Archives Italiennes de Biologie
Author Guidelines
Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it has not previously been published, except in abstract form, and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Decision as to publication of papers submitted to the Archives Italiennes de Biologie will be based on the opinion of the Editorial Board as to the significance and originality of the work.
Article types
Full-length papers, reporting results of original research. The major part of each issue will be comprised of original full-length papers.
Short communications, reporting on research in progress.
Review articles, discussing current developments of interest to neuroscientists, both as stand alone manuscript and as occasional special issues.
Book reviews, discussing publications of general interest to neuroscientists.
The journal will also consider articles on historical aspects of neuroscience, methodological papers, and editorials.
Authors are indeed encouraged to contact the Chief-Editors to discuss opportunities for submission of articles that do not fall into the standard categories.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the Archives Italiennes de Biologie page on http://www.architalbiol.org
If you are uncertain about the suitability or general format of your proposed work for publication in Archives Italiennes de Biologie, authors may contact the Managing Editors for advice and guidance.
Once you are ready to submit, go to http://www.architalbiol.org
Login or register to the Archives Italiennes de Biologie website
N.B. Please, be sure to be registered as an Author to be able to submit items to the journal
In your user homepage, select the Author and then the Start a New Submission options
Step 1. Starting the Submission - Select the appropriate section for this submission, indicate that the submission is ready to be considered by this journal by checking off the checklist items. In this step, you can also add comments to the Editor.
Step 2. Entering the Submission's Metadata - Enter author information, manuscript title and abstracts, and acknowledgments. Please note that at each stage of the submission process it is possible to go back a step, save the submission to continue later, or remove/change any information already entered.
Step 3. Uploading the Manuscript File- Upload a single manuscript file, including only the title page and the full-text body of the manuscript.
N.B. This step allows the author to submit just one file
Step 4. Uploading Submission Files - In this section, you can upload your figures, tables, cover letter and supplementary materials, that could be either included in the printed version or published only online. In the upload window, complete each file description and, if appropriate, select the Present file to reviewers option.
N.B. This step allows the author to submit multiple files
Step 5. Confirming the Submission - A list of the uploaded files will appear. If correct, confirm your paper submission.
You will receive confirmation of your submission, and further progress of your paper at every stage of its review period thereafter, via email.
Hardcopy submission of manuscripts is no longer recommended
If resubmitting your manuscript after the first round of revision, please use the Uploading Submission Files webpage to upload your files (revised manuscript, modified tables and figures, responses to referees' reports, etc.). In the upload window, complete each file description and, if appropriate, select the Present file to reviewers option.
To facilitate efficient and effective peer review of manuscripts, all manuscripts are now to be submitted electronically. In cases of difficulty operating the electronic process, or in order to ship a hardcopy of your manuscript, please contact the Managing Editor for help and advice.
Authorship
To be identified as an author, the participant should have contributed to the conception and design of the project, drafted substantive portions of the paper or edited or revised same, and taken responsibility for the analysis and conclusions of the paper.
Preparation of manuscripts
Manuscripts should be prepared electronically using an appropriate Office Word compatible text-processing package, formatted for A4 or letter page size, double-spaced throughout, and using a 12 point font. Articles must be written in English (either British or American spelling). Text should flush left, and not be justified. Words should not be hyphenated. Pages should be numbered sequentially.
There should be a separate title page with:
a) the title
b) the authors' names
c) the laboratory of origin, with complete address of each author
d) a running title
e) the address to which proofs should be sent
f) acknowledgements
In order to promote fairness of the review process, the Editors provide an anonymous review of all manuscripts. In order to achieve this, these separate pages will be removed from the manuscripts sent to referees.
Authors will be sent reviewer comments. All reviewers will remain anonymous. Authors are informed about the Editors' decision after the review process is completed.
The main body of full-length paper should be divided into:
Abstract
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
References
Short communications should neither be divided in sections nor is the abstract required; the text should not be longer than 4 printed pages, including tables and illustrations.
Review articles must have an initial Table of Contents and a final Summary.
Book reviews, should not be longer than one printed page.
In general, there are no specific word lengths for any manuscript. The general principle is that a manuscript can be as long as necessary to communicate clearly and most effectively the scientific message, but should be as short as possible to achieve a complete presentation of the information without undue repetition or redundancy.
In the Methods section, the source of all compounds, equipment or software should be identified by the full name of the supplier, city, state/country. The chemical names of any drug should precede the trade name.
Papers describing animal experiments must define species, strain, sex, age, supplier and number of animals used. An ethical statement concerning the use of animals, or the details of ethical approvals, consent and recruitment of human subjects should be clearly stated. Results and Discussion can be broken down into subsections for improving the comprehensibility. The Results should not repeat methodological details and should avoid the discussion of the data.
The results of statistical tests should be incorporated in the body of the text, typically in the Results section, rather than in figure legends. Adequate description of statistical analysis should be provided. Statistical measures of variation in the text, illustrations and tables, should be identified.
All dimensions and measurements must be specified in the metric system.
All subscripts, superscripts, Greek letters and unusual characters must be clearly identified.
In the text, abbreviations should be used consistently. Abbreviations should be defined on first use.
In the title, throughout the text and in the figure legends, foreign, in particular Latin and Greek, terms should be italicised. Genes and species should also be italicised, whereas the protein products of genes should have a leading capital but are not italicised.
References
References should be cited in the text in parenthesis, e.g. (Rossi, 1999; Brown et al., 2003; Smith and Black, 2007, 2008) except when the author name is part of a sentence as: The procedure used has been described elsewhere (Bianchi et al., 2005) or Our findings are consistent with Brown and Black (1979) and of White et al. (1980).
References should be typed in a list, alphabetically arranged according to the last name of the first author on a separate sheet and double spaced. All items on the list of references should be cited in the text and, conversely, all references cited in the text must be presented in the list. In two-author papers with the same first author, the order is alphabetical by the second author's name. In three-or-more-author papers with the same first author, the order is chronological. Reference citations should only be to published material or manuscripts that are accepted for publication and in press. Personal communications and unpublished observations should not be cited in the list of references, but may be noted in parentheses in the text.
The style of citation should conform to that used in this issue of the Archives Italiennes de Biologie (see examples below). Abbreviations of journal titles should comply with the List of Serial Title Word Abbreviations, CIEPS/ISDS, Paris, 1985 (ISBN 2-904938-02-8).
Balaban E., Centini C., Pompeiano P. Tonic gravity changes after gene expression in the efferent vestibular nucleus. NeuroReport, 13: 187-190, 2002.
Clément G. and Reschke M.F. Neurosensory and sensory-motor functions. pp. 178-258. In: Moore D., Bie P., and Oser E. (Eds.) Biological and medical research in space. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Springer Verlag, 1996.
Cohen B. The vestibulo-ocular reflex arc. pp. 477-540. In: Kornhuber H.H. (Ed.) Vestibular system. Part 1: Basic mechanisms (Handbook of Sensory Physiology Vol. IV/1). Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Springer Verlag, 1974.
Daunton N.G., Ross M.D., Fox R.A., Corcoran M.L., Cutler L.K., Wu L.C. Effects of chronic hypergravity on the righting reflex and vestibular endorgan morphology in the rat. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 17: 316, 1991.
Dews P.B. and Wiesel T.N. Consequences of monocular deprivation on visual behavior in kittens. J. Physiol., 206: 437-455, 1970.
Domhoff, G. Finding Meaning in Dreams: A quantitative Approach. 1996, New York: Plenum Press.
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