Official journal of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

Submission of Papers
Authors are requested to submit their paper to one of the Editors-in-Chief, Verity J. Brown, School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, or Professor Linda J Porrino, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. From 31 May 2005 papers for publication should be submitted online using the following guidelines: visit the submission page of this journal at http://ees.elsevier.com/neubiorev 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.


Submission of a paper implies that it has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that if accepted it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the publisher. Manuscripts should be accompanied by a covering letter giving the names and addresses, including telephone, fax and email details, of four potential reviewers.


Types of Contributions
Original and significant review articles; theoretical articles; mini reviews.


Manuscript Preparation
General: Manuscripts must be typewritten, double-spaced with wide margins on one side. The corresponding author should be identified (include a Fax number and E-mail address), and full postal addresses must be given for all co-authors. Authors should consult a recent issue of the journal for style if possible, and the Editors reserve the right to adjust style to certain standards of uniformity.


Paper length: The Editors insist upon clear, concise statement of facts and conclusions; fragmentation of material into numerous short reports is discouraged.


Abstracts: Each paper submitted must be accompanied by an abstract, which must not exceed 170 words and must be suitable for use by abstracting journals. A list of 3-12 (or more) words or short phrases suitable for indexing terms should be typed at the bottom of the abstract page accompanying the manuscript. These terms will be printed with the paper at the end of the abstract. Abstracts should be prepared as follows: MYERS, R.D., C. Melchior and C. Gisolfi. Feeding and body temperature: Changes produced by excess calcium ions...NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV 21(1) XXX-XXX, 1998.- Marked differences in extent of diffusion have been...


Text: Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Figure Captions and then Tables. Do not import the Figures or Tables into your text. The corresponding author should be identified with an asterisk and footnote. Text footnotes should not be used: the material should be incorporated into the text.


Drugs: Proprietary (trademarked) names should be capitalized. The chemical name should precede the trade, popular name, or abbreviation of a drug the first time it occurs.


Anesthesia: In describing surgical procedures on animals, the type and dosage of the anesthetic agent should be specified. Curarizing agents are not anesthetics; if these were used; evidence must be provided that anesthesia of suitable grade and duration was employed.


Units and abbreviations: All dimensions and measurement must be specified in the metric system. Standard nomenclature, abbreviations and symbols, as specified by Royal Society Conference of Editors. Metrification in scientific journals, Am. Scient. 56:159-164; 1968, should be used throughout.


Formulas and equations: Structural chemical formulas, process flow-diagrams, and complicated mathematical expressions should be kept to a minimum. All subscripts, superscripts, Greek letters and unusual characters must be clearly identified.


References:Text: All citations in the text should refer to:
1. Single Author: the Author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
3. Two Authors: both Authors' names and the year of publication;
3. Three or more Authors: first Author's name followed by "et al." and the year of publication.
Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.


Examples: "as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995). Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown ...."


List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same Author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication.


Examples:


Reference to a journal publication:


Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2000. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51,59.


Reference to a book:


Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 1979. The Elements of Style, third ed. Macmillan, New York.


Reference to a chapter in an edited book:


Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 1999. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith , R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281-304.

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Illustrations: All illustrations should be provided in camera-ready form, suitable for reproduction (which may include reduction) without retouching. Photographs, charts and diagrams are all to be referred to as "Figure(s)" and should be numbered consecutively in the order to which they are referred. They should accompany the manuscript, but should not be included within the text.All figures are to have a caption, and captions should be supplied on a separate sheet.

Line drawings: Good quality printouts on white paper produced in black ink are required. All lettering, graph lines and points on graphs should be sufficiently large and bold to permit reproduction when the diagram has been reduced to a size suitable for inclusion in the journal. Dye-line prints or photocopies are not suitable for reproduction. Do not use any type of shading on computer-generated illustrations.

Photographs: Original photographs must be supplied as they are to be reproduced (e.g. black and white or colour). If necessary, a scale should be marked on the photograph. Please note that photocopies of photographs are not acceptable.

Colour: Where colour figures are required the author will be charged at the current colour printing costs.

Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively and given a suitable caption and each table typed on a separate sheet. Footnotes to tables should be typed below the table and should be referred to by superscript lowercase letters. No vertical rules and/or lines should be used. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the manuscript, (e.g. in graphs). Short or abbreviated column heads should be used. Statistical measures or variation, SD, SE, etc., should be identified. Analysis of variance tables should not be submitted, but significant F should be incorporated where appropriate within the text. The appropriate form for reporting F value is: F(11,20)=3.05, p<0.01.

Proofs
Proofs will be emailed to the author (first-named author if no corresponding author is identified on multi-authored papers) by PDF wherever possible and should be returned within 48 hours of receipt, preferably by e-mail. Corrections should be restricted to typesetting errors; any other amendments made may be charged to the author. Any queries should be answered in full. Elsevier will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible.


Offprints
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Additional paper offprints can be ordered by the authors. An order form with prices will be sent to the corresponding author.

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