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.

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1. Only original papers written in English will be accepted. Authors are encouraged but not restricted to limit the length of manuscripts submitted to about 20 pages, double spaced, including references, tables and figures. 6 – 7 pages is the maximum for Brief Communications.

2. Manuscripts should be submitted (to the Editor-in-Chief or to one of the three Executive Editors listed in the imprint) in the following sequence of arrangement: abstract, key words, introduction, methods, material, patients (or subjects) or case histories, results, discussion, and conclusion, each section being clearly marked. A running title should be suggested. The manuscripts should be typed double-spaced on one side of the paper only on consecutively numbered pages. Illustrations, legends, tables, references, abstract (20 – 30 lines) and running title are to be submitted on separate pages. The abstract should include objective, material, method, results and conclusions. 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 each separated by a dash (–).

3. The title page should present the institutions and the full postal addresses of all authors. Each author should be correctly linked to the appropriate address by means of superscripts. The author to whom correspondence should be addressed should also be stated on the title page. Fax, telephone number and Email address must be included. A copy of the title page should be sent to the publisher, Dustri-Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle, P.O. Box 1351, D–82034 Deisenhofen-Munich, Germany.

4. The authors should suggest two appropriate reviewers for their paper, including full names and postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and Email addresses.

5. Acknowledgements: 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.

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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.

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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, JAMA May 5, 1993 – Vol. 269, No. 17

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Submit figures, if not in a computer file (preferred: *.tif formate, resolution 300 dpi), as mounted photographs on glossy paper. Scale bars are mandatory. Color photographs can be printed at the author’s expense; price estimate upon request. Photographs and diagrams should be marked on the back with figure numbers and name of author(s). All photographs and diagrams should be referred to as figures and should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. The legends for illustrations should be typed on a separate sheet. Original figures should be submitted with 2 photocopies. Only photographic prints with good contrast and original line drawings are acceptable. Tables should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals and each typed on a separate sheet.

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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.

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References in the text are quoted by author’s name and year in brackets [Hammond 1995] or [Hammond and MacKenzie 1995]. For three or more authors, the first author’s name should be cited followed by et al. [Edelman et al. 1996].
References should be limited to a critical selection. Papers quoted in the text must be listed in the bibliography. The bibliography should be arranged alphabetically, abbreviations according to Index Medicus.
Examples:

1. Papers published in journals:
Galuske RAW, Drach LM, Nichtweiß M, Marquardt G, Franz K, Bohl J, Schlote W. Colocalization of different types of amyloid in the walls of cerebral blood vessels of patients suffering from cerebral amyloid angiopathy and spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage: a report of 5 cases. Clin Nephropathol. 2004; 23: 113-1197

2. Books:
Sennekamp H-J. Extrinsic allergic alveolitis – hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Deisenhofen – Orlando: Dustri; 2004.

3. Contributions in books:
Monier-Faugere M-C, Sawaya BP, Malluche HH. Renal osteodystrophy. In: Malluche HH, Sawaya BP, Hakim RM, Sayegh MH (eds). Clinical nephrology dialysis and transplantation. Deisenhofen – Orlando: Dustri; 2004. p. II-8: 1-38.

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Weis
Institut für Neuropathologie
Universitätsklinikum der RWTH
Pauwelsstrasse 30
D-52074 Aachen
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Prof. Dr. H. Takahashi
Department of Pathology
Brain Research Institute
Niigata University
Asahi machi-dori 1-757
Niigata 951-8585, Japan

Prof. N. Rizzuto
Istituto di Neurologia
Università degli Studi di Verona
Policlinico Borgo Roma
37134 Verona, Italy

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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.

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