Current Herpetology publishes original research articles on amphibians and reptiles. It is the official journal of the Herpetological Society of Japan and is a continuation of Acta Herpetologica Japonica (1964–1971) and Japanese Journal of Herpetology (1972-1999).
See below for how to access the full texts of the online editions.
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,1964–1971, vol. 1(1)-4(4) (All issues open access),1972–1999, vol. 5(1)–18(2) (All issues open access), 2000–, vol. 19(1)– (2004 Vol. 23 or earlier issues open access)
The members of HSJ have access to full texts of 2005 Vol. 24 or later issues of Current Herpetology.
Please contact the liaison for online journals for your ID and password
Liaison for online journals: Natsuhiko YOSHIKAWA <ch-account(a)herpetology.jp>
* Replace “ (a) ” with “ @ ” in the e-mail address.
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Instruction to Contributors has bee updated (19 Jan 2024). was newly introduced, and Instruction to Contributors was updated (1 July 2020)Copyrights of articles published in Current Herpetology belong to the Herpetological Society of Japan. Uploading their PDF offprints within 2 years from the publication to the ResearchGate site or any other personal websites open to free downloading by the general public is an obvious violation of copyright transfer agreement which the authors sign before their publication. Please wait 2 years for making PDF offprints accessible on websites.
Instruction to Contributors (19 Jan 2024 Updated) (17 June 2022 Updated).See Editors page.
See Order page if you need hard copies (see above for online editions).