期刊名称：GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Genes, Brain and Behavior is a new journal publishing top quality research in behavioral and neural genetics in its broadest sense. The emphasis is on the analysis of the behavioral and neural phenotypes under consideration, the unifying theme being the genetic approach as a tool to increase our understanding of these phenotypes.
Genes, Brain and Behavior is the official journal of IBANGS - International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society.
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Instructions to Authors
Electronic submission of manuscripts
Authors are encouraged to submit online to http://g2b.manuscriptcentral.com separate files for the text (as a .doc or .rtf Word document) and each figure (as .gif, .jpg, .eps or .tiff files), particularly for high quality images so that these can be reviewed by the referees. Alternatively, authors can submit a single .doc or .rtf file with embedded images (from which a PDF file will automatically be created upon upload). No hard copies are necessary at submission stage. The review process is entirely electronic-based and therefore facilitates faster reviewing of manuscripts. Authors who are unable to submit their manuscript online should contact the Editorial Office for assistance (see below).
Hard-copy submission of manuscripts
When submitting a manuscript by hard copy, please send two copies of the manuscript (original and one copy), double-spaced throughout including references, along with an electronic copy on diskette or CD (other media such as zip disks are not acceptable) and four copies of any related papers under consideration or in press elsewhere to the following address:
Genes, Brain and Behavior - Editorial Office
Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School
303 Belmont Street
Worcester, MA 01604
USA
Tel: +1 508 856 4036
Fax: +1 508 856 4004
E-mail: G2B@umassmed.edu
Editorial Assistant: Leslie Zobler E-mail: G2B@umassmed.edu
Authors may include supplementary information for the referees inspection. Again, please provide four copies, clearly labelled. The manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter from the corresponding author, who should be clearly identified on the title page. (The corresponding author for editorial purposes need not be the senior author, nor the person to whom correspondence is addressed after publication). Statements of equal contribution from more than one author are permitted. The cover letter might contain recommendations for referees, although these will not necessarily be followed.
If the manuscript includes personal communications, please provide a written statement of permission from any person who is quoted. Printouts of e-mail permission messages are acceptable.
Please note that even if a manuscript is submitted as hard copy, an electronic version of the final version of all accepted manuscripts (on disk) should be supplied to the editorial office. Detailed information on our digital illustration standards is available at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp
Types of papers accepted
Research Articles must describe significant and original observations and provide sufficient detail so that the observations can be critically evaluated and, if necessary, repeated.
Short Communications that describe highly original findings and that justify rapid publication will also be considered for publication. Short Communications should be limited to 3 500 words including references, or the equivalent space if tables and figures are included. Each Short Communication should be preceded by a succinct summary. Manuscripts need not be divided into sections as for full-length papers but can be so divided at the authors discretion. Editorial and publishing procedures will be expedited to assure rapid publication. In general, papers will be either accepted or rejected. Papers that require significant modification in response to referees comments will be rejected.
Proposals for Reviews are welcome; please contact the Review Editor directly:
Dr Robert T. Gerlai
5259 Comanche Trail
Carmel, IN 46033
USA
E-mail: robert_gerlai@yahoo.com
Review proposals should include a full-page summary of the proposed contents with key references. Reviews are selected for their broad general interest; all are refereed by experts in the field who are asked to comment on issues such as timeliness, general interest and balanced treatment of controversies, as well as on scientific accuracy. Reviews should take a broad view of the field rather than merely summarizing the authors own previous work, so extensive citation of the authors own publications is discouraged.
Genes, Brain and Behavior also publishes Commentaries, Debates, Letters to the Editor (on articles published in the Journal) and Book Reviews. Debates are generally two separate papers reflecting opposing views on a controversial issue. Commentaries are opinion pieces on topics of general interest to the behavioral neurogenetics community. They need not be confined to purely scientific topics; policy issues and social implications of behavioral and neural genetics may also be covered. Suggestions for Debates, Commentaries and Book Reviews are welcome.
Organization of Research Articles
Authors should pay special attention to the presentation of their findings so that they may be communicated clearly. Technical jargon should be avoided as much as possible and clearly explained where its use is unavoidable. Abbreviations should also be kept to a minimum, particularly those that are not standard. The background and hypotheses underlying the study, as well as its main conclusions, should be clearly explained. Titles and abstracts especially should be written in language that will be readily intelligible to any scientist.
Title: must be concise and contain no more than 100 characters including spaces. The title page should include a running title of no more than 50 characters; 5-10 key words, complete names of institutions for each author, and the name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address for the corresponding author. The title page should also include the date of submission (or revision/resubmission).
Abbreviations: Genes, Brain and Behavior adheres to the conventions outlined in Units, Symbols and Abbreviations: A Guide for Medical and Scientific Editors and Authors. Non-standard abbreviations must be used three or more times and written out completely in the text when first used.
Abstract: is limited to 250 words in length and should not contain abbreviations. References must be cited in full.
Main Text
Introduction: should be focused, outlining the historical or logical origins of the study and not summarize the results; exhaustive literature reviews are not appropriate.
Materials and Methods: must contain sufficient detail such that, in combination with the references cited, all experiments reported can be fully reproduced. As a condition of publication, authors are required to make materials and methods used freely available to academic researchers for their own use. This includes antibodies and the constructs used to make transgenic animals, although not the animals themselves. Papers reporting protein or DNA sequences and crystallographic structure determinations will not be accepted without a Genbank or Brookhaven accession number, respectively. Other supporting data sets must be made available on the publication date from the authors directly.
(i) Experimental Subjects: When human subjects are used, manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that the experiments were undertaken with the understanding and written consent of each subject. Authors should be aware of the Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki), which has been printed in the British Medical Journal (18 July 1964).
When experimental animals are used the methods section must clearly indicate that adequate measures were taken to minimize pain or discomfort. Experiments should be carried out in accordance with the Guidelines laid down by the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the USA regarding the care and use of animals for experimental procedures or with the European Communities Council Directive of 24 November 1986 (86/609/EEC).
All studies using human or animal subjects should include an explicit statement in the Material and Methods section identifying the review and approval committee for each study, if applicable.
Editors reserve the right to reject papers if there is doubt as to whether appropriate procedures have been used.
(ii) Suppliers:
Suppliers of materials should be named and, with the exception of well-known suppliers, such as Sigma, Kodak and Zeiss, their location (town, state/county, country) included.
Results: should present the observations with minimal reference to earlier literature or to possible interpretations.
Discussion: may usefully start with a brief summary of the major findings, but repetition of parts of the abstract or of the results section should be avoided.
References: should follow the Harvard style of references, outlined below, and should be cited in the text as: White (2001) has shown. or as shown earlier (Blanc & White, 1999; Weiss et al., 2000). When different groups of authors with the same first author and year of publication occur, they should be cited thus, Weiss et al. (2000a,b), to differentiate clearly between them.References should be listed at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order according to the name of the first author and chronologically where several papers by the same author are listed. The list of references should include only articles that have been published or are currently in press. In press manuscripts that are necessary to understand and evaluate the submitted manuscript must be included at the time of submission. In all cases, the full list of authors should be provided, and journal titles should be abbreviated following Index Medicus. Published conference abstracts and URLs for web sites should be cited parenthetically in the text, not in the reference list. Grant details and acknowledgements are not permitted as numbered references.
Journal Article
Podhorna, J. & Brown, R.E. (2002) Strain differences in activity and emotionality do not account for differences in learning and memory performance between C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice. Genes Brain Behav 1, 96-110.
Article in Book
Katz, D.I. (1997) Traumatic brain injury. In Mills, V.M., Cassidy, J.W. & Katz, D.I. (eds), Neurologic Rehabilitation. A Guide to Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment Planning. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, pp. 105-143.
Complete Book
Matthews, G.G. (1997) Neurobiology. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford
Symposia contributions should take a similar format to books, including the place and date of the meeting, the name and location of the organiser/publisher, both overall and contribution titles, all authors and Editors names, and page number(s):
Fuss, S.H., ??elik, A. & Korsching, S.I. (2001) Levels of olfactory information processing in the zebrafish olfactory bulb. In Elsner, N. & Kreuzberg, G.W. (eds), G??ttingen Neurobiology Report 2001. Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society 2001, Vol. II, 28th G??ttingen Neurobiology Conference. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, p. 474.
Acknowledgements: should follow the References. Genes, Brain and Behavior requires that all sources of institutional, private and corporate financial support for the work within the manuscript must be fully acknowledged, and any potential conflicts of interest noted. Grant or contribution numbers may be acknowledged, and principal grant holders should be listed. Acknowledgments should be brief and should not include thanks to anonymous referees and editors.
Figures: All figures should be planned to fit within either 1 column width (8.0 cm), 1.5 column widths (13.0 cm) or 2 column widths (17.0 cm), and must be suitable for photocopy reproduction from the printed version of the manuscript. Lettering on figures should be in a clear, sans serif typeface (e.g. Helvetica); if possible, the same typeface should be used for all figures in a paper. After reduction for publication, upper-case text and numbers should be at least 1.5-2.0 mm high (10 point Helvetica). After reduction symbols should be at least 2.0-3.0 mm high (10 point). All half-tone photographs should be submitted at final reproduction size. In general, multi-part figures should be arranged as they would appear in the final version. Each copy should be marked with the figure number and the corresponding authors name. Reduction to the scale that will be used on the page is not necessary, but any special requirements (such as the separation distance of stereo pairs) should be clearly specified.
Unnecessary figures and parts (panels) of figures should be avoided: data presented in small tables or histograms, for instance, can generally be stated briefly in the text instead. Figures should not contain more than one panel unless the parts are logically connected; each panel of a multipart figure should be sized so that the whole figure can be reduced by the same amount and reproduced on the printed page at the smallest size at which essential details are visible.
Figures should be on a white background, and should avoid excessive boxing, unnecessary colour, shading and/or, decorative effects (e.g. 3-dimensional skyscraper histograms) and highly pixelated computer drawings. The vertical axis of histograms should not be truncated to exaggerate small differences. The line spacing should be wide enough to remain clear on reduction to the minimum acceptable printed size.
Figures divided into parts should be labeled with a lower-case, boldface, roman letter, a, b, and so on, in the same typesize as used elsewhere in the figure. Lettering in figures should be in lower-case type, with the first letter capitalized. Units should have a single space between the number and the unit, and follow SI nomenclature or the nomenclature common to a particular field. Thousands should be separated by thin spaces (1 000). Unusual units or abbreviations should be spelled out in full or defined in the legend. Scale bars should be used rather than magnification factors, with the length of the bar defined in the legend rather than on the bar itself. In general, visual cues (on the figures themselves) are preferred to verbal explanations in the legend (e.g. broken line, open red triangles etc.)
Colour figures
It is the policy of Genes, Brain and Behavior for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their colour artwork. Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Blackwell Publishing require you to complete and return a colour work agreement form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF* here. If you are unable to download the form, please contact the Production Editor at: Production Editor ¨C Genes, Brain and Behavior, Blackwell Publishing, 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6AJ, UK and they will be able to email or FAX a form to you. Once completed, please return the form to the Production Editor at the address above. Any article received by Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned.
* To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you don not have this program, this is available as a free download from the following web address:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Permissions
If all or part of previously published illustrations are to be used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned.
Figure Legends: should be a separate section of the manuscript, and should begin with a brief title for the whole figure and continue with a short description of each panel and the symbols used; they should not contain any details of methods.
Tables: should be double-spaced with no vertical rulings, with a single bold ruling beneath the column titles. Units of measurements must be included in the column title.
Submission of Supplementary Materials
Supplementary material, such as data sets or additional figures or tables, that will not be published in the print edition of the journal but which will be viewable in the online edition can be submitted. Please see Submission of Supplementary Material for more details.
Supplementary video clips may be submitted on 100 MB Zip, DVD or CD-ROM disk for inclusion in Genes, Brain and Behavior on Blackwell Synergy. Video clips must be referenced in the text and representative micrographs included in the print version of Genes, Brain and Behavior. Movie clips should not be larger than 5 MB, and run for no longer than 1 minute.
Publication Schedule
Papers that do not conform to the general aims and scope of the journal will be returned immediately without review. All other manuscripts will be reviewed by experts in the field (generally two reviewers and an Editor). Genes, Brain and Behavior aims to forward reviewers comments and to inform the corresponding author of the result of the review process within 5 weeks of receipt of the manuscript by the Editorial Office. Revised manuscripts will be considered at the discretion of the editors, and may be subject to re-review. Manuscripts will be considered for "fast-track publication" under special circumstances after consultation with the Editor-in-Chief.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent via e-mail as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file. The e-mail server must be able to accept attachments up to 4MB in size. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file, available free of charge from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available. In your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs.
Copyright Assignment
Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the work has not been published before, is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has been read and approved by all of the authors. If and when a manuscript is accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior, the corresponding author must agree to assign (on behalf of all authors) exclusive copyright, which covers translation rights and the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute all of the articles published in the journal, to Blackwell Publishing and the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society using the Copyright Assignment Form. No material published in the journal may be stored on microfilm or videocassettes, or in electronic databases and the like, without the written permission of the publisher.
Costs
There are no submission fees or page charges. Reproduction of colour figures will be charged to authors at cost (please see Colour figures section above).
Offprints
Offprints can be obtained by using the offprint order form accompanying the proofs
Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Wim E. Crusio
Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School
USA
Associate Editors
Daniel Goldowitz, Memphis, TN, USA
Steven O. Moldin, NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Catharine H. Rankin, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Marla B. Sokolowski, Toronto, ON, Canada
David P. Wolfer, Z¨¹rich, Switzerland
Review Editor
Robert T. Gerlai, Carmel, IN, USA Editorial Board
Enrico Alleva, Rome, Italy
Steven de Belle, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Floyd Bloom, La Jolla, CA, USA
Christine van Broeckhoven, Antwerp, Belgium
Maja Bucan, Philadelphia, PA, USA
John Carlson, New Haven, CT, USA
Francoise Clerget-Darpoux, Le Kremlin Bic¨ºtre, France
John Crabbe, Portland, OR, USA
Jacqueline Crawley, Bethesda, MD, USA
Mara Dierssen, Barcelona, Spain
Alberto Ferrus, Madrid, Spain
Wayne Frankel, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
Fred Gage, San Diego, CA, USA
Michela Gallagher, Baltimore, MD, USA
Greg Gibson, Raleigh, NC, USA
David Goldman, Bethesda, MD, USA
Seth Grant, Edinburgh, UK
David Hay, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Martin Heisenberg, W¨¹rzburg, Germany
Thomas Johnson, Boulder, CO USA
Serge Laroche, Orsay, France
Fred van Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Hans-Peter Lipp, Z¨¹rich, Switzerland
Jacques Mallet, Paris, France
Terry McGuire, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Michael F. Miles, Richmond, VA, USA
Ikue Mori, Nagoya, Japan
Pierre Morm¨¨de, Bordeaux, France
Uli M¨¹ller, Berlin, Germany
Cahir O'Kane, Cambridge, UK
Gene E. Robinson, Urbana, IL, USA
Martin Schalling, Stockholm, Sweden
Piali Sengupta, Waltham, MA, USA
Hee-Sup Shin, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Joseph Takahashi, Evanston, IL, USA
Susumu Tonegawa, Boston, MA, USA
Tim Tully, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Homero Vallada, S??o Paulo, Brazil
Douglas Wahlsten, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Robert Williams, Memphis, TN, USA
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