JNAH: The Center for North American Herpetology

About CNAH

Statement
of Purpose

CNAH Board

CNAH Officers

CNAH Awards

CNAH Donors

JNAH

Contemporary
Herpetology

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MISSION STATEMENT: The Journal of North American Herpetology (JNAH) (ISSN 2333-0694) provides an open access on-line venue with the use of all modern digital technologies for peer-reviewed contributions of all aspects of North American Herpetology within the geographic boundaries of the United States and Canada. JNAH is a continuation of the first herpetological on-line peer reviewed journal Contemporary Herpetology (1998-2009).

About JNAH

JNAH is a continuation of the first herpetological on-line journal Contemporary Herpetology (1998-2009).

JNAH Contents

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Year	Author/Citation	PDF
2017	Burger, Anthony C., Brett W. Marlowe, Elizabeth P. Tristano, Geoffrey R. Smith, and Jessica E. Rettig. Effect of recreational trail traffic level on Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus) relative abundance. The Journal of North American Herpetology 2017(1):1-4.	0.63 MB
2017	Myers, Laura and Mark Paulissen. Aggressive behaviors and their effect on resource use by male Little Brown Skinks, Scincella lateralis. The Journal of North American Herpetology 2017(1):5-10.	0.21 MB
2017	Glorioso, Brad M. and J. Hardin Waddle. Nocturnal arboreality in snakes in the swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin of south-central Louisiana and Big Thicket National Preserve of southeast Texas. The Journal of North American Herpetology 2017(1):11-18.	2.38 MB
2017	Meshaka, Walter E., Jr., Thomas K. Pauley, Danielle F. Wright, and Kelli-Marie Herrick. Seasonal incidence of capture and reproduction of five fossorial snake species in West Virginia. The Journal of North American Herpetology 2017(1):19-27.	0.27 MB
2017	Anderson, Wesley M., David B. Wester, Christopher J. Salice, and Gad Perry. Habitat utilization by the Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) from two sites in central Texas. The Journal of North American Herpetology 2017(1):28-33.	01 MB
2017	Duffus, Amanda L. J., Patricia Johnson, V. Gregory Chinchar, Matthew J. Gray, and Thomas B. Waltzek. Third International Symposium on Ranaviruses: Advancing the understanding of the threat of Ranaviruses to North American herpetofauna. The Journal of North American Herpetology 2017(1):34-36.	0.18 MB

Topic Headings

If your study does not appear to fit into one of these headings, please contact the JNAH Editors (see below) to see if the study is acceptable for consideration. Please note that we will not be accepting shorter notes such as individual natural history observations.

Taxonomy/Systematics	Exotic Species	Inventory/Monitoring	Morphology
Taxon-based Studies	Genetics	Biogeography	Paleontology
Amphibian Diseases	Diet	Embryology	Ecology
Environmental Physiology	Geographic Distribution

Instructions to Authors

Font should be Arial 12 pt
Manuscript should be 1.5 line spaced
Page numbers should be centered on the bottom
Results should be presented in past tense
Common names should be consistent throughout the manuscript
Citations will be presented chronologically in text and spelled out in their entirety (including author names and the manuscript titles) in the Literature Cited section

Electronic submissions should be emailed to JNAH.editor@cnah.org. Be sure to include all materials (manuscript, figures, tables, images, sound files, etc.). For larger files (greater than 25 MB) please contact the JNAH editors via email for instructions on using DropBox. JNAH tracks and posts submission and rejection rates and participates in journal impact ratings for the benefit of authors. The Table of Contents of each issue will be announced by CNAH.

Editorial Board

Editor in Chief:
Dan Fogell Southeast Community College Lincoln, Nebraska
Managing Editor: Travis W. Taggart Sternberg Museum of Natural History Hays, Kansas
Associate Editors:
James Austin University of Florida	Pablo Delis Shippensburg University	Dale DeNardo Arizona State University	Raul Diaz La Sierra University
Amanda Duffus Gordon State College	David Galbraith Royal Botanical Gardens	Kristin Godfrey The Biodiversity Group	Robert Jadin University of Colorado Boulder
Richard Kazmaier West Texas A&M University	Kenro Kusumi Arizona State University	Tom Mathies Colorado Partners for Reptile and Amphibian Conservation	Lisa Regula Meyer Kent State University
Jennifer Olori State University of New York, Oswego	George Pisani Kansas Biological Survey	Amber Pitt Bloomsburg University	John Placyk Jr. University of Texas at Tyler
Susan Rehorek Slippery Rock University	R. Graham Reynolds University of Massachusetts Boston	Justin Rheubert Saint Louis University	J. Daren Riedle Lincoln University
Javier Rodriguez University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Kirk Setser H.T. Harvey and Associates	Christopher Sheil John Carroll University	Geoff Smith Denison University
Jeremy Stout Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology	Brad Timm University of Massachusetts Amherst	Luis Tirado University of Florida	Peter Uetz Virginia Commonwealth University
Rocky Ward West Texas A&M University	Jessa Watters Sam Noble Museum	Marco A.L. Zuffi University of Pisa, Italy

Contemporary Herpetology Contents

Currently accessible at (Contemporary Herpetology). We are in the process of moving all CH content to this section.