Newsletter of the Animal Behavior Society

Vol. 59, No. 3 | August 2014

Mentoring

MANUSCRIPT MENTORING PROGRAM

The Animal Behavior Society is establishing a mentoring program for authors from developing countries (i.e. from Central and South America) with the goal of making their manuscripts more competitive in top-ranked concept-oriented journals like Animal Behaviour. We envision that mentors would help to improve colloquial English if required but the more important role would be to advise on the conceptual framework in which the study is placed. It may be that the research could easily be put in a broader context to appeal to readers working outside specific taxonomic groups. If however the study is basically descriptive and, in the case of the manuscript at hand, the work has been done with goals already identified, the mentor’s role might be to advise where it should be submitted for the best chance of success. We also hope that these mentors will help direct future research by suggesting suitable conceptual frameworks and/or identifying interesting questions that might be pursued to follow up the original research.

To be matched with a mentor, please send your manuscript to the Executive Editor of the journal [email protected]. We will do our best to find someone with a suitable background.

2014-2015 ABS OFFICERS

President: Regina H. Macedo, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, Phone: +55-61-3307-2265, E-mail: [email protected]

First President-Elect: Emilia Martins, Indiana University, USA. Phone: (812) 856-5840, Email: [email protected]

Second President-Elect: Bill Searcy, University of Miami, USA, Phone: (305) 284-2065, E-mail: [email protected]

Past President: Dan Rubenstein, Princeton University, USA, Phone: (609) 258-5698, E-mail: [email protected]

Secretary: Sue Bertram, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Phone: (613) 520-2600 x1585, E-mail: [email protected]

Program Officer: Mike Beecher, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Phone: (206) 543-6545. E-mail: [email protected]

Program Officer-Elect: Mark Hauber, Hunter College, NY, USA. Phone: (212) 396-6442, Email: [email protected]

Parlimentarian: Eileen Hebets, University of Nebraska, USA. Phone: (402) 472.2571, Email: [email protected]

Executive Editor: Michelle Pellissier Scott, University of New Hampshire, USA. Phone: (415) 800-8988. E-mail: [email protected]

Members-at-Large:
John Swaddle, College of William and Mary, USA. Phone: (757) 221-2231, E-mail: [email protected]

Alison Bell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Phone: (217) 265-5469, E-mail: [email protected]

Beth Jakob, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Phone: (413) 577-0707, E-mail: [email protected]

Historian: Lee Drickamer, Northern Arizona University, USA. Phone: (520) 523-0388, E-mail: [email protected]

ABS Newsletter

Send general correspondence concerning the Society to Sue Bertram the secretary of the animal behavior society, E-mail: [email protected]. Deadlines for materials to be included in the Newsletter are the 15th of the month preceding each issue. The next deadline is 15 October, 2015. Articles submitted by members of the Society and judged by the Secretary to be appropriate are occasionally published in the ABS newsletter. The publication of such material does not imply ABS endorsement of the opinions expressed by contributors.

Animal Behavior Society Website: http://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org

Animal Behavior

Animal Behavior, manuscripts and editorial matters: Authors should submit manuscripts online to Elsevier’s Editorial System (http://ees.elsevier.com/anbeh/). For enquiries relating to submissions prior to acceptance, contact the Journal Manager ([email protected]). For enquiries relating to submissions after acceptance, visit Elsevier at http://www.elsevier.com/journals. For other general correspondence, contact Kris Bruner, Managing Editor, Animal Behaviour, Indiana University, 407 N. Park Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Phone: 812-935-7188.

Change of address, missing or defective issues: ABS Central Office, 2111 Chestnut Avenue, Suite 145, Glenview, IL 60025, US. Phone: 312-893-6585. Fax: 312-896-5614. E-mail: [email protected].