期刊名称：AUTONOMIC NEUROSCIENCE-BASIC & CLINICAL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The aim of the Journal is to stimulate, publish and disseminate original investigations on the autonomic nervous system: this includes the innervation of blood vessels and viscera, autonomic ganglia, efferent and afferent autonomic pathways, and autonomic nuclei and pathways in the central nervous system.
The Editors will consider papers that deal with any aspect of the autonomic nervous system, including structure, physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, development, evolution, ageing, behavioural aspects, integrative role and influence on emotional and physical states of the body. Interdisciplinary studies will be encouraged. Studies dealing with human pathology will be also welcome.
The main types of contribution are full-length articles. These should be as concise as possible and should describe original research that materially advances knowledge of the autonomic nervous system.
Short communications, book reviews and short review articles will be considered for publication.
Electronic usage
An increasing number of readers access the journal online via ScienceDirect, one of the world's most advanced web delivery systems for scientific, technical and medical information.
Average monthly article downloads for this journal: 7,511*
* Figure is an average based on full text articles downloaded monthly via ScienceDirect between July 2007 and June 2008.
Instructions to Authors
Types of Article
Full-length articles of original research; short communications; review type articles; clinical reports and book reviews. The Editor-in-Chief should be consulted whenever a review article is under consideration. Rapid Communications will be accepted if extremely concise, fully documented and dealing with a novel and important observation in a research area in rapid expansion. These will receive priority handling both in the reviewing and publishing processes such that their publication will be advanced.
Ethics
Human Experiments. Papers describing experimental work on human subjects which carry a risk of harm must include a statement (a) that the experiments were conducted with the understanding and the consent of each subject, and (b) a statement that the responsible Ethical Committee has approved the experiments.
Animal Experiments. Papers describing experiments on living animals should provide (a) a full description of any anaesthetic and surgical procedure used, and (b) evidence that adequate steps were taken to ensure that animals did not suffer unnecessarily at any stage of the experiment, and comply with the existing national and international guidelines on the conduct of animal experiments.
Copyright
Submission of a paper to the Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System will be held to imply that it represents original research not previously published (except in the form of an abstract or a preliminary report) and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere. It also implies the transfer of the Copyright from the author to the publisher. Manuscripts submitted under multiple authorship are reviewed on the assumption that all listed authors concur with the submission and that a copy of the final manuscript has been approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities in the laboratories where the work was carried out. If accepted, the manuscript shall not be published elsewhere in the same form, in either the same or another language, without the consent of the Editors and Publisher. If illustrations or other small parts of articles or books already published elsewhere are used in papers submitted to the Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System, the written permission of author and Publisher concerned must be included with the manuscript. In these cases, the original source must be indicated in the legend of the illustration.
Special regulations for readers and authors in the U.S.A. regarding copying and copyright are to be found in the preliminary pages of each issue.
All clinical papers should be sent to Dr. Philip Low, all basic science papers to the other Associate Editors.
Manuscript Preparation
Articles for publication should be in English and typed with double spacing and should be submitted in quadruplicate (including 4 copies of illustrations) to any of the Associate Editors or to the Editor-in-Chief. The Title of the paper should be as concise, clear and informative as possible and should not exceed 120 letters and spaces; it should be free of unusual typographical characters so that it will not be too difficult for other authors to type it and retrieve it. The Title page should also contain the full name(s) of the author(s), their academic or professional affiliation, a selection of relevant keywords, and the full postal address, with telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresse where available, of the author with whom the Editors should correspond. The Abstract should summarize the results obtained and the major conclusions in such a way that the implications of the work can be understood by a reader not familiar with the particular area of work. The Abstract should not exceed one twentieth of the length of the manuscript. Full-length papers should normally be divided into the following headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion (and Conclusions), (Acknowledgements) and References. Short Communications should have an Abstract but no section headings. Abbreviations should be used sparingly and should be avoided in the Abstract.
Submissions on Disk
The manuscript, plus two copies, a floppy disk of the word-processed manuscript and a list of any non-standard characters that were used on the disk should be submitted in the usual manner. The preferred storage medium is a 5.25 or 3.5 inch disk in MS-DOS format, although other systems are welcome, e.g., Macintosh (in this case, save your file in the usual manner, do not use the option "save in MS-DOS format"). After final acceptance, your disk plus one final, printed and exactly matching version (as a printout) should be submitted to the accepting editor. It is important that the file on disk and the printout are identical. Please specify the type of computer and word-processing package used (do not convert your textfile to plain ASCII). Ensure that the letter "l" and digit "1" (also letter "O" and digit"0") have been used properly, and format your article (tabs, indents, etc.) consistently. Characters not available on your word processor (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc.) should not be left open but indicated by a unique code (e.g., Gralpha, #, etc., for the Greek letter ). Such codes should be used consistently throughout the entire text. Please make a list of such codes and provide a key. Do not allow your word processor to introduce word splits and do not use a justified layout. Please adhere strictly to the general instructions on style/arrangement and, in particular, the reference style of the journal. Further information may be obtained from the Publisher.
Literature References
Citations in the text should be given in parentheses at the appropriate place by author(s) name(s) followed by the year in chronological order according to the Harvard system (Paintal, 1973; Birdsall et al., 1980). With more than two authors, name only the first followed by "et al." (Birdsall et al., 1980). When two or more papers by the same author(s) appear in one year, distinguish them by a, b, etc. after the date.
The Reference List should be typed in double spacing. It should be arranged in alphabetical order of the first author's name. If the first author's name appears more than once, the order is as follows: (1) single author: chronological sequence; (2) author and co-author: alphabetically according to co-author; (3) author and more than one co-author: chronological sequence (as in the text these will be referred to as "et al."). Reference must be complete including, in this order: author's name, initials, year of publication, title of article, title of the journal, volume, first and last page number of the article cited. Title abbreviations should conform to those adopted by List of Serial Title Word Abbreviations (available from International Serial data System, 20 Rue Bachaumont, 75002 Paris, France, ISBN 2-904938-02-8).
Examples:
Paintal, A.S., 1973. Vagal sensory receptors and their reflex effects. Physiol. Rev. 53, 159-227.
Birdsall, N.J.M., Hulme, B.C., Hamner, R., Stockton, J.R., 1980. Subclasses of muscarinic receptors. In: Yamamura, H.I., Olsen, R.W., Usdin, E. (Eds.), Psychopharmacology and Biochemistry of Transmitters and Receptors. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 97-100.
Leiblich, I., 1982. Genetics of the Brain. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 492 pp.
Unpublished experiments may be mentioned only in the text. They must not be included in the list of References. Papers which have been accepted for publication but which have not appeared may be quoted in the reference list as "in press". Personal communications may be used only when written authorization from the investigator is submitted with the manuscript. They must not be included in the list of references. All references listed should be referred to in the text and vice versa.
Illustrations
Each illustration should bear the author's name and be numbered in Arabic numerals (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.), must be referred to in the text and should be accompanied by a legend (typed with double spacing on separate pages). An illustration, together with its legend, should be understandable with minimal reference to the text.
a. All illustrations should be designed to fit either a single column (7 cm) or the full text width (16 cm).
b. Line drawings: these should be drawn in Indian ink on white card, drawing or tracing paper or be quality black and white prints. Line drawings should normally be about twice the final size. Symbols should be used sparingly and direct labelling with an explicative term or abbreviation is preferred. All symbols and lettering should be large enough to permit reduction.
c. Micrographs. These should be mounted on thin cardboard and submitted in a form suitable for direct reproduction without reduction. The maximum space available for micrographs is 1619 cm. Micrographs should by carefully cropped, to leave out areas of low information content, and they should be grouped and arranged to optimize the available space. They should be separated by gutters of 2-3 mm and be directly labelled by the author with Letraset or similar lettering aids. Micrographs must have a calibration bar. Illustrations and legends should not be placed sideways. The original manuscript should be accompanied by a set of illustrations marked "For Printer". In the 4 copies of the paper, the illustrations should be original photographs or good quality photocopies. (Xerox copies are not acceptable.
d. Specific requests for reproduction of illustrations for a particular size (e.g. 100%) should be mentioned on the reverse side of the figure.
e. Colour illustrations must be approved by the editors and the extra costs of colour reproduction will be charged to the author(s).
Tables
Tables of numerical data should be typed/printed out (double spacing) on a separate page, numbered in sequence in Arabic numerals (Table 1, 2, etc.), provided with a heading and referred to in the text as Table 1, 2, etc.
Proofs
Authors should keep a copy of their manuscript as proofs will be sent to them without the manuscript. Proofs will be drawn on lower-quality paper. Only printer's errors may be corrected (clearly marked in the text with red pen and clarified in the margin), no changes in, or additions to, the edited manuscript will be allowed at this stage. For Rapid Communications, in the interest of speed no proofs will be sent to the authors; proofreading will be undertaken by the Publisher.
Offprints
A total of 50 offprints of each paper will be provided free of charge to the author(s). Additional copies can be ordered at prices shown on the offprint order form, which will be sent to the author on acceptance of the article for publication.
Page charge
There will be no page charge.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
G. Burnstock, Autonomic Neuroscience Institute, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK. Tel: (+44) 020 7830 2948, Fax: (+44) 020 7830 2949, Email: g.burnstock@ucl.ac.uk
Associate Editors:
I. Gibbins, Dept. of Anatomy and Histology, School of Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia, Tel: +(61) 8 8204 5271, Fax: (+61) 8 8277 0085, Email: ian.gibbins@flinders.edu.au
C.H.V. Hoyle, Dept. of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK, Tel: (+44) 20 7679 3651, Fax: (+44) 20 7679 7349, Email: anbc@ucl.ac.uk
P.A. Low, Dept. of Neurology, Charlton 7A, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN 55905, USA, Fax: (+1) 507 538 0041, Email: low@mayo.edu
G. Mawe, Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA, Tel: [+1] 802 656 8257, Email: Gary.Mawe@uvm.edu
A. Sato, Dept. of Human Science, University of Human Arts and Sciences, Magome 1288, Iwatsuki City, Saitama 339-8539, Japan, Fax: (+81) 3-5248-7357, Email: satoakio@center.tmig.or.jp
M. Spyer, Dept. of Physiology, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK, Tel: (+44) 020 7830 2763, Fax: (+44) 020 7794 3505, Email: k.spyer@ucl.ac.uk
Reviews Editor:
M.R. Bennett, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Editorial Board:
P. Andrews, London, UK
J. Armour, Nova Scotia, Canada
C. Bell, Dublin, Ireland
E.E. Benarroch, Rochester, MN, USA
M.R. Bennett, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J. Brock, Randwick, NSW, Australia
J.H. Brookes, Adelaide, South Australia
H.H. Chan, Kaohsiun, Taiwan
J.S. Davison, Calgary, Canada
W.C. De Groat, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
D. Delbro, Göteborg, Sweden
F. DiVirgilio, Ferrara, Italy
G. Dockray, Liverpool, UK
J.B. Furness, Parkville, VIC, Australia
G. Gabella, London, UK
M.D. Gershon, New York, NY, USA
M.P. Gilbey, London, UK
H.J. Häbler, Keil, Germany
D. Hirst, Parkville, VIC, Australia
S. Holmgren, Göteborg, Sweden
G. Housley, Auckland, New Zealand
J.P. Huidobro-Toro, Santiago, Chile
H. Kannan, Miyazaki, Japan
L. Kasakov, Sofia, Bulgaria
J.R. Keast, Randwick, NSW, Australia
O. Krishtal, Kiev, Ukraine
M. Kurosawa, Tochigi, Japan
J. Lipski, Auckland, New Zealand
O. Lundgren, Göteborg, Sweden
B. Machado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
C.A. Maggi, Florence, Italy
A. Malliani, Milan, Italy
K.E. McKenna, Chicago, IL, USA
K.E. McKenna, Chicago, IL, USA
S.B. McMahon, London, UK
N. Montano, Milan, Italy
J. Morris, Adelaide, Australia
S. Nakamura, Hiroshima, Japan
J.F.R. Paton, Bristol, UK
P.M. Pilowsky, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia
J.M. Polak, London, UK
V. Ralevic, Nottingham, UK
J.A. Ribeiro, Lisboa, Portugal
D. Robertson, Nashville, TN, USA
P.E. Sawchenko, La Jolla, CA, USA
R. Schondorf, Montreal, Canada
V.I. Skok, Kiev, Ukraine
W.D. Steers, Charlottesville, VA, USA
J.C. Stoclet, Illkirch, France
N. Suzuki, Kanagawa, Japan
E.S. Vizi, Budapest, Hungary
B.G. Wallin, Göteborg, Sweden
R.E. Zigmond, Cleveland, OH, USA
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