期刊名称：JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY
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About the journal
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Aims and Scope
The Journal of Comparative Neurology appears weekly and publishes papers on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. Its field is broadly defined but does not include clinical neurology, neuropathology, psychiatry, and introspective psychology excepting insofar as these bear on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. Preference is given to papers which deal descriptively or experimentally with the nervous system, its structure, growth, and function. Preliminary notices are not desired, nor will material previously or simultaneously published elsewhere be accepted. Generally, papers that will occupy not more than 18 to 26 printed pages are preferred, but in special cases longer articles will be accepted.
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Instructions to Authors
The Journal of Comparative Neurology requires electronic submission of all manuscripts via our website, at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcn.
General Instructions
Manuscripts must be written in American English. Because nearly half of all manuscripts submitted to the Journal originate from outside English-speaking countries, we strongly recommend that authors who are not native English speakers ask a colleague or for-hire editor whose native language is English to help them edit their work. The Journal staff will not be able to provide this service, and if papers are not written in easily understandable, idiomatic English, they will be returned to the authors without review.
Measurements should be made in the metric system, and abbreviations for metric measurements should be in lower case, without periods (e.g., kg, msec, m). Abbreviations may be used extensively in the figures, and should be accompanied by a table of abbreviations used in figures. Abbreviations should be used sparingly in the text, as extensive use of abbreviations makes the work difficult to follow for non-specialists. In general, no more than about six common abbreviations should be used in the text of any one paper. Each abbreviation should be spelled out the first time it is used in the Abstract, in the Text, and in the Figure Legends or table of abbreviations used in the figures (up to three times if it is used in all three segments of the manuscript).
All manuscripts must include the following elements. They should be submitted on-line, with standard file name extensions, in the following order:
Text of paper. This should contain a Title Page (including acknowledgments for support), Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Other Acknowledgments, Literature Cited, Footnotes, and Figure Legends, in that order. The file should be named with the last name of the first author-text. Text files should be in Word (.doc), WordPerfect (.wpd), or RTF (.rtf) format. Please note: This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents at this time. Please use Word's “Save As” option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.
Table files. Authors are encouraged to prepare tables using the table tool in Word. Each table should be contained in a separate file, and the files should be named by table number (i.e., Table 1, Table 2...). Tables that require extensive formatting may be submitted as image files, using .tif format, but should be named by table number.
Figure files. Each file should contain a single figure and be named figure number (i.e., Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.), and should be in TIFF (.tif) format only. Please do NOT use JPEG (.jpg), GIF (.gif), EPS (.eps), PowerPoint (.ppt), Portable Document (.pdf), or Word (.doc) files, or proprietary file types that are not interchangeable among programs (e.g., Illustrator, Canvas, or Photoshop).
Associate Editors
When submitting a manuscript to JCN, please specify which of our nine Associate Editors you would like to evaluate your work, based on their areas of expertise.
Edward M. Callaway, Salk Institute for Biological Studies: Visual System, Cerebral Cortex
Thomas E. Finger, University of Colorado Denver: Chemical Senses and Neurobiology of Anamniote Vertebrates
Gert Holstege, University of Groningen: Brainstem and Spinal Cord Sensorimotor Systems
Jeffrey H. Kordower, Rush University Medical Center: Neurodegeneration and CNS Repair, Basal Forebrain, Cerebral Cortex
Ian A. Meinertzhagen, Dalhousie University: Invertebrate Neurobiology, Retina
Joseph L. Price, Washington University School of Medicine: Cerebral Cortex and Limbic Forebrain
John L. R. Rubenstein, University of California–San Francisco: Developmental Neurobiology
Paul E. Sawchenko, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies: Neuroendocrine Control and Chemical Neuroanatomy
Oswald Steward, University of California–Irvine: Neuronal Plasticity and Response to Injury, Hippocampal Formation, and Auditory System
Text of Paper
The text of the paper should be prepared in 12 point Times Roman or Arial font, with a line of 6 or 6.5 inches (155–170 mm) width. Spelling for non-technical terms should be that recommended in the current Webster’s International Dictionary. For anatomical terms, the anglicized form of the word should be used (not Latin) whenever possible. Please avoid slang, colloquialisms, and laboratory jargon, especially in the title of the paper.
Title page. The title page should contain the title of the paper. Abbreviations should not be used. Please include names of species used when possible.
Authors’ names: Please use full names without degrees or titles. Each author name should carry a superscript number, assigned in ascending numerical order, to indicate institutional affiliation. Authors should include all individuals who contributed to the conception and design or to the analysis and interpretation of the work. Purely technical contributions or providing materials or equipment generally does not merit authorship. All authors must agree to be listed, and to the order of listing.
Institutional affiliations: These should be in the same order as the numbers in the authors’ superscripts, and should include Department, Institution, City, State or Province if applicable, Mail Code, and Country.
Abbreviated title, or running head, not to exceed 48 letters and spaces.
Name of Associate Editor to whom the manuscript is being submitted.
Key words, including 3–6 words or phrases that are included in the text but not in the title of the paper that identify its content.
Corresponding author, address, phone, fax, and email addresses.
Support or grant information should be provided in a footnote on the title page and should include the grant sponsor and number.
Abstract. The abstract should be concise, consisting of 250 words or less. It should frame the biological problem that the paper addresses, indicate the method of approach and species of animals used, and provide a brief summary of the results and conclusions. It should be intelligible without reference to the rest of the paper. Abbreviations should be used sparingly in the abstract and should be spelled out the first time they are used. References to the literature should be avoided in the Abstract, but if used, must include the full reference.
Introduction. The introduction should frame the scientific issues that motivate the study. It is not enough simply to identify a known pathway or its neurotransmitter in a different species. For papers to reach a publishable level of priority, the authors must make the case for how their ideas illuminate some principles of systems neuroscience. Use of animals from different species should be justified in terms of understanding how differences in their adaptations help to elucidate the structure and function of the nervous system, not as an excuse for repeating work that has already been done in other species.
The introduction should not contain statements about the actual results or their significance. These belong in the Results and Discussion sections.
Materials and Methods. The animals, supplies, and equipment used should be described in detail. For animals it is important to define species, strain, sex, age, supplier, and numbers of animals used (as well as distribution of animals across groups). If genetically modified mice are used, it is critical to specify the genetic background, including the generation since the founder and the number of backcrosses (if applicable) to an inbred strain.
It is critical that all manuscripts employing animals identify whether the work that is being reported was approved by the institutional animal care and use committee at the site of the work. Any work that is done without such approval, or which is judged by the referees or the editors to involve cruelty or abuse of animals, will not be published.
The sources of all materials and equipment must be identified. For chemical probes it is important to include the exact sequence of the nucleic acids or peptides against which the probe was raised. Otherwise, the work is inherently not repeatable. For antibodies, please prepare a table listing in the first column the name of the antibody; in the second column the exact structure of the immunogen against which the animal was immunized (note that a vague reference to a part of the molecule is not acceptable); in the third column the manufacturer, catalog or log number, species it was raised in, and whether it is a monoclonal or polyclonal antibody. In the text of the Methods section, include a section titled Antibody Characterization, in which there is a brief paragraph for each antibody used, explaining how it was characterized, and providing appropriate controls. Characterization includes information that assures the reader that the antibody specifically recognizes its supposed target. This can include Western blots (for which it is necessary to indicate the species and tissue examined, and the pattern of bands stained and their molecular weight), radioimmunoassay or ELISA, or other types of experiments. Controls may include preadsorption with the original antigen; attempts to stain tissue from knockout animals; comparisons with the in situ hybridization pattern, etc. For antibodies used as tissue markers (rather than to establish a novel and unique localization of the antigen), it is sufficient to indicate that the antibody stains the appropriate pattern of cellular morphology and distribution as demonstrated in previous publications, which should be cited. Note that we need the manuscript to actually give the evidence for characterization and specificity. Simple references to other papers where characterization has been done are not acceptable.
JCN now has an antibody database available on-line through clicking the icon on the lower right of the journal home page. This database lists antibodies used in papers in JCN since 2006. This information can be used to look for antibodies that have met the stringent standards of JCN, and to find papers that contain information on the characterization of those antibodies.
All methods of analysis and statistical testing must be identified and explained in detail. In particular, it is necessary to give methods for counting cells or other structures in tissue sections in detail, and to use appropriate methods either of design-based stereology or post-hoc correction for the size of the objects being counted. This is explained in the reviews by S. Geuna (Appreciating the difference between design-based and model-based sampling strategies in quantitative morphology of the nervous system. J Comp Neurol 427:333–339, 2000) and R.W. Guillery (On counting and counting errors. J Comp Neurol 447:1–7, 2002). Whatever method is chosen must be described and defended.
For digital photography, it is necessary to identify what forms of digital manipulation were employed in preparing the images (e.g., adjusting brightness, contrast, sharpness, evenness of illumination, etc.). The purpose of figures is to present to the audience an overview of the observations, not to provide a faithful recreation of artifacts. Thus, images can be adjusted and even retouched, but if they are manipulated in any way, it is important to identify those changes in the Methods section (or in the figure legend if it applies to a single image).
Results. The results of the study should be laid out in a series of declarative paragraphs. Often the reporting of the results can be clearer if broken down into subsections. All figures and tables must be cited in the text, and must be numbered in the order of their text citation. The Results section should not include long passages about the rationale for each experiment (which belong in the Introduction) or the methods used (which belong in the Materials and Methods), nor should it include justification or discussion of the results (which belong in the Discussion section). In general, if a passage in the Results involves the use of numerous citations, the authors ought to consider whether that material better belongs in the Introduction or the Discussion.
Discussion. The Discussion should begin with a statement of the important findings of the paper. Subsequent sections can address technical issues, analysis of the results, and the implications of the work. Again, it is often helpful to break down the Discussion into subsections that focus on particular topics. The Discussion should not contain a summary or resume, as this is the function of the Abstract. However, it is proper to include a section that draws together the results and expands upon conclusions that may be drawn from the work.
Other acknowledgments. These may include thanks to technicians or colleagues who have helped with the work or provided materials. All who are acknowledged must be informed of that fact by the authors, and agree to be listed.
Literature cited. All references cited in the text (and only those cited in the text) should be included. In the text, references should be cited by authors’ names and year of publication. One or two authors should be cited by name; for three or more, the first author is cited followed by et al.:
…studies by Sawchenko (2003) reveal…
…studies by Sawchenko and Schiltz (2003) reveal…
…studies by Sawchenko et al. (2003) reveal…
References that are not cited by name should be included at the end of a phrase or sentence in parentheses, in chronological order, separated by semicolons, except for two or more papers by the same authors, which should be separated by commas. References to more than one paper in the same year should be designated by letters:
...(Canteras, 1999; Holstege and Saper, 2002; Hansen et al., 2003a, 2003b)
The citations in the Literature Cited should be in alphabetical order by authors, then chronological order by year. For papers with identical authors and years, the citations should be alphabetical by journal, and then chronological by appearance in the journal:
Kuroda M, Price JL. 1991a. Synaptic organization of projections from basal forebrain structures to the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus of the rat. J Comp Neurol 303:513–533.
Kuroda M, Price JL. 1991b. Ultrastructure and synaptic organization of axon terminals from brainstem structures to the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus of the rat. J Comp Neurol 313:539–552.
Authors are referred to recent papers published in the Journal for specifics of citation style for different types of communications. The Journal of Comparative Neurology citation formats are contained within Endnote and Reference Manager, and can be downloaded from http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jendnotes.
Abbreviations of journal names should conform to Index Medicus. Only papers that are in press (accepted for publication in final form) or in print may be cited. Work that is “in preparation” or “submitted” should be cited in the text as personal communications. The person who is cited must give permission for this usage. It is the responsibility of the authors to obtain this permission before the paper is submitted.
Footnotes. While footnotes are generally discouraged, they may in some cases represent the best way to present material that is relevant to the subject, but would distract from the flow of the manuscript. Footnotes should be cited in the text by superscripted numbers in numerical order of appearance. Footnotes should be included in a separate section, at the end of the paper, identified by superscripted numbers, in numerical order:
1The formula used for calculating the correction factor for double counting was…
2Some of the material employed in this analysis was used previously by Jones et al. (2002) in their description of thalamic nuclei…
Figure Legends and Table of Abbreviations Used in the Figures. The figure legends should be self-explanatory, without referring to the text. They should identify the material that is being illustrated, what is shown, and its significance. Abbreviations used in the figure legends should be used sparingly, and should be spelled out the first time they are used. Abbreviations used in the figures should be included either in the figure legend for that figure (e.g., INC, inferior colliculus; OC, optic chiasm; ZI, zona incerta…) or should be included in a table of abbreviations used in the figures:
INC inferior colliculus
OC optic chiasm
ZI zona incerta
Note that when only a few abbreviations are used in the figures, it is usually better to include them in the relevant figure legends, but when extensive use is made of abbreviations, as in labeling of sections through multiple levels of the brain, a table is usually preferred.
Tables. Tables should be numbered in order of appearance in the text, and presented in numerical order. Each table should be identified by number and should have a title:
Table 1. Percentage of Retrogradely Labeled Cells in Each Site That Contained Enkephalin Immunoreactivity
Abbreviations used in the table should be included in the table legend, under the table. Tables should generally be prepared with as little specialized formatting as possible. If a table requires extensive formatting, it is usually better to prepare it as an image file rather than a text file. If tables are prepared as image files rather than as text files, they should be in separate TIFF (.tif) format files named table number (i.e., Table 1, Table 2...).
Figures
The Journal of Comparative Neurology is known for the high quality of its figure reproduction. To maintain this level of quality, it is necessary to insure that the images are acquired and processed at every step with this goal in mind.
Figures should be numbered in the order that they are cited in the text, and presented in that order after the text of the paper. The first time any panel from a figure is cited, that entire figure is considered to have been cited (i.e, the panels should be laid out in an order that is reasonable for that plate, and do not have to be cited in order in the text). Each figure should be submitted in a separate electronic file. All of these files should be at 300 dpi or greater, and figures should be formatted for Journal page size (172 mm x 230 mm) or column width (81 mm x 230 mm) if possible. Figures should be presented in portrait orientation (not in landscape), as most images will be viewed on a computer screen.
Most figures should be prepared as multi-panel plates, rather than single images. Individual panels in a plate should be consecutively lettered, and for all photomicrographs a scale bar should be included in the figure and defined in the figure legend. The tradition of identifying magnification factors (e.g., magnification 250x) should be avoided as digital images may be reproduced at any arbitrary size. It is not necessary to include the size of the scale bar in the figure if it is included in the text.
Figures should be presented in a plain and unadorned style, on a white background. Panels should not be set off by boxes or other edging, and lettering and images should not have gratuitous effects such as highlighting, three dimensional edging, shading, etc. Lettering for panel designators should be 3–6 mm in height, and lettering within a figure 2–4 mm in height. Larger lettering is unnecessary and appears cluttered; smaller lettering may not be legible on a computer screen. Either a Times Roman or Arial font is acceptable, but the same font and type size should be used throughout the figures for a single paper.
Line drawings should use a professional quality graphics program capable of providing smooth, clean lines that are not jagged. Where possible figures should consist of black lines and lettering against a white background. Color may be used to differentiate specific features of a drawing, but should be scientifically necessary (i.e., needed to differentiate the different parts of the image, such as different lines in a graph or different labels mapped against a brain section).
Photomicrographs should be framed and cropped to show the material to its best advantage. The brightness, contrast, sharpness, and evenness of illumination may be adjusted, although this must be indicated in either the Materials and Methods or in the figure legends. The resolution of all photomicrographs must be at least 300 dpi, and they should be provided in TIF format. Color should be used in photomicrographs when scientifically necessary, but plates containing only monochromatic images should be reproduced in black and white.
Each color page costs between $500 and $1,000 to reproduce in the print version of the Journal. The publisher will subsidize this cost so that authors will be charged $250 per page of color reproduction, but only if the color is deemed to be scientifically necessary. It is possible to use black and white versions of plates in the print version and color in the online version, without charge, as long as the figure legends apply equally well to either figure (i.e., do not mention the colors). It is not necessary to convert color image files to CMYK; the Journal has instituted an RGB production workflow, and all color files should be submitted as RGB. Note that files submitted as CMYK will be converted to RGB.
Note to NIH Grantees . Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For further information, see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate .
Editorial Board
E d i t o r - i n - C h i e f
CLIFFORD B. SAPER
Harvard Medical School
E-mail: jcn@caregroup.harvard.edu
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Associate Editors
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E d i t o r i a l B o a r d
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BEN A. BARRES
Stanford University School of Medicine
DEANNA BENSON
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
E-mail: deanna.benson@mssm.edu
A.D. (BUD) CRAIG
Barrow Neurological Institute
FORD F. EBNER
Vanderbilt University
JOEL K. ELMQUIST
Harvard Medical School
E-mail: jelmquis@caregroup.harvard.edu
PIERS C. EMSON
The Babraham Institute
SUSAN E. FAHRBACH
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
E-mail: Susanfah@uiuc.edu
MICHAEL FROTSCHER
Albert Ludwig Universität - Freiburg
CHARLES A. GREER
Yale University
HENDRIK J. GROENEWEGEN
Vrije Universiteit, Amersterdam
KARL HERRUP
Case Western Reserve University
E-mail: kxh26@po.cwru.edu
PATRICK HOF
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
E-mail: patrick.hof@mssm.edu
TOMAS HÖKFELT
Karolinska Institutet
DAVID A. HOPKINS
Dalhousie University
JON H. KAAS
Vanderbilt University
HARVEY J. KARTEN
University of California, San Diego
JEFFERY H. KORDOWER
Rush Medical College
EVE E. MARDER
Brandeis University
E-mail: Marder@volen.brandeis.edu
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CAROL ANN MASON
Columbia University
IAN MEINERTZHAGEN
Dalhousie University
NOBORU MIZUNO
National Institute for Physiological Sciences—Okazaki
ELLIOTT J. MUFSON
Rush Medical College
R. GLENN NORTHCUTT
University of California--San Diego
RICHARD S. NOWAKOWSKI
UMDNJ--R.W. Johnson School of Medicine
E-mail: rsn@umdnj.edu
ANDRE PARENT
Universite Laval
E-mail: andre.Parent@anm.ulaval.ca
ANTON REINER
University of Tennessee--Memphis
E-mail: areiner@utmem2.unmem.edu
KATHLEEN S. ROCKLAND
RIKEN Institute, Japan
EDWIN W RUBEL
University of Washington
ALDO RUSTIONI
University of North Carolina
DAVID K. RYUGO
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
CARLA J. SHATZ
Harvard Medical School
MICHAEL T. SHIPLEY
University of Maryland
WILHELMUS J.A. SMEETS
Vrije Universiteit
E-mail: WJAJ.Smeets.Anat@med.vu.nl
LARRY W. SWANSON
University of Southern California
PAUL H. TAGHERT
Washington University, St. Louis
JOHN Q. TROJANOWSKI
University of Pennsylvania
JAN VOOGD
Erasmus University Rotterdam
E-mail: janvoogd@bart.nl
HEINZ WÄSSLE
Max-Planck-Institut für Hirnforschung
E-mail: Waessle@MPIH-frankfurt.MPG.de
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M a n a g i n g E d i t o r
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Associate Managing Editor
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Adam Gordon
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