期刊名称：BRAIN TOPOGRAPHY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Brain Topography publishes clinical and basic research on cognitive neuroscience and functional neurophysiology using the full range of imaging techniques including EEG, MEG, fMRI, TMS, diffusion imaging, spectroscopy, intracranial recordings, lesion studies, and related methods. Submissions combining multiple techniques are particularly encouraged, as well as reports of new and innovative methodologies. Brain Topography is also an appropriate venue for case/clinical studies from one or a cohort of patients/subjects that provide insights into the neural basis of a psychiatric or neurological impairment and/or the efficacy of a novel therapy. Such studies should be of sufficiently broad interest to both clinical and basis researchers. Examinations of the function of a specific brain region or regions in patients or animal models would also be appropriate, provided that they demonstrate clear relevance and applicability to humans. Brain Topography publishes full-length Original Articles, Brief Communications, Reviews, and Editorials. The Editorial staff at Brain Topography recognizes the importance of rapid publication and takes every effort to ensure timely reviews of manuscripts (typically within approximately 6-8 weeks of submission) and also the expedited online publication of accepted manuscripts.
Related subjects » Neurology - Neuroscience
Impact Factor: 2.08 (2009) *
* Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters
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Instructions to Authors
Instructions for Authors
Brain Topography
Legal Requirements
The author(s) guarantee(s) that the manuscript will not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright owners, that the rights of third parties will not be violated, and that the publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Authors wishing to include figures or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Manuscripts must be accompanied by the “Copyright Transfer Statement”. The form can be obtained from this site.
Manuscripts submitted for publication must contain a statement to the effect that all human studies have been approved by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. It should also be stated clearly in the text that all persons gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study. Details that might disclose the identity of the subjects under study should be omitted.
Reports of animal experiments must state that the ”Principles of laboratory animal care” (NIH publication No. 86-23, revised 1985) were followed, as well as specific national laws (e.g. the current version of the German Law on the Protection of Animals) where applicable.
The Editors-in-Chief reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements, failure to fulfill the above-mentioned requirements, as well as for ensuring the authenticity of their work and the absence of plagiarized material.
Open Choice Publication
In addition to the normal publication process (whereby an article is submitted to the journal and access to that article is granted to customers who have purchased a subscription), Springer now provides an alternative publishing option: Springer Open Choice. A Springer Open Choice article receives all the benefits of a regular ‘subscription-based’ article, but in addition is made available publicly through Springer’s online platform SpringerLink. To publish via Springer Open Choice, upon acceptance please visit the link below to complete the relevant order form and provide the required payment information. Payment must be received in full before publication or articles will be published as regular subscription-model articles. We regret that Springer Open Choice cannot be ordered for published articles.
Editorial Procedure
Authors wishing to submit a paper to Brain Topography should do so by visiting its Editorial Manager site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/btop/. Papers with a focus on either methods or clinical applications should be addressed to Christoph Michel; papers with a focus on cognitive neuroscience should be addressed to Micah Murray.
Christoph Michel (Editor-in-Chief)
Neurology Clinic
University Hospital Geneva
24 rue Micheli-du-Crest
1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Email: christoph.michel@medecine.unige.ch
Micah Murray (Editor-in-Chief)
Neuropsychology and Neurorehabiliation Service
Nestlé Hospital, 5 avenue Pierre Decker
1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Email: micah.murray@chuv.ch
Manuscripts which are returned to the authors for revision should be sent back within 90 days; otherwise they will be considered withdrawn.
Papers that do not conform to the journal norms may be returned to the authors for revision before being considered for publication. The author is responsible for the accuracy of the references.
Authors may submit: full-length original articles, brief communications, reviews, and editorials. Reviews and Editorials are mainly by invitation. Authors wishing to submit a Review or Editorial may do so after prior consultation with the Editors-in-Chief or an Associate Editor. Brief Communications (see formatting and editorial requirements, below) are given priority in the publication schedule.
Manuscript Preparation
General remarks
All manuscripts are peer-reviewed and are subject to copy editing. It is a pre-requisite for publication that a manuscript be written in clear, grammatically correct English.
Organization of manuscripts
All manuscripts, irrespective of article type, must begin with a separate title page with a concise and informative title, the name(s) of the author(s), the affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s), and full contact information (e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers) for the corresponding author(s). The second page of all manuscripts must also include an Abstract (a single paragraph of maximally 250 words and no subheadings) followed by a list of up to 5 keywords for indexing purposes.
- Full-length Original Articles
There is no length limit or restriction on the number of illustrations/tables for full-length articles. However, authors are encouraged to avoid lengthy Introduction and Discussion sections. Original Articles should include the following sections after the title page and abstract: Introduction, Materials and Methods (subheadings allowed), Results (subheadings allowed), Discussion (subheadings allowed), Acknowledgements, References, Tables, Figure legends, and Appendices (if needed).
Brief Communications
This article type enables authors to communicate interesting findings of their on going research to be published quickly. Brief communications should be a maximum of 10000 characters (including spaces and covering all sections, including references) and should include maximally two illustrations/tables. Brief communications should be organized to be as concise as possible. As guideline, the Introduction should be 250-500 words, and detailed Materials and Methods can be provided as electronic supplementary material. The Results and Discussion may be combined at the authors’ discretion into a single section. Brief Communications are not to be submitted for publication elsewhere as part of a full paper.
Reviews
This article type will appear on an irregular basis in keeping with submissions. Although reviews are generally by invitation only, all such submissions will undergo peer-review. Authors interested in submitting a review should contact an Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editor directly before uploading their manuscript.
There is no length limit or restriction on the number of illustrations/tables for Reviews. Aside from the title page and Abstract, there are no strict formatting requirements for Reviews.
Editorials
This article type will appear on an irregular basis and are generally by invitation only. Propositions for this category will undergo editorial and, if required, scientific peer review and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Editors of Brain Topography. Another form of Editorial will include submissions on important and controversial subjects in the field, which will in general be invited, though under exceptional circumstances unsolicited submissions will also be considered. Authors preparing an Editorial should contact an Editor-in-Chief directly before uploading their materials.
There is no length limit or restriction on the number of illustrations/tables for Editorials. Aside from the title page and Abstract, there are no strict formatting requirements for Editorials.
Genus and species names
- Genus and species names should be in italics. The common names of animals should not be capitalized.
SI units
- SI units should be used throughout except where non-Si units are more common [e.g. litre (l) for volume].
- Abbreviations should be defined at first mention in the abstract and again in the main body of the text and used consistently thereafter.
- Footnotes on the title page are not given reference symbols. Footnotes to the text are
numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).
- Appendix. If there is more than one appendix, they should be numbered consecutively.
Equations in appendices should be designated differently from those in the main body
of the paper, e.g. (A1), (A2) etc. In each appendix equations should be numbered separately.
References
- The List of References should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication.
Example:
A paper published online but not yet in print can be cited using the DOI:
Plummer C, Harvey AS, Cook M (2007) EEG source localization in focal epilepsy: Where are we now? Epilepsia DOI 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01381.x
In the text, references should be cited by author and year (e.g. Smith 1994; Smith and Jones 1995; Smith et al. 1993) and listed in alphabetical order in the reference list. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus.
Examples:
Journal articles
- Lehmann D, Beeler GW Jr, Fender DH (1965) Changes in patterns of the human electroencephalogram during fluctuations of perception of stabilized retinal images. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 19:336-343
Books
- Friston KJ, Ashburner JT, Kiebel SJ, Nichols TE, Penny WD (2007) Statistical Parametric Mapping: The Analysis of Functional Brain Images. Academic Press, London.
Multiauthor books
- Lehmann D (1987) Principles of spatial analysis. In: Gevins AS, Remond A (eds) Handbook of electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology, Vol.1: Methods of analysis of brain electrical and magnetic signals. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 309-354.
References such as “personal communications” or “unpublished data” cannot be included in the reference list, but should be mentioned in the text in parentheses: this also applies to papers presented at meetings but not yet published or accepted for publication. A date should be given for both “personal communications” and “unpublished data”.
Papers which have been accepted for publication should be included in the list of references with the name of the journal and “in press”.
Illustrations and Tables
- All figures (photographs, graphs or diagrams) and tables should be cited in the text, and each numbered consecutively throughout, using Arabic numerals. Lowercase letters (a, b etc.) should be used to identify figure parts. If illustrations are supplied with uppercase labeling, lowercase letters will still be used in the figure legends and citations
Figure legends
- Figure legends must be brief, self-sufficient explanations of the illustrations. The legends should be placed at the end of the text.
Tables
- Tables should have a title and a legend explaining any abbreviation used in that table. Footnotes tables should be indicated by superscript lowercase letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).
Color illustrations
- Online publication of color illustrations is free of charge.
Technical Instructions for Preparing your Manuscript
Text and figures must be sent as separate files.
Text
- Use a normal, plain font (e.g., Arial or Times Roman) for text.
• Other style options:
- for textual emphasis use italic types.
- for special purposes, such as for mathematical vectors, use boldface type.
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
• Do not use field functions.
• For indents use tab stops or other commands, not the space bar.
• Use the table functions of your word processing program, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• Use the equation editor of your word processing program or MathType for equations.
• Place any figure legends or tables at the end of the article.
• Submit all figures as separate files and do not integrate them within the text.
Illustrations
- The preferred figure formats are EPS for vector graphics exported from a drawing program and TIFF for halftone illustrations. EPS files must always contain a preview in TIFF of the figure. The file name (one file for each figure) should include the figure number. Figure legends should be included in the text and not in the figure file.
• Scan resolution: Scanned line drawings should be digitized with a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi relative to the final figure size. For digital halftones, 300 dpi is usually sufficient.
• Color illustrations: Store color illustrations as RGB (8 bits per channel) in TIFF format.
• Vector graphics: Fonts used in the vector graphics must be embedded. Please do not draw with hairlines. The minimum line width is 0.2 mm (i.e., 0.567 pt) relative to the final size.
Electronic Supplementary Material
Electronic supplementary material (ESM) for an article in the journal will be published in SpringerLink provided the material is:
- submitted in electronic form together with the paper and is subject to peer review
- accepted by one of the journal's Editors-in-Chief
ESM may consist of
- information that cannot be printed: animations, video clips, sound recordings
- information that is more convenient in electronic form.
- large original data that relate to the paper, e.g. additional tables, illustrations (color and black & white), etc.
After acceptance by one of the journal's Editors-in-Chief, ESM will be published as received from the author in the online version only. Reference will be given in the printed version.
Proofreading
Authors should make their proof corrections on a printout of the PDF file or use the online correction facilities provided with the proof. They should check that the text is complete and that all figures and tables are included. After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.
The author is entitled to formal corrections only. Substantial changes in content, e.g. new results, corrected values, title and authorship are not allowed without the approval of the Editor-in-Chief. In such a case please contact this editor before returning the proofs to the publisher.
Offprints
Orders for offprints can be placed by returning the order form with the corrected proofs.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Christoph M. Michel (Geneva, Switzerland)
Micah. M. Murray (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Reviews Editor
Anna C. Nobre (Oxford, UK)
Section Editors
Systems, Cognitive, Translational Neuroscience
Leon Deouell (Jerusalem, Israel)
Charles E. Schroeder (Orangeburg, NY, USA)
Clinical Neuroscience
Stefano Seri (Birmingham, UK)
Silvana Galderisi (Naples, Italy)
Methods
Bin He (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Louis Lemieux (London, UK)
Editorial Board
Fabio Babiloni (Rome, Italy)
Sylvain Baillet (Milwaukee, WI, USA)
Thomas Bast (Heidelberg, Germany)
Olivier Bertrand (Lyon, France)
Jeffrey Binder (Milwaukee, WI, USA)
Olaf Blanke (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Daniel Brandeis (Mannheim, Germany)
Stefan Debener (Oldenburg, Germany)
John J. Foxe (Bronx, NY, USA)
Jean Gotman (Montreal, Canada)
Christoph Herrmann (Oldenburg, Germany)
Andreas Ioannides (Nicosia, Cyprus)
Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford, UK)
Sabine Kastner (Princeton, NJ, USA)
Zoltan Koles (Edmonton, Canada)
Istvan Kondakor (Kecskemet, Hungary)
Tomas König (Bern, Switzerland)
Goran Lantz (Geneva, Switzerland)
Helmut Laufs (Frankfurt, Germany)
Scott Makeig (San Diego, CA, USA)
Paolo Manganotti (Verona, Italy)
Jean-François Mangin (Orsay, France)
Antigona Martinez (San Diego, CA, USA)
Alvaro Pascual-Leone (Boston, MA, USA)
Cathy Price (London, UK)
Friedemann Pulvermüller (Cambridge, UK)
Riitta Salmelin (Helsinki, Finland)
Kensuke Sekihara (Tokyo, Japan)
Margot Taylor (Toronto, Canada)
Gregor Thut (Glasgow, UK)
Bruce Turetsky (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Patrik Vuilleumier (Geneva, Switzerland)
Mark T. Wallace (Nashville, TN, USA)
Fabrice Wendling (Rennes, France)
Kevin Whittingstall (Tübingen, Germany)
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