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It is the official journal of <a href="https://herpetology.jp">the Herpetological Society of Japan</a> and is a continuation of Acta Herpetologica Japonica (1964–1971) and Japanese Journal of Herpetology (1972-1999).</p></dd> <dd style="padding:1em 0 0 0;">Published by <a href="https://herpetology.jp">the Herpetological Society of Japan</a> (<a href="./ch-editorial.php">Editors list</a>)</dd> <dd><a href="../membership/">Join our society for subscription. </a></dd> <dd>2023 Impact Factor: 0.600</dd>  </dl>  <h2>Latest Issue: 43(2), August 2024</h2> <div class="bhsj_cover"> <p class="journal"><img src="../img/ch43-2.jpg" alt="Current Herpetology latest issue" height="180" class="coverimg"/></p> </div> <div class="ch_tocs"> <h3>Table of Contents</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.bioone.org/toc/jche/43/2" target="_blank">Go to BioOne<img src="../img/extlink.png" alt="[Go to external website]"/></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/hsj/43/2/_contents/-char/en" target="_blank">Go to J-STAGE<img src="../img/extlink.png" alt="[Go to external website]"/></a></li> </ul> <p> See below for how to access the full texts of the online editions. </p> </div> <h2>Online Editions</h2> <ul class="listing"> <li><b><a href="http://www.bioone.org/loi/jche" target="_link">Online journal in BioOne (2005 Vol. 24 or later issues)<img src="../img/extlink.png" alt="[Go to external website]"/></a></b><br/> Anyone can read abstracts and references.<br/> Full texts are accessible from subscribing organizations.</li> <li><b><a href="http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/hsj/" target="_link">Online journal in J-STAGE (All issues including predecessors)<img src="../img/extlink.png" alt="[Go to external website]"/></a></b> <ul class="listing"> <li><a href="https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/hsj1964/" target="_blank">Acta Herpetologica Japonica<img src="../img/extlink.png" alt="[Go to external website]"/></a>,1964–1971, vol. 1(1)-4(4) (All issues open access)</li> <li><a href="https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/hsj1972/" target="_blank">Japanese Journal of Herpetology<img src="../img/extlink.png" alt="[Go to external website]"/></a>,1972–1999, vol. 5(1)–18(2) (All issues open access)</li> <li><a href="https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/hsj/" target="_blank">Current Herpetology<img src="../img/extlink.png" alt="[Go to external website]"/></a>, 2000–, vol. 19(1)– (2004 Vol. 23 or earlier issues open access)</li> </ul> <p class="noindent"> The members of HSJ have access to full texts of 2005 Vol. 24 or later issues of Current Herpetology.<br/> Please contact the liaison for online journals for your ID and password<br/> Liaison for online journals: Natsuhiko YOSHIKAWA <ch-account(a)herpetology.jp><br/> <span class="amark">* Replace “ (a) ” with “ @ ” in the e-mail address.</span> </p> </li> </ul> <h2>Announcement <span class="sfont">(last update: 19 Jan 2024)</span></h2> <ul class="listing"> <li><a href="./CHInstruction.pdf" target="link"><img src="../img/icon-pdf.gif" alt ="[PDF]"/> Instruction to Contributors</a> has bee updated (19 Jan 2024).</li> <li>Instruction to Contributors has bee updated (29 Sep 2023).</li> <li><a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/c-herp" target="link">Online submission system<img src="../img/extlink.png" alt="[Go to external website]"/></a> was newly introduced, and Instruction to Contributors was updated (1 July 2020)</li> <li>For members and authors for our journals: <a href="./Copy-Right-Transfer.doc">Transfer of copyright (in English)</a> / <a href="./Copy-Right-Transfer-J.doc">(in Japanese)</a> (MS Word file) in connection with electric archiving. <font size="-1" style="size:small">(24 Nov 2008)</font></li> <li>There are period-specified services for authors now. <a href="./ch-service.php">See here.</a></li> </ul> <div class="notice"> <h3>Notice: WAIT 2 YEARS for uploading <i>Current Herpetology</i> PDF offprints!</h3>  <p> Copyrights of articles published in <i>Current Herpetology</i> belong to the Herpetological Society of Japan. 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