Instructions for authors

Clinical Neuropathology appears bi-monthly and publishes reviews and editorials, original papers, short communications and reports on recent advances in the entire field of clinical neuropathology. Papers on experimental neuropathologic subjects are accepted if they bear a close relationship to human diseases. Correspondence (letters to the editors) and current information including book announcements will also be published. The editors reserve the right of selection from submitted manuscripts (after consulting at least two reviewers) and the right to make stylistic changes or abridgements. The manuscripts may not be offered elsewhere for printing or publication; following acceptance the publisher acquires all copyrights. Rejected manuscripts are returned to the authors.

On acceptance of a manuscript/paper for publication, the copyright is automatically transferred to the publisher. Published manuscripts or parts of them may not be translated into other languages, reproduced in any form or recorded on files or in computer systems without written permission of the publisher.

For online-submission please visit
www.np.dustri-manus.com

Manuscripts

1. Only original papers written in clear, concise English and not exceeding 24,000 characters with blanks including tables, illustrations and references.
2. The authors should include with the submission of the manuscript a list of 5 suggested reviewers with postal and e-mail addresses.
3. The following sequence of arrangement is recommended: abstract, key words, introduction, methods, material or case histories, results and discussion, each section being clearly marked. The manuscripts should be typed double-spaced on consecutively numbered pages. Illustrations, legends, tables, references, abstract (1,400 or less characters with blanks) and running title (max. 80 characters) are to be submitted on separate pages. The abstract should precisely outline aims, material, method, results and conclusions and be structured accordingly. It should be comprehensible to readers before they read the paper. For the purpose of documentation, indicate 3 to 5 relevant key words that may or may not appear in the title. They should be given below the abstract and separated from each other by a dash (–).
4. The title should be as concise as possible and begin with the main concept in order to facilitate electronic search. The title page should present the institutions and the full postal addresses of all authors. Each author should be correctly linked to the appropriate institution by means of numerical superscripts. The author to whom correspondence should be addressed should also be stated on the title page together with fax, telephone number and e-mail address.
5. Acknowledgments: All support, financial or otherwise, for any work described should be acknowledged, with the exception of support from employing institutions identifiable from the title page.

Submission

1. Manuscripts: All manuscripts must be submitted online at www.np.dustri-manus.com. If assistance is needed, contact help@dustri.com. Include a covering letter containing the declaration given below.
2. Declaration: The covering letter must contain the statement: “The results presented in this paper have not been published previously in whole or part, except in abstract form”. All authors are required to give signed consent for publication on a separate sheet together with the covering letter. (If submitting online or by email, the signature sheet may be faxed to (321) 414-0219 (America) or +49 (0)89 6135412 (Rest of World) or uploaded as a scanned document.). Possible conflicts of interest following publication must be disclosed.
3. Copyright: On acceptance of a manuscript/ paper for publication, the copyright is automatically transferred to the publisher. Published manuscripts or parts of them may not be translated into other languages, reproduced in any form or recorded on files or in computer systems without written permission of the publisher.

Proofs

Authors will be sent page proofs to be checked immediately for typographical errors and returned to the publisher as requested. Costs ensuing for corrections made by the author, far in excess of mistakes made by the printer, must be carried by the author.

Style

For style and presentation authors should consult a recent copy of the journal. All standard units for medicine cited in text and illustration must correspond to the international units (SI units). Webster’s Third New International Dictionary is the standard for spelling and compounding. See also Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, www.icmje.org.

Illustrations and tables

Submit images and figures as jpg or tif in high resolution (300 dpi). Images should be provided together with magnification scales when appropriate and should be large enough to be legible when reproduced. All images and figures should be referred to as figures and should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. The legends for images should be typed on a separate sheet. Color images can be printed at author’s expense; price estimate upon request. Tables should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals and each typed on a separate sheet. The tables must be in a text format (Microsoft Word/Excel or similar). Please use only Arial font in all figures. For the labeling of graph axes use Arial 10 pt. bold.

Ethics

When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether these procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) or with the Helsinki Declaration (1964, amended in 1975 and 1983) of the World Medical Association. Do not use patients’ names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in any illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institution’s or the National Research Council’s guide for, or any national law on, the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

Citation

References should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals in brackets [..]. The first text reference will be [1]. If a reference is repeated, it keeps the same number. The numbered references list at the end of the manuscript should correspond to the text references.

References should be limited to a critical selection. All papers quoted in text must be listed in the bibliography. Abbreviations should be made according to Index Medicus.

Examples:
1. Papers published in journals:
[1] Jeub M, Bitoun M, Guicheney P, Kappes-Horn K, Strach K, Druschky KF, Weis J, Fischer D. Dynamin 2-related centronuclear myopathy: Clinical, histological and genetic aspects of further patients and review of the literature. Clin Neuropathol. 2008; 27: 430-438.

2. Books:
[1] Samtleben W, Bosch T, Schönermarck U. Nephrology in a nutshell. Munich – Orlando: Dustri; 2007.

3. Contributions in books:
[1] Luft FC. Erythropoietin and arterial hypertension. In: Hampl H, Riedel E (eds). Cardio renal anemia syndrome. Munchich – Orlando: Dustri; 2009. p. 59-62.

Reprints

Corresponding authors are entitled to 5 copies of the journal free of charge. Larger quantities of reprints can be provided for a fee listed on the reprint order form to be returned with proofs.