be met for your article to be accepted for publication in the upcoming issue. Articles that do not meet the due dates listed on the previous page will be held for future issues. Please contact your editor immediately if you feel you will be unable to meet your due dates. The IAABC journal accepts articles on the following topics:
Articles are selected on the basis of appropriateness, clarity, significance, timeliness, and contribution to the field of animal behavior consulting. If you have any questions regarding the suitability of a particular article, please contact the Editors. Authors need not be members of the IAABC to submit manuscripts. No remuneration is paid for accepted manuscripts. The IAABC Journal also accepts short items from IAABC members only on the following topics:
Copyright on all materials published in Animal Behavior Consulting: Theory and Practice is held by the authors. The IAABC has one-time rights to publish the material as part of the journal. If the manuscript contains more than 200 word of material previously published elsewhere, the authors must obtain written permission from the copyright holder to include this material in publication of their manuscript in Animal Behavior Consulting: Theory and Practice. Any costs associated with obtaining this permission are the responsibility of the author or authors. All manuscripts should be submitted electronically. Microsoft Word or RTF files are the required format in all cases. Manuscripts should be submitted to individual editors, based on their subject matter, as follows:
Manuscripts are accepted for consideration with the understanding that they have not been published previously and are not being considered simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts that have been published previously can be submitted for publication with written permission from the copyright holder, allowing us to reprint the work. The editors reserve the right to reject any manuscript or return it to the author for format, style, or other revisions before accepting it for publication. Submission of a manuscript by the author(s) assumes acceptance of editing by the Animal Behavior Consulting: Theory and Practice editorial staff. Animal Behavior Consulting: Theory and Practice is a peer-reviewed journal. The reasons for this are explained in the section “What’s the Point of Peer Review?” Submission of a manuscript by the author(s) assumes acceptance of the peer review process. Previously published material is exempt from the peer review process. Please submit a very brief biography with your article. The biography should include:
If you wish to submit photos or other graphics with your article, they must be in electronic form, 200 dpi or higher resolution. Please be sure all photos are appropriately credited. The preferred format for photos is jpg; graphic files should be in vector format, if possible. Two notes regarding terminology: There is controversy, frequently quite heated, over whether a person who keeps a companion or service animal should be called that animal’s “owner” or its “guardian.” Because usage here often reflects a writer’s strongly held ethical beliefs and political opinions, to impose another term may effectively misrepresent his or her point of view. The editors of Animal Behavior Consulting: Theory and Practice have concluded that it is best to let each writer make the choice of terminology. Therefore, the use of terminology regarding animal ownership or guardianship is a reflection of the author or authors’ own beliefs and not necessarily a reflection of the beliefs of the editors or the IAABC. We ask our readers and members to bear in mind that whatever our differences in this respect, we are united in our goal of working with animals and people in the most scientific and compassionate way possible. There is also controversy over whether an animal should be referred to as “he” or “she,” or “it.” It is the preference of the editors to use “he” or “she” because “it” contains connotations of the animal being an object. When referring to a specific animal, choose whichever pronouns is appropriate. When not referring to a specific animal, generically use “he” throughout or “she” throughout. However, if the author feel strongly that “it” is more appropriate, we will respect that preference. A note about footnotes: Please DO NOT use the footnotes feature of your Word or WordPerfect program. Using the specialized Footnote feature causes problems for us when it comes time to prepare the document for publication. Citations should be included as part of the regular text with a complete bibliography on a separate page at the end of the document. (See the Citation and Bibliography Guidelines for more information.) When preparing your case study for submission, please review the following guidelines. We recommend that you use this as a kind of checklist. Case studies that do not touch on the points below may be returned by the editors for further development and/or clarification. Please prepare a short summary of your case study for the beginning of the article. The answers to these questions will be offset in a box at the start of the article:
Assessment of the Behavior Problem
The Family Dynamic
Plan to Modify and Manage Behavior
Outcome
Citation and Bibliography Guidelines Proper citations are essential in a professional journal. Please read the following guidelines very carefully. Articles with incorrectly formatted references will be returned to the author for corrections. If you have questions about how to cite a source, please review the information below or contact your editor. Please do not use footnotes. Citations should be included as part of the regular text with a complete bibliography on a separate page at the end of the document. Even if in-text citations are not necessary, we expect every article to be submitted with at least a bibliography. Citations Within the Text When citing a source within the text of your article, put both the author and date of the publication in parentheses. For example, (Smith, 1999) would be a correct format for citing a reference within your text. Citations at the end of a sentence must be before the period at the end of the sentence. So your sentence would look like this: The typical dog in this situation will show an elevated heart rate (Smith, 1999) and behaviors such as licking and pacing (Kotick, 2003). If you mention the author or the date of the publication within the sentence, then do so as shown below:
For direct quotes, include the page number for the reference along with the author and year of publication. For example: Jones (2003) discovered that “separation anxiety in dogs had a 48 percent correlation to noise phobia…” (p. 38). If you are citing a personal communication, such as an interview or an e-mail message, you must refer to these in your text and include these in the reference list at the end of your article. For personal communications, give the first initial and last name of the person, the words “personal communication” and the date of the communication. For example: B. Smith stated that dogs evolved from wolves (personal communication, July 19, 2006). Bibliography At the end of your article, you must list all of the references you have cited in your text, in alphabetical order. You should also list the works you referred to for reference, even if they were not cited within the text. Even if you have no text citations, you should still have a bibliography. Albert Einstein was the last person to write a paper that was published in a journal without a bibliography. The rest of us draw upon the work that has come before us. A bibliography also gives your readers suggestions for further reading. The style for bibliography references is the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition, published by the University of Chicago Press. You can find the Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide on line at: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html Following are examples of various types of references. We have separated them out by category to make it easier to find the example you are looking for, But your bibliography should not be separated in this way. List all types of sources together in one alphabetized list. Books
Book Chapters
Conference Proceedings
Magazines and Journals
Newspapers
Books Published On Line
Magazines and Journals Published On Line
Newspapers Published On Line
Web Sites
Personal Communications
What’s the Point of Peer Review? Animal Behavior Consulting: Theory and Practice is a peer-reviewed journal. That means in addition to our panel of editors, who review every submission, every article is also reviewed by your peers—members of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants who are certified in the species the article is about. Peer reviewers comment on the technical accuracy of the article and point out areas where more explanation and/or detail is required and areas where citations are required. Because our members encompass a variety of methodologies and viewpoints (along the LIMA-first spectrum), reviewers are asked to give positive regard to each member who has written an article and review the article based on how well the author explains himself/herself and the topic, rather than based on the reviewer’s own particular methods and viewpoints. Articles are sent to peer reviewers with no information about who the author is, and the author is not told who the peer reviewers are. Every article published in our journal goes through this peer review process. Why do we insist upon this? There’s a short answer and a long answer. The short answer is that we must if we want to have any credibility in our profession. All scholarly journals have a peer review process in place. Peer review is a well-accepted indicator of quality scholarship. Articles accepted for publication through a peer review process implicitly meet the discipline’s expected standards of expertise. If we want our journal, and our work as animal behavior consultants, to be highly regarded by other professionals, we must have a peer review process. Now for the long answer. The peer review process makes everyone’s work better and stronger, in a number of ways. The peer review process pushes us to be more thorough in our work. No one, no matter how many years of experience they have, has seen every study, read every book and journal, spoken with every expert in their area of expertise. It’s just not possible. Peer reviewers bring to our attention information we may not have been aware of. It’s important to remember that the peer review process is not a criticism—it is an opportunity to learn and be better. As members of a professional organization, we embrace all learning opportunities. None of us are finished learning yet. As animal behavior consultants, we have two parts to our job. The first part is to understand the animals we work with and find ways to help them better fit with human expectations for their behavior. The second part is to understand the humans who live with these animals and help them better understand their animals and learn about humane, effective approaches to modifying their animals’ behavior. This involves communicating what we know about animals to other humans. When we become better communicators, we also become better animal behavior consultants. And peer review helps here, too. That’s because the other very important part of peer review is making sure everything is clearly explained and follows logically from point to point. This is something only a neutral observer, someone who is not already familiar with your work, can do. When you write, you know what you mean and everything is therefore clear to you. But that’s no guarantee that it is clear to others. Perhaps when you write an article, you show it to friends or colleagues or family members for their opinions. Feedback from all these people can be valuable. But your friends and colleagues and family members are familiar with how you do things, your philosophy, your thought processes. If anything is missing in your writing, they simply fill in the blanks from their own knowledge of you. Anything they read that was written by you will seem to be missing nothing, because if it is missing something, if something is difficult to follow or to understand, they will subconsciously fill in the information without even knowing they have done so. They’ll never notice the problem, because it’s not a problem to them. That’s why a review by someone who knows you and your work is of limited value. It will never give you an accurate idea of what a general reader who does not know you will experience when they read your work. And that is why every writer, whether it’s Ernest Hemingway or Charles Dickens or John Grisham, works with an editor. And why every serious journal submits its articles to peer review—even articles by B.F. Skinner and Marian and Bob Bailey and Karen Overall and Irene Pepperberg. When the best and most highly respected people working in animal behavior today publish in serious journals, they submit their work to peer review. Can we do any less? |
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