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The editorial policies of
The journal publishes peer-reviewed mini- and full-length review and research articles, and drug clinical trial studies written in English. Single Topic/Thematic Issues by invited Guest Editors are also considered for publication.
For the submission of research articles, the author should have already filed a patent with a leading patent authority and it should be registered. Secondly the author should not have published any research paper on the intellectual property of that patent.
These special issues are peer-reviewed and may contain invited or uninvited review/mini-review articles or a mixture of research articles and reviews/mini-reviews. A Single Topic Issue Editor will offer a short perspective and co-ordinate the solicitation of manuscripts between 3-5 (for a mini-Thematic Issues) to 6-10 (for full-length Thematic Issues) from leading scientists. Authors interested in editing a single topic issue in an emerging topic of CNS drug discovery may submit their proposal at rpcn@benthamscience.org or qasit@benthamscience.org for consideration.
For proposals to publish conference proceedings in this journal, please contact us at email: proceedings@benthamscience.org for consideration
A separate section of important and recent patents on CNS drug discovery is also included in the journal. The patents annotated in this section are relevant to the articles published in this journal issue, categorized by therapeutic areas/targets and therapeutic agents related to CNS drug discovery.
Mini-reviews should be 3000-6000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes, tables etc.
Full-length reviews should be 8000-40000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes, tables etc.
Research articles should be 4000-8000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes, tables etc.
The manuscript should be written in English in a clear, direct and active style. All pages must be numbered sequentially, facilitating in the reviewing and editing of the manuscript. For further convenience, our contracted service provider Eureka Science can provide assistance to authors for the preparation of manuscripts.
Manuscripts for review articles submitted to the journal may be divided into the following sections:
The title of the article should be precise and brief and must not be more than 120 characters. Authors should avoid the use of non-standard abbreviations. The title must be written in title case except for articles, conjunctions and prepositions.
Authors must provide a short ‘running title’ of their manuscript.
The names of the authors should be provided according to the previous citations or as the authors would want them to be published along with the institutional affiliations, current address, telephone, cell & fax numbers and the email address. Email address must be provided with an asterisk in front of the name of the principal author. The corresponding author should also be designated and the full address, telephone, cell & fax numbers and the email address must be stated to receive correspondence and galley proofs.
The abstract of an article should be its clear, concise and accurate summary, having no more than 250 words, and including the explicit sub-headings (as in-line or run-in headings in bold). Use of abbreviations should be avoided and the references should not be cited in the abstract. Ideally, each abstract should include the following sub-headings, but these may vary according to requirements of the article.
Background
Objective
Method
Results
Conclusion
A graphic should be included when possible with each manuscript for use in the Table of Contents (TOC). This must be submitted separately as an electronic file (preferred file types are EPS, PDF, TIFF, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and CDX etc.). A graphical abstract, not exceeding 30 words along with the illustration, helps to summarize the contents of the manuscript in a concise pictorial form. It is meant as an aid for the rapid viewing of the journals' contents and to help capture the readers’ attention. The graphical abstract may feature a key structure, reaction, equation, etc. that the manuscript elucidates upon. It will be listed along with the manuscript title, authors’ names and affiliations in the contents page, typeset within an area of 5 cm by 17 cm, but it will not appear in the article PDF file or in print.
Graphical Abstracts should be submitted as a separate file (must clearly mention graphical
abstract within the file) online
6 to 8 keywords must be provided.
The main text should begin on a separate page and should be divided into title page, abstract and
the main text. The text may be subdivided further according to the areas to be discussed, which
should be followed by the Acknowledgement and Reference sections. The Review Article should
mention any previous important, recent and old reviews in the field and contain a comprehensive
discussion starting with the general background of the field. It should then go on to discuss
the salient features of recent developments along with relevant patents. The authors should
avoid presenting material which has already been published in a previous review. The authors are
advised to present and discuss their observations in brief. The manuscript style must be uniform
throughout the text and 10pt Times New Roman fonts should be used. The full term for an
abbreviation should precede its first appearance in the text unless it is a standard unit of
measurement. Italics should be used for Binomial names of organisms (Genus and Species), for
emphasis and for unfamiliar words or phrases. Non-assimilated words from Latin or other
languages should also be italicized e.g.
For Research Articles, the manuscript should begin with the title page and abstract followed by
the main text, which must be structured into separate sections as
All clinical investigations must be conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki principles. For all manuscripts reporting data from studies involving human participants, formal review and approval by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee is required. For research involving animals, the authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the standards set forth in the eighth edition of Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals_prepub.pdf; published by the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.).
A specific declaration of such approval must be made in the copyright letter and in a stand-alone paragraph at the end of the Methods section especially in the case of human studies where inclusion of a statement regarding obtaining the written informed consent from each subject or subject's guardian is a must. The original should be retained by the guarantor or corresponding author. Editors may request to provide the original forms by fax or email.
Randomized drug clinical trial studies are biomedical or health-related interventional and/or observational research studies conducted in phases in human beings who are randomly allocated to receive or not receive a preventive, therapeutic, or diagnostic intervention that follows a pre-defined protocol. The study is intended to determine the safety and efficacy of approaches to disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Authors of randomized controlled trials are encouraged to submit trial protocols along with their manuscripts. All clinical trials must be registered (before recruitment of the first participant) at an appropriate online public trial registry that must be independent of for-profit interest (e.g.,www.clinicaltrials.gov). If you wish the editor(s) to consider an unregistered trial, please explain briefly why the trial has not been registered.
All randomized clinical trials should include a flow diagram
and authors should provide a completed randomized trial
checklist (see CONSORT Flow Diagram and Checklist; www.consort-statement.org)
and a trial protocol. For further details, please visit complete
guidelines at:
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html
Studies of diagnostic accuracy must be reported according to STARD guidelines;
(http://www.stard-statement.org)
Observational studies (cohort, case-control, or cross-sectional designs) must be
reported according to the STROBE statement, and should be submitted with their
protocols; (www.strobe-statement.org). Genetic association studies must be reported according to STREGA guidelines; (www.medicine.uottawa.ca) Systematic reviews and meta-analyses must be reported according to PRISMA
guidelines; (www.prisma-statement.org) To find the reporting guidelines see (http://www.equator-network.org)
Important points to remember while submitting clinical trials:
Each manuscript should clearly state an objective or hypothesis; the design and methods (including the study setting and dates, patients or participants with inclusion and exclusion criteria, or data sources, and how these were selected for the study); the essential features of any interventions; the main outcome measures; the main results of the study; a comment section placing the results in context with the published literature and addressing study limitations; and the conclusions. Data included in research reports must be original.
Trial registry name, registration identification number, and the URL for the registry should be included at the end of the abstract and also in the space provided on the online manuscript submission form. If your research article reports the results of a controlled health care intervention, list the trial registry, along with the unique identifying number (Please note that there should be no space between the letters and numbers of your trial registration number). Studies designed for other purposes, such as to study pharmacokinetics or major toxicity (e.g., phase 1 trials), are exempted.
All reports of randomized trials should include a section entitled “Randomization and Masking”, within the Methods section.
The manuscript must include a statement identifying the institutional and/or licensing committee that has approved the experiments, including any relevant details.
The SI system of units and the recommended international non-proprietary name (rINN) for drug names must be used. Kindly ensure that the dose, route, and frequency of administration of any drug you mention are correct.
Please ensure that the clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies follow the guidelines on good publication practice: (http://www.gpp-guidelines.org)
The editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements or failure to fulfill the above-mentioned requirements.
Authors should review the most recent and important patents based on the topic covered. Coverage of novel bioactive compounds, analogs & targets, techniques and drug design in all areas of CNS drug discovery should be emphasized, including the significance of reported patents.
The review / research article should conclude with a short section called “Current & Future Developments”. The author(s) will give their opinion on the current and future important developments on the topic discussed in their article.
Greek symbols and special characters often undergo formatting changes and get corrupted or lost during preparation of a manuscript for publication. To ensure that all special characters used are embedded in the text, these special characters should be inserted as a symbol but should not be a result of any format styling (Symbol font face) otherwise they will be lost during the conversion to PDF/XML.
Authors are encouraged to consult reporting guidelines. These guidelines provide a set of recommendations comprising a list of items relevant to their specific research design.
Only ISO symbols, written in italic, should be used for the various parameters. All kinds of measurements should be reported only in International System of Units (SI). SI units should always be written in Roman and separated from the numerical value by a space (whatever the language).
The µ in µg or µm should be in Roman. The symbol for litre is L and that for minute is min. For temperature, please use only one of °C, °F or K in the entire manuscript. As the Angström (1Å = 10-10 m) is not an SI unit, it should be replaced by the nanometre (1nm = 10-9 m) or by the picometer (1pm = 10-12 m): 1Å = 0.1nm = 100 pm. Multiple units should be written with negative superscripts (for example, 25mgµL-1 µs-1). The list of notations should appear just before the first paragraph of full text.
A list of symbols and units should be provided if used extensively throughout the text.
A small paragraph summarizing the contents of the article, presenting the final outcome of the research or proposing further study on the subject, may be given at the end of the article under the Conclusion section.
If abbreviations are used in the text either they should be defined in the text where first used, or a list of abbreviations can be provided.
Financial contributions and any potential conflict of interest must be clearly acknowledged under the heading ‘Conflict of Interest’. Authors must list the source(s) of funding for the study. This should be done for each author.
Any research assistants or other individuals who assisted with the research but are not listed as authors, such as those who carried out the literature review, produced, computerized, and analyzed the data, or helped with the language, writing, or proofreading of the article, or offered any comments or suggestions, should be acknowledged. Briefly, everyone who has contributed significantly to the improvement of the paper should be acknowledged. It is recommended to mention the "Declared None" if there is no acknowledgement for the study.
Guest or honorary authorship based solely on position (e.g. research supervisor, departmental head) is discouraged.
The specific requirements for authorship have been defined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors http://www.icmje.org. Examples of authors' contributions are: 'designed research/study', 'performed research/study', 'contributed important reagents', 'collected data', 'analyzed data', 'wrote paper' etc. This information must be included in the submitted manuscript as a separate paragraph under the heading 'Authors' Contribution'. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining permission from all co-authors for the submission of any version of the manuscript and for any changes in the authorship.
References should be numbered sequentially [in square brackets] in the text and listed in the same
numerical order in the reference section. All references must be complete and accurate. Online
citations should include the date of access. Journal titles should conform to the present Index
Medicus abbreviations. It is necessary to list all authors if the total number of authors is 6 or
less and for more than 6 authors use 6 authors and then
References should be listed in the following Vancouver Style:
Ramos EJ, Middleton FA, Laviano A, Sato T, Romanova I, Das UN,
Crabtree RH. The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals. 3rd ed. Wiley & Sons: New York 2001.
Yeh DC, Rocco T. In: David EG, Armen HT, Ehrin JA, April WA, Eds. Integrative Cardiovascular Pharmacology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2005: 375-83.
Jakeman DL, Withers SGE. Carbohydrate Bioengineering: Interdisciplinary Approaches.
Hoffman, BJ. Metabolism: Amino acid transporters as targets for therapeutic intervention.
National Library of Medicine. Specialized Information Services: Toxicology and Environmental Health. Available: sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxMain.html (Accessed on: May 23, 2009).
Mackel H. Capturing the Spectra of Silicon Solar Cells. PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December 2004.
As a service, the Publishers can provide each author a certain number of relevant patents to assist them in writing their article. All patent application references will be provided by the author and will be published as it is.
All inventors’ names of the cited patents must be stated with the title, publication
number and the year of publication e.g. Becker, K.D., Velicelebi, G., Elliott, K.J.,
Wang, X., Tanzi, R.E., Bertram, L., Saunders, A., Mullin, K.M., Sampson, A.J. Genes
and polymorphisms on chromosome 10 associated with Alzheimer's disease and other
neurodegenerative diseases. US20050009031 (
Citation of the patents will be according to the international convention as follows:
Matsuda, T. Artificial intelligence machine and artificial intelligence machine
system. WO9832108 (
Mc Clanahan, C., Soss, J. System and method for determining acceptability of
proposed color solution using an artificial intelligence based tolerance model.
WO02099744 (
Spring, L. Artificial intelligence system. WO2008109781 (
Sidles, C. Method and system for completing forms on wide area networks such as
the internet. US20020062342 (
Zhou, R. System and method for parallel graph search utilizing parallel
structured duplicate detection. US20090024586 (
Hess, R.L. Method and apparatus for simulating user input device presence in a
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Starkey, J.G. Using a complexity matrix for estimation. US7617117 (
Appelbaum, N.A., Lehman, D.B., Nieglos, D.J., Nolte, S.C., Oehler, M.P. System
for preventing software piracy employing multi-encrypted keys and single
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Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications (which can only be included if prior permission has been obtained) should not be given in the reference section but they may be mentioned in the text and details provided as footnotes.
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Data tables should be submitted in Microsoft Word table format.
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Table number in bold font i.e. Table
Tables should be embedded in the text exactly according to their appropriate placement in the submitted manuscript.
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Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals sequentially in order of their citation in the body of the text.
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Tabular data provided as additional files can be submitted as an Excel spreadsheet.
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The text of every submitted manuscript is checked by using the Content Tracking mode in iThenticate. The Content Tracking mode ensures that manuscripts with an overall low percentage similarity (but which may have a higher similarity from a single source) are not overlooked. If the similarity level is significantly high, then the manuscript is returned to the author for paraphrasing the text and citing the original source of the copied material.
It is important to mention that the text taken from different sources with an overall low similarity percentage will be considered as a plagiarized content if the majority of the article is a combination of copied material.
There may be some manuscripts with an overall low similarity percentage, but a higher percentage from a single source. For instance, a manuscript may have less than 20% overall similarity but there may be 15 % similar text taken from a single article; the similarity index in such cases is higher than the approved limit for a single source. Authors are advised to thoroughly rephrase the similar text and properly cite the original source to avoid plagiarism and copyright violation.
We all know that scholarly manuscripts are written after a thorough review of previously published articles. It is therefore, not easy to draw a clear boundary between legitimate representation and plagiarism. However, the following important features can assist in identifying different kinds of plagiarized content. These are:
Reproduction of others words, sentences, ideas or findings as one’s own without proper acknowledgement.
Text recycling, also known as self-plagiarism. It is an author’s use of a previous publication in another paper without proper citation and acknowledgment of the original source.
Paraphrasing poorly: Copying complete paragraphs and modifying a few words without changing the structure of original sentences or changing the sentence structure but not the words.
Verbatim copying of text without putting quotation marks and not acknowledging the work of the original author.
Properly citing a work but poorly paraphrasing the original text is considered as unintentional plagiarism. Similarly, manuscripts with language somewhere between paraphrasing and quoting are not acceptable. Authors should either paraphrase properly or quote and in both cases, cite the original source.
Higher similarity in the abstract, introduction, materials and methods, and discussion and conclusion sections indicates that the manuscript may contain plagiarized text. Authors can easily explain these parts of the manuscript in many ways. However, technical terms and sometimes standard procedures cannot be rephrased; therefore Editors must review these sections carefully before making a decision.
Published manuscripts which are found to contain plagiarized text are retracted from the journal website after careful investigation and approval by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. A ‘Retraction Note’ as well as a link to the original article is published on the electronic version of the plagiarized manuscript and an addendum with retraction notification in the journal concerned.
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