European Journal of Neuroscience

Author Guidelines

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The Editorial Office of the European Journal of Neuroscience can be contacted at editorial.office@ejneurosci.org; Editorial Office EJN, Dr. Sophie Gavarini, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH - 8057 Zurich, Switzerland; Tel: +41 (44) 635 5990; Fax: +41 (44) 635 5708

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1. General Guidelines

EJN is an international journal that publishes original research articles and reviews in the broad fields of developmental, molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral, and cognitive neurosciences. EJN aims to advance our understanding of organization and function of the nervous system in health and disease, thereby improving the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Manuscripts submitted to EJN should describe novel results generated by experiments that were guided by clearly defined aims or hypotheses. Highly specialized articles that provide only limited new insight into the organization and function of the nervous system, or insight that is too specialized for a generalist neuroscience journal may be considered outside the scope of EJN.

EJN is a member of the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC), an alliance of neuroscience journals that have agreed to share manuscript reviews at the author’s request.  The NPRC system allows fast-track reviewing of articles submitted together with prior reviews and appropriate revisions. EJN encourages authors of manuscripts that are of good quality but were rejected because of low priority rating to make use of this track when submitting to EJN. For complete information about the Consortium and its procedures, please visit http://nprc.incf.org/

EJN articles are published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue through the Early View service (access Early View articles of EJN at www.ejnblog.org). Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.

Information about the editorial content, initial submission procedures and final preparation of papers for publication is given below.

License Agreements
Upon acceptance of a manuscript, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned.

For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement

If the OnlineOpen option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below:

CTA Terms and Conditions http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp

For authors choosing OnlineOpen

If the OnlineOpen option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):

Creative Commons Attribution License OAA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA

To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.

If you select the OnlineOpen option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.

Government employees in both the US and the UK need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned. After submission of the form, authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media/circumstances (please see the form for further details). Please address email queries to: permissionsuk@wiley.com.

Permissions
If all or part of previously published illustrations are to be used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned.  Address email queries to: permissionsuk@wiley.com

Editorial Policy
All studies should abide by the ethical standards as described in the Society for Neuroscience guidelines on Responsible Conduct Regarding Scientific Communication. EJN follows the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (http://publicationethics.org/about).

Whenever an author uses another person's words or ideas (in text, tables or figures), the author must cite the other person's work. If the author wants to use the text of another person word per word, this text should be in quotations and limited to a couple of sentences; the source should be referenced in the bibliography.

Submission of a manuscript to EJN is based on the understanding that the work described has not been published before, that is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication in the present form has been explicitly approved by all authors and by the responsible authorities in the institutions where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of Wiley-Blackwell. Anything published other than an abstract of less than 500 words is considered as prior publication. If authors would like to relate to such own previous publication, they should reference it in the bibliography in the same way they would refer to findings from a different research group. This policy applies to text, figures and parts of figures. Manuscripts that merely consist in expanded versions of work published elsewhere are not acceptable for publication in EJN.

When submitting a manuscript, authors must provide (as supplementary document files) copies of any material they have published in the last two years (or which are in the process of publication) that overlaps the content of the manuscript they are submitting.

The CrossCheck plagiarism detection software is used to check submitted manuscripts for all forms of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.

Sharing of datasets
Before submission, data that cannot be published in the journal, such as large-scale datasets, must be deposited in one of the appropriate public repositories with private access that allows reviewers/Editors confidential, read-only access to data before manuscript acceptance. The accession codes must be provided in the materials and methods of the manuscripts; and the username and password must be indicated in the cover letter. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, records must be publically released (it is the authors’ responsibility to coordinate the date of release).

Datasets for which there is no public database, should be submitted as Supporting document files.

Competing interests
EJN requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise, that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or indirectly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include but are not limited to patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication in this journal.

If authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and to collectively list in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief, in the manuscript (under the Acknowledgement section), and in the online submission system ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

Funding
All sources of funding should be declared in the Acknowledgements. If a private/commercial sponsor supported the research, authors are advised to describe the role of the study sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. If the funding source had no such involvement, this should be stated.

Evaluation of manuscripts
Submitted manuscripts are assigned to a section of the journal and an Associate Editor who is responsible for its evaluation (in most cases, the journal will follow the author’s nomination of section and Associate Editor). The Editor-in-Chief’s decision regarding publication is based on the recommendation of the Associate Editor and reports of reviewers, which will, at the Editors’ discretion, be transmitted to the authors.

Manuscript referral to Brain and Behavior
For manuscripts that are not accepted for publication in EJN, the authors can elect to have their manuscript transferred for consideration to Wiley's Open Access Journal, Brain and Behavior. The transfer will occur on-line and guarantee the anonymity of the peer-review process. It will not require reformatting or rewriting the manuscript at this stage. Brain and Behavior will render an editorial decision within a short time after the transfer and, if accepted, publish the manuscript typically within 15 days of acceptance. Brain and Behavior is an Open Access journal and article publication fees apply. For more information please go to http://www.brain-behavior.com/info.

2. Preparation of the manuscript

Research Reports
The major part of each Issue of EJN is devoted to Research Reports.  These must describe significant and original results from experimental or theoretical studies and provide sufficiently detailed information in the Materials and method section for the observations to be critically evaluated and, if necessary, repeated. Research Reports do not normally exceed 12 printed pages in EJN, but the length of a manuscript will not, in itself, preclude publication.  In general, allow 1,350 words -including references and legends- per printed page and subtract 600 words for each table and figure.

Review Articles
Review articles in EJN are full-length articles on topics of particular current interest.  Extensive overviews of the literature are discouraged. Rather, review articles should aim to critically evaluate a timely issue of interest for the broad readership of EJN. While their length is not limited, the writing should be concise and precise. Illustrations, which effectively convey key topics of the review, are encouraged. Proposals for Review articles are welcomed by the Editors-in-Chief and the Associate Editors.

Technical Spotlight Articles
Technical Spotlight articles are brief reviews (total ~ 5000 Words) that evaluate and discuss novel techniques as well as controversial research approaches, or issues of validity concerning a major methodology or research avenue. Proposals for Technical Spotlight articles are welcomed by the Editors-in-Chief and the Associate Editors.

EJN blog content
The EJN blog (http://www.ejnblog.org) is an interactive website for neuroscientists. It highlights EJN contents (please see section 5 on publication below for details). In addition, the blog hosts various resources, such as tips/advices on funding and career opportunities, information on training programs and a discussion forum where neuroscientists can exchange on various topics. We welcome any contribution that can benefit the neuroscientific community, including, but not limited to, highlights, protocol videos, book reviews, biographies and interviews from authors. Please submit your proposals to editorial.office@ejneurosci.org.

Pre-submission English-language editing
Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.

3. Formatting your manuscript
3.1 General
The format of your manuscript should be as follows: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, References, Tables, Figure Legends and Figures.  Review articles and Technical Spotlight articles are not required to follow this outline. First (main) mentions of figures and tables in the text should be in numerical order. Headings and sub-headings should not end with a period ".". The manuscript should be formatted in double spacing and the lines should NOT be numbered.  Please do not use a font size smaller than 12 points. The text should be written in English with a word processing software and saved as a .doc or .docx file. When uploading your files, please use simple filenames with no spaces and no special characters (filenames should not include underscores).

For original submissions ONLY (not for revisions, nor resubmissions), you may submit your main document and figures as a single PDF file. Figures must be at the end of the PDF document and their number and legend must be indicated on the same page as the figure. Your cover letter should not be part of the PDF. For revisions and resubmissions, you must submit a word document file and figures separately, according to the requirements listed above.

For manuscripts that contain complex equations or other mathematical content, it is possible to submit LaTeX files. If you do, please also upload the PostScript or PDF version of your compiled file.

For manuscripts submitted through the NPRC track, please ask the editorial office of the previous journal to transfer the reviews along with the name of the reviewers (if they agree) to editorial.office@ejnurosci.org. In addition, please submit a response letter to the reviews by uploading a word file (.doc) in step 6 with the file designation "Authors' responses to reviewers".

3.2 Title Page
The Title page must include:

• The proposed Journal section  
• A clear and concise title
• The author's first name(s) and surnames
  Note: Authors who normally write their names in non-Latin characters may include both a transliterated version of their names, followed in parenthesis by their names in their native writing system. Any non-Latin languages that can be represented in Unicode characters will be accepted.  
• The address(es) from which the work originated  
• The name, institutional affiliation, address, fax number and e-mail address of the person who will deal with correspondence, including proofs (which are sent electronically)
• A running title not in excess of 50 characters and spaces
• The total number of pages, figures, tables and equations
• The total number of words in: (i) the whole manuscript; (ii) the Abstract; and (iii) the Introduction.
• A list of four or five keywords not appearing in the title, preceded by “Keywords”.
  
  If the species used does not appear in the title, it should be included in the keywords and be mentioned in the first few lines of the abstract.

3.3 Abstract
Research Reports and Review articles should start with an Abstract, which appears before the main body of the text for use in abstracting database services. The Abstract should be written in complete sentences without headings and should provide a summary not exceeding 250 words, in a form comprehensible to any neuroscientist and suitable for publication without the full article text. The aim of the study and working hypothesis should be stated in the Abstract, and the animal species used indicated, if it is not given in the title. The Abstract should provide a concluding statement highlighting the significance and impact of the results for the neurosciences. If references must be cited in the Abstract they must include the author(s), journal title, volume number, page span, and year. The use of abbreviations in the abstract should be avoided. Statistical results typically are not described in the Abstract.

3.4 Introduction
The main part of a Research Report should start with a brief Introduction not exceeding 500 words, which outlines the historical or logical origins of the study and clearly states the aim of the study and/or hypothesis to be tested, without repeating the Abstract or summarizing the results.

3.5 Materials and methods
The Materials and methods section should provide a sufficiently detailed description of the methods to allow a researcher to reproduce your work. Important methodological aspects of your work, such as generation of mutant animals or the method of sample preparation, should be described, even if such descriptions can also be found in prior publications.

3.5.1 Ethical standards
Studies using human or animal subjects should include an explicit statement identifying the Institution or Review Committee which approved the study. Editors reserve the right to reject papers if there is doubt whether appropriate procedures were followed.

(i) Studies involving human 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, and that the study conforms with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki), printed in the British Medical Journal (18 July 1964). In addition, the name of institutional review board (or appropriate committee of the institution) that approved the study should be given and their approval should be explicitly stated.

(ii) Studies involving experimental animals
The Materials and methods section must briefly but explicitly state measures which were taken to minimize pain or discomfort, e.g. type and dose of anesthetic used. Experiments should be carried out in accordance with the European Communities Council Directive of 24 November 1986 (86/609/EEC) or with the Guidelines laid down by the NIH in the US regarding the care and use of animals for experimental procedures. In addition, the name of the Animal Use and Care Committee or Institution that approved the study should be given and their approval should be explicitly stated.

3.5.2 Experimental animals
When experimental animals are used, specify species, strain, sex, age, supplier, and numbers of animals used in total and for individual experimental conditions. The species should be identified in the Title or Abstract.

If genetically modified mice were used, the Standards for the publication of mouse mutant studies (see Crusio et al., Genes, Brain and Behavior (2009) 8:1–4) should be followed. Provide detailed and full strain and substrain information and use the correct nomenclature for identifying strains (see Crusio et al. 2009).

3.5.3 Suppliers
Suppliers of materials should be named and, with the exception of well-known suppliers, such as Sigma, Kodak and Zeiss, their location (city, state, country) included.

3.5.4 Reagents
The origin and specificity of reagents, notably antibodies, oligonucleotides, cDNA constructs, need to be documented, including the nucleic acid sequence or peptide sequence used. Nucleic acid probes should be fully sequenced when applicable. Control experiments that were conducted to ensure the specificity of the method (immunohistochemistry, immunoprecipitation, Western blotting, in situ hybridization) should be described, along with key references to previous work with this reagent. For antibodies, this documentation must include a precise description of the antigen, the nature of the antibody (species, purification), the supplier, catalogue number, and specificity tests performed (e.g., Western blot, immunoprecipitation, validation with knockout tissue, etc). For reports involving immunohistochemical methods, please consult the criteria and recommendations discussed in Fritschy JM (2008) EJN 28:2365-2370: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06552.x/pdf and the editors' tips in the EJN blog at http://wp.me/p1YEAt-gl.

3.5.5 Microscopy
Information necessary to evaluate the resolution of images from microscopy (type of microscope, numerical aperture of the lens) must be provided. Microscopic images must include calibration bars (statements about original magnification are insufficient, as final published images can be any size). For confocal laser scanning microscopy, the voxel size and the number of confocal planes included in an image must be indicated. For quantification of digital parameters (signal intensity, size or number of objects), detailed  information about the procedure, notably criteria for threshold determination, normalization, and calibration (if applicable) should be provided.

3.5.6 Handling of image data
EJN follows the guidelines set by the Rockefeller University Press and endorsed by the Council of Science Editors
(http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/editorial_policies/whitepaper/3-4_digital.cfm): 

• No specific feature within an image may be enhanced, obscured, moved, removed, or introduced.
• Adjustments of brightness, contrast, or color balance are acceptable if they are applied to the whole image and as long as they do not obscure, eliminate, or misrepresent any information present in the original.
• The grouping of images from different parts of the same gel, or from different gels, fields, or exposures must be made explicit by the arrangement of the figure (e.g., dividing lines) and in the text of the figure legend.
• If the original data cannot be produced by an author when asked to provide it, the acceptance of the manuscript may be revoked.
  

3.5.7 Statistical methods
A complete description of statistical methods is required. The recommendations described in the EJN Editorial on Reporting Statistical Methods and Results (EJN 2008, 28, 2363-2364) are a component of these Author Guidelines.

3.6 Results and statistical analyses
The observations should be presented with minimal reference to earlier literature or to possible interpretations. The main statistical results should be reported in the Results section. The description of the statistical results should include the proper statistical term (such as the F statistic) as well as the degrees of freedom and the P value. The description of statistical results in the figure legends should be limited to important post hoc comparisons. The recommendations described in the EJN Editorial on Reporting Statistical Methods and Results (EJN 2008, 28, 2363-2364; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06581.x/pdf) are a component of these Author Guidelines and should be followed in detail.

3.7 Discussion
The Discussion should begin by summarizing the major findings, while avoiding repetition of statements provided in the Abstract or the Results section. For clarity, the use of subheadings is recommended.

3.8 Acknowledgements
A short statement about grant and other financial support should be given, along with a list of contributions from collaborators who are not co-authors (it is implicit that they agree with this mention), and a declaration of competing interests. See above under Editorial Policies for additional items to be addressed in the Acknowledgements.

3.9 Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be kept to an absolute minimum. Abbreviations save relatively little space but greatly diminish the readability of a manuscript. In general, abbreviations should not appear in the Abstract, and sentences that contain more than one abbreviation merit careful review. Abbreviations must be used more than four times in an article, and consistently, before their use can be permitted. The word must always be written out in full when first used and the proposed abbreviation given in parentheses. A list of all abbreviations used in the text and their meanings must be provided (in alphabetic order).

3.10 References
All references must be listed, and all listed references must be cited at least once in the main text (particular care is needed to check this after any modification or revision of the text). Citations in the text should be given in parenthesis, e.g. (Blanc & White, 1985; Weiss et al., 1986), except when the author’s name is part of a sentence, e.g. “White (1985) reported that … “.  Where there are two authors, both should be named, but with three or more, only the first author’s name plus ‘et al´ should be given. Note that when more than one paper refers to the same first authors in the same year, a, b, c suffixes must be used in the text and reference list to avoid ambiguities, written as (Weiss et al., 1986a; White, 1986a,c).

Reference list
There should be a list of references in alphabetic order according to the name of the first author and then chronologically where several papers by the same author are cited. No characters (e.g. numbers or tabs) should appear before the first author's name. The titles of journals should be abbreviated in accordance with the World List of Scientific Periodicals, 4th edition. Single-word titles, e.g. Psychoneuroendocrinology, should not be abbreviated.

All authors should be included in each reference appearing in the Reference List; these should not be abbreviated to et al.

Only published and ‘In Press’, i.e. accepted for publication in a specific journal or book, references should be included in the reference list.

Journal articles should be formatted as follows:
Lancaster, B. & Boxall, A. R. (1998) Tyrosine kinases and synaptic transmission. Eur. J. Neurosci., 10, 2-7. 
Note the emboldening of the Volume number.

Books should be listed as follows:
Matthews, G.G. (1997) Neurobiology.

Science, Oxford.
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, Oxford, pp. 105-143.

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., Çelik, A. & Korsching, S.I. (2001) Levels of olfactory information processing in the zebrafish olfactory bulb. In Elsner, N. & Kreuzberg, G.W. (eds), Göttingen Neurobiology Report 2001. Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society 2001, Vol. II, 28th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, p. 474.

The use of a tool such as EndNote, Reference Manager, or Bookends is recommended for reference management and formatting. EndNote reference styles can be searched for at http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp, and Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for at http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp

3.11 Tables
These must be supplied as editable text and not as embedded figures/objects.
They should be numbered, and have a bold title and appear in the text following the references.
All columns should have a heading.

3.12 Figures
All figures and tables should be uploaded separately and must be labeled with a figure or table number.

DO NOT use Windows picture & fax viewer to create your images; this is not an appropriate graphic application and will not create high-resolution images.  Photoshop or IrfanView (free download on Web) may be used. The figures need to be of a high resolution and saved as .tiff files (300 d.p.i. for colour/half tone and 800 d.p.i. for line work (black line art, white background), or saved as .eps  or .doc files.

The initial upload of lower resolution images is sufficient (.jpg files allowed; 2 MB maximally); upon acceptance high resolution TIFF images are requested.

To ensure accurate conversion of characters, standard fonts such as Times, Times New Roman, Ariel or Helvetica should be used for preparing the text and figures.

Symbol font should be used to convert Greek characters and other non-standard characters such as the degree symbol.

There is no limit to the number of figures per manuscript, but authors should use them sparingly, making sure that each figure is relevant to the text and that the figures are presented and numbered in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. When there are large numbers of figures, layout problems are less likely to occur if the figures are of similar shapes and sizes. The submission files should not exceed 100MB in total.

See above the subsection Handling of image data for instructions about image manipulation.

Figure legends
Figure legends should be listed as part of the main manuscript text file at the end of the document. These should explain each figure as fully as possible, referring the reader to the text only on rare occasions in order to avoid repeating in the legends material that must be included in the text. All abbreviations used in the figures should be explained in each legend when there are less than five abbreviations used; for legends with large numbers of abbreviations, the authors should include these in the abbreviations list (see above). Scale bars are required for all photographs and photomicrographs. Main statistical findings should be described in the Result section. The legends may describe the results of important post-hoc comparisons (usually also symbolized in graphs depicting data).

Color figures
Authors can elect to have color illustrations only in the online version of their published manuscript while having them reproduced black-and-white in the printed version, free of charge. In this case, (a) a color version as well as a black-and-white version of the figure should be uploaded, and (b) the figure legend should not refer to color as it will be used for both print and online versions.

If authors elect to have color figures published in the printed journal, color reproduction costs are charged per printed page of color. Color figures that are sequentially numbered can be placed on the same page to reduce costs. Avoiding a mix of color panels with black-and-white ones can reduce costs, improve reproduction and allow more space for the color. 

After acceptance, authors will be asked to return a signed copy of the completed Colorwork Agreement Form (http://www.wiley.com/EJN_CWA.pdf) prior to publication.

Cover illustrations
If you have any color illustrations, either appearing in your paper or relating to it, that would make good images for the front cover, please submit them by email with a short legend to the Editorial Office, indicating to which paper the photograph belongs.

3.13 Graphical Abstracts
Graphical abstracts are aimed at promoting articles. They appear in the online tables of contents of EJN and in the list of the Early View articles (including the EJN blog and app).

For all revised manuscripts, please upload the following files in step 6 of the submission process:
- a Word document file with the file designation "Graphical Abstract Text". The graphical abstract text should consist of 2-3 sentences (maximum 500 characters with space) highlighting the major findings of the article and their impact for the neurosciences.

- a figure file with the file designation "Graphical Abstract Figure". The figure should be representative of your manuscript and should contain no caption, heading or outline. Labels on the figure may be removed when appropriate. The figure needs to be of a high resolution and saved as a .tiff file (300 d.p.i. for color/half tone and 800 d.p.i. for line work), or saves as .eps or .doc files. Before uploading the file, all white/blank spaces around the figure should be cropped out.

3.14 Supporting Information
The use of Supporting Information online should be limited to non-essential items, such as documentation of experiments controlling the specificity of reagents, etc. Authors need to justify in the cover letter the need for supporting information in their manuscript.

Supporting Information will not be published in the print edition of the journal but will be included in the online edition, or as a link to the information given. It has to be submitted for review purposes. Supporting information should appear at the end of the manuscript, i.e. following the figures.

Supporting information will be published as submitted and will not be edited, thus authors should make sure the data is clearly presented and that it conforms with the style of the rest of the paper. Supporting information should be uploaded as a single PDF file.

4. Online submission

EJN requires authors to use online submission of manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ejn

There are no submission fees or page charges to submit a manuscript to EJN for black-and-white print. Authors can also request to get their figures published in color in the online journal for free. Alternatively, authors can request to get their figures published in color in the printed journal, in which case color-printing costs will be charged per printed page of color.

During the submission process the following must be provided:

• The names, emails and Institutions of all of the authors included in the paper
• The names, Institutions and emails of four suggested reviewers. Please do not suggest scientists based in your own institution or close collaborators elsewhere, as this will be viewed as a conflict.  It is at the discretion of the Editors whether the suggested reviewers are approached for a review.
• The name of the most appropriate journal section and Associate Editor should be selected from the list provided.  Please choose an Associate Editor in whose area of expertise your manuscript falls – see below. SUBMITTING AUTHORS SHOULD SELECT THE MOST APPROPRIATE ASSOCIATE EDITOR, EVEN IF THAT EDITOR IS NOT LISTED IN THE MOST APPROPRIATE SECTION. To view the list of Associate Editors with their areas of expertise and journal sections, please refer to http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1460-9568/homepage/EditorialBoard.html
• If the manuscript is a NPRC submission, a revision or resubmission, please upload in step 6 of the submission process a point-by-point response statement, describing the changes you have made in the text. Please upload this response letter as a separate Word (.doc) file using the file designation "Authors' Responses to Reviewers". If the manuscript is a revision, major changes to the text should be emboldened or underlined to assist reviewers with re-evaluation. Changes made to resubmitted manuscripts should however NOT be outlined in the text.

5. Publication
When a manuscript is accepted, authors will be advised that their accepted manuscript has been electronically sent from the Editorial Office to the Production Editors of the Publishers, Wiley-Blackwell.  The Production Editor can be contacted at EJN@wiley.com

The editors have launched the EJN blog to provide an interactive resource for neuroscientists and to highlight the contents of EJN. Once your manuscript is accepted, please feel free to submit supplementary documents to editorial.office@ejneurosci.org to post them on the blog. These may include, but are not limited to, supplementary figures or videos that were not included in the manuscript, as well as biographies and interviews from authors. We will consider any material that can benefit the neuroscientific community. For more information, please visit http://www.ejnblog.org.

Authors will be notified to send a completed and signed copy of the ColorWork Agreement Form if color figures are required, to the Production Office before their accepted manuscript will be processed for publication.  Also it is necessary to send evidence of permission to use any previously published material.

OnlineOpen
OnlineOpen is available to authors of articles who wish to make their article open access. With OnlineOpen the author, their funding agency, or institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in PubMed Central and PMC mirror sites. In addition to publication online via Wiley Online Library, authors of OnlineOpen articles are permitted to post the final, published PDF of their article on a website, institutional repository, or other free public server, immediately on publication.

If you want your article to be open access please choose the appropriate licence agreement when you log in to Wiley’s Author Services system. Click on ‘Make my article OnlineOpen’ and choose the appropriate license by clicking on ‘Sign license agreement now’ when you log in to Wiley’s Author Services system.

NIH-funded authors and European Journal of Neuroscience
The NIH mandates grantees to deposit their peer-reviewed author manuscripts in PubMed Central, to be made publicly available within 12 months of http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm "general" publication. The NIH mandate applies to all articles based on research that has been wholly or partially funded by the NIH and that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. In order to help authors comply with the NIH mandate, for papers accepted for publication in EJN, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted manuscript (prior to the publisher's copy-editing and typesetting) of NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central at the point of acceptance by the journal. This version will then be made publicly available in PubMed Central 12 months after publication. Following the deposit authors will receive further communications from the NIH with respect to the submission. For further information, see http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-406074.html here.

If authors wish to make their final published article openly accessible and without a 12 month embargo, they can choose to publish via the http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-406241.html OnlineOpen service. Welcome and HHMI grantees can find out further information http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-406074.html here.

Production quality artwork guidelines
All electronic artwork sent to the publishers should conform to these standards. Please refer to http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp for detailed guidelines on electronic artwork. Files need to be of a high resolution and preferably TIFF files (300 d.p.i. for colour/half tone and 800 d.p.i. for line work) or EPS files. TIFF files can be saved with LZW compression to reduce file size (Photoshop). Files can also be zipped with WinZip. Files with color should be saved as RGB.

Figures should be numbered as a single series and each figure should be clearly labeled with the name of the author(s), the title of the paper and the figure number. Wherever possible figures should be submitted in their desired final size, to fit the width of a single column of text, i.e. 88 mm wide, or where necessary they should be 184 mm in maximum width. The final size of the printed figure cannot exceed 230 x 184 mm including legends, and where a reduction is required this should be indicated on the figures. Any lettering should be no less than 2 mm in height in the printed figure and should be in proportion to the overall dimensions of the figure.

All symbols and letters must be produced clearly, and labels should be large enough for the final reduction and should show clearly against the background. Where several figures are mounted together they should be squared accurately and separated by about 5 mm. All of the figures in such a group should have approximately the same contrast values. Where regions of particular importance can be identified it is useful to indicate these on a transparent or semi-transparent overlay. Instructions to printers regarding required contrast values or detail will help the printer to produce the best results.

Colour plates
The full cost of publishing colour figures must be met by the authors. The cost per printed page with colour is £450 VAT. These charges are waived for all Review articles, and on request for authors from former Eastern Bloc countries publishing Research Reports. Following acceptance, a signed copy of the completed ColorWork Agreement Form must be sent to the publishers before color work can be processed. The Journal allows authors to publish figures in color free of charge in the online edition if requested on submission. Authors must then provide their figures in digital format (EPS or TIFF files at high resolution) and indicate to the Editorial Office that they wish to publish in black-and-white in the print edition and in colour in the online edition. In this case, (a) please supply a black-and-white as well as color version of the figure and (b) the figure legend should not refer to color as it will be used for both print and online editions.

Offprints
Free access to the final PDF offprint or your article will be available via author services only. Please therefore sign up for author services if you would like to access your article PDF offprint and enjoy the many other benefits the service offers.