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. Editorial Office Contact Details

1. GENERAL

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.

Author's Submission Preparation Checklist

Read the checklist with care. Manuscripts not consistent with the checklist may be unsubmitted for correction.

• The manuscript should comply with the maximum word count.
• Title of the article in Greek and English with upper case letters and the names of the authors to be mentioned in small letters.
• Enter all authors’ names (full names , eg Nikolaos Papadopoulos) and affiliations in the submission process in Greek and in English.
• Abstract (Greek/English)  
• Up to five  keywords (preferably from Mesh Hellas-Biomedical Terminology) in Greek and English. 
• Submit the manuscript text file as editable file, such as .doc or .docx (not as .pdf) using OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect.
• The text should be single spaced, with a size font of 12 and where appropriate use text on italics and not underlined (except URLs).  All images, shapes and tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearances. 
• The text keeps the stylistic and bibliographic requirements defined in the instructions to the authors.
• Limit your acknowledgement to only those appropriate.

• 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 6 authors) you can either cite all authors, or cite the first ten authors, then add a semicolon and add ‘et al.’ at the end. Provide URL addresses for references, where available. 
• 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 one without highlights.

Data protection:

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. 

2. AIMS AND SCOPE #

Archives of Clinical Neurology publishes the peer-reviewed original research articles, guidelines, reviews and position papers referred 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, a 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

Archives of Clinical Neurology 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 author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted.
4. E-mail data of the corresponding author for correspondence.
5. Total word count of the manuscript including title page, references, and structured abstract;
6. Up to five keywords.
7. All images, shapes and tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearances. 

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.
 Financial and material support should also be mentioned. if you had funding for any kind for your study, indicate the source under 'Funding'. Also indicate if you had no funding.

Abstract

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

Keywords

Please provide five 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/US 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-on-kin gave 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 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 author's responsibility 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 parentheses. Journal titles are abbreviated according to MEDLINE or Index Medicus. 

Please see the following examples of reference content requirements.

Journal article:

Format 

Author 1; Author 2; Author 3; Author 4; Author 5;Author 6 etc. Title of the article. Journal Abbreviation Year, Volume, Firstpage–Lastpage. 

Example 

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

Book:

Format

Author 1; Author 2; Author 3; etc. 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. 1223 p. ISBN 0-471-61769-5

For more information about AMA reference style AMA Manual of Style.

Tables

Tables should complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied in the main manuscript, not pasted 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. Footnote symbols: #, ¥, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.

Figure Legends

Legends should be concise but comprehensive. The figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used, explain all abbreviations and define any units of measurement.

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

The following points provide general advice on formatting and style. 

• Units of measurement: Measurements should be given in SI or SI-derived units. Visit the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) website for more information about SI units.
• Abbreviations: In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly 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
AoCN undertakes to review only manuscripts not published or submitted elsewhere [with the exception of guidelines or papers translated from other languages]. Confirm the originality of your manuscript by ticking the appropriate items of the Author Guarantee Statement. 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, they will contact the author's institution or other appropriate authority to establish the facts. If the grounds for suspicion appear well-founded, the editors may publish a retraction or delegate the matter to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

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 notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. 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. Possible corrections will be integrated and then re-send to the authors for a final check before publication. 

7. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS

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