期刊名称：FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Frontiers in Neural Circuits is a Specialty Journal of Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Frontiers in Neural Circuits is a first-tier electronic journal devoted to understanding the emergent properties of neural circuits. The local circuits (microcircuits) constitute the elementary modules of the brain, while the global circuits (macrocircuits) connect these modules into brain regions. The gigantic connectivity matrixes forming these micro- and macrocircuits are still poorly understood, and the general rules by which these complex circuits operate are still a mystery. Major challenges are to understand the structural and functional architecture of these neural circuits and how their particular designs lead to the emergence of complex properties and behaviors. Articles revealing the anatomy, physiology and pharmacology of any neural circuitry in any species, ranging from sponges to humans, are welcome. Our common thread is the study of the computational strategies used by different circuits. Specifically, we seek to link a circuit structure with its function (either perceptual, motor, or internal). Submissions focusing on the principles and importance of synaptic, cellular and connectivity diversity in neural microcircuits using multidisciplinary approaches are particularly encouraged. We also welcome studies with an evolutionary perspective to better understand how circuit design and capabilities changed to produce progressively more complex properties and behaviors. The journal is also interested in research revealing how plasticity shapes the structural and functional architecture of neural microcircuits.
Frontiers in Neural Circuits welcomes the following tier 1 article types: Book Review, Clinical Case Study, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge and Technology Report.
All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Neural Circuits, where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the Specialty Journal.
All articles published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits 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 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.
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 Rafael Yuste
Columbia University
New York City, USA
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Associate Editors Paul Adams
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Keywords: synaptic plasticity, Hebbian Learning, Thalamus-Neocortex , Origin of life and mind, spine calcium
Michael Brecht
Humboldt University Berlin
Berlin, Germany
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Edward Callaway
The Salk Institute
La Jolla, CA, USA
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Dmitri 'Mitya' Chklovskii
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
NY, USA
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Hollis Cline
The Scripps Research Institute
New York, USA
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Keywords: neuroscience, in vivo imaging, development, visual system, synaptic plasticity
Karl Deisseroth
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
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Abdel El Manira
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
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Yves Frégnac
CNRS, UNIC
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Mark Frye
UCLA
Los Angeles, USA
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Ronald Harris-Warrick
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
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Nathaniel Heintz
Laboratory for Molecular Biology, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University
New York, USA
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Takao Hensch
Harvard University
Boston, USA
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Paul Katz
Georgia State University
Atlanta, USA
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Ole Kiehn
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
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Keywords: Motor control, Network Analysis, Synaptic plasticity, Neuronal patterning , Membrane properties
Gilles Laurent
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, USA
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David Linden
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, USA
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Rodolfo Llinas
New York University School of Medicine
New York, USA
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Liqun Luo
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
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Eve Marder
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA, USA
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