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Die deutsche Version der Autorenrichtlinien wird demnächst hier aufgeschaltet.
Submission of a paper to the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry is understood to imply that the data contained there in has not previously been published (except in abstract form) or is being considered for publication elsewhere. The papers may be written in German, French or English. The guidelines for authors are based on the guidelines published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (Uniform Requirements: see www.icmje.org).
General issues Authorship credit should be based only on (1) substantial contributions
to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation
of data; (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important
intellectual content; and (3) final approval of the version to be published.
Conditions 1, 2, and 3 must all be met. Acquisition of funding, the collection
of data, or general supervision of the research group, by themselves,
do not justify authorship, nor does the fact of being in sole charge of
the clinic or department in which the article was prepared. Such contributions
should be listed as acknowledgements. In view of these requirements, more
than six authors will be listed only in exceptional cases. Obligation to register clinical trials We encourage the registration of all interventional trials, whether early or late phase, in a primary register that participates in WHO's International Clinical Trial Registry Platform (http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/index.html). The registry must be independent of for-profit interest. Authors will be asked to include the trial registration number and the name of the trial registry during the online submission process.
Human and animal studies require approval by ethics committees. When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate in the “Methods” section whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration. Protection of patients’ rights to privacy Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients’ names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published. Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. Authors should disclose to these patients that the material will be available via the Internet after publication. An informed consent form may be obtained from the publisher. Requirements for submission of manuscripts Categories of manuscripts:
Review articles, Education Original articles Case reports, Resident corner Congress report Issues (letters to the Editor) Book reviews Preparation of manuscript Abbreviations Customary abbreviations (e.g. ACTH, ECG) are permitted. All other abbreviations should be used sparingly and an alphabetic list of abbreviations with explanations should be supplied. Abbreviations that are used only once should be avoided. Always use SI units. Results in other units may be added in parentheses. Tables and figures Tables and figures should be commented upon in the text and their position marked at the appropriate point. In the case of figures and tables from other publications, the source must be stated and copyright agreements provided. Lengthy tables should be avoided. Tables should be provided with captions, numbered consecutively and each reproduced on a separate page of the manuscript (not as a separate file!). Figures should each be submitted with a legend on a separate manuscript
page. Captions should be formulated so as to allow the figure to be understood
without reference to the text. All abbreviations employed should be explained
in the caption if not already included in the list of abbreviations. The
figure should be imported using the jpeg format or tif (300 lpi) or eps
format not exceeding a file size of 2 MB. With critical material we may
request higher resolution illustrations during the review process. Upon
acceptance of a manuscript we will negotiate with the authors the final
submission of figures and photographs, either as high resolution files
or glossy prints or slides. Colour illustrations are accepted at no extra
page charge. If a figure or a table has been published before, the original source should be acknowledged accompanied by written permission from the copyright holder for reproduction of the material. References The list of references should be arranged and numbered in order of appearance in the text, not alphabetically. The appropriate number should be inserted in brackets [ ] in the text. The full titles of the quoted publications should be listed. List the first six authors followed by “et al.”. Examples:
A full list of examples can be found at the National Library of Medicine website: www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html. Copyright The copyright in the accepted article is transferred to Swiss Medical Publishers Ltd., Basel, for the duration of the statutory copyright term. The Publishers thereby acquire the right to use the article an unlimited number of times, to adapt it (e.g. for the purpose of abstracts), to translate it, duplicate it, communicate it, make further use of it, publish or distribute it, in any form and via any medium (including the Internet) and to grant free of charge to the author himself, to third parties and to the general public the corresponding rights of use, adaptation etc. (open access publication). The authors consent to the transfer of copyright. All manuscripts should be submitted online: SANP Editorial Manager website |
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