相关费用：选择性费用 ︾Original Articles are full-length reports usually greater than nine manuscript pages. Short Notes are more limited in scope and usually fewer than 8 printed pages (approx. 3,000 words), including less than 4 figures or tables. Manuscripts may be moved from one category to another at the discretion of the Managing Editor. We basically do not set page-charge, but Original Article exceeding 15 printed pages may be charged. For pages exceeding this limit, the charge is JPY 7,700 per page. In such a case, authors should contact the editor for negotiation in advance.
The author(s) is expected to pay for the cost for color reproduction of a figure (or figures). The cost can be defrayed by the Society for the first page, but only when the author(s) requests exemption and the Managing Editor decides, on the basis of advice from an Associate Editor and/or reviewer(s), that the color reproduction is essential in clarifying points of arguments to readers. Cost of color reproduction will be charged to the author from the second page irrespective of its effect in presentation. For pages including a color figure(s), the charge is JPY 7,700 per page.
Open access
After being accepted for publication, some articles are selected as Open Access Papers by the editorial committee. Selected articles are uploaded as Open Access Papers without any charge by the author(s) on BioOne platform, and pdf files of the Open Access Papers are allowed to be posted on a listserv, website, or automated delivery, including uploading for free access in ResearchGate, Academia, etc. If author(s) do not wish his/her/their article to be selected for this category, please inform the Handling Editor when the galley proof is returned to the Editor.
期刊简介：Current Herpetology《当代爬虫学》（半年刊）. Current Herpetology is the official English journal of the Herpetological Society of Japan, and publishes Reviews, Original Articles, and Short Notes dealing largely or exclusively with the biology and diversity of amphibians and reptiles. We do not accept reports based on a single or a few observations, simple records of new localities, descriptive faunal lists, or simple technical reports, such as primer notes, unless their specific and novel merits are clearly documented, explicitly justified, and supported from the perspective of their relevance to significant scientific/biological topics.
