Guide for Authors
The International Journal of Psychophysiology is the official journal of the International Organization
of Psychophysiology, and provides a respected forum for the publication of high quality original contributions on all aspects of psychophysiology.
The journal is interdisciplinary and aims to integrate the neurosciences and behavioral sciences.
The
International Journal of
Psychophysiology publishes original articles in any area of psychophysiological research, as described below.
Research Articles:
original findings in the field of psychophysiology. These include experimental studies, theoretical contributions, and papers on methodology,
including statistical analysis, experimental procedures, instrumentation, and computer techniques.
Review Articles: full-length
evaluative reviews on topics of interest to the journal’s readership.
Fast-Track Reports:significant advances in the field of
psychophysiology. Included are definitive studies that make a conceptual advance, that present novel data of outstanding and timely significance
to the field, or that fail to replicate previously published findings. The report should not exceed 4,000 words, including abstract,
tables, references, figures, and figure legends. Each table and figure corresponds to 250 words.
In an accompanying letter, the author
should make the case for a Fast-Track Report. In order to ensure rapid publication, authors must revise their submission as required
by the Editor as quickly as possible; and once accepted, return their proofs within 24 hours. If the publisher receives no corrections
to proofs of a Fast-Track Report within 48 hours, it will be assumed that no corrections are needed, and the article will be published.
Special
Issues: The Journal welcomes proposals for Special Issues on topics in any area of psychophysiology. Those wishing to serve as Guest
Editor for a Special Issue should prepare a proposal that explains the importance of the topic, the anticipated contribution in advancing
understanding of the area, a list of potential contributors, and a timeframe for production. Proposals should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief,
Dr. Connie C. Duncan (conniecduncan@gmail.com).
Editorials: Suggestions for opinion pieces on issues (scientific, social, or
political) that affect research in the field are welcome.
Ethics
in Publishing
For information on Ethics in Publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics
and
http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Manuscripts submitted for publication must
contain a statement to the effect that all human studies have been approved by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been
performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. It should also be stated clearly in
the text that all persons gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study. Details that might disclose the identity
of the subjects under study should be omitted. Reports of animal experiments must state that the "Principles of laboratory animal
care" (NIH publication No. 86-23, revised 1985) were followed, as well as specific national laws (e.g., the current version of the
German Law on the Protection of Animals), where applicable. The Editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with
the above-mentioned requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements or for failure to fulfil the above-mentioned
requirements.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential
conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of
beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously
(except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was
carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any
other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Web submission is compulsory, and papers for publication
should be submitted online using the guidelines provided below. Visit the submission page of this journal at
http://ees.elsevier.com/intpsy/,
where you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files, text, tables and illustrations. Once the uploading
is done, our system automatically generates an electronic (PDF) proof, which is then used for reviewing. All correspondence, including
notification of the Editor’s decision and requests for revisions, will be by e-mail. For this reason it is essential that we have
full contact details including an e-mail address of the corresponding author.
Changes to authorship
This
policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the
accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must
be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should
be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree
with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author
being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding
author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such
requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After
the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published
in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
Copyright
Upon
acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright
see
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'
form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles
including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution
outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions).
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit
the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details
you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the funding source
You
are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly
describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing
of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this
should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and
policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose articles appear in journals
published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To
learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
US National Institutes
of Health (NIH) voluntary posting (" Public Access") policy.
As a service to our authors, Elsevier will deposit to PubMed Central
(PMC) author manuscripts on behalf of Elsevier authors reporting NIH funded research. This service is a continuation of Elsevier's 2005
agreement with the NIH when the NIH introduced their voluntary 'Public Access Policy.'
The service will help authors comply with the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) revised ''Public Access Policy,'' effective April 7, 2008. The NIH's revised policy requires that
NIH-funded authors submit to PubMed Central (PMC), or have submitted on their behalf, their peer-reviewed author manuscripts, to appear
on PMC no later than 12 months after final publication.
Elsevier will send to PMC the final peer-reviewed manuscript, which was accepted
for publication and sent to Elsevier's production department, and that reflects any author-agreed changes made in response to peer-review
comments. Elsevier will authorize the author manuscript's public access posting 12 months after final publication. Following the deposit
by Elsevier, authors will receive further communications from Elsevier and NIH with respect to the submission.
Authors are also welcome
to post their accepted author manuscript on their personal or institutional web site. Please note that consistent with Elsevier's author
agreement, authors should not post manuscripts directly to PMC or other third party sites. Individual modifications to this general policy
may apply to some Elsevier journals and society publishing partners.
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journals, Elsevier has led the industry in developing tools, programs and partnerships that provide greater access to, and understanding
of, the vast global body of STM information. This service is an example of Elsevier willingness to work cooperatively to meet the needs
of all participants in the STM publishing community.
Open access
This journal offers
you the option of making your article freely available to all via the ScienceDirect platform. To prevent any conflict of interest, you
can only make this choice after receiving notification that your article has been accepted for publication. The fee of $3,000 excludes
taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges. In some cases, institutions and funding bodies have entered into agreement
with Elsevier to meet these fees on behalf of their authors. Details of these agreements are available at
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Authors of accepted articles, who wish to take advantage of this option, should complete and submit the order form (available at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/openaccessform.pdf).
Whatever access option you choose, you retain many rights as an author, including the right to post a revised personal version of your
article on your own website. More information can be found here:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,
but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices
or our customer support site at
http://support.elsevier.com
for more information.
Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and
you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files to a single
PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted
to PDF files at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence,
including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail removing the need for a paper trail.
Suggestions for Referees
All authors must suggest of 3 potential referees on submission, together with their
full addresses and email details. Please do not suggest reviewers from your own institution, previous or current collaborators. Suggested
reviewers must also have published a paper on the same topic in a peer-reviewed journal. Please note, the final choice of reviewers is
that of the Editor and the journal reserves the right not to use reviewers which have been suggested by the authors.
Suggestions for Handling Editor
You may Request an Editor to be assigned to your paper. The request will be
taken under advisement by the Editor-in-Chief who initially receives your manuscript. Your manuscript will be assigned on to the relevant
Editor if feasible however if not it will be assigned to another appropriate editor as determined by the Editor-in-Chief.
Use of wordprocessing software
It is important that the file be
saved in the native format of the wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple
as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's
options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. When preparing tables,
if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs,
not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see also
the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier:
http://www.elsevier.com/guidepublication). Note that source files of figures, tables
and text graphics will be required whether or not you embed your figures in the text. See also the section on Electronic artwork.
To
avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check' functions of your wordprocessor.
Article structure
As a rule, Full Length Reports and Review Articles should be
divided into sections
headed by a caption (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References, etc.). Short Communications
should not be divided into sections but should be accompanied by a brief summary and keywords.
Fast Track Reports should not
exceed 4,000 words including figures, tables, references, figure legends and abstract. Note that each figure and table will account for
about 250 words. The author should indicate that the manuscript is to be considered for fast communication and may indicate up to five
referees who have specialist knowledge.
In the accompanying letter, the author should make the case for rapid publication. Results
must be fully documented. In order to ensure rapid publication, author
proofs must be returned within 24 hours. If the publisher
receives no corrections to proofs of a Fast Track Report within 48 hours of these having been sent, it will be assumed that there are
no errors to correct and the article will be published.
An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be
able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard
or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. This
should provide a concise description of the purpose of the report or review article and should not exceed 250 words. (For Short Communications,
it should be between 50 and 70 words). The abstract should include a maximum of 8 keywords, which reflects the entries the author(s)
would like to see in an index.
Examples
(a) Duncan, C.C., Kosmidis, M.K., Mirsky, A.F.,
2005. Closed head injury-related information processing deficits: an event-related potential analysis. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 58, 133-157.
(b)
Bure , J., Bure ov , O., Huston, J.P., 1983. Techniques and Basic Experiments for the Study of Brain and Behavior, 2nd edn., Elsevier,
Amsterdam, 326 pp.
(c) Swaab, D.F., 1982. Neuropeptides. Their distribution and function in the brain. In: Buijs, R.M., P vet, P.,
Swaab, D.F. (Eds.), Chemical Transmission in the Brain. The Role of Amines, Amino Acids and Peptides, Progress in Brain Research, Vol.
55, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 97-122.
Subdivision - numbered sections
Divide your article
into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not
included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection
may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
Introduction
State
the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Material and methods
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published
should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.
Theory/calculation
A
Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lay the foundation
for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis.
Results
Results
should be clear and concise.
Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results
of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion
of published literature.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented
in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
Appendices
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations
in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly
for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.
Essential title page information
•
Title.
Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae
where possible.
•
Author names and affiliations.
Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name),
please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all
affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide
the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
•
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also
post-publication.
Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address
and the complete postal address. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.
•
Present/permanent
address.
If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address'
(or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work
must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Abstract
An
abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided,
but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential
they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.This should provide a concise description of the purpose of the report
or review article and should not exceed 250 words. (For Short Communications, it should be between 50 and 70 words.)The abstract should
include a maximum of 8 keywords, which reflects the entries the author(s) would like to see in an index.
Graphical
abstract
A Graphical abstract is optional and should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form
designed to capture the attention of a wide readership online. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described
in the article. Graphical abstracts should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system. Image size: Please provide
an image with a minimum of 531 × 1328 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, PDF or MS Office files. See
http://www.elsevier.com/graphicalabstracts
for examples.
Authors can make use of Elsevier's Illustration and Enhancement service to ensure the best presentation of their images
also in accordance with all technical requirements:
Illustration
Service.
Highlights
Highlights are mandatory for this journal. They consist
of a short collection of bullet points that convey the core findings of the article and should be submitted in a separate file in the
online submission system. Please use 'Highlights' in the file name and include 3 to 5 bullet points (maximum 85 characters, including
spaces, per bullet point). See
http://www.elsevier.com/highlights for examples.
Keywords
Immediately
after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts
(avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible.
These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations
Define abbreviations that
are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in
the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout
the article.
Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end
of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise.
List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading
the article, etc.).
Database linking
Elsevier aims at connecting online articles with external
databases which are useful in their respective research communities. If your article contains relevant unique identifiers or accession
numbers (bioinformatics) linking to information on entities (genes, proteins, diseases, etc.) or structures deposited in public databases,
then please indicate those entities according to the standard explained below.
Authors should explicitly mention the
database
abbreviation (as mentioned below) together with the actual database number, bearing in mind that an error in a letter or number
can result in a dead link in the online version of the article.
Please use the following format:
Database ID: xxxx
Links
can be provided in your online article to the following databases (examples of citations are given in parentheses):
•
ASTM:
ASTM Standards Database (ASTM ID: G63)
•
CCDC: Cambridge Crystallographic
Data Centre (CCDC ID: AI631510)
•
GenBank: Genetic sequence
database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (GenBank ID: BA123456)
•
GEO:
Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO ID: GSE27196; GEO ID: GPL5366; GEO ID: GSM9853)
•
MI:
EMBL-EBI OLS Molecular Interaction Ontology (MI ID: 0218)
•
MINT:
Molecular INTeractions database (MINT ID: 6166710)
•
NCBI Taxonomy:
NCBI Taxonomy Browser (NCBI Taxonomy ID: 48184)
•
NCT: ClinicalTrials.gov
(NCT ID: NCT00222573)
•
OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance
in Man (OMIM ID: 601240)
•
PDB: Worldwide Protein Data
Bank (PDB ID: 1TUP)
•
TAIR: The Arabidopsis Information Resource
database (TAIR ID: AT1G01020)
•
UniProt: Universal Protein Resource
Knowledgebase (UniProt ID: Q9H0H5)
Footnotes
Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number
them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build footnotes into the text, and this
feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves
separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.
Table footnotes
Indicate each
footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Artwork
Electronic
artwork
General points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
•
Save text in illustrations as 'graphics' or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier,
Times, Symbol.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention
for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of
the printed version.
• Submit each figure as a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our
website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the
detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless of the application used, when your electronic artwork is
finalised, please 'save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements for line drawings,
halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text as 'graphics'.
TIFF:
Color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000
dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required.
If your electronic artwork
is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) then please supply 'as is'.
Please do not:
•
Supply files that are optimised for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
• Supply files that are
too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Color
artwork
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF, EPS or MS Office files) and with the correct
resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge,
that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations
are reproduced in color in the printed version.
For color reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs
from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate your preference for color: in print or on the Web only. For
further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Please
note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting color figures to 'gray scale' (for the printed version should
you not opt for color in print) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the color illustrations.
Figure captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the
figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (
not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in
the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
Tables
Number
tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them
with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables
do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
References
Citation
in text
Literature references. Citation of literature references in the text should be given at the appropriate
place by the author's name followed by year in parentheses. Should there be more than two authors, the first author's name should be
followed by et al. When there are two or more papers by the same author(s)appearing in the same year these should be distinguished by
a, b, c, etc. after the year. All references cited in the text should be listed at the end of the paper on a separate page (also double
spaced) according to the Harvard system, i.e. arranged in alphabetical order according to the first author followed by the second author,
then with all papers with more than two authors being arranged in chronological order. Every reference cited in the text should appear
in the list of references and vice versa. Literature references must be complete, including initials of author(s) cited, year, title
of paper referred to, and title of journal (abbreviated according to the List of Serial Title Word Abbreviations, CIEPS/ISDS, Paris,
1985 [ISBN 2-904938-02-8]), followed by volume and first and last pages of article (see example a). The form of literature references
to books should be author, initials, year, title of book, volume or edition, publisher, city and page number(s) referred to (see example
b ). References to authors contributing to multi-author books or to proceedings printed in book form should be similar to those for books
(see example c ).
Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date
when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication,
etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired,
or can be included in the reference list.
References in a special issue
Please ensure that
the words 'this issue' are added to any references in the list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special
Issue.
Reference management software
This journal has standard templates available in key
reference management packages EndNote (
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp) and Reference Manager (
http://refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp).
Using plug-ins to wordprocessing packages, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article
and the list of references and citations to these will be formatted according to the journal style which is described below.
Reference style
Examples:
(a) Duncan, C.C., Kosmidis, M.K., Mirsky, A.F., 2005. Closed head
injury-related information processing deficits: An event-related potential analysis. Int. J. Psychophysiol 58, 133-157
(b) Bure , J.,
Bure ov , O., Huston, J.P., 1983. Techniques and Basic Experiments for the Study of Brain and Behavior, 2nd edn., Elsevier, Amsterdam,
326 pp.
(c) Swaab, D.F., 1982. Neuropeptides. Their distribution and function in the brain. In: Buijs, R.M., P vet, P., Swaab, D.F.
(Eds.), Chemical Transmission in the Brain. The Role of Amines, Amino Acids and Peptides, Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 55, Elsevier,
Amsterdam, pp. 97-122.
This journal should be cited as
Int. J. Psychophysiol.
Journal abbreviations
source
Journal names should be abbreviated according to
Index Medicus journal abbreviations:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html;
List of title word abbreviations:
http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php;
CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service):
http://www.cas.org/sent.html.
Video data
Elsevier accepts video material and
animation sequences to support and enhance your scientific research. Authors who have video or animation files that they wish to submit
with their article are strongly encouraged to include these within the body of the article. This can be done in the same way as a figure
or table by referring to the video or animation content and noting in the body text where it should be placed. All submitted files should
be properly labeled so that they directly relate to the video file's content. In order to ensure that your video or animation material
is directly usable, please provide the files in one of our recommended file formats with a preferred maximum size of 50 MB. Video and
animation files supplied will be published online in the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com. Please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or animation
or make a separate image. These will be used instead of standard icons and will personalize the link to your video data. For more detailed
instructions please visit our video instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. Note: since video
and animation cannot be embedded in the print version of the journal, please provide text for both the electronic and the print version
for the portions of the article that refer to this content.
Supplementary data
Elsevier
accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional
possibilities to publish supporting applications, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files
supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please provide the data
in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply
a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Submission checklist
The following list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending
it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
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