Guidelines for the submission of manuscripts

Guidelines for the submission of manuscripts Submission of manuscripts. Manuscripts that are being submitted should be complete in all respects (and be submitted in quadruplicate including four copies of all illustrations), and deal with original material not previously published, or being considered for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts submitted under multiple authorship are reviewed on the assumption that all listed authors concur with the submission and that a copy of the final manuscript has been approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities in the laboratories where the work was carried out. If accepted, the manuscript shall not be published elsewhere in the same form, in either the same or another language, without the consent of the Editors and Publisher. Submission of a paper to Cognitive Brain Research is understood to imply it has not previously been published (except in abstract form) and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere. The Publisher and Editor-in-Chief regret that they are unable to return copies of submitted manuscripts except in the case of rejected articles, where only the original manuscript and figures will be returned to the author. Authors should clearly state the section for which the article should be considered. Manuscripts. The preferred medium of final submission is on disk with accompanying reviewed and revised manuscript (see “Electronic manuscripts” below). Manuscripts should be written in English and be accompanied by a hst of 6-8 key words and a summary of about 200 words for Research Reports, and 50-70 words for Short Communications, on a separate page. Four copies of each manuscript should be submitted in double-spaced typing with at least a 4 cm margin on pages of uniform size. Research Reports should be divided into sections headed by a caption (Summary, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References). Short Communications should contain no section headings. In order to ensure rapid publication, no revisions or up-dating will be incorporated after the manuscript has been accepted and sent to the Publisher (unless approved and instructed to do so by the Editor-in-Chief). Electronic manuscripts. Electronic manuscripts have several advantages: there is no need for the re-keying of text, thereby avoiding the possibility of introducing errors and resulting in reliable and fast delivery of proofs. The preferred storage medium is a 5i or 3; inch disk in MS-DOS format, although other systems will also be welcomed, e.g. NEC and Macintosh (in the latter case, save your file in the usual manner, do not use the option “save in MS-DOS format”). After final acceptance, your disk plus one final, printed and exactly matching version (as a printout) should be submitted together to the Editor-in-Chief. It is important that the file on disk and the printout are identical. Please specify the type of computer and wordpro-_ cessing package used (do not convert your text file to plain ASCII). Ensure that the letter “1” and the digit “1” (also 1ettc.r “0” and digit “0”) have been used properly, and format your article (tabs, indents, etc.) consistently. Characters not available on your wordprocessor (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc.) should not be left open, but indicated by a unique code (e.g. gralpha, @, #, etc. for the Greek letter a>. Such codes should be used con\istently throughout the entire text. Please make a list of such codes and provide a key. Do not allow your wordprocessor to introduce word splits and do not use a ‘justified’ lay-out. Please adhere strictly to the general instructions on styles/arrangement and, in particular, the reference style of the journal. Tables and illustrations will be handled conventionally; the latter should be submitted as original drawings or glossy prints. Further information may be obtained from the publisher. Authors’ full names, academic and professional affiliations, and complete addresses should be included on a separate title page. The name and address, plus telephone and telefax numbers of the author to whom proofs and correspondence are to be sent should be clearly specified. Literature references. Citation of literature references in the text should be given at the appropriate places by numbers in square brackets. All references cited in the text should be listed at the end of the paper on a separate page (also double-spaced) arranged in alphabetical order of the first author and numbered (in square brackets) consecutively. All items in the Reference list should be cited in the text and, conversely, all references cited in the text must be presented in the list. Literature references must be complete, including name and initials of the authors cited, title of paper referred to, abbreviated title of the periodical, volume, year, and first and last page numbers of the article. The abbreviations of journal titles should conform to those adopted by List of Serial Title Word Abbreviations, CIEPS/ISDS, Paris, 1985, ISBN 2-904938-02-8) (see example 2). The form of literature references to books should be: author, initials, title of book, publisher and city, year, and page numbers referred to (see example 1). References to authors contributing to multi-author books or to proceedings printed in book-form should be similar to those for books (see example 3).

Exumples: 1 Kowler, E. (Ed.), Reviews in Oculomotor Research, Vol. 4, Eye Morlements and Their Role in Visual and Cognitirle Processes, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990, 486 pp. 2 Starr, A., Kristeva, R., Cheyne, D., Lindinger, G. and Deecke, L., Localization of brain activity during auditory verbal short-term memory derived from magnetic recordings, Brain Res., 558 (1991) 181-190. 3 Kolb, B., Animal models for human PFC-related disorders. In H.B.M. Uylings, C.G. van Eden, J.P.C. de Bruin, M.A. Corner and M.G.P. Feenstra (Eds.), The Prefrontal Cortex: its Structure, Function and Pathology, Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 85, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 501-519. This journal should be cited in lists as Cogn. Brain Res. Illustrations. All illustrations must be submitted in quadruplicate and reach the Editor in a form and condition suitable for reproduction either across a single column (= 8.3 cm) or a whole page t = 17.6 cm). The illustrations should bear the author’s name and be numbered in Arabic numerals according to the sequence of their appearance in the text, where they are referred to as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc. Line drawings should be in Black Ink on drawing or tracing paper or glossy sharp photographs of the same. Lettering should be clear and of adequate size to be legible after reduction. Professional labelling is preferable but, if this is not possible, lettering should be in fine pencil. Photographs, including roentgenograms, electroencephalograms and electron micrographs should be supplied as clear black-and-white prints on glossy paper, rather than copies which reproduce detail badly, usually larger than the final size of reproduction but not more than 20 x 25 cm. Micrographs should have a scale bar, rather than a magnification factor, in the legend. The degree of reduction will be determined by the Publisher, but in general it should be assumed that the same degree of reduction will be applied to all figures in the same paper. Colour reproduction. Reproduction in colour will have to be approved by the Editor. Authors will be required to pay a reduced fee towards the extra costs incurred in colour reproduction. This fee amounts to approximately Dfl. 1800.00 for the first page involving colour, and approximately Dfl. 1500.00 per page involving colour for all following pages in a given article (all prices including sales tax). Colour figures should be submitted as separate prints and not be mounted on cardboard. Professional lettering is preferred, but if this is not possible, an overlay displaying the desired labelling, should be provided with the figures. Please note that so-called press-on lettering should be avoided since this is likely to get damaged during handling and photographic processing of the prints. Slides taken from labelled prints are also acceptable. Each illustration must have a legend. These should be typed with double-spacing on a separate page and begin with the number of the illustration they refer to. If illustrations or other small parts of articles or books already published elsewhere are used in papers submitted to Cognitive Brain Research, the written permission of author and publisher concerned must be included with the manuscript. The original source must be indicated in the legend of the illustration in these cases. Tables. Tables of numerical data should each be typed (also with double-spacing) on a separate page, numbered in sequence in Arabic numerals (Table 1, 2, etc.), provided with a heading, and referred to in the text as Table 1, Table 2, etc. Proofs. Authors should keep a copy of their manuscripts as proofs will be sent to them without manuscript. Proofs will usually be drawn on lower-quality paper. Only printer’s errors may be corrected; no change in, or additions to, the edited manuscript will be allowed at this stage. The corrected proofs must be returned within 48 hours after receipt, preferably by FAX. If the Publisher receives no reply after approximately 15 days, the assumption will be made that there are no errors to correct and the article will be published after in-house correction. Reprints. A total of 50 reprints of each paper will be provided free of charge to the author(s). Additional be ordered at prices shown on the reprint order form which will be sent to the author with the proofs.

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