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Submission of a manuscript implies assurance that no similar paper has been, or will be, submitted for publication elsewhere, except for abstracts or an oral presentation. Manuscripts are evaluated on their merit by the Editor with the assistance of selected referees. Copyright is vested in the publisher.
Mail submissions to: Thomas A. Woolsey, Editor-in-Chief,
Somatosensory and Motor Research, Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8213, 4566 Scott Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA. Tel: (314) 747 1260; Fax: (314) 362 8359; E-mail:
somatosensory@prodigy.net.
Descriptions of modifications in techniques are rarely accepted and only if there is evidence of their unusual importance. Theoretical papers and critical reviews will be published occasionally; authors contemplating such contributions should consult the Editor. Periodically there are announcements of events, book reviews and news items of general interest to readers. There are no page charges in this journal.
Electronic Submission Authors should send the final, revised version of their articles in both hard copy paper and electronic disk forms. It is essential that the hard copy (paper) version exactly matches the material on disk. Please print out the hard copy from the disk you are sending. Submit three printed copies of the final version with the disk to the journal's editorial office. Save all files on a standard 3.5 inch high-density disk. We prefer to receive disks in Microsoft Word in a PC format, but can translate from most other common word processing programs as well as Macs. Please specify which program you have used. Do not save your files as "text only" or "read only".
Three legible, double-spaced copies (including illustrations) should be submitted to the Editor. The full text should also be submitted on 3.5" disk (labelled with the first author's name and short title of the paper) as a Word or Wordperfect document. Alternatively, this material may be forwarded by e-mail to somatosensory@prodigy.net. Concurrence of all listed authors is assumed and is the responsibility of the individual submitting the paper. Similarly, when thanking a colleague, it is the responsibility of the authors to obtain the assent of anyone acknowledged, because the listing of names sometimes implies an imprimatur or approval that has not been explicitly tendered or intended. Concise writing in English and judicious selection of illustrative material, tables, and supplementary material facilitate the review process. Publication is anticipated within 6 months from the date of acceptance. Publication charges for articles requiring special printing, fold-outs, color reproduction, or unusual length and number of illustrations are mandatory. The Publisher will provide cost information.
Manuscripts should conform to the style in the Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style Manual. Spelling of nontechnical terms should be that recommended in Webster's Third International Dictionary. Manuscripts should consist of the following:
1. A Title Page: this should include a short running title; about six key words; name, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address of the person to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent; and the number of pages, illustrations, and tables. The title and address of the institution(s) from which the paper emanates should be listed below the author(s). When present addresses differ, indicate these in a footnote.
2.
Declaration of interest: it is the policy of all Informa Healthcare to adhere in principle to the Conflict of Interest policy recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE,
http://www.icmje.org/index.html#conflict).
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organisations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. It is the sole responsibility of authors to disclose any affiliation with any organisation with a financial interest, direct or indirect, in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript (such as consultancies, employment, paid expert testimony, honoraria, speakers' bureaus, retainers, stock options or ownership, patents or patent applications or travel grants) that may affect the conduct or reporting of the work submitted. All sources of funding for research are to be explicitly stated. If uncertain as to what might be considered a potential conflict of interest, authors should err on the side of full disclosure.
All submissions to the journal must include full disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest. If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should state that there are none. This must be stated at the point of submission (within the manuscript after the main text under a subheading "Declaration of interest" and, where available, within the appropriate field on the journal's Manuscript Central site). This may be made available to reviewers and will appear in the published article at the discretion of the Editors or Publisher.
If no conflict is declared, the following statement will be attached to all articles:
Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
The intent of this policy is not to prevent authors with these relationships from publishing work, but rather to adopt transparency such that readers can make objective judgements on conclusions drawn.
3. An Abstract; this should not exceed 250 words, in a form acceptable to most abstracting services.
4. An Introduction; should have a separate heading indicating the aim of the study and appropriate background material.
5. A Materials and Methods section; this should provide information sufficient for a qualified investigator to reproduce the work. Reference to published procedures by brief summary and citation is encouraged but should not replace the methodological description. Somatosensory & Motor Research endorses the Declaration of Helsinki and the US National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. It is expected that institutional animal care and use committees and granting agencies ensure proper evaluation of experiments. It is assumed that the authors have conscientiously followed the guidelines contained in the above-mentioned documents in all experiments involving human subjects and experimental animals.
6. A Results section; this should be written in clear, concise language with appropriate reference to illustrations and tables. This section should provide a digested analysis of findings.
7. A Discussion; this should contain a summary of the main findings in relation to other published work, and a statement concerning their significance.
8. Footnotes (to be used sparingly); this should be numbered consecutively throughout the text and typed on a separate sheet following the Discussion.
9. An Acknowledgements section; this should include a listing of grant support and personal acknowledgements of help.
10. References; these should follow the CBE Name & Year format. Only works actually cited in the text should be included in the references. In the text, place inside brackets the author's name and year of publication. Publications from the same author in a single year should use a, b, c, etc. Where there are three or more authors, the citation should give only the first author followed by "et al." (e.g., Smith et al. 1928). Spelling in the reference list should follow the original. References should then be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article. Examples below.
Book chapter:
Kuret JA, Murad F. 1990. Adenohypophyseal hormones and related substances. In: Gilman AG, Rall TW, Nies AS, Taylor P, editors. The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 8th ed. New York: Pergamon. p 1334-60.
Journal article:
Steiner U, Klein J, Eiser E, Budkowski A, Fetters LJ. 1992. Complete wetting from polymer mixtures. Science 258:1122-9.
Conference proceedings:
Irvin AD, Cunningham MP, Young AS, editors. 1981. Advances in the control of Theileriosis. International Conference held at the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases; 1981 Feb 9-13; Nairobi. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 427 p.
Dissertations or Thesis:
Mangie ED. 1991. A comparative study of the perceptions of illness in New Kingdom Egypt and Mesopotamia of the early first millenium [dissertation]. Akron (OH): University of Akron. 160 p. Available from: University Microfilms, Ann Arbor MI; AAG9203425.
Journal article on internet:
Loker WM. 1996. "Campesinos" and the crisis of modernization in Latin America. Jour of Pol Ecol [serial online]; 3(1). Available: http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_3/ascii-lokeriso.txt via the INTERNET. Accessed 1996 Aug 11.
Webpage:
British Medical Journal [Internet]. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ; 2000 July 10 - [cited 2001 Apr 12]; Available from: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/
Internet databases:
Prevention News Update Database [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(US), National Prevention Information Network. 1988 Jun - [cited 2001 Apr 12]. Available from: http://www.cdcnpin.org/db/public/dnmain.htm
Further examples and information can be found in the CBE style manual Scientific Style and Format, sixth edition.
11. Tables provide documentation and must be mentioned in the text. Each table should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals. The approximate location of a table should be indicated in the left margin of the manuscript. Tables follow the References. Type each table on a separate sheet or sheets and provide each with a brief descriptive title. Explanatory material necessary to the understanding of the table should be placed in footnotes immediately below the table. Superscript italicized lowercase letters should be used as footnote indices in tables. Everything is to be double-spaced: title, column headings, body of table, and footnotes. Tables should be designed to fit within the limitations of the type page. If necessary, the size of the table can be compressed by introducing arbitrary abbreviations in either the body of the table or the column headings. Explanations for these abbreviations can be placed in footnotes to the table.
12. A double-spaced, typed list of numbered Figure Captions should follow the Tables or, if there are no tables, the References. Each caption should include a brief title and short legend.
13. Illustrations provide documentation and should be mentioned in the text. Each illustration should be numbered consecutively using arabic numerals. The approximate location of an illustration should be indicated in the left margin of the manuscript. Illustrations should be carefully considered for their number, size, and format on the page. Photographs must be on glossy white paper and trimmed to conform to page size, not exceeding 6 7/8" (17
cm) x 8 7/8" (22 cm), or column size, not exceeding 3
" (8 cm) x 8 7/8" (22 cm), after final reduction. An adhesive label on the reverse of each illustration should indicate figure number, authors' names, and top or bottom. Artwork will not be returned to authors unless prints are marked "Return to Author". Good-quality copies of the originals can be used for review purposes.
a. A calibration bar should be visible in micrographs. The thickness of the calibration bar should not exceed 1 mm after figure reduction.
b. An acetate overlay containing type on a clear background is recommended for lettering and calibration bars applied to halftone illustrations. Transfer (rub-on) type should be properly protected.
c. Avoid combining a high-contrast drawing or photograph with a low-contrast print in the same figure. In photomicrographs, and especially electron micrographs, provide advice concerning the crucial portions of a print in order to guide the printer in determining the contrast of printed illustrations. This can be achieved by including a photocopy with critical structures outlined by colored lines; using a transparent overlay indicating underlying points accompanied by written commentary; or providing instructions whenever possible.
d. Indicate size preference, orientation, reduction, and placement instructions for figures on the "original" set for reproduction.
14. Common abbreviations that are word entries in the dictionary may be used without further explanation: for example, DNA for deoxyribonucleic acid. Any other specialized term that occurs frequently may be abbreviated if spelled out completely at its first occurrence, with the abbreviation immediately following in parentheses. The abbreviation should be used consistently thereafter. If there is a standard abbreviation in the literature, it should be used. The International System of Units (SI) should be used whenever possible. Units should be abbreviated when used in conjunction with numerals (e.g., a 10-ms interstimulus interval) but written out when referred to in the text without numerals (e.g., an interstimulus interval of several milliseconds). Periods are not used with SI unit abbreviations. Use words to express the numbers zero through ten and any number that begins a sentence. Numerals should always be used with units of measurement. A zero should be used before the decimal point in decimal numbers between zero and one (e.g., 0.05, not .05). Use commas to separate groups of three digits in numbers of four or more digits.
Copyright It is a condition of the publication that authors vest or license copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in Informa Healthcare. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and the journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Informa Healthcare, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as the original source of publication, and that Informa Healthcare is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised.
Plagiarism Informa has a strict policy against plagiarism. We define plagiarism as the use of extracts from another person's work that are not placed in quotation marks, without the permission of that person, and without acknowledgement to that person (using the appropriate reference style), with the result that your article presents these extracts as original to you.By submitting your work to an Informa journal, you warrant that it is your original work, and that you have secured the necessary written permission from the appropriate copyright owner or authority for the reproduction of any text, illustration, or other material.
If any article submitted to an Informa journal is found to have breached any of these conditions, Informa reserves the right to reject that article and any others submitted by the same authors. Informa may also contact the authors' affiliated institutions to inform them of its findings.
Offprints and Reprints
Offprints and reprints of articles published in Somatosensory and Motor Research can be obtained through Rightslink®. Please contact the Reprints Administrator Sherry Howard at reprints@tandf.co.uk to obtain a quotation or to place an order. Copies of the Journal can be purchased separately at the author's preferential rate of 
15.00/$25.00 per copy.
Color Figures
a. Any figure submitted as a color original will appear in color in the journal's online edition free of charge and can be downloaded.
b. Paper copy color reproduction will only be considered on condition that authors contribute to the associated costs. Charges are: 500/US$1030 for the first colour page and 250/US$515 for each color page after per article. (Color costs will be waived for invited Review Articles.)
NIH Public Access Policy
In consideration of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy, Informa Healthcare acknowledges that the broad and open dissemination of NIH-funded-research results may benefit future scientific and medical research. Because we value the current and future contributions our journals make to the scientific body of knowledge, we have made certain that our policies accommodate those authors who wish to submit to PubMed Central.
Informa Healthcare's position with respect to public access to NIH-funded work published in Informa Healthcare journals is as follows:
- Informa Healthcare authors may voluntarily submit their funded work to PubMed Central after a 12-month embargo period;
- “funded work” shall be defined as the final, peer-reviewed manuscript that is accepted by the Editor in Chief of the journal. This manuscript must not be altered by Publisher's copyediting and typesetting services; and
- this embargo period begins the day the work is published online at www.informaworld.com.
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