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Author Guidelines

Preparing the manuscript, authors are kindly requested to adhere to the following regulations based on the “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals”, developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

The Journal’s Editorial Board hopes that strict observance of these Requirements by manuscript authors helps to significantly improve the Journal’s quality and citing by researchers.

1. Types of Articles

Annals of clinical and experimental neurology publishes articles on different aspects of diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, different topics in neuroscience, historical neurology and neuroscience, as well as on related medical specialities.

Accepted types of articles:
1. Original papers. Results of researches. Accepted papers present the data of researches in clinical neurology, neuroscience (including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience).
2. Technology reviews. Reviews describing novel methods and technologies and their application in clinical neurology and neuroscience.
3. Reviews. Reviews of current advances in Clinical Neurology and Neuroscience.
4. Clinical cases. Descriptions of rare clinical cases or cases that represent a diagnostic challenge providing analysis and discussion of the presented data.
5. Historical neurology and neuroscience. Biographies of exceptional figures in clinical neurology and neuroscience.

We recommend authors to follow the international guidelines for transparent and accurate reporting data in scholarly articles collected on the EQUATOR Network platform. Reporting guidelines for the main study types:

• Observational studies (STROBE & Extensions)
• Randomised trials (CONSORT & Extensions)
• Study protocols (SPIRIT & PRISMA-P)
• Systematic reviews (PRISMA & Extensions)
• Diagnostic/prognostic studies (STARD & TRIPOD)
• Case reports (CARE & Extensions)
• Clinical practice guidelines (AGREE & RIGHT)
• Qualitative research (SRQR & COREQ)
• Animal pre-clinical studies (ARRIVE)
• Quality improvement studies (SQUIRE & Extensions)
• Economic evaluations (CHEERS)

2. General information

2.1. Publication Ethics. Annals of clinical and experimental neurology adheres to the Publication Ethics and ethical standards for publication in the journal, which are listed Here. Before sending the manuscript all authors are encouraged to review the publication ethics section.
2.2 Review. All articles submitted to the editorial office, pass the review procedure. The reviewing procedure is described Here.
The Editorial Board reserves the right to shorten and edit articles.
2.3. Publication fees. Publication of articles in the journal is free. Author’s copy of the journal is not provided.
2.4. Plagiarism. Only materials that have never been published or have been submitted for publication elsewhere can be accepted for printing. Submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism.
2.5. Conflicts of Interest. Authors are required to submit information about potential conflicts of interest, including financial, personal and other relationships with other persons or organizations that could potentially lead to the distortion of data presented in the manuscript, for 3 years prior to the date of submission. These conflicts of interest, as well as a statement of their absence should be provided in the relevant section of the manuscript and the conflicts of interest form.
2.6. Information on funding sources. If reliable, indicate funding sources. In the absence of funding sources, the authors need to state this in the relevant section of the manuscript and the conflicts of interest form.
Description of the history of development of leading departments. Нistory of important events in neurology and neuroscience.

3. Authorship requirements

Authorship requirements were composed in accordance with the recommendations for medical journal editors of the International Committee (ICMJE). All those qualifying for authorship should meet all four of the following criteria:
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work;
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3. Final approval of the version to be published;
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.”

The authors should be identified before submitting the manuscript. All those who participated in the preparation of work (technicians, etc.), but do not meet authorship requirements, may be listed in the “acknowledgements”. One author responsible for contact with the editorial board should be indicated at the time of submission. This author should be available for contact during the peer-review procedure, as well as after the publication of the article. The author responsible for contact with the editorial board should be able to provide answers, comments and additional information if required.

4. Submitting a manuscript

The following documents are required as attachments:

1. Cover letter from the organization containing a brief description of the research and its relevance, explanation of its novelty, article type.
2. Conflict of interest signed by all co-authors. (ICMJE disclosure form is here)

5. Guidelines for authors

General information
The article should be printed using a 12-point font size, double-spaced on a A4 paper dimensions with margins of 2.5 cm on all sides of the text.
All units must be specified in the SI system.
All drugs should be given in the form of International Nonproprietary Names (INN).
Abbreviations which are not widely accepted, must be deciphered at their first occurrence in text.

The manuscript should be clearly structured and include the following sections:

• Title page
• Abstract
• Keywords
• The article
• Acknowledgements (if any)
• References
• Information about the authors
• Contribution of the authors
• Tables
• Figures and figure captions

 5.1. Title page

The title page should contain the following sections:

1) The title of the article – short and informative (preferably no more than 10 words);
2) The names of authors (to index authors, use last name and initials);
3) Name of the institution(s) where the work was performed affiliated with author’s names;
4) Abbreviated title to be placed on top of the journal pages;
5) An ethical statement. Information on compliance with international ethical standards for conducting scientific research with the participation of humans or using laboratory animals. Information on the approval of the study by the ethical committee, on the availability of signed informed consent.
6) Funding sources. A lists of funding sources of the research is presented. If there are no funding sources it is claimed.

7) Disclosure and Conflict of Interest. A description of existing and potential conflicts of interest is provided.

8) Complete mailing address, zip code, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address of the corresponding author.

5.2. Abstract

The abstract is the most important section of the article. The Abstract should reflect the content of the article and briefly describe the main objectives of the study, explain how the study was conducted without methodological details, summarize the most important results including key quantitative data and indicating their statistical significance and their importance, what conclusions can be drawn.

References and abbreviations, which are not widely accepted should be avoided. If necessary, this type of abbreviations should be decrypted.

For original articles a structured format of abstract is required. The abstract should include following sections: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion. The abstract should be 200-250 words.

5.3. Keywords

3-6 keywords should be provided. The keywords should reflect the main content of the article and facilitate the search of articles when using of information search systems.

It is recommended to use a dictionary of medical terms Medline (MeSH).

5.4. The article

Original papers
The average volume of articles should be2000-4000 words. The number of references should not exceed 50. The number of images – not more than 8.
Original papers should include following sections: 

• 1) Introduction;
• 2) Materials and methods;
• 3) Results;
• 4) Discussion.

Introduction. The objectives and importance of the study should be presented. Current information on the research topic should be summarized with reference to the most relevant and recent publications as possible.
Materials and methods. Quantitative and qualitative characteristics of patients, characteristics of the experimental materials should be listed. All the research methods, including statistical methods of data processing should be described. Description of the methods should enable to reproduce them. The manufacturer and the country of the equipment and new drugs used in the study should be cited. Compliance with ethical standards should be stated.
Results. Results should be presented in a logical order in the text, tables, and figures. The text should not repeat all the data from the tables and figures, it is necessary to mention only the most important ones. The figures should not duplicate data given in the tables. The place in the text where a picture should be placed may be marked with a square with its number.
Discussion. This section should summarize obtained results and highlight new and important aspects of the study in comparison with the data obtained by other authors. Do not repeat the information that was already provided in the “Introduction” section or duplicate the details of the “Results” section. If appropriate some practical recommendations may be suggested. A brief conclusion may be present.

Reviews, technology reviews, historical neurology and neuroscience
The average volume of the article should be 1000-4000 characters, the number of references can be up to 150. The presence of illustrative material is welcome. The article can be divided in subsections.

Clinical cases
The average volume of the article should be 1500-3000 characters. The number of references in the bibliography – not more than 50. Illustrative materials are welcome.

Structure of the article:

• 1) Introduction;
• 2) Description of the cases;
• 3) Discussion

Introduction. The importance of the case reports, summarizes the state of the question, with reference to the most relevant and recent publications as possible.
Description of cases. Detailed description of medical history, clinical presentation, laboratory data and instrumental methods, applied therapeutic approaches should be described. 1-3 patients may be presented.
Discussion. The most important aspects of clinical case descriptions should be highlighted. Comparison with other similar clinical cases reported should be performed. Do not repeat the information that was already provided in the “Introduction” section. If appropriate some practical recommendations may be suggested. A brief conclusion may be present.

5.5. Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements is the section in which authors may express appreciation to others who have contributed to the study but did not meet authorship criteria, and organizations that participated in the study. Maximum length - 100 words.

 5.6. References
References should be printed on a separate sheet or sheets with two line spacing, each source with a new line under the serial number. All studies should be listed in the order they appear in the text. When mentioned in the text authors’ names should be preceded by the initials (names of foreign authors in this case are given in the original transcription). Bibliographic references should be cited in numerical order according to their position in the text in square brackets. 

It is not recommended to include thesis in the reference list because it may be a challenge to access the full text.

The information in the references should be placed in following order:

1. a) Author (s); b) Title; c) journal(book), year of publication, volume, №, pages; g) DOI and PMID numbers, if available.

When the group of authors is up to four all of the authors are mentioned (with the initials after surnames). If there are more authors the names of the first three are provided with “et al.” after. If authors are presented by the editors of the book (“Ed.”) should be put in after the name of the last of them.

In book references the city, where it was published, followed by the publisher name, and the year of publication should be presented after the title. In references to book chapters the authors and the title of the chapter is first mentioned, after that put “In:’ and the name (s) of the author (s) or editor (s), the title and imprint of the book.

In journal article references the abbreviated journal name, year of publication, volume and issue, pages are listed after the title of the article.

5.7. Information about the authors

Names and surnames of all the authors followed by their highest academic degrees (MD, PhD) and their position and institutional affiliations with the indication of cities and countries.

 5.8. Author contributions
Use this form to specify the contribution of each author of your manuscript. Please make sure that the description of the contribution of each author fits the authorship criteria. Possible contributions are listed below:

 5.9. Tables
Tables should be included as a part of the manuscript document file and numbered in the order of their mention in the text. The number and name of the table should be given above the table. Each column in the table must have a short title (if necessary abbreviations may be used). All explanations, including deciphering of abbreviations should be placed in the legend. It is desirable to specify the statistical methods and significances of the data provided in the tables.
The text of the Manuscript should contain references to tables (Table 1), which should be highlighted in yellow.

5.10. Figures and figure captions
Drawings, graphs, diagrams should be presented in a separate file of an acceptable format (JPG, TIFF, PNG).
For each picture its name and legend, explaining parts of the figure, the symbols, arrows and other items that may be unclear should be presented. Figure titles and legends should be printed on a separate page, with two line spacing and numbered corresponding to the numbers of Pictures. In microphotographs coloring (if necessary) and the magnification should be indicated.
Reprinted images may be accepted only if a special permission is obtained.
The text of the Manuscript should contain references to Figures (Fig. 1), which should be highlighted in yellow.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with each of the following items, and submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to the authors.

• Absence of plagiarism. The authors guarantee that this article has not been published in whole or in part, and is not under consideration or in the process of publication in another publication.

• Correct manuscript format. Manuscript file format is Microsoft Word (has the extension *.doc, *.docx, *.rtf). The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

• Structure. Abstract is designed in accordance with the requirements and do not exceed the limit.

• Illustrations. Tables and figures were placed within the text of the manuscript and have their titles.

• Bibliography. The list of references is formatted in accordance with the requirements. All the cited sources were checked for DOI.

• Supplementary files. The authors have prepared for transfer to the editor:

  • file containing full information about the authors (Surname, first name, place of work, e-mail address);
  • graphic files (photos, satellite images, graphics, etc.).
  • the authors are ready to upload these files to the journal website in Step 4 during the manuscript submission process.

• Authorship. The authors confirm that:

  • all participants who have made a significant contribution to the study are presented as co-Authors;
  • those who did not participate in the study are not listed as co-Authors;
  • all co-Authors have seen and approved the final version of the work and agreed to submit it for publication.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Publisher right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licensee (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

All the Copyright statements for authors are present in the standart Publishing Agreement (Public Offer) to Publish an Article in an Academic Periodical 'Annals of Clinical and Experimental Neurology'.

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Privacy Statement

The Editorial Board of the journal and the administration of the website of the journal do not transfer personal information in any way specified by the users when working with the website of the journal to third parties, except for those cases and to the extent specified in the terms of the copyright agreement.

The affiliation work and e-mail address of the authors of the manuscript accepted for publication will be published in the section "information about the authors" of the printed version of the journal and in the section "about the authors" on the page of the article on the website of the journal.

The phone number of the corresponding author will be known only to the editorial Board Secretariat and will only be used in cases of emergency.