New Members: Contact information for the Animal Behavior Society

Use this form to provide the Animal Behavior Society with your current information necessary to process your membership. After you submit this form you will be directed to your payment options. Your membership will not be complete until after your payment has been verified by the ABS Central Office.

Once you submit your payment and your membership form. you should receive a welcome message within 24-48 hrs (weekdays). For those ordering the online access of the journal, there will be a customer reference number in this message. You need this number to activate access with Science Direct. If you have ordered the paper copy, the publisher will assign your customer reference number and it will appear on the mailing label of your first issue.


Required for on-line and web access. ABS Central Office will not provide this email address to other organizations. ABS would then only use this address for society business. ABS Central Office will maintain this address in our private membership database for when we need to contact you or automatically send you password notices or reminders. To update your publicly available information please use the additional form in this folder.
The subject line ABS Central Office (ABSCO) will see when it receives this information.
Please enter your complete full name as you would like to see it printed.
Please enter the last part of your name. This would be similar to the family name you use when publishing in an international journal. Then enter your first initial. This is used to help us sort our listings by last name for a quick lookup of your information in our index, and helps us with international naming schemes.
University, Company, Organization with which you are currently affiliated. This is your main home affiliation. Enter NONE if you are not affiliated with any organization.
Optional. If you would like to list a specific department in addition to your affiliation you may do so here.


If you are adding paper copies of the journal be aware this is an additional fee. Standard membership options all include electronic access via Elsiver/ScienceDirect


This is the main mailing address you wish to have the journal delivered. It is also the address the Animal Behavior Society will use in the event we can not reach you by e-mail or phone.
This is the main mailing address you wish to have the journal delivered. It is also the address the Animal Behavior Society will use in the event we can not reach you by e-mail or phone.
optional field if you need more room - can be used for Apt # or if you need more than one line for your street address
Your state or provence
Your postalcode/zip code information
Optional - comments to the ABS CO