1.
General
Neuroscience Research publishes experimental studies
of nerve cells or nervous systems, including a broad range of approaches from
the molecular to the behavioral. Theoretical studies are acceptable if they are
relevant for interpretation of experimental data or elucidate principles of
general interest. Papers dealing with studies on humans with relevance to
neurological and psychiatric disorders are welcome, but case reports are not
included in the scope of this journal. Papers should present new, important
observations or interpretations that can be of general interest to various
areas of neuroscientists.
All manuscripts should be accompanied by a
clear statement that the work has not been published elsewhere and is not under
review with another journal. When there is more than one author, a clear statement
should be made in the cover letter that all co-authors have agreed to the
submission of the final manuscript. In the cover letter authors must indicate
one of the Receiving Editors (listed below) whose subject area most closely
relates to the work submitted.
If illustrations or other small parts of articles or books published elsewhere
are used in papers submitted to Neuroscience Research, the written permission
of the author(s) and publisher concerned must be included with the manuscript.
The original source must be indicated in the legend of the illustration in
these cases.
Authors should keep copies of all material submitted.
To
help ensure that papers are reviewed by the most suitable referees, authors must provide a list of five
candidate referees (including names, addresses, fax and e-mail) who do not have
conflict of interest in the research being submitted. The Editors reserve the right to choose
different referees from the ones suggested.
Receiving Editors will pre-review
manuscripts and, in consultation with the Editor-in-Chief, reserve the right to
return a manuscript to the author(s) without further review.
2.
Submission of manuscripts
It is possible to submit
electronic or hardcopy manuscripts. Electronic submission is the
preferred route, since submission and peer-review can now be handled entirely
over the web.
A.
Electronic Submission
Before submitting, it is essential for authors to refer to the Elsevier Artwork
guidelines: http://www.elsevier.com/authors/
(Click
on the link gGuide to
Publishing with Elsevierh.)
Once
electronic manuscripts are ready to submit, go to: http://ees.elsevier.com/nsr/
Then,
1) Select the 'log in' link at the top of the page.
2) Enter your user name and password to log in.
(If you have not
registered yet, click 'Not yet registered?'. Enter your first name, last name
and e-mail address, then click 'Submit'. You will receive your user name and
password by e-mail.)
3) After entering your user name and password, click 'Author Login'
4) Select 'Submit New Manuscript' in 'Author Main Menu'.
5) Follow prompts online. Please note that the figures and tables should be
submitted as separate items, not being included in manuscripts. At each stage
of the submission process, it is possible to go back a step, save the
submission to continue later or remove/change any information already entered.
6) After all items are attached, click 'Build PDF for my approval'. The
submission tool will generate a PDF file to be used for the reviewing process.
7) You will receive an e-mail which notes that your PDF has been built. You
have to approve the PDF to complete your submission. Then you will receive
confirmation of your submission, and further progress of your paper at every
stage of its review period thereafter, via e-mail.
For
more details on the electronic submission system, please refer to the 'Tutorial
for Authors' which is available for download from http://ees.elsevier.com/nsr/
B. Hardcopy Submission
Four copies of manuscripts and illustrations must be submitted.
Three copies are to be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Tadaharu Tsumoto, Hongo Bldg. 9F, 2-2, 7 chome, Hongo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan,
tel: +81-3-3813-0295; fax: +81-3-3813-0296, e-mail: editnsr@jnss.org
Please
send a CD-ROM containing manuscripts
and illustrations with 3 hardcopies.
One
copy is to be sent (disk is not necessary) to one of the following Receiving
Editors whose subject area most closely relates to the work submitted.
Molecular
Neuroscience
Heinrich Betz, Department of Neurochemistry,
Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstrasse 46, 60528
Frankfurt, Germany, tel: +49-69-96769-220, fax: +49-69-96769-441, e-mail: neurochemie@mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de
Nobutaka Hirokawa, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of
Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033
Japan, tel: +81-3-5841-3326, fax: +81-3-5802-8646, e-mail: hirokawa@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology, RIKEN Brain
Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan, tel: +81- 48-467-9745,
fax: +81- 48-467-9744, e-mail: mikosiba@brain.riken.jp
Developmental
Neuroscience
Lynn T. Landmesser, Department of
Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Room E653,
10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4975, USA, tel: +1-216-368-3996, fax:
+1-216-368-4650, e-mail: lynn.landmesser@case.edu
Fujio Murakami, Laboratory of Neuroscience Graduate School of Frontier
Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, 565-0871 Japan, tel:
+81-6-6879-4655, fax: +81-6-6879-4659, e-mail: murakami@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp
Hideyuki Okano, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine,
35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan, tel: +81-3-5363-3746, fax:
+81-3-3357-5445, e-mail: hidokano@med.keio.ac.jp
Cellular
Neuroscience
Arthur Konnerth, Institut fuer Physiologie,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Pettenkoferstr. 12, 80336 Muenchen,
Germany, tel: +49-89-5996-510(-511), fax: +49-89-5996-512, e-mail: konnerth@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Toshio Kosaka, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Graduate School of
Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582 Japan, tel:
+81-92-642-6047, fax: +81-92-642-6059, e-mail: kosaka@a3rd.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Seiji Ozawa, Department of
Physiology, Gunma University School of Medicine, 3-39-22 Showa-machi, Maebashi,
Gunma, 371-8511 Japan, tel: +81-27-220-7930, fax: +81-27-220-7936, e-mail: ozawas@med.gunma-u.ac.jp
System/Behavioral
Neuroscience
Ulf Eysel, Department of Neurophysiology, MA
4/149, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, tel: +49-234-32-23849,
fax: +49-234-32-14192, email: eysel@neurop.rub.de
Takeshi Kaneko, Department of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate School of
Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan, tel: +81-75-753-4331, fax:
+81-75-753-4340, e-mail: kaneko@mbs.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Jun Tanji, Brain Science Research Center, Research Institute Tamagawa
University,
1-1-6,
Tamagawagakuen, Machida, Tokyo, 194-8610 Japan, tel: +81-42-739-8667,
fax: +81-42-739-8663, e-mail: tanji@lab.tamagawa.ac.jp
David Van Essen, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University
School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110 USA, tel:
+1-314-362-7043, fax: +1-314-747-3436, e-mail: vanessen@v1.wustl.edu
Cognitive/Computational
Neuroscience
Okihide Hikosaka, Lab. of Sensorimotor Res.,
National Eye Inst., NIH,
Atsushi Iriki, Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development, RIKEN Brain
Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan, tel:
+81-48-467-9637,@fax:+81-48-467-9645, e-mail: iriki@brain.riken.jp
Yasushi Miyashita, Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The
University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan, tel: +81-3-5841-3457
fax: +81-3-5800-6847, e-mail: physiol@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Keiji Tanaka, Laboratory for Cognitive Brain Mapping, RIKEN Brain Science
Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan, tel: +81-48-467-9342,@fax:+81-48-462-4651, e-mail: keiji@postman.riken.jp
Neurochemistry
Michihiro Igarashi, Division of Molecular and
Cellular Biology, Niigata University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences,
1-757 Asahi-Machi, Niigata-Shi, Niigata 951-8510, Japan, tel: +81-25-227-2083,
fax: +81-25-227-0758, e-mail: tarokaja@med.niigata-u.ac.jp
Kunihiko Obata, Neural Network Mechanisms Research Group, RIKEN Brain Science
Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198 Japan, tel: +81-48-462-4646, fax: +81-
48-462-4697, e-mail: obata@brain.riken.jp
Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, National Brain
Research Centre, NH-8, Manesar, Gurgaon Dist., Haryana-122 050, India, tel: + 91+124+2338922,
fax: + 91+124+2338928, e-mail: vijir@nbrc.ac.in
Neuroscience
of Disease
Nobumasa Kato, Department of Psychiatry,
Karasuyama Hospital, Showa University School of Medicine, 6-11-11,
Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan, tel: +81-3-3300-5231, fax:
+81-3-3308-9710, e-mail: katon-tky@umin.ac.jp
Tadafumi Kato, Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders, RIKEN
Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan, tel:
+81-48-467-6949, fax: +81-48-467-6947, e-mail: kato@brain.riken.jp
Robert W McCarley, Department of Psychiatry (116A), Harvard Medical School, VA
Medical Center 940 Belmont Street, Brockton MA 02401, USA, tel:
+1-508-583-4500, fax: +1-508-586-08946, e-mail: robert_mccarley@hms.harvard.edu
Nobuyuki Nukina, Molecular Neuropathology Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute,
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198 Japan, tel:+81-48-467-9702, fax;+81-48-462-4796,
e-mail: nukina@brain.riken.jp
3.
Types of articles
(1) Research
Reports
reporting original results of research within the field of neuroscience,
usually 3000-5000 words.
(2) Rapid Communications reporting
on research which has progressed to the stage when it is considered necessary
that the results be rapidly made known to other workers in the field. Priority
for rapid publication will be given to this category of paper at all stages.
The maximum length is 2000 words, with a summary of maximum 100 words. Rapid
Communications should contain no section headings, a maximum of 4 figures and a
maximum of 30 references.
(3) Review Articles should give a
survey, evaluation and critical interpretation of recent research, data and
concepts in the fields covered by the journal.
(4) Update Articles are brief
personal commentaries, hypotheses, viewpoints and spotlight reviews. Their aim is to give an update on rapid
progress in the field of neuroscience.
(5) Technical notes are technical
reports of, as a guideline, a maximum of 2000 words.
(6) Letters to the Editors should be
comments and clarifications on articles that have been published in
Neuroscience Research, and should be limited to a maximum of 1000 words.
4. The form of the manuscript
Manuscripts, in
English, must be in double-spaced typing on pages of uniform size (preferably
A4 or 8.5 x 11"). As a rule,
papers should be divided into sections headed by a caption (e.g., Introduction,
Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, References).
1)@Disks in case of hardcopy submission
The storage
medium for text should be a CD-ROM in MS-DOS or Macintosh format. Please
specify the type of computer on the package. The word-processing format should
be Microsoft Word. It is recommended that the authors send the cover letter and
the title and abstract pages to the Editor-in-Chief by e-mail simultaneously
with submission by post. This part in the e-mail will be used in the process
for choosing appropriate reviewers by e-mail, if the authors agree. The submission of electronic files for
illustration is welcome, but do not import the illustrations into the file for
text. Further information on text and electronic graphic files is obtained from
the web-site http://www.elsevier.com/authors/
(Click on the link gGuide to
Publishing with Elsevierh.).
2)@Title Page
This must
include a title, the author's name(s), the address(es) from which the work
originated, the name and address of the person who will deal with
correspondence, including proofs. The total number of pages, figures and tables
being submitted should also be indicated on this page. At the top right-hand
corner of the page should be the name of the Receiving Editor who deals with
the manuscript.
3)
Abstract
An abstract of
not more than 200 words (100 words in case of Rapid Communications and
Technical Notes) should be given in the second page of manuscript.
4)
Key words
Normally 6-8
items should be included in the Abstract page after the Abstract. They may be
words on phrases that do not appear in the title.
5)
Illustrations
There is no
limit set on the number of illustrations, but authors should use them
sparingly, making sure that each figure is relevant to the text and that the
figures are presented in the order in which they are mentioned in the text.
Legends for figures must be typed, also with double spacing, on separate pages.
Each figure submitted should be clearly labeled with the name of the author(s),
the title of the paper and the figure number on the back. Wherever possible,
figures should be submitted in their desired final size, to fit the width of a
single column of text, i.e. 84 mm wide, or where it is necessary they should be
176 mm in maximum width. The final size of the printed figure cannot exceed 250
x 200 mm including legends, and where a reduction is required this should be
indicated on the back of figures.
All signs and letters should be large enough for the final reduction and should
be shown clearly against the background. Where several figures are mounted
together, they should be squared accurately and separated by about 5 mm. All of
the figures in such a group should have approximately the same contrast values.
Photographs should be of sufficient quality with respect to detail, contrast
and fineness of grain to withstand the inevitable loss of detail inherent in
the printing process and should not require a reduction of more than 80%.
Please indicate magnification by a bar on the photograph.
Free color
reproduction: If,
together with an accepted article, author(s) submit usable color figures then
Elsevier Science will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will
appear in color on the web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of
whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed
version. For color reproduction in print, the author(s) will receive
information regarding the costs from Elsevier Science after receipt of the
accepted article.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting color
figures to egrey scalef (for the printed version should the authors not opt for
color in print) in addition usable black and white prints corresponding to all
the color illustrations should be submitted. For manuscripts submitted online,
a file of black and white version of each color figure should be uploaded, in
addition to the color figure file.
Cover
illustration: The
authors may suggest the Editor-in-Chief to use a color figure for the cover of
the journal, although there is no guarantee that it will be selected. The
figure should have a short legend to the Editor-in-Chief, indicating to which
paper the photograph belongs. It need not necessarily appear in the paper but
can be related to it.
6)@Tables
must be typed (with double spacing) on
separate pages, and should be provided with a short descriptive heading and, if
applicable, a legend.
7)@References
Citations in the
text should be by author(s) and year in chronological not alphabetical order.
When papers written by three or more authors are cited in the text, the
abbreviation 'et al.' should be used following the name of the leading author.
Citations of two or more articles by the same author(s) in the same year should
be distinguished by 'a,b,c' etc. after the year.
Examples:@ (Starr et al., 1991)
(Kowler, 1990; Kolb, 1990)
All references cited in the text must be listed at the end of the paper in
double spaced typing and arranged in alphabetical order of first author's name
(Harvard system). References must be complete, including initial(s) of
author(s) cited, year of publication, title of paper referred to, journal,
volume, and page numbers. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to
Index Medicus, List of Journals Indexed, Latest edition. For citations of books
the following uniform sequence should be maintained: author(s), year of
publication, editor(s), complete title of book, publisher, place of
publication, and page numbers (see examples given below). All references cited
in the text must be in the reference list and vice versa. Manuscripts in
preparation and submitted but not accepted as well as 'personal communications'
should not appear in the reference list, but can be cited at the appropriate
place in the text. This journal should be abbreviated as Neurosci. Res.
Examples:
Kolb, B., 1990. Animal models for human
PFC-related disorders. In: Uylings, H.B.M., van
Kowler, E., 1990. Reviews in Oculomotor
Research, vol. 4, Eye Movements and Their Role in Visual and Cognitive
Processes. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, pp. 486.
Starr, A., Kristeva. R., Cheyne, D., Lindinger,
G., Deecke, L., 1991. Localization of brain activity during auditory verbal short-term
memory derived from magnetic recordings. Brain Res. 558, 181-190.
5. Experimental subjects
When human subjects are used, manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement
that the experiments were undertaken with the understanding and written consent
of each subject. Authors should be aware of the Code of Ethics of the World
Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki), which has been printed in the
British Medical Journal (18 July 1964). Also the authors should follow the
Guidelines Regarding Ethical Issues of "Non-invasive Studies of Human
Brain Function", the summary of which has been printed in Neuroscience
Research (Vol. 42, No. 3, page V-VII, 2002) and appears in the web site of
Neuroscience Research editorial office (http://www.jnss.org/NSRoffice/ethicalissue.htm)
When experimental animals are used the methods
section must clearly indicate that adequate measures were taken to minimize
pain or discomfort. Editors reserve the right to reject papers if there is
doubt whether appropriate procedures have been used.
6.
Page proofs
Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author of an article unless an alternative is requested in the title page of the manuscript. Proofs should be checked carefully and returned to the publisher within 2 days of receipt. Only typesetting errors may be corrected; no change in or additions to the edited original manuscript will be allowed at this stage.
7.
Reprints
Reprints may be ordered by completing and returning to the Publisher the order form sent with the proofs. Fifty reprints per contribution will be made available free of charge. There will be no page charges.
8.
Copyright
It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors assign copyright to the Japanese Neuroscience Society and the Publisher. Requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled by the Publisher on behalf of itself and the Japan Neuroscience Society to make the procedures simpler. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Elsevier is notified in writing and in advance.
9.
Enquiries concerning manuscripts and proofs
Questions arising before acceptance of the
manuscript should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief. Questions after
acceptance of the manuscript, especially those relating to proofs, should be
directed to Elsevier Author Support (E-mail: authorsupport@elsevier.com),
specifying the reference/manuscript number, authors and title of the paper.
Elsevier Author Support; Phone :+353 61 709190
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Neuroscience
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