GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Language of papers is English.

Submission of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief or to one of the Associate Editors at the addresses listed above, but to keep editorial handling time to a minimum, authors are encouraged to send their manuscripts to an Editor in their own country or continental region. In an accompanying letter authors should state that the manuscript, or parts of it, have not been, and will not be submitted elsewhere for publication.

Manuscripts that are being submitted should be complete in all respects (see below) and deal with original material not previously published (except in abstract form) and not being considered for publication elsewhere. Series of two or more manuscripts produced by fractionation of scientific material will not be considered for publication. 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 If accepted, the manuscript shall not be published elsewhere in the same form, in either English or another language, without the consent of the Editors and Publisher. The Publisher and Editor-in-Chief regret that they are unable to return copies of submitted manuscripts except in the case of rejected articles, when only the original manuscript and figures will be returned to the author.

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:

(i) A title page including title, authors' names and affiliations, corresponding author's name, address, fax and phone numbers and e-mail address. Titles should be informative and should include the animal species, brain part or preparation used, and should not contain abbreviations except those widely known and used (e.g. DNA, RNA, ATP, GABA). If abbreviations cannot be avoided in the title, they should be explained by a circumscription, e.g., 'MPTP, a dopaminergic neurotoxin'.
(ii) A list of 6–8 key words and a summary of about 100–130 words on a separate page. The summary should be informative and should contain a brief description of the methods used and results obtained.

Three copies of each manuscript should be submitted in double-spaced typing with at least a 4 cm margin on pages of uniform size. They 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).

Authors' full names, academic and professional affiliations, and complete addresses should be included on a separate title page. The name and address, plus Telephone, Telefax and e-mail address of the author to whom proofs and correspondence are to be sent should be clearly specified.

Literature references
The number of literature references should be confined to 20 items. Citation of literature references in the text should be given by numbers in square brackets. All references cited in the text should be listed at the end of the manuscript on a separate page (also double-spaced) arranged in alphabetical order of the first author and numbered 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 all authors, 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 below). 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 below). References to authors contributing to multiauthor books or to proceedings printed in book-form should be similar to those for books (see example 3 below).

Examples:

[1] 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.

[2] Stroemer, R.P., Kent, T.A. and Hulsebosch, C.E., Increase in synaptophysin immunoreactivity following cortical infarction, Neurosci. Lett., 147 (1992) 21–24.

[3] Swanson, L.W., Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1992, 244 pp.

This journal should be cited in lists as Neurosci. Lett.

Illustrations
All illustrations must be submitted in triplicate and reach the Editor in a form and condition suitable for reproduction either across a single column (= 8.3 cm) or a whole page (= 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. A figure caption should be provided that explains the technical details of the figure as well as abbreviations and symbols used. In the case of graphs the coordinate scales should bear descriptors and units of measurement. 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 21 by 29 cm (A4 format). 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.

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.

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 incurring in colour reproduction (colour rate Dfl 600 per page). Colour figures should be submitted as separate prints and not be mounted on cardboard. 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 welcome, as well as electronic files of the figure(s) in all standard graphics formats (e.g., Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Quark XPress, Corel Draw, Aldus Freehand, TIFF and EPS). 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 Neuroscience Letters, 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.