Please submit your manuscript to the Editorial Office through our Web-based submission tool
(http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/). Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it,
has not been copyrighted or published or is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s)
will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions booklet, details of which are given below.
General
Author Instructions
Each paper and/or letter should be introduced by three to five keywords and a selfcontained abstract of no
more than 100 words not counting the formulas. Biosketch and photo (passport size) of each author should be supplied as well.
Please
make sure that the paper is submitted in its final form. Corrections in the proof stage other than printer's errors should be avoided:
costs arising from such corrections will be charged to the authors.
Footnotes should be avoided if possible and be brief. They should
be numbered consecutively.
References should be listed alphabetically, as in the following examples: books [1], articles in journals
[2], papers in a contributed volume [3,4], unpublished papers [5].
1] E. Borger, Computability, Complexity, Logic (North-Holland,
Amsterdam, 1989).
[2] D.E. Knuth, Theory and Practice, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 90 (1991) 1-15.
3] A.K. Lenstra and
H.W. Lenstra, Jr., Algorithms in number theory, in: J. van Leeuwen, ed., Handbook of Computer Science, Vol. A (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990)
673-715
[4] M. Li, Lower bounds by Kolmogorov complexity, in: Proc. ICALP '85, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 194 (Springer,
Berlin, 1985) 383-393.
[5] A. Rajasekar, Semantics for logic programs, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University
of Maryland, 1989.
Figures should be provided in a form suitable for photographic reproduction and reduction. Lettering
should be uniform of size corresponding to the anticipated reduction. Handwritten lettering on figures is not acceptable. Figures should
be identified by arabic numerals and the captions should be typed, double-spaced, on a separate sheet rather than lettered on the figures
themselves. Photographs and coloured pictures must be of impeccable quality. Please note that colour images will be published in colour
in electronic format only. The print version of the article will publish the images in black and white only. Should an author wish to
have colour images published in colour in the print version, then Elsevier will charge the printing costs to the author.
Submission
receipt and inquiries about review status:
In order to handle all regular paper submissions to the journal in a homogeneous and
efficient manner we would like to ask all authors to proceed according to the following indications:
Inquiries by authors
about receipt and review status are welcome and need to be addressed directly to the Editorial Office (neucom-eo@elsevier.com).
Please always provide: author name(s), title, actual date when the submission manuscript was sent to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief,
and your complete address including phone, fax, and email address.
Confirmation of manuscript receipt will be sent automatically
when the submission has been sent in.
Receiving the referee reports can be expected within 4 months of the actual date when
the submission was made. After that period of time inquiries about review status may be sent to the attention of the Editorial Office
(neucom-eo@elsevier.com) with the subject "NEUROCOMPUTING - REVIEW STATUS ?"
Letters
Neurocomputing
is pleased to invite authors to submit letters, concise papers and short communications aimed at rapid publication. The review of this
type of submission will be made subject to a special fast procedure and will only take place if the following conditions are met:
Size: no longer than six (6) A4 pages typed in 12 point, 1.5 spacing (excluding figures).
Scope: the content of the
submitted manuscript fits within the general Aims and Scope of the journal.
Content: about a new development, which is served
by rapid publication, relevant comments on articles published in the journal, or about outstanding preliminary results of current research.
Please send your Letter-submission in electronic form to the Editor-in-Chief Dr. Tom Heskes through our submission tool at
http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/.
The Letters will then be forwarded to the Letters Editor, Prof. Robert W. Newcomb.
The Letters Editor will determine whether the submitted manuscript meets all requirements for a letter submission and is in charge of
the complete review procedure. If all requirements are met, the Letters Editor will make the submission subject to a special, rapid procedure:
the author can expect a review report on his/her letter within eight (8) weeks after submission,
the letter shall be either
accepted or rejected. By acceptance, the only possibility is one with minor corrections.
upon acceptance of the letter, publication
will take place in the first available issue of the journal, within approximately the next 3 to 4 months.
revised versions of
rejected manuscripts may only be resubmitted as a regular paper. The resubmission must include copies of the original referees? comments
and separate pages with the authors? response to all these comments.
Author's instructions for regular papers and further
information on the Letters section can be found on the back inside cover.
To whom can I submit my manuscript?
Send your
submission in electronic form to the Editor-in-Chief Dr. Tom Heskes though our submission tool at http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/
Keyword Instructions
Important Notice: please add three to five keywords to your article. Keywords are essential for the
accessibility and retrievability of your article. Keywords assigned to articles will be assembled in a keyword index which will be printed
in the last issue of each volume for each journal, and in cumulative indexes. In addition, it is planned to make keywords available on
Internet. To maximize the consistency with which such keywords are assigned by different authors, the following guidelines have been
drawn up.
Each keyword (which can be a phrase of more than one word) should describe one single concept. Often words like
"and" or "of" should be avoided
Avoid very general keywords which become meaningless once in a keyword list. Examples to avoid
are "action", "computer", "mathematics". Check whether the keywords as a whole describe the outlines of the article.
Use
natural language: for instance "automatic error recovery" rather than "error recovery, automatic".
Try to use nouns and adjectives
as much as possible (i.e. use "automatic error recovery" rather than "recovering errors automatically"). Do not use nouns in the plural
form.
Use English rather than American spelling (regardless of the spelling used for the article itself).
Avoid the
use of abbreviations as much as possible, unless an abbreviation is so well-established that the full term is rarely used (e.g. use "laser"
instead of "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation", but use "computer aided design" instead of "CAD").
Although these guidelines are not mandatory, they should be adhered to where possible.
Author Benefits
No page
charge is due
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively,
25 free paper offprints. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover
image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
