Submissions

Author Guidelines

Sections:

1. General
2. Aims and Scope
3. Manuscript Categories/Requirements
4. Preparing the Submission
5. Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
6. Publication Process After Acceptance
7. Guidelines by Article Type
8. Editorial Office Contact Details

1. GENERAL

As part of the submission process, authors are required to ensure the compliance of their submission with all of the following items. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to authors for technical and/or language revisions.

As a rule, submission of any research item implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.

Submission Preparation Checklist

• The submission has not been previously published, nor has it been sent to any other journal for consideration (unless a specific explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

• The manuscript should be submitted as an editable file, such as .doc or .docx (not as .pdf) using OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, etc.
• Tables should be submitted as editable files, and not as images or .pdf files.
• All images, figures and tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered according to their order of appearance.
• The text should keep the stylistic and bibliographic requirements defined in the Instructions to the Authors.
• The title of the article in Greek and English should be included in uppercase letters, and the names of the authors in proper case.
• Abstract (Greek/English)
• Up to five keywords (preferably from MeSH Hellas-Biomedical Terminology) in Greek and English.
• Report informed consent and trial registration in the Methods section of your manuscript. Provide a conflict of interest statement and disclose your sources of funding at the end, if applicable.
• References are listed individually at the end of the manuscript. Use AMA Style referencing. All authors’ names are cited in the references. For documents co-authored by a large number of persons (more than 3 authors) cite the first 3, then add ‘et al.’ at the end.
• The manuscript should comply with the maximum word count.
• In-line reference numbers should be in brackets and superscript after commas and periods in the sentence (e.g., reference.^[5]) Make sure each citation is present in the reference list, and vice versa.
• When submitting a revision, provide two revised versions: one with the changes highlighted, and a clean version one without tracked changes or highlights.

• Enter all authors names (full names, e.g. Nikolaos Papadopoulos) and affiliations in the submission process in Greek and in English.

2. AIMS AND SCOPE

Archives of Clinical Neurology publishes the peer-reviewed original research articles, guidelines, reviews and position papers referring to all neurological conditions such as stroke, dementia, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, headache, motor disorders, neuromuscular, and infectious diseases.

Archives of Clinical Neurology (formerly known as "Nevrologia"), the official journal of the Hellenic Neurological Society is an international peer-reviewed publication that covers the whole field of neurology. The journal’s target audience consists not only of neurologists who are non-specialised in their clinical activity, and of those who have a specific field of interest and want to be kept informed about the latest neurological innovations. Therefore, priority will be given, by the editors, to articles of interest for most neurologists, irrespective of their subspecialty and practice.

3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS

The Archives of Clinical Neurology Journal publishes papers in neurology and related areas in the following categories:

• Original Papers
• Reviews 
• Case reports
• Short Communications and Letter to the Editors
• Teaching Neuroimages
• Guidelines
• Comments on recent publications
• News

4. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION

Main Text File

Each manuscript should have a title page with the following information:

1. A short title containing the major key words
2. The full names of the authors
3. The authors’ institutional affiliations
4. Contact details of the corresponding author for correspondence (e-mail address, any phone numbers, postal address)
5. Total word count of the manuscript including title page, references, and structured abstract
6. Up to five (5) keywords

Abstract

Please provide a structured abstract (Background/Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusions) of up to 250 words. Letters to the Editor do not need an abstract.

Keywords

Please provide up to five (5) keywords. Keywords should be taken from those recommended by the US National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh and MeSH Hellas.

Main text

The journal uses Greek and British English spelling.

Methods and Materials

Please give the full name of the institutional review board or ethics committee that approved your research protocol. If no ethics board was needed, explain why it was not needed. Indicate that the subjects or their next-of-kin gave written informed consent for participation. If you submit personal information or identifiable images, indicate that you had the person's permission for it. If your study is a registered trial, give the name of the trial register.

Ethical Standards

Studies using human subjects should include an explicit statement identifying the Institution or Review Committee which approved the study, and preferably providing the permit number given.

(i) Studies involving human subjects
When human subjects are used, manuscripts must include a statement that the experiments were undertaken with the written consent and understanding of each subject, and that the study conforms with World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki published on the website of the Journal of American Medical Association. In addition, the approval decision number of the institutional review board (or appropriate review committee) should be given and explicitly stated.

Permissions

Materials copied from other sources must be accompanied by a written statement from both the author and the publisher giving permission to the AoCN for reproduction. Obtain permission in writing from at least one author of papers still in press, of unpublished data, and of personal communications. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that permissions are obtained.

References

All references should be numbered consecutively in order of appearance and should be as complete as possible. In text, citations should be in superscript brackets after periods and commas (e.g. text.^[5]). Journal titles are abbreviated according to MEDLINE or Index Medicus. 

Examples:

Journal article reference:

Author 1, Author 2, Author 3, et al. Title of the article. Journal Abbreviation. Year, Volume, Firstpage–Lastpage truncated

Example: Rizzo MA, Hadjimichael OC, Preiningerova J, et al. Prevalence and treatment of spasticity reported by multiple sclerosis patients. Mult Scler. 2004;10(5):589-95.

Book:

Author 1, Author 2, Author 3, et al. Title of the Book, Edition (if available); Publisher: City, Country, Year; Chapter (optional), pp. Page range (optional), ISBN XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-X. 

Example: Voet D, Voet JG. Biochemistry. John Wiley & Sons: New York, USA,1990. p. 1223. ISBN 0-471-61769-5.

For more information about AMA reference style visit the AMA Manual of Style webpage.

Tables

Tables must be submitted as editable files, and not as images.

Tables should complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied in the main manuscript as tables, and not included as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Include definitions of any symbols used, explain all abbreviations and define any units of measurement. Footnote symbols: #, ¥, §, ¶, should be used (in that order). The *, **, *** symbols should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.

Figures

All authors are encouraged to send the highest-quality figures possible. However, for peer-review purposes, a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions are accepted.

General Style Points

• Units of measurement: Measurements should be given in SI. Visit the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) website for more information about SI units.
• Abbreviations: Terms that are used repeatedly should be abbreviated, and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. Initially, use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter, use the abbreviation only.

5. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 

Originality of the work
The AoCN undertakes to review only manuscripts not published or submitted elsewhere (with the exception of guidelines or papers translated from other languages). We make a special effort to detect plagiarism in our peer review process. 

We do not consider as plagiarism the inclusion of data from conference abstracts or posters, results presented at meetings or data drawn from results databases (data without interpretation, discussion, context or conclusions in the form of tables and text).

If the editors have grounds to suspect plagiarism or redundant publication, they will contact the author for an explanation. If no satisfactory explanation is given, the manuscript will be rejected outright.

Acknowledgments

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section in the manuscript.

Disclaimers

Financial and material support should all be mentioned. If funding of any kind was received for the study, indicate the source under 'Funding', or indicate if there was no funding.

6. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Accepted Articles

The journal ensures that accepted ‘in press’ manuscripts are published online shortly after typesetting of the journal. 

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail with a PDF file of their page proofs. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or other typesetting errors as well as the correct presentation of the tables and figures that the manuscript may include. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Given corrections will be integrated and then be re-sent to the authors for a final check before publication. 

7. GUIDELINES BY ARTICLE TYPE

Word counts do not include title page, abstract, conflicts of interest, disclaimers, references, and table-figure legends)

Original Papers: max. 4000 words including Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion, with a maximum of six figures or tables.

Reviews: max. 6000 words including Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion, with a  maximum of eight figures or tables. Systematic reviews are preferred.

Case reports: max. 1500 words. One figure or table is allowed and a maximum of five references. Acceptance of case reports is very limited, and only reports that make a major clinico-pathological or educational contribution or suggest a significant change of diagnosis or therapy will be accepted.

Short Communications and letters to the Editor: max. 1500 words. Two tables or figures are allowed and a maximum of fifteen references. Letters express views about articles published in AoCN or present ideas or findings of scientific interest that do not constitute original research.

Teaching Neuroimages: max. 200 words. Submissions include photographs, neuroradiologic images, and videos, and a limit of 4 images.

Comments on recent publications: max. 500 words. A maximum of five references are allowed, including the article to which the commentary is associated. Commentaries are opinionated, subjective pieces by one or more experts on a topic or publication and are invited by the Editors.

Guidelines: max. 6000 words, 8 tables or figures, and 100 references. Guidelines are prepared by task forces appointed by the Hellenic Neurological Society (HNS) and reviewed by the HNS Scientific Committee. 

News: Scientific news for the neurologist, as news of Hellenic Neurological Society, announcements of conferences and other educational activities.

8. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS

For queries about submissions, please contact info@jneurology.gr.