覆蓋的地理區域 - 東北自然主義者涵蓋陸地，淡水和海洋生物的自然歷史科學的所有方面以及北美東北部的環境，大致從弗吉尼亞州到密蘇里州，北到明尼蘇達州和努納武特，從東到紐芬蘭，南回弗吉尼亞州。根據該地區以外的實地研究提供有關該地區物種信息的手稿可由編輯自行決定。手稿主題 - 期刊歡迎基于觀察和研究的手稿，重點是陸地，淡水和海洋生物和群落的生物學，因為它涉及它們的生活歷史及其在環境和棲息地內的功能，使用和適應性它們被發現，以及物種和棲息地的生態和保護。這些研究可能包括現場測量，調查和/或實驗，實驗室條件下，或利用博物館和標本館標本。主題領域包括但不限于解剖學，行為學，生物地理學，生物學，保護學，進化學，生態學，遺傳學，寄生蟲學，生理學，群體生物學和分類學。只要研究對野外自然主義者具有直接和明確的意義，并且手稿討論了這些含義，就會考慮對該地區的自然歷史方面進行嚴格的實驗室，建模和模擬研究，而不考慮任何現場組成部分。

Geographical region covered - The Northeastern Naturalist covers all aspects of the natural history sciences of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine organisms and the environments of the northeastern portion of North America, roughly bounded from Virginia to Missouri, north to Minnesota and Nunavut, east to Newfoundland, and south back to Virginia. Manuscripts based on field studies outside of this region that provide information on species within this region may be considered at the Editor’s discretion.Manuscript subject matter - The journal welcomes manuscripts based on observations and research focused on the biology of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine organisms and communities as it relates to their life histories and their function within, use of, and adaptation to the environment and the habitats in which they are found, as well as on the ecology and conservation of species and habitats. Such studies may encompass measurements, surveys, and/or experiments in the field, under lab conditions, or utilizing museum and herbarium specimens. Subject areas include, but are not limited to, anatomy, behavior, biogeography, biology, conservation, evolution, ecology, genetics, parasitology, physiology, population biology, and taxonomy. Strict lab, modeling, and simulation studies on natural history aspects of the region, without any field component, will be considered for publication as long as the research has direct and clear significance to field naturalists and the manuscript discusses these implications.