Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology is a peer-reviewed journal of quantitative empirical and theoretical research in animal behaviour, published by SpringerBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology（行为生态学与社会生物学）是一本文载动物行为学定量实证与理论研究的同行评议学术期刊，由 Springer（德国）出版，创刊于 1976 年；该刊由两位分领域主编联合把关，2017 年起改行连续出版模式，现为每年十二期的混合开放获取期刊，下文分节说明其选题范围、办刊沿革与编辑团队。 founded in 1976, it is run by two editors-in-chief with separate taxonomic remits, moved to continuous article publishing in 2017, and now appears in twelve issues per year as a hybrid open access title.^[1]

Scope

The journal publishes reviews, original contributions and commentaries on animal behaviour, covering the individual, group, population, community and species levels, with a strong emphasis on quantitative and testable research.期刊的基本定位是发表关于动物行为的综述、原创论文与评论性文章，研究层次覆盖个体、群体、种群、群落乃至物种多个尺度，并强调量化与可检验的研究取向。

• A dedicated Methods section considers submissions on statistical procedures and their problems as well as on measurement techniques, treating methodology itself as a discussable academic subject.期刊下设 Methods（方法）专栏，专门接收讨论统计程序及其疑难问题、以及与测量技术有关的稿件，把方法论本身当作可讨论的学术对象。
• Editorial policy places special emphasis on the ultimate functions and the evolution of ecological adaptations of behaviour, alongside mechanistic studies of proximate cause, treating the two as complementary rather than competing explanations.编辑方针特别强调行为生态适应的终极功能及其演化，同时并不排斥对近因机制的机制性研究，两者被视为互补而非互斥的解释路径。
• Aspects of particular interest include intraspecific behavioural interactions with a special focus on social behaviour, covering altruism, cooperation and parental care, pre- and postzygotic sexual selection, kin recognition and kin selection, and group structure and social networks.尤受重视的题材是种内行为互动，其中以社会行为为重心，具体涵盖利他、合作与亲代抚育，合子前与合子后的性选择，亲缘识别与亲缘选择，以及群体结构与社会网络。
• A second major strand covers interspecific behavioural interactions including competition, resource partitioning, speciation, foraging, mutualism, predator-prey interactions and parasitism, while further invited topics include signalling, behavioural ecophysiology, information processing and neuroecology, behavioural genetics, behavioural plasticity, behavioural syndromes and dispersal and orientation.另一个重点方向是种间行为互动，涉及竞争、资源分化、物种形成、觅食、互利共生、捕食者与猎物相互作用以及寄生现象，其余获邀方向还包括信号传递、行为生态生理学、信息处理与神经生态学、行为遗传学、行为可塑性、行为综合征与扩散定向等主题。

In terms of topic selection the journal is not fenced into any single discipline but fuses the methodological traditions of ecology, ethology and sociobiology into one从选题取向看，这本期刊并不以某一门具体学科为界，而是把生态学、动物行为学与社会生物学的方法论传统熔于一炉；它欢迎那些能够同时回应适应意义与机制解释两类问题的稿件，也正因为量化取向的硬性要求，纯粹的概念思辨或缺乏实证支撑的综述较难通过初筛。 it welcomes papers that speak to both adaptive significance and mechanistic explanation, and precisely because of its firm quantitative requirement, purely conceptual speculation or unsupported reviews tend to fail at first screening.

History

• 1976: the journal was founded and published by Springer, with the abbreviation Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. in use from the outset, print ISSN 0340-5443 and electronic ISSN 1432-0762.1976 年： 期刊正式创刊，由 Springer 出版，标准缩写自始即为 Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.，纸本 ISSN 0340-5443，电子版 ISSN 1432-0762。
• 2017: the journal moved from paginated issues to a continuous article publishing model, in which accepted papers appear online immediately and are cited by volume and article number rather than by sequential page.2017 年： 期刊从传统的分页编排改为连续出版模式，稿件录用后即时在线发表，不再按期次顺序连续编页，文章改以卷号加文章编号的方式引用。^[2]
• Around the same time the journal added a Featured Student Research section for outstanding original work by graduate or undergraduate students written with the student as lead author and recommended by the associate editors through the normal peer review process.2017 年前后： 期刊增设 Featured Student Research（优秀学生研究）栏目，专门刊出以研究生或本科生为第一作者、由副主编从常规同行评议流程中推荐的高质量成果。
• In recent years the publisher explicitly labels the journal as hybrid open access, with no mandatory page charges and optional author-paid open access, while continuing to run themed calls for papers as dedicated collections.近年： 出版方明确标注该刊为混合开放获取模式，不强制收取版面费，作者可自愿选择付费开放获取，出版方同时以专集形式持续组织相关方向的专题征稿。
• At present the journal maintains its twelve-issue annual schedule, with an impact factor stable around the two mark and a five-year figure slightly above the annual value, keeping it among the leading titles in both the behavioural sciences and zoology categories.现阶段： 期刊维持每年十二期的常规出版安排，影响因子稳定在二上下，五年影响因子略高于当年值，在行为科学与动物学两个小类中长期位居前列。

Editors

The journal runs a two-editor-in-chief model in which the two editors cover the vertebrate and the invertebrate literatures respectively, an arrangement that is unusual among behavioural ecology journals and reflects the presence of a senior scholar in each of the two great research traditions.期刊实行双主编制，由两位主编分别分管脊椎动物与无脊椎动物两大方向，这在行为生态学期刊中并不多见，反映出该刊在这两条研究传统上各有重量级学者把关。

• Theo C. M. Bakker, based at the University of Bonn in Germany, handles submissions in the vertebrate direction.Theo C. M. Bakker，任职于 波恩大学（德国），主管脊椎动物方向的稿件。
• James F. A. Traniello, based at Boston University in the United States, handles submissions in the invertebrate direction.James F. A. Traniello，任职于 波士顿大学（美国），主管无脊椎动物方向的稿件。
• Beneath the two editors-in-chief sit a number of associate and assistant editors who handle initial screening, the organisation of specialist review and the planning of the themed sections.两位主编之下设有多位副主编与助理编辑，负责日常稿件的初筛、专业评审的组织以及各专题专栏的策划推进。
• The complete editorial board is maintained on the official Springer journal page and is refreshed from year to year.完整的编委名单由 Springer 官方期刊页面维护，会随年份更新。