Instructions for authors
About the Journal
Cognitive Neuroscience is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Cognitive Neuroscience accepts the following types of article:
Empirical Reports
Brief Reports
Discussion papers
Commentaries
For Commentators: Commentators to Discussion Papers are both via invitation from the Editor and drawn from a general pool (to which anyone may join). If you would be interested in receiving notification of accepted Discussion Papers and added to our list of people who would like to comment on these accepted articles please create a user account in our ScholarOne Manuscripts website and answer ‘AGREE’ in the appropriate space on the account creation form. If you have already received an invitation to write a Commentary then you may submit it through the ScholarOne site selecting Commentary as the manuscript type. Please be sure to mention which paper you are commenting on. To join our list of commentators or to submit a commentary please log on to our ScholarOne Manuscripts online submission site.
For Reviewers: To submit your review please log on to our ScholarOne Manuscripts online submission site.
For Empirical Papers, we pride ourselves on having streamlined reviewing. As such, we do not require a lengthy review from you. In most cases, one or two paragraphs will suffice. Your review should consider the main strengths and weaknesses of the article and provide constructive comments for the authors. Submissions requiring major revision will be rejected.
For Discussion Papers, please comment on the suitability of the article for published peer commentary in addition to providing your evaluation of the manuscript.
Open Access
You have the option to publish open access in this journal via our Open Select publishing program. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership and impact of your research. Articles published Open Select with Taylor & Francis typically receive 95% more citations* and over 7 times as many downloads** compared to those that are not published Open Select.
Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access. Visit our Author Services website to find out more about open access policies and how you can comply with these.
You will be asked to pay an article publishing charge (APC) to make your article open access and this cost can often be covered by your institution or funder. Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
Please visit our Author Services website if you would like more information about our Open Select Program.
*Citations received up to 9th June 2021 for articles published in 2016-2020 in journals listed in Web of Science®. Data obtained on 9th June 2021, from Digital Science's Dimensions platform, available at https://app.dimensions.ai
**Usage in 2018-2020 for articles published in 2016-2020.
Preparing Your Paper
All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, allied and public health journals should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Article Types
Empirical Reports
Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Title page, Abstract (maximum of 250 words), Acknowledgements, Introduction, Methods, Results, General Discussion, and References.
Should be no more than 6,000 words, inclusive of:
Abstract
References
Should contain an unstructured abstract of 250 words.
Should contain between 3 and 7 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
Empirical Reports are intended for high quality empirical work in any area of Cognitive Neuroscience. Tables and figures should be kept to a minimum, and should not exceed five in total.
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