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This interdisciplinary journal publishes papers relating the plasticity and response of the nervous system to accidental or experimental injuries and their interventions, transplantation, neurodegenerative disorders and experimental strategies to improve regeneration or functional recovery and rehabilitation. Experimental and clinical research papers adopting fresh conceptual approaches are encouraged. The overriding criteria for publication are novelty, significant experimental or clinical relevance and interest to a multidisciplinary audience. Experiments on un-anesthetized animals should conform with the standards for the use of laboratory animals as established by the Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, US National Academy of Sciences. Experiments in which paralytic agents are used must be justified. Patient identity should be concealed. All manuscripts are sent out for blind peer review to editorial board members or outside reviewers.

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience is a member of Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPT

Authors are requested to submit their manuscript electronically to www.mstracker.com.

Note that the manuscript should be uploaded as one file with tables and figures included. This file can be a Microsoft Word document or an Adobe PDF.

Submission of an article is understood to imply that the article is original and unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

A resubmission should always be a Word file and the article reference number should be mentioned in the cover letter.

All correspondence concerning editorial matters as well as information regarding submissions should be sent to:

Editor-in-Chief:
Bernhard A. Sabel, PhD
Institute of Medical Psychology
Otto-v.-Guericke University of Magdeburg
Leipzigerstr. 44
39120 Magdeburg
Germany
Tel. +49 391 672 1800
Fax +49 391 672 1803
Email: rnn@med.ovgu.de

Editorial Assistant:
Steffi Matzke

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Organization of the paper and style of presentation
Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are recommended to seek the advice of a native English speaker, if possible, before submitting their manuscripts. You can also visit www.internationalscienceediting.com. International Science Editing offers a language and copyediting service to all scientists who want to publish their manuscript in scientific peer-reviewed periodicals and books.

Manuscripts should be prepared with wide margins and double spacing throughout, including the abstract, footnotes and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should be numbered. However, in the text no reference should be made to page numbers; if necessary, one may refer to sections. Try to avoid the excessive use of italics and bold face.
Manuscripts should be organized in the following order:

• Title page
• Body of text (divided by subheadings)
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Tables
• Figure captions
• Figures

Headings and subheadings should be numbered and typed on a separate line, without indentation.

SI units should be used, i.e., the units based on the metre, kilogramme, second, etc.

Title page
The title page should provide the following information:

• Title (should be clear, descriptive and not too long)
• Name(s) of author(s); please indicate who is the corresponding author
• Full affiliation(s)
• Present address of author(s), if different from affiliation
• Complete address of corresponding author, including tel. no., fax no. and e-mail address
• Abstract; should be clear, descriptive, self-explanatory and not longer than 200 words, it should also be suitable for publication in abstracting services
• Keywords.

Tables
Number as Table 1, Table 2 etc, and refer to all of them in the text.
Each table should be provided on a separate page of the manuscript. Tables should not be included in the text.Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title.
Column headings should be brief, but sufficiently explanatory. Standard abbreviations of units of measurement should be added between parentheses.
Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave some extra space between the columns instead.
Any explanations essential to the understanding of the table should be given in footnotes at the bottom of the table.

Figures
Number figures as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc and refer to all of them in the text.
Each figure should be provided on a separate sheet. Figures should not be included in the text.
Colour figures can be included, provided the cost of their reproduction is paid for by the author.
For the file formats of the figures please take the following into account:

• Line art should be have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi, save as EPS or TIFF
• Grayscales (incl photos) should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (no lettering), or 500 dpi (when there is lettering); save as tiff
• Do not save figures as JPEG, this format may lose information in the process
• Do not use figures taken from the Internet, the resolution will be too low for printing
• Do not use colour in your figures if they are to be printed in black & white, as this will reduce the print quality (note that in software often the default is colour, you should change the settings)
• For figures that should be printed in colour, please send a CMYK encoded EPS or TIFF

Figures should be designed with the format of the page of the journal in mind. They should be of such a size as to allow a reduction of 50%.
On maps and other figures where a scale is needed, use bar scales rather than numerical ones, i.e., do not use scales of the type 1:10,000. This avoids problems if the figures need to be reduced.
Each figure should have a self-explanatory caption. The captions to all figures should be typed on a separate sheet of the manuscript.
Photographs are only acceptable if they have good contrast and intensity.

Colour figures
It is possible to have figures printed in colour, provided the cost of their reproduction is paid for by the author. The charges will be specified with the proof delivery. Online the figures will be published in full colour at no charge.

REFERENCES

Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy of all references and that all references cited in the text also appear in the References section at the end of the article. This section should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author. Use the following style when referencing an article in a periodical or a book:

Original articles:
Poggel, D.A., Kasten E. and Sabel, B.A. (2004). Attentional cueing improves vision restoration therapy in patients with visual field loss. Neurol, 63(11), 2069-2076.

Books:
Finger, S. & Stein, D.G. (1982). Brain damage and recovery. New York: Academic Press.

For citations in the text, please use author's last name (no more than two authors) and the year of publication enclosed in parentheses.

Footnotes
Footnotes should only be used if absolutely essential. In most cases it is possible to incorporate the information in the text.
If used, they should be numbered in the text, indicated by superscript numbers and kept as short as possible.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright of your article
Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that they have read and agreed to the terms of the IOS Press Author Copyright Agreement.

Quoting from other publications
An author, when quoting from someone else's work or when considering reproducing figures or table from a book or journal article, should make sure that he is not infringing a copyright. Although in general an author may quote from other published works, he should obtain permission from the holder of the copyright if he wishes to make substantial extracts or to reproduce tables, plates or other figures. If the copyright holder is not the author of the quoted or reproduced material, it is recommended that the permission of the author should also be sought. Material in unpublished letters and manuscripts is also protected and must not be published unless permission has been obtained. Submission of a paper will be interpreted as a statement that the author has obtained all the necessary permission. A suitable acknowledgement of any borrowed material must always be made.

PRE-PRESS AND PROOFS

Accepted articles will be placed online as "pre-press" articles shortly after acceptance. This process will occur before the author receives proofs. The pre-press file will remain as the uncorrected proof version until the article is published in an issue and the final published version replaces the pre-press file.

The corresponding author will receive a pdf proof and is asked to check this proof carefully (the publisher will execute a cursory check only). Corrections other than printer's errors, however, should be avoided. Costs arising from such corrections will be charged to the authors.

PUBLICATION FEE

When an article is accepted for publication, authors are required to pay a publication fee of 500 USD / 345 €. Page charges do not apply to feature articles and can be waived at the Editor-in-Chief’s discretion. A payment form to will be supplied with the acceptance letter.

OPEN ACCESS OPTION

In addition to the publication fee, authors have the option to make their article freely available on the Publisher's journal platform. For a charge of 1250 USD / 900 € your article (including pre-publication) will be freely accessible immediately upon publication. A form to request Open Access will be supplied with the acceptance letter.

Policy regarding the NIH Public Access Policy mandate (PubMed Central)

For authors whose manuscripts acknowledge research funding support from the NIH, IOS Press grants permission for the author to supply his own version of the article (not the published PDF version) to PubMed Central, at no charge.

Alternatively, the author can submit the final published version of the article, which can be ordered from IOS Press. This service costs €100/US$120 and an order form will be sent with the galley proof of the article to the corresponding author.

COMPLIMENTARY COPY AND PURCHASE

Complimentary copy
The corresponding author of a contribution to the journal is entitled to receive 1 author’s copy of the pdf free of charge, unless otherwise stated. Free copies will not be provided for conference proceedings and abstract issues.

How to order reprints, a pdf file, journals, or IOS Press books.
An order form for reprints, additional journal copies or a non-watermarked pdf file will be provided along with the pdf proof.
If you wish to order reprints of an earlier published article, please contact the publisher for a quotation. IOS Press, Fax: +31 20 6870039. Email: editorial@iospress.nl.

An author is entitled to 25 % discount on IOS Press books. See Author's Discount (25%) on all IOS Press book publications.