New Web-Based Electronic Manuscript Submission and Peer Review
Journal of Neurotrauma is proud to announce the launch of its web-based manuscript submission and peer-review system called Manuscript Central.
We invite all authors to submit online any new manuscripts that are to be considered for publication. Please enter the following URL: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/neurotrauma
As of January 20, 2006, only manuscripts submitted via the online system will be accepted for submission. REVISIONS to papers originally submitted as hard copies must be submitted through the mail and not the online system.
All new manuscripts must be submitted online.
Please read the Instructions for Authors before submitting your paper online.
For further information or questions about papers in the peer-review process, please contact j.neurotrauma@verizon.net
For technical information on Manuscript Central, contact Adam Etkin at (914) 740-2100, ext. 2128 or aetkin@liebertpub.com
Instructions for Authors
The Journal of Neurotrauma publishes papers dealing with all aspects of neurotrauma. This includes the anatomy, biochemistry, biophysics, immunology, pathology, pharmacology, and physiology of brain, spinal, and nerve injury. Papers published in this journal emphasize morphological, physiological, and biochemical studies of injured neurons and glial cells, mechanisms and treatments of acute and chronic injury of the nervous system, neural and glial regeneration, transplantation, in vivo and in vitro injury models, cellular growth factors, blood flow, and metabolism of injured nervous tissues, and recovery of function. Both laboratory and clinical studies are encouraged.
The journal will consider original research papers, short communications, reviews, and letters to the editor. Case reports are not accepted by the Journal. All submissions, except letters, must be accompanied by an abstract of about 250 words and keywords (<5). Original research papers should have an Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion sections. Short communications should have no sections and 6 manuscript pages or less, two tables or two figures or one of each. Reviews are invited and will be considered.
To help defray the cost of printing, the publisher requests that page charges of $45 per printed page be paid by all authors who have funds available from research grants and other sources. It should be noted that ability to pay page charges is not a prerequisite for publication in the Journal.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Submissions to the journal will be reviewed by the editorial board. Every effort will be made to ensure a speedy review and a publication time of less than 6 months. Members of the editorial board will formulate a critique of the submitted manuscript. This critique will be sent to the author and, under special circumstances, may be published at the conclusion of the paper if the manuscript is accepted. A submitted manuscript (or any part of its essential substance) must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere before appearance in this journal (except abstracts in connection with scientific meetings). The journal is not responsible for lost manuscripts.
Manuscript Submission and Copyright Agreement Form
The Copyright Agreement form (available from web site at http://www.liebertpub.com/media/content/transfer_of_copyright.pdf.) should be submitted once your paper has been accepted for publication. Manuscripts cannot be published without this form. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining signatures of coauthors. Authors not permitted to release copyright must still return the form signed under the statement of the reason for not releasing the copyright. Upon acceptance of your paper, please fax the Copyright Agreement form to 914-740-2108.
Please read all the instructions to authors before submitting.
Please submit your manuscript online using the following url: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/neurotrauma
MANUSCRIPTS
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Full mailing information should be included if not on title page, then the following page. Corresponding author should be identified on title page. Prepare text double-spaced throughout. Leave ample margins on sides, top and bottom of the page. Please submit text in Microsoft Word. On the first page, give the full title of the paper, full name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of author(s) with the highest academic degrees and institutional titles. Provide a running title (<45 characters) and a Table of Contents title (<75 characters), if the full title is longer than these limits. We require the full mailing address and contact information (telephone, fax, and e-mail address) for EACH author listed on your article. Please include the address (es). Please also indicate the corresponding author. Supply an abstract (<250 words) which presents the reasons for the study, the main findings (with specific data), the principal conclusions, and a list of key words (maximum of 5). Original research papers should contain the following sections: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, references, tables, and figure legends. One subsection level is allowed. Short communications should be prepared similarly to original papers. Begin each section on a separate page.
LITERATURE CITATIONS
Literature references in the text should cite author names and publication year. When a text citation includes one or two authors, list all authors and the publication year, e.g., Smith (2008) or Smith and Jones (2008). For text citations for three or more authors cite the first author only followed by et al. and the publication year, e.g., Smith et al. (2008). For literature references at the end of the article, list all authors, regardless of number, e.g., (Dohi, Satoh, Mihara, Nakamura, Miyake, Ohtaki, Nakamachi, Yoshikawa, Shioda, and Aruga). Use “in press” for manuscripts accepted for publication, e.g. (Lifshitz, J., Kelley, B.J., Povlishock, J.T., in press). Distinguish citations with the same author-year with a letter appended to the year, e.g., Hall (1981a,b). Type reference list in double space with author names in upper and lower case followed by year in parentheses. Page numbers should be inclusive. List citations in alphabetical order by first author. The journal title abbreviation style is that of Index Medicus. List all authors, regardless of number. References to government publications should include the department, bureau, or office, title, location of publisher, publisher, year, pages cited, and publication series, report, or monograph number. Personal communications, unpublished data, and manuscripts “in preparation” or “submitted for publication” may be incorporated into the text, e.g. (Kreutzberg, in preparation) but not in the reference list. Reference citations are not permitted in the abstract of a paper.
Bearn, A.G. (1972a). Wilson’s disease, in: The Metabolic Basis of Inherited Disease. J.B. Stanbury, J.B. Wyngaarden, and D.S. Frederickson (eds). McGraw-Hill: NY, pps. 1033-1050.
Dohi, K., Satoh, K., Mihara, Y., Nakamura, S., Miyake, Y., Ohtaki, H., Nakamachi, T., Yoshikawa, T., Shioda, S., and Aruga, T. (2006). Alkoxyl Radical-Scavenging Activity of Edaravone in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury. J. Neurotrauma 11, 1591-1599.
TABLE AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Type tables double-spaced in a separate file, number tables with Arabic numerals, and provide a legend for each table. Tabular data should not be duplicated in figures.
The top of the illustration should be indicated. A legend should be supplied for each illustration, and all legends numbered consecutively and provided (double-spaced) in a separate file. Figures should be numbered in the order cited in the text. A complete set should be submitted the manuscript. Images should not show the name of the manufacturer. Please keep in mind that the figures will be reduced, so please do not submit large figures/graphs that contain small type, as the text within the figure will not be readable after reduction. Photomicrographs should be cropped to 8cm width. Electron photomicrographs should have internal scale markers. If a figure consists of two or more parts, individual parts should have similar dimensions.
Please follow these instructions carefully when preparing figure files for uploading:
- Do not include any illustrations as part of your text file.
- Do not prepare any figures in Word as they are not workable and will be rejected for production.
- Line illustrations must be submitted at 900 DPI.
- Halftones and color photos should be submitted at a minimum of 300 DPI. (NB: 600 DPI images are more desirable for production).
- PowerPoint files cannot be uploaded to Manuscript Central.
- Save art as either TIFF or EPS files. Do not submit JPEG files. (JPEG files are for screen representation-quality only and will print very poorly during the printing process.) To ensure proper print quality, please submit only TIFF or EPS files.
- Color art must be saved as CYMK not RGB. (NB: If RGB files are submitted, the files will be converted to CYMK and some color variation will occur).
- Label figures and tables inside the files in addition to naming the file with the figure or table number. (I.e., When figures or table files are opened, the figure or table number should appear inside the file.)
- When naming your figure files, please label them with your last name, followed by a period (.), and then list the figure number. Ex: Smith.Fig 1. Label figures and tables inside the files in addition to naming the file with the figure or table number. (I.e., when figure or table files are opened, the figure or table number should appear inside the file.)
Color illustrations can be printed in the journal with a subsidy from the author(s). Please contact the Publisher for further details.
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IMPORTANT:
Please upload individual files of all manuscript material—do NOT upload a single PDF file containing all text, figure, and table files of your paper. Once all individual files are uploaded on to Manuscript Central, the system will automatically create a single PDF proof for you and the peer-review process.
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Disclosure Statement
Immediately following the Acknowledgments section, include a section entitled “Author Disclosure Statement.” In this portion of the paper, authors must disclose any commercial associations that might create a conflict of interest in connection with submitted manuscripts. This statement should include appropriate information for EACH author, thereby representing that competing financial interests of all authors have been appropriately disclosed according to the policy of the Journal. It is important that all conflicts of interest, whether they are actual or potential, be disclosed. This information will remain confidential while the paper is being reviewed and will not influence the editorial decision. Please see the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals at http://www.icmje.org/index.htlm#conflicts for further guidance. If no conflicts exist, the authors must state “No competing financial interests exist."
If no conflicts exist, the authors must state “No competing financial interests exist."
ABBREVIATIONS, NOMENCLATURE, AND SYMBOLS
Consult the “Style Manual for Biologic Journals,” 4th Edition, 1978 (American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1401 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22209.) Identify medications, materials, and devices by full nonproprietary name, brand name, and the manufacturer’s name, city, state, and country. Place this information in parentheses in the text.
PERMISSIONS
Materials taken from other sources must be accompanied by a written statement from both author and publisher giving permission to the journal for reproduction. If clearances are required by the author’s institution, statements concerning such clearance should be provided in the manuscript.
ANIMAL OR HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION
Reports of research involving human and/or animal experimental subjects should be accompanied by a statement to the Editor, indicating approval by an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Institutional Review Board or equivalent.
PAGE PROOFS
Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author via e-mail, so please be sure to have any e-mail filters accept e-mail from the liebertpub.com domain. Please ensure that proper e-mail addresses are given.
REPRINTS
Reprints may be ordered by using the special reprint form that will accompany the proofs. Reprints ordered after the issue is printed will be charged at a higher rate.
DISCLAIMER
The statements and opinions expressed in JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA are those of the individual contributors, editors, or advertisers; they do not necessarily represent the views of the other editors or the publisher. Unless specified otherwise, the authors and publisher disclaim any responsibility or liability for such material.
PUBLISHER
The Journal is published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 140 Huguenot Street, 3rd Floor, New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215. Telephone (914) 740-2100, Fax (914) 740-2101, e-mail: info@liebertpub.com, www.liebertpub.com