期刊名称：FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience is a Specialty Journal of Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience is a first-tier electronic journal that aims to publish major insights into animal and human behavior, as well as the neurobiological basis of behavior. Our journal welcomes papers concerned with the interplay between behavior and neurobiological analysis at all levels: from molecular biology and genetics, to morphological, biochemical, neurochemical, electrophysiological, neuroendocrinal, pharmacological, and neuroimaging studies. While Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience is primarily centered on animal behavior, human studies that can validate conclusions from animal research are also welcome. Work in all animal species, including humans, is therefore welcome, and integrative and translational approaches combining animal and human research are encouraged. In recent years, translational work has proved to be particularly suitable to address topics and questions related to psychopathology, with outstanding examples showing how animal studies can help identify key genetic mechanisms of behavioral deviation in humans and, conversely, how innovative findings in humans are directing essential work in animals. Our ultimate goal is to accelerate the progress in this research area at a critical time when we are facing multiple challenges: from the need to integrate findings obtained at different levels of analysis to the constant redefinition of topics and approaches that concern and characterize the field of Behavioral Neuroscience.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience welcomes the following tier 1 article types: Book Review, Clinical Case, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Proceeding, Review and Specialty Grand Challenge.
All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the Specialty Journal.
All articles published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience will be subjected to the Frontiers Evaluation System after online publication. Authors of the original research articles with the highest impact, as judged by many expert readers, will be invited by the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Psychiatry to write a prestigious Frontiers Focused Review - a tier 2 article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The selection is based on the reader impact over a 4-month period from the date of publication. The selected high impact articles are re-written in a review style centered on the original discovery, and aim to address the wider audience across all of Neuroscience and Psychiatry.
Open Access Statement
Frontiers’ philosophy is that all research is for the benefit of humankind. Research is the product of an investment by society and therefore its fruits should be returned to all people without borders or discrimination, serving society universally and in a transparent fashion.
That is why Frontiers provides online free and open access to all of its research publications. For more information on open access click here.
Copyright Statement
Under the Frontiers Conditions for Website Use and the Frontiers General Conditions for Authors, authors of articles published in Frontiers journals retain copyright on their articles, except for any third-party images and other materials added by Frontiers, which are subject to copyright of their respective owners. Authors are therefore free to disseminate and re-publish their articles, subject to any requirements of third-party copyright owners and subject to the original publication being fully cited. Visitors may also download and forward articles subject to the citation requirements and subject to any fees Frontiers may charge for downloading licenses. The ability to copy, download, forward or otherwise distribute any materials is always subject to any copyright notices displayed. Copyright notices must be displayed prominently and may not be obliterated, deleted or hidden, totally or partially. A charge may be made for some facilities (such as downloading of e-magazines), where stated.
Quality
Each Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Frontiers is well aware of the potential impact of published research both on future research and on society and, hence, does not support superficial review, light review or no-review publishing models. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public - and shape society. Therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews, established in the high standards of the Frontiers Review System. Furthermore, only the top certified research, evaluated through the democratic Frontiers Evaluation System, is disseminated to increasingly wider communities as it gradually climbs the tiers of the Frontiers Tiering System from specialized expert readership towards public understanding.
Contact
Specialty Chief Editor: Carmen Sandi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland
Frontiers Editorial Office
Science Park PSE-D
CH – 1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Tel +41 (0)21 693 92 02
Fax +41 (0)21 693 92 01
neuroscience.editorial.office@frontiersin.org
Instructions to Authors
MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINESManuscript length
Original Research, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Review Articlesand Technology Reports:
Frontiers encourages a standard article length of 12 pages as in the final PDF version. Your manuscript should contain approximately12,000 wordsmaximally, including tables and references. The maximum (total) number of words may vary depending on the number of images included.
Focused Reviews:
5 pages in the final PDF version. Your manuscript should contain approximately 5,000 words, including any tables and references. In addition for all Focused Reviews please include a biography of maximum 600 characters and a photo of the corresponding author(s). Please provide a minimum of 4 and maximum of 10 key concepts, defining each with a maximum of 400 characters.
Perspective Articles:
Your manuscript should contain approximately5,000 words maximally, including tables and references.
Mini Reviews, Clinical Case Studies and Editorials:
3 pages in the final PDF version. Your manuscript should contain approximately 3,000 words, including tables and references
Opinion Articles, Commentaries and Book Reviews:
Your manuscript should contain approximately 2,000 wordsmaximally, including tables and references.
Title
The title is centered, and in 16 point bold Times New Roman font at the top of page. Except for special names (e.g., GABAergic), capitalize only the first letter of the title.
Authors and affiliations
All names are listed together and separated by commas. Make sure to provide exact and correct author names as these will be indexed in official archives. Any change requests after publication will incur additional costs and will be solely at the author's charge.Affiliations should be keyed to the author's name with superscript numbers and should belisted as follows:Laboratory, Institute, Department, Organization, City, State abbreviation (USA, Canada, Australia), and Country (without detailed address information such as city zip codes or street names).
Example: Max Maximus, Department of Excellence, International University of Science, New York, NY, USA.
The Corresponding Author should be marked with an asterisk. The exact contact address (this time including street name and city zip code) and email of the corresponding author should be provided in a separate paragraph, as shown below:
Correspondence:
Dr. Max Maximus
International Universityof Science
Department of Excellence
Laboratory of High Impact
Street 2460,
New York, NY, 59066, USA
maximus@gmail.com
If one of the authors has a change of address, list the new address below the correspondence details using a superscript symbol and use the same symbol to indicate the author in the author list.
Running titles
Original Research Articles, Hypothesis and Theory Article, Methods Article, Review Article, Perspective Article, Focused Review, Mini Review, Clinical Case Study, Editorial and Technology Report: a maximum of 5 words.
Commentaries and Book Reviews: no running title is required.
Headings and sub-headings
Except for special names (e.g. GABAergic), capitalize only the first letter of headings and subheadings. Headings and subheadings need to be defined in Times New Roman, 12, bold. You may insert up to 4 heading levels into your manuscript (not more than for example: 3.2.2.1. Heading title).
Abstract
As a primary goal, the abstract should render the general significance and conceptual advance of the work clearly accessible to a broad readership. References should not be cited in the abstract. The text of the abstract section should be in 12 point normal Times New Roman.
Original Research, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Review Articles, Focused Reviews and Technology Reports: the abstract is a single paragraph containing maximum2,000 characters including spaces.
Perspective Articles, Editorials, Mini Reviews and Clinical Case Studies: the abstract is a single paragraph containing up to 1,250 characters.
Opinion Articles, Commentaries and Book Reviews have no abstract.
Keywords
All article types: you may provide up to 8 keywords; at least one is mandatory.
Text
The body text is in 12 point normal Times New Roman. New paragraphs will be separated with a single empty line. The entire document should be single-spaced. Your manuscript should be written using either LaTeX or MS-Word.
Abbreviations
Non-standard abbreviations should be defined when first used in the text.
Equations
Equations can be left as the image output of the equation editor in the text.
Symbols
Gene symbols should be italicized; protein products are not italicized.
Sections
Your manuscript is organized by headings and subheadings.
For Original Research Articles, the following sections are mandatory:
Introduction
Succinct, with no subheadings.
Material and Methods
This section may be divided by subheadings. This section should contain sufficient detail so that when read in conjunction with cited references, all procedures can be repeated.
Results
This section may be divided by subheadings. Footnotes should not be used and have to be transferred into the main text.
Discussion
This section may be divided by subheadings. Discussions should cover the key findings of the study: discuss any prior art related to the subjectso to place the novelty of the discovery in the appropriate context; discuss the potential short-comings and limitations on their interpretations; discuss their integration into the current understanding of the problem and how this advances the current views; speculate on the future direction of the research and freely postulate theories that could be tested in the future.
For Clinical Case Studies the following sections are mandatory:
Introduction
Include symptoms at presentation, physical exams and lab results.
Background
This section may be divided by subheadings.Include history and review of similar cases.
Discussion
This section may be divided by subheadings. Include diagnosis and treatment.
Concluding Remarks
For Perspective Articles, Review Articles, Mini Reviews, Opinion Articles, Hypothesis and Theory Articles,Methods Article, Technology Reports,Book Reviews, Commentaries and Editorials there are no mandatory sections.
Authorization for the use of experimental animals or human subjects
All experiments on live vertebrates or higher invertebrates must be performed in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines and regulations. In the manuscript, authors must identify the committee approving the experiments and must confirm that all experiments conform to the relevant regulatory standards. For manuscripts reporting experiments on human subjects, authors must identify the committee approving the experiments and must also include a statement confirming that informed consent was obtained from all subjects. In Original Research Articles, these statements should appear in the Materials and Methods section.
Clinical trial registration
Clinical trials should be registered in a public trials registry in order to become the object of a publication at Frontiers. Trials must be registered at or before the start of patient enrollment. A clinical trial is defined as"any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes."(www.who.int/ictrp/en). A list of acceptable registries can be found at www.who.int/ictrp/en and www.icmje.org
Conflict of interest statement
All relationships financial, commercial or otherwise that might be perceived by the academic community as representing a potential conflict of interest must be described. If no such relationship exists, authors will be asked to declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
This is a short text to acknowledge the contributions of specific colleagues, institutions, or agencies that aided the efforts of the authors.A statement about the principal source of funding should be inserted if appropriate, including grant numbers if appropriate.
References
All citations in the text, figures or tables must be in the reference list and vice-versa. Please make sure that the references are accurate. References should be called according to the last name of the first author, followed by the year, and should only include articles that are published or in press. Unpublished data, submitted manuscripts, or personal communications should be cited within the text only. Personal communications should be documented by a letter of permission. Please use the following style for references:
Article in a periodical:
Sondheimer, N., and Lindquist, S. (2000). Rnq1: an epigenetic modifier of protein function in yeast. Mol. Cell 5, 163-172.
Article in a book:
Sorenson, P. W., and Caprio, J. C. (1998). "Chemoreception," in The Physiology of Fishes, ed. D. H. Evans (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press), 375-405.
Book:
Cowan, W. M., Jessell, T. M., and Zipursky, S. L. (1997). Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Neural Development.New York: Oxford University Press.
For any questions regarding reference style, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style.
Supplementary Material
Frontiers journals do not support pushing important results and information into supplementary sections. All information in form of additional text, graphs, and tables should be included into the original text. However, supplementary material that cannot be included in the article because it is too large or the current format does not permit it (such as movies, raw data traces, power point presentations, etc.) can be uploaded during the submission procedure and will be displayed along with the published article.
Figures and TablesGeneral style guidelines for images and figures
Each figure and table must be mentioned in the text and in numerical order. Permission must be obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the web). Please notethat is compulsory to follow figure instructions. Figures which are not according to the guidelines will cause substantial delay during the production process.
High-resolution images also must be submitted separately in the formats described below.
Number of images/tables
Original Research, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods and Review Articles and Technology Reports: up to 15 figures and tables.
Focused Reviews: up to 5 figures and tables
Perspective Articles, Editorials, Mini Reviews and Clinical Case Studies: up to 3 figures and tables.
Commentaries, Opinion Articles and Book Reviews: Frontiers accepts 1 figure, or 1 table at the maximum.
Figure and table legends
Figure and table legends are the same as body text (12 point normal Times New Roman, single spaced). Legends should be preceded by the appropriate label, for example "Figure 1" or "Table 4". Figure legends should be placed immediately after the figure. Table legends must be placed immediately before the table. Please use only a single paragraph for the legend. Figure panels are referred to by bold capital letters in brackets: (A), (B), (C), (D), etc.
Image size
Figure images should be prepared with the PDF layout in mind, with a width that corresponds to 1 column, 2 columns or 3 columns depending on article type.
Original Research, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Review, Mini Review, Clinical Case Studies, Editorials and Perspective Articles:2 column articles can contain images 85 mm or 180 mm wide.
Commentaries, Opinion Articles and Book Reviews: 3 column articles can contain images 55 mm, 120 mm or 180 mm wide.
Format
The following formats are accepted:
EPS (.eps)
TIFF (.tif)
JPEG (.jpg)
Color image mode
Images must be submitted in the color mode RGB.
Resolution requirements
All images must be uploaded separately in the submission procedure. For black and white line art the minimum resolution should be 900 dpi. For halftone figures (photographs), the resolution should be a minimum of 300 dpi. For any type of graph or drawing in grayscale or combinations between line art and halftone, the resolution of your file should be a minimum of 600 dpi. Check the resolution of your figure by enlarging it to 150%. If the resolution is too low, the image will appear blurry, jagged or have a stair-stepped effect.
Please see the table below exemplifying the image specifications.
Image Type Description Example Format Color Mode Resolution
Line Art: An image composed of lines and text, which does not contain tonal or shaded areas. TIFF, EPS, JPEG RGB, Bitmap 900 - 1200 dpi
Halftone: A continuous tone photograph, which contains no text. TIFF, EPS, JPEG RGB, Grayscale 300 dpi
Combination: Image contains halftone + text or line art elements. TIFF, EPS, JPEG RGB,Grayscale 600 - 900 dpi
Legibility
Figures must be legible. Check the following:
The smallest visible text is no less than 8 points in height, when viewed at actual size.
Solid lines are not broken up.
Image areas are not pixilated or stair stepped.
Text is legible and of high quality.
Any lines in the graphic are no smaller than 2 points width.
General style guidelines for tables
Tables should be inserted into the manuscript. If you use a word processor, build your table in word. If you use a LaTeX processor, build your table in LaTeX. An empty line should be left before and after the table.
Editorial Board
Specialty Chief Editor
Carmen Sandi
Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: neurobiology of learning & memory, Stress; Memory; Molecular mechanisms
Associate Editors
Nora Abrous
Institut des Neurosciences de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: adult neurogenesis, memory, hippocampus, aging, perinatal stress
Cristina Alberini
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, USA
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: learning and memory
Tallie Z. Baram
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, USA
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Angel Barco
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante
Alicante, Spain
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: Learning and memory, transcriptional regulation, creb, synaptic plasticity, chromatin modification
Riccardo Brambilla
San Raffaele Scientific Institute and University
Milano, Italy
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: Molecular genetics and cell signalling applications, to learning and memory, to drug addiction, to neurodegenerative disorders, MAPK and ERK signalling
Nicky Clayton
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
John Cryan
University College Cork
CORK, Ireland
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: depression, anxiety, drug dependence, cognition, irritable bowel syndrome, gaba, glutamate, 5-ht, noradrenaline
Jeff Dalley
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Dominique de Quervain
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
David Diamond
University of South Florida
FL, USA
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Julietta Frey
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Magdeburg, Germany
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Martin Giurfa
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifi que - Université Paul Sabatier-Toulouse III
Toulouse, France
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Agnes Gruart
University Pablo de Olavide, Seville
Seville, Spain
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Ahmad Hariri
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: multimodal neuroimaging, molecular genetics
Andrew Holmes
National Institute of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Shigeyoshi Itohara
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Wako, Saitama, Japan
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Marian Joels
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Jeansok Kim
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Science> Neuroscience> Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: fear, memory, stress, learning theory, synaptic plasticity
Eric Klann
New York University
New York, USA
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