Submissions

Author Guidelines

Types of contribution

Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged. Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (JNphi) is accept articles;

φ Articles 
φ Opinion and Perspectives
φ Hypothesis and Theory
φ Review Articles
φ Neuroscience for Philosophers
φ Philosophy for Neuroscientist
φ Original and Experimental Articles
φ Commentaries
φ Book Review
φ Letters to the Editors

PREPARATION OF ARTICLES

Please use the article template here when preparing your article (DOWNLOAD JNphi article template), also use it during online submission.

Articles should be comprehensive, fully documented reports of original research. They should be concise but with complete results and conclusions. Authors are encouraged to take advantage of the Web features available (including 3D animations, video and sound). Manuscripts should be divided into the following sections: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and discussion, Conclusion and outlook, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations list, References.

Article title
The title should clearly and concisely reflect the content of the article. Titles are very important for current awareness and information retrieval and therefore should be carefully constructed for these purposes.

Names and addresses
For multiple-authored articles list the names and affiliations of all the authors, the email address(es), the full postal addresses, using identifiers to link an author with an address where necessary.

Abstract
Articles have an abstract, separate from the text, of up to 500 words and that should not contain any references, numbers, abbreviations, or acronyms unless absolutely necessary. The abstract should give readers concise information about the content of the article. It should not only indicate the general scope of the article but also state the main results obtained and conclusions drawn. When preparing their abstracts, authors should keep in mind that this summary is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience which includes readers outside of their field. The abstract is the most important section of the paper since it will be widely and freely disseminated by scientific indexing systems, and will be read far more often than the whole paper. Great care should therefore be taken to provide an informative abstract which summarizes the main argument of the paper. 

Keywords
All authors are required to provide up to five keywords characterizing the topic of their article. Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.

Introduction
An introduction of up to 800 words should include a statement explaining the motivation for the research and should accurately place the investigations in context with previous or current work in the field.

Experimental section
This section provides a clear, unambiguous description of methods, materials and equipment in sufficient detail to permit reproduction of the work. Please note that communications, which are preliminary reports of original significant research results, should keep experimental details to a minimum.

Results and discussion
These sections should present the results and interpret them in a clear and concise manner.

Conclusion and outlook
This last section should outline succinctly the results, present possible important applications of the work, suggestions for future research studies, and reflections on new challenges for the subject.

References

Citation of literature references in the main text should be given at the appropriate place by the author's name followed by the year in parentheses (e.g., Smith, 2020). Should there be more than two authors, the first author's name should be followed by et al. (e.g., Johnson et al., 2019). When there are two or more papers by the same author(s) appearing in the same year, these should be distinguished by a, b, c, etc. after the year (e.g., Taylor, 2021a; Taylor, 2021b). Arranged in alphabetical order according to the first author, followed by the second author, then with all papers with more than two authors being arranged in chronological order (e.g., Brown, 2018; Davis et al., 2020; Lee et al., 2022). Every reference cited in the text should appear in the list of references and vice versa. Literature references must be complete, including initials of author(s) cited, title of paper referred to, and title of journal, year, followed by volume and first and last pages of the article (e.g., Zhang J & Wang L. Study on climate change impacts. Journal of Environmental Science 2019; 45(3): 230-245).

References samples (Vancouver style);

Journal article: Triggs WJ, Ghacibeh G, Springer U, Bowers D. Lateralized asymmetry of facial motor evoked potentials. Neurology 2005;65:541-544.

Book: Costa DC, Morgan GF, Lassen NA, eds.New trends in neurology and psychiatry. John Libbey, 1993.

Article advance access: Trimble, M. Musing about medical muses. Brain. Published online 10 June 2012. doi:10.1093/brain/aws116

Book chapter: Barkovich AJ. Disorders of neuronal migration and organization. In: Kuzniecky RI, Jackson GD, eds. Magnetic resonance in epilepsy. Raven Press, 1994:235-255.

Conference proceedings: Hou Y, Qiu Y, Vo NH, et al. Highly active against H. influenzae. In: Programs and Abstracts of the Forty-third Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. American Society for Microbiology 2003:242-247.

Website: Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Accessed 11 November 2024. https://www.jneurophilosophy.com/index.php/alzheimer/

PDF (Online): Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Acknowledgement list for ADNI publications. Accessed 11 November 2020. http://adni.loni.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/list.pdf

Thesis: Wei C. Bayesian method for finding interactions in genomic studies. PhD thesis. The University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics, 2004.

Preprint: Gellersen HM, Coughlan G, Hornberger M, Simons SS. Memory precision of object-location binding is unimpaired in APOE ε4-carriers with spatial navigation deficits. bioRxiv. [Preprint] doi:10.1101/2020.12.18.423245

Web references

As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.

Mathematics and Symbols
You should take care when writing mathematical articles especially regarding subscripts and superscripts and differentiation between the letter 'l' and the figure one, C and c, S and s, k, K and other similar groups of letters. If your article contains superscripts or subscripts to superscripts or subscripts, take special care to ensure that the positioning of the characters is unambiguous. If special symbols are needed (e.g., Greek characters, accented characters or mathematical symbols) these should be typed using the appropriate TrueType font. Do not use the Symbol facility on the 'Insert' menu as this often results in font conversion problems. Equations must be prepared using Equation Editor or MathType.

Figures and Tables
You may illustrate your text by line diagrams and photographs. The figures should be clear, easy to read and of good quality. We accept maximum 7 figure per manuscript. We will normally use figures as submitted; it is therefore your responsibility to ensure that they are correct. Authors are required to provide a list of captions describing each figure and identifying the symbols used. The use of color in illustrations can enhance the effective presentation of results, and we are pleased to offer free reproduction of color illustrations in the electronic version of Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (JNphi). There is no charge for color reproduction of illustrations in the electronic version of the journal when the use of color is clearly required to further understanding and communication. Our preferred graphics formats are PNG, JPG, JPEG. These files can be used directly to give high quality results and file sizes are small in comparison with most bitmap forms.

Proofs

Proofs of articles are usually sent to you for correction by e-mail as an annotated Microsoft word *.doc or *.docx file attachment. When checking your proofs you should take particular care checking mathematics, tables and references. Only essential corrections should be made.

Acknowledgements
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the ‘Acknowledgements’ section.

Funding
All sources of funding must be disclosed at the end of the main text under a separate heading ‘Funding’. 

OPINION and PERSPECTIVES

Opinion and Perspectives should present a personal view on a topic within the scope of the journal. Keywords should be provided by the author(s). These articles may contain topical, historical or biographical information on relevant research, technologies and future research needs. Max 15 pages and 20 references.

HYPOTHESIS and THEORY

In hypothesis and theory articles, more new perspectives, perspectives that extend outside the box, will be especially preferred. A hypothesis is a fresh, unchallenged idea that a scientist proposes prior to conducting research. The purpose of a hypothesis is to provide a tentative explanation for an occurrence, an explanation that scientists can either support or disprove through experimentation. A hypothesis proposes a tentative explanation or prediction. A theory, on the other hand, is a substantiated explanation for an occurrence. Theories rely on tested and verified data, and scientists widely accepted theories to be true, though not unimpeachable. Max 15 pages and 20 references.

REVIEW ARTICLES

Review articles should be complete, critical evaluations of the existing state of knowledge in a particular topic or area within the scope of the journal. Rather than a 'collage' of detailed information with a complete literature survey, a critically selected treatment of the material is desired; unsolved problems and possible developments should also be discussed. The introduction of a review article should primarily introduce the non-specialist to the subject as clearly as possible. A review should conclude with a section entitled 'Summary and outlook' in which the achievements of and new challenges for the subject are outlined succinctly. Length: a review article manuscript should consist of a maximum of 20 pages of text, footnotes, literature citations, tables and legend; there should be no more than 30 references.

NEUROSCIENCE FOR PHILOSOPHERS

They are generally articles that deal with basic neuroscience concepts. These are articles that deal with the basics of neuroscience in simple language for philosophers who will come to this field. Max 15 pages, 20 references.

PHILOSOPHY FOR NEUROSCIENTIST

In general, they are articles that deal with the history and concepts of basic philosophy, philosophy of mind perspectives, ancient ulsolved mind-brain/body problems and concepts in philosophy. The aim is to give new neuroscientists the habit of reading, learning and comprehending philosophy. Philosophy of mind concepts of philosophers in the history of philosophy can also be discussed. Max 15 pages, 20 references. 

BOOK REVIEW

Book reviews should cover the following topics
φ Review of the book’s content and scope.
φ Contribution the book makes to evaluation work.
φ Identification of any controversial stances the author may take.
φ Level of expertise and knowledge required by the reader to appreciate the book’s content.
φ Identification of the paradigmatic or intellectual perspectives in which the work is grounded.
φ Discussion of the types of evaluation work and evaluation settings for which the book would be useful.
φ Reviews should include specification of the publisher, author, number of pages, date of publication, and price as appropriate for hard cover, soft cover, and electronic editions.
φ The length of reviews can vary as the reviewer sees fit, but as a general guideline, we expect reviews to be between 2,000 and 3000 words long, as the reviewer deems appropriate.

φ Refereeing Process
All contributions that are selected for peer review are sent to two independent reviewers (one reviewer for invited articles). You can track your article situation.

φ Prepare your paper for submission: Please use the article template here when preparing your article (DOWNLOAD ARTICLE TEMPLATE). Also use it during online submission. The preparation of your article in the form of these formal rules is important for editorial first look/opinion and referee evaluation.

φ Submit and revise
You can submit to JNphi using our online systems.

φ Track your submitted paper
You can track the status of your submitted paper online. The system you use to track your submission will be the same system to which you submitted.

φ Track your accepted paper
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