Information for Authors - Neural Regeneration Research

Manuscript Preparation Guidance

· General criteria: Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals developed by the ICMJE.

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Article Type

· Review: Reviews are topical reviews that cover a current topic of interest in neural regeneration. Authors from internationally renowned laboratories who have acquired outstanding achievements are invited to write reviews. The invited reviews should introduce compelling new stories about how scientists or laboratories yielded their striking thoughts or achievements, rather than simply describe their research progress or current status in the field of neural regeneration.

Word limit: 6000 words minimum not including the abstract, 2 figures minimum and 1 table minimum, 6 published pages minimum.

Submit an outline for your paper before writing, and submit the manuscript within 2 months after receiving permission from the NRR editorial committee.

· Perspective: Authors from internationally renowned laboratories who have acquired outstanding achievements are invited to write a short paper in which they provide background information that has not been previously published, offering the reasons behind their scientific hypothesis as well as answering such questions as why they chose specific animal models or patients as participants, developed a novel technique or method, used certain materials, or selected a given cell type. The invited perspectives should introduce compelling new stories about how scientists or laboratories yielded their striking thoughts or achievements, rather than simply describe their research progress or current status in the field of neural regeneration. These papers will provide readers with novel perspectives on the thoughts and insights of neural regeneration researchers.

Word limit: 1000-1500 words, 1-2 authors,10 references maximum, no abstract, 1 figure required, and 2 published pages maximum.

· Research Article: NRR will consider manuscripts on any clinical or basic science topic with creative results that are relevant to intervention, repair, protection, and regeneration after nerve injury.

Word limit: 4000-6000 words, 8-10 published pages.

· Imaging in Neural Regeneration: We will consider photographic, radiographic, or artistic images that have exceptional visual impact and are related to nerve regeneration, nerve injury, and disease recovery.

Word limit: 1500-2000 words, 2 published pages maximum, no abstract, 2-3 figures required to display the relationships between histology, nerve repair, nerve regeneration,and function.

· Letters to the Editor: Letters to the editor and case reports should offer an important new observation and not simply review the literature. In rare instances, we will consider case reports for this article type, but only if the topic is extraordinarily novel.

Templates for NRR papers (Review,Perspective, Research Article, and Imaging in Neural Regeneration) are shown on journal’s website.

Reporting Guidance

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with ICMJE Recommendation for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals. The following guidelines should be followed when writing an article:

· ARRIVE guideline (Animal Research:Reporting of In Vivo Experiments)

· CONSORT statement (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials)

· TREND statement (Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs)

· STROBE statement (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology)

· PRISMA statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)

· MOOSE checklist (Meta-analyses Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology)

· STARD statement (STAndards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy studies)

Acceptance and Publication After acceptance, the authors have access to inquiries regarding the progress of their manuscript submitted online using the account number assigned to the corresponding author at any time. Generally, accepted manuscripts will be published within 6 months after

revision; however, authors can apply for rapid publication after revision if their publications meet the following conditions:

· Grant-funded innovative publications;

· With comments made recently by peer reviewers of international excellent journals;

· Basic research manuscripts including original data with DOI register number;

· Prospective clinical trials with ClinicalTrials.gov register number;

· First-time innovative publications.

Data Audibility

Data-sharing statement in basic research NRR encourages authors to upload original experimental data on Figshare prior to or after publication, including original data, images, or tables. Such open access of data will increase study transparency, accelerate the scientific research pace, and establish a credible system of scientific research.

Data-sharing statement in clinical trials

Manuscripts submitted to NRR that report the results of clinical trials must contain a datasharing statement.

Open-Access Publication

NRR is co-published by MedKnow, a global open access medical publisher. Therefore, NRR applies the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License to works we publish. This license allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work noncommercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

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Copyright/Permissions after Publication

· The publisher retains all rights concerning assembling, printing, reproducing, translating,disseminating, exhibiting, publishing,retrieving and indexing part or all of the contents of the article.

· After signing transfer of copyright with the journal, the authors retain the rights.

· In not-for-profit circumstances, when cited appropriately, the use, dissemination and

reproduction of part or all of the contents of the article is permitted.

Reprints/Subscriptions

We are committed to providing two journal copies and five high-quality reprints to authors for free with a variety of customizations and delivery options available. Reprints can be purchased as print or electronic reprints and as translated articles, and will be customized to your specific requirements and shrink-wrapped.

Dissemination after Publication

Once the paper is published, it will be

scheduled for dissemination to NRR's editorial board members, peer reviewers, authors,readers, and academic experts in the field of neural regeneration via e-Newslettter.

After publication, the papers online can be rapidly retrieved and exposed via Google Scholar, iPhone, iPad and Android smart phones.

Contract Us

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