Presubmission Inquiries
Authors may submit a presubmission inquiry to possess an editor review whether their tasks are suited to JNeurosci prior to complete distribution. There’s absolutely no submission cost for presubmission inquiries. Inquiries will include a cover page, abstract, importance statement, and author information that is full.
Demands for Submission
Keep in mind that JNeurosci permits distribution of just one PDF when it comes to submission that is initial. Whenever submitting a manuscript revised from another log, modifications to adhere to JNeurosci design will never be required unless a modification is required after review.
Writers must choose the section that is appropriate their article: Cellular/Molecular, Development/Plasticity/Repair, Systems/Circuits, Behavioral/Cognitive, or Neurobiology of infection.
Review Process
Writers may request certain editors that are senior Reviewing Editors, but editor projects is supposed to be made according to expertise for the editors, load, and scheduling. Writers are required to recognize five reviewers who will be well qualified to referee the work and will never have conflict of great interest. Authors could also exclude individuals that are specific reviewing their manuscript. The Reviewing Editor will typically pick two reviewers that are independent assess each paper. If your opinion is certainly not reached, an opinion that is third be tried. Manuscripts is supposed to be held confidential by reviewers.
A manuscript is going to be returned without outside review if an appointment between two or even more Reviewing Editors and a Senior Editor identifies flaws in experimental design or the medical quality such that it really is not likely to get favorable reviews. In addition, a manuscript this is certainly narrow in range rather than apt to be highly relevant to a broader neuroscience audience might be editorially refused following this assessment procedure. Editorial rejection enables writers to elsewhere submit their paper without further delay.
JNeurosci is user regarding the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium, an alliance of neuroscience journals which have decided to share manuscript reviews at authors’ request. Its objectives are to aid efficient and thorough peer review of initial research in neuroscience, to speed the publication of research reports, and also to decrease the burden on peer reviewers.
Revising/Finalizing a Manuscript
Writers probably know that JNeurosci limits writer alterations in evidence. Just modifications of factual mistakes, copyediting errors, or perhaps in the standard of figure reproduction are permitted.
To speed book, writers are restricted to 2 company times to examine and get back proofs. Writers should email jn@sfn.org if the proofs should always be provided for a message target apart from that regarding the corresponding writer detailed on the manuscript.
When a manuscript is accepted, writers’ names can simply be added, deleted, or modified with all the approval regarding the editors. Demands for changes into the author list shall postpone book of the manuscript.
JNeurosci address art is either a graphic or a movie that highlights material highly relevant to an article for the reason that issue. Cover art is plumped for based mostly on visual appeal and clinical interest. We have been enthusiastic about arresting and appealing pictures in the place of the ones that serve to report findings that are experimental. Cartoons or metaphorical pictures are generally speaking perhaps perhaps perhaps not accepted. Contributors ought to view current covers for types of pictures which were accepted.
Cover files are submitted through the submission that is online or by FTP. FTP submissions should be conserved in a folder known as aided by the manuscript quantity. Protect art developed by a nonauthor should be submitted with a permission that is signed, evolutionwriters plus an acknowledgment towards the creator must certanly be contained in the legend.
Pictures must certanly be formatted to your same in principle as 9 ins wide by 11.25 ins high with an answer with a minimum of 300 pixels/inch. Protect art composed of a picture that is single be in TIFF structure saved as RGB. Art vector that is including should really be in EPS structure. a quick cover legend that defines the image should come with the distribution. Journal editors may crop, turn or perhaps adjust pictures.
See Multimedia and 3D versions to learn more about movie requirements. Writers also needs to provide a graphic from the movie to seem in the printing problem, which must adhere to the image format described above.
JNeurosci relies on distribution and publication costs to aid its operations. Articles where in fact the very very first and authors that are last enough time of distribution are SfN members need the submission charge waived and receive a price reduction regarding the book cost. These membership discounts, visit our Member Center to join SfN and take advantage. Accepted manuscripts will maybe not go into manufacturing or publish until re re payment is gotten.
Costs should really be compensated by charge card. If credit cards can not be utilized, a check or wire transfer is accepted. There is certainly an extra $25 charge if costs are compensated by cable transfer. Purchase sales are not any longer accepted.
Reduced Charges Policy
In order to assist neuroscientists employed in resource-restricted nations also to broaden the dissemination of technology to all or any aspects of the entire world, JNeurosci offers paid off submission and book costs to researchers found in the nations classified by the entire world Bank as low earnings economies (Category I), lower-middle earnings economies (Category II), or upper-middle earnings economies (Category III).
Fee may be paid off once the first and final authors are SfN users and possess work addresses in just one of these nations. The smaller discount will be applied if the first and last authors work in countries in different categories.
The distribution cost shall be waived for manuscripts originating from Category we nations but will use in complete for nations in Category II and III.
All publication costs will likely to be paid down by 75per cent for Category we nations and you will be paid down by 50% for nations in Category II and III.
JNeurosci will give consideration to demands to waive the charge for well-documented situations of extreme monetaray hardship.
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