Instructions for Authors

 

Instructions for Authors

Scope and policy

La revista NEUROCIRUGÍA HOY surge en el 2006 (ISSN 2007-9745) como una edición de divulgación científica en neurocirugía dirigida, al personal en formación académica y a profesionales en neurocirugía y las neurociencias clínicas.  Su objetivo principal es promover la educación y actualización en una edición de libre acceso con contenidos de fácil lectura. Se trata de artículos cortos de revisión, artículos originales, comunicaciones breves, reseñas de libros, infografías en neurocirugía, presentación de casos reporte y presentación de notas técnicas con la finalidad de promover la actualización bibliográfica de una forma práctica y expedita.

se han incorporado secciones propias para los historia y arte en la neurocirugía, una sección de revisión bibliográfica actualizada tomando en cuenta las publicaciones de mayor impacto Cuenta con la sección de residentes que toca aspectos educativos y formativos para aquellos que se presentarán a examinación para la certificación profesional y se complementa con una sección de noticias, reseñas de eventos y actividades académicas en todo el mundo.

A partir de 2011 su versión digital fue acogida por la plataforma de Surgical Neurology Internacional como el primer anexo de divulgación científica publicado en español en la plataforma digital de esta prestigiada publicación.

Desde su difusión y acceso por esta ruta, se ha multiplicado su penetrancia con lectores de habla hispana de Iberoamérica, preservando el acceso libre con lineamientos editoriales y éticos específicos. Su estructura a l 17 años de labor editorial ratifican su vocación de fortalecer la educación e investigación neuro quirúrgica en los grupos de neurocirujanos de Latinoamérica especialmente.

 

Rodrigo Ramos Zúñiga Editor

 

 

Mission

Neurocirugía Hoy es una revista con el propósito de divulgar conocimiento científico sobre neurocirugía mediante el acceso abierto a editoriales, comunicaciones breves, artículos originales, informes de casos e infografías.

Electronic ISSN

2152-7806 (Surgical Neurology International)

 

Print ISSN

2007-9745

Journal creation year

2006

Legally responsable Institution

Universidad de Guadalajara

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Neurocirugía Hoy offers multiple article types to maximize your options for disseminating your work such as: original articles, review articles, brief reports, book reviews, case reports, technical notes and infographics in Neurosurgery.

To ensure that submissions are correctly formatted, we encourage all authors to use our Manuscript Template[DdPyPalS1] .

 

Ensure that any manuscript you submit conforms to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations for ethics, as well as to the general Neurocirugía Hoy article requirements. All submitted manuscripts will be checked by plagiarism detection software.

 

Preprints

Please note that preprints can be shared anywhere at any time. Sharing your preprints on a preprint server will not count as prior publication. The journal Neurocirugía Hoy accepts the submission of manuscripts previously deposited in Preprint repositories. To send deposited manuscripts, the author must indicate the repository data in the Cover Letter.

 

Peer-review process

Authors will be sent notifications of the receipt of manuscripts and editorial decisions by email. Authors should not disclose the fact that their manuscript has been submitted to anyone, except coauthors and contributors, without permission of the editor.

 

All submitted manuscripts are reviewed initially by one of the editors. Manuscripts are evaluated according to the following criteria: material is original and timely, writing is clear, study methods are appropriate, data are valid, conclusions are reasonable and supported by the data, information is important, and topic has general interest to readers of this journal. From these basic criteria, the editors assess a paper's eligibility for publication. Manuscripts with insufficient priority for publication are rejected promptly. Other manuscripts are sent to expert consultants for peer review. The journal uses a single-blind peer review process: peer reviewer identities are kept confidential (unless reviewers choose to reveal their names in their formal reviews); author identities are made known to reviewers. The existence of a manuscript under review is not revealed to anyone other than peer reviewers and editorial staff. Peer reviewers are required to maintain confidentiality about the manuscripts they review and must not divulge any information about a specific manuscript or its content to any third party without prior permission from the journal editors. Information from submitted manuscripts may be systematically collected and analyzed as part of research to improve the quality of the editorial or peer review process. Identifying information remains confidential. Final decisions regarding manuscript publication are made by an editor who does not have any relevant conflicts of interest.

Accepted manuscripts are edited in accordance with the Journal Neurocirugía Hoy Style and returned to the corresponding author (or her/his designee) for approval. Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work, including changes made during editing and production that are authorized by the corresponding author.

If accepted for publication, all articles are generally published Online first and then again in a print issue.

 

Copyright

All authors have the right to receive an original copy of the journal.

Readers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations.

 

PREPARATION AND FORMATTING OF ARTICLES

Each type of article must be formed by all following 4 points:

1. Cover letter and assignment of rights

This is an unsigned freestyle letter at the beginning of the article declaring that it is not being considered or assessed for publication on any other medium, that all the authors have made a significant contribution to the work submitted and that all the authors have approved the final version of the manuscript. At the end the authors must sign the rights transfer agreement.

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article. According to the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), authorship credit should be based on the following 4 criteria:

  • substantial contributions to conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and
  • drafting of 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.

Each author should be accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done. All those designated as authors should meet all 4 criteria for authorship, and all who meet the 4 criteria should be identified as authors. Those who do not meet all 4 criteria should be acknowledged. All the authors should approve the final version of the article before submitting it.

 

Cover Letter and Assignment of Rights

 

Date: ___________________

 

Title of the article: _________

 

Type of article: ___________

 

Name of the corresponding author: _________________________

 

Signature of the corresponding author: _________________________

 

On behalf of all the authors of this article, I hereby declare that the manuscript is original and has not been published or submitted for publication on any other medium, and that no affiliation exists with any organisation with direct or indirect financial interests in relation to the topic in question that might affect the reporting of the article submitted herein.

 

On signing this declaration, taking into consideration that the Journal Neurocirugía Hoy had agreed to review and edit my submission, on behalf of all the authors, I hereby solemnly transfer and assign all rights, titles and interests, including any copyright in all forms and media herein and generated in the future, to the Journal Neurocirugía Hoy. The authors retain the non-exclusive right to use all or part of the article in future works, provided credit and rights are provided to Neurocirugía Hoy. Neurocirugía Hoy agrees to release the copyright in the event Neurocirugía Hoy does not publish this work.

 

2. Page with information on the authors

This page contains the names of the authors and their affiliations, in the exact manner they wish them to appear in the printed article. The authors´ rank, position or professional level should not be declared. Furthermore, this page should contain the corresponding author´s name and address.

 

3. Title page

This is the page that states the type of article (Original Article, Review, etc.), the full title of the same, the abbreviated title or cornices, the names of the authors starting with the surname(s) followed by the first name(s). Do not include professional titles ("Dr", "resident", "MD" and "PhD", for example).

 

4. Corpus of the manuscript, which should contain, depending on the article type:

Abstract

A concise and factual abstract in English or Spanish is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. At the end, 3-6 keywords in English is required for indexing purposes.

 

Introduction

This page should include just one to three paragraphs (no more than 300 words in total) with a brief introduction focused on the essence and motivation of the study. Ideally, it should be based on the justification, importance, hypothesis, and objective of the same. A clear justification on the approach to the issue in question should be provided if the article is a review. Literature citations begin here.

 

Methods

This section should include a sentence specifying the type of study, the approval of the Ethics Committee and the requirement of Informed Consent (where applicable). The subject population (human or non-human), the study period, outcomes measured (dependent variables), operational definitions, the organization of the study (or experimental strategy), measurement of the variables and the collection of data all need to be clearly defined. After having provided this information, the last paragraph should deal with the statistical analysis, clearly specifying the methods of basic data description, analysis of association or inference, and the level of significance. The level of significance should always be expressed with a non-cursive lowercase "p", always considering p< 0.05) as significant and the statistical package used (where applicable). Exact methods should be used in the analysis of categorical variables. Results should be presented as accurately as scientific values require (for example, measurements of association such as odds ratios should normally be reported to two decimal places). Except when the design of the article specifically requires, such as in non-inferiority studies, all the "p" values to be two-tailed. In general, "p" values of greater than 0.01 should be reported to two decimal places, "p" values of between 0.01 and 0.001 to three decimal places, and "p" values of less than 0.001 as "p < 0.001". The Methods section may include references to previous studies.

 

Results

This section should start with a description of the general characteristics of the study population. A description of both general and particular results. This section allows for the use of Charts (single-column tabulations, or in other words, listings), Tables (tabulations with more than one column and more than one row) and Figures (both single and compound illustrations, graphs and photographs). Use words first of all, use Tables if it is not possible with text only, and use Figures if this is not possible. Do NOT repeat the information contained in Tables or Figures in the text, just interpret it. If a Table or Figure is required, the text should only address the findings included in the Table or Figure superficially, do NOT repeat the same information. Do NOT refer to previous studies in this section.

 

Discussion

This section should first contain an interpretation of the results summarizing the main findings of the scientific report, and a comparison with similar previous studies afterwards. Do not repeat numbers, percentages or raw data reported in the Results section. Discuss the results and explain to the scientific community why they are valuable and relevant for clinical practice. Provide a clear description of the limitations of the study, how the study could be improved in the future and what the future perspectives and courses of action are. This section should include references to preceding literature.

 

Ethics

Neurocirugía Hoy requires that all investigation involving human subjects follows the World Medical Association Code of Ethics (Helsinki Declaration) for experimentation involving human beings (http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html).

In relation to research on non-human animals, Neurocirugía Hoy recommends research work be conducted in accordance with Directive 2010/63/EU on Animal Experimentation (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/legislation_en.html) and the American Association of Psychology Guides for Ethical Conduct in the Care and Use of Non-Human Animals (http://www.apa.org/science/leadership/care/guidelines.aspx).

All works submitted must be previously approved by a Research Ethics Committee from the Institution or Institutions in which the study is done and, in required cases, to have informed consent from the subjects under research.

Neurocirugía Hoy reserves the right to request from authors the letters of ethical approval for projects and, in some cases, the consent from research subjects, authorizing publication of information relating to their cases.

 

 

Declaration of conflicts of interest

All authors are required to declare any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. In the event there are no conflicts of interest, this fact should be expressed explicitly.

Authors must disclose any interests in the manuscript file after ethics. If there are no interests to declare then please state this: 'Declarations of interest: none'.

 

Sources of financing

You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement, it is recommended to state this.

 

Acknowledgment

All other persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (eg, data collection, analysis, and writing or editing assistance) but who do not fulfill the authorship criteria should be named with their specific contributions in an Acknowledgment in the manuscript.

Authors must obtain written permission to include the names of all individuals included in the Acknowledgment section, and the corresponding author must confirm that such permission has been obtained in the Authorship Form.

 

References

Citation in text

  • Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and
  •  
  • Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list, they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or "Personal communication" Citation of a reference as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

Reference links

  • Use of the DOI is highly encouraged. A DOI is guaranteed never to change, so you can use it as a permanent link to any electronic article.

Data references

  • This journal encourages you to cite underlying or relevant datasets in your manuscript by citing them in your text and including a data reference in your Reference List. Data references should include the following elements: author name(s), dataset title, data repository, version (where available), year, and global persistent identifier. Add [dataset] immediately before the reference so we can properly identify it as a data reference. The [dataset] identifier will not appear in your published article.

Reference style

  • Text: Indicate references in text by superscript Arabic numerals with round bracket in the order in which they appear. The numerals are to be used before a period, comma, or another punctuation mark. For further detail and examples, you are referred to the Vancouver style.
  • List: Number the references in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
  • References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the table or figure.

Reference to a journal publication:

  • 1. Burch MB, Wiegers NW, Patil S, Nourbakhsh A. Incidence and risk factors of reoperation in patients with adjacent segment disease: a meta-analysis. J Craniovertebr Junction Spine. 2020;11(1):9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcvjs.JCVJS_10_20

Reference to a journal publication with an article number:

Reference to a book:

  • 3. Strunk W Jr, White EB. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. New York, NY: Longman; 2000.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

  • 4. Mettam GR, Adams LB. How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In: Jones BS, Smith RZ, eds. Introduction to the Electronic Age. New York, NY: E-Publishing Inc; 2009:281–304.

Reference to a website:

Reference to a dataset:

  • [dataset] 6. Oguro M, Imahiro S, Saito S, Nakashizuka T. Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions, Mendeley Data, v1; 2015. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1

Reference to software:

  • 7. Coon E, Berndt M, Jan A, Svyatsky D, Atchley A, Kikinzon E, Harp D, Manzini G, Shelef E, Lipnikov K, Garimella R, Xu C, Moulton D, Karra S, Painter S, Jafarov E, Molins S. Advanced Terrestrial Simulator (ATS) v0.88 (Version 0.88). Zenodo; 2020, March 25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3727209

 

Tables

Tables should appear in the article file after the list of references, starting with the title. Number the Tables with Arabic numerals in the order in which they are cited in the text. Use titles that provide a concise description of the content of the Table, thereby enabling the reader to understand the Table without having read the text. Tables may contain abbreviations but should feature a footnote with the meaning of the abbreviations. Provide the measurement units for all numerical data in the columns and rows of the Table. Place measurement units at the top of the column or at the far right of a row when the same measurement unit applies to all the data in this column or row. When preparing Tables with a grid, use a single grid for each Table, and not a separate grid for each column or row.

 

Figure legends

A legend should be placed under each figure and never be part of the same.

 

Figures

High-resolution figures (at least 300 dpi/ppp) should be included on separate pages at the end of the text file, and never between the Methods, Results or Discussion paragraphs. Do not include figure legends as part of the image itself. A brief title should identify each figure (for example, "Figure 1" or "Figure 2", etc.).

 

Supplementary material

Supplementary material such as applications, images, sound clips, research data, software and methods can be published with your article to enhance it. Submitted supplementary items are published exactly as they are received (Excel or PowerPoint files will appear as such online). Please submit your material together with the article and supply a concise, descriptive caption for each supplementary file. If you wish to make changes to supplementary material during any stage of the process, please make sure to provide an updated file. Do not annotate any corrections on a previous version. Please switch off the 'Track Changes' option in Microsoft Office files as these will appear in the published version.

 

 

TYPES OF ARTICLES PRESENTATION

These are the requirements that each specific type of article must have.

 

Brief report

It should be presented maintaining the following order:

  • Title page
  • Structured abstract
  • Content
  • Conclusion
  • Financial Statement and Conflicts of Interest
  • References
  • Tables, graphs and figures

The total length of the manuscript should not exceed 1, 200 words.

The Abstract will be presented on separate page with a maximum of 100 words. It should be written in a single paragraph. At the end, 3-6 keywords should be included, to help in the classification of the article, placing the source in parentheses (MeSH, NLM).

A maximum of three tables, graphs or figures are accepted.

The maximum number of references is 5.

 

Book review

It should be presented maintaining the following order:

  • Title page
  • Unstructured Abstract
  • Content
  • Conclusion
  • Financial Statement and Conflicts of Interest
  • References
  • Tables, graphs and figures

The total length of the manuscript should not exceed 1, 500 words.

The Abstract will be presented on separate page with a maximum of 100 words. It should be written in a single paragraph. At the end, 3-6 keywords should be included, to help in the classification of the article, placing the source in parentheses (MeSH, NLM).

A maximum of three tables, graphs or figures are accepted.

The maximum number of references is 5.

 

Review Article

It should be presented maintaining the following order:

  • Title page
  • Structured Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Material and Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Financial Statement and Conflicts of Interest
  • References
  • Tables, graphs and figures

The total length of the manuscript should not exceed 1, 500 words.

The Abstract will be presented on separate page with a maximum of 150 words. It should be written in a single paragraph and include the following subtitles: Background (optional), Objectives, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion (optional) and Conclusions. At the end, 3-6 keywords should be included, to help in the classification of the article, placing the source in parentheses (MeSH, NLM).

A PRISMA-style flow diagram should be included as an online supplement.

A maximum of five tables, graphs or figures are accepted.

The maximum number of references is 15.

 

 

Original Article

It should be presented maintaining the following order:

  • Title page
  • Structured Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Material and Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Financial Statement and Conflicts of Interest
  • References
  • Tables, graphs and figures

The total length of the manuscript should not exceed 1, 500 words.

The Abstract will be presented on separate page with a maximum of 150 words. It should be written in a single paragraph and include the following subtitles: Background (optional), Objectives, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion (optional) and Conclusions. At the end, 3-6 keywords should be included, to help in the classification of the article, placing the source in parentheses (MeSH, NLM).

A maximum of five tables, graphs or figures are accepted.

The maximum number of references is 15.

 

 

Case report

Only Case Reports that are original and significantly advance the field will be considered. All Case Reports should carry the title “Case Report: ‘area of focus’”.

It should be presented maintaining the following order:

  • Title page
  • Unstructured Abstract
  • Introduction: what is unique about the case
  • Case description: including de-identified patient information, relevant physical examination and other clinical findings, relevant past interventions and their outcomes
  • Figure or table showcasing a timeline with relevant data from the episode of care
  • Diagnostic assessment: details on the therapeutic intervention, follow-up and outcomes
  • Discussion: strengths and limitations of the approach to the case, discussion of the relevant medical literature (similar and contrasting cases), take-away lessons from the case
  • Patient perspective
  • Informed consent: Authors are required to obtain written informed consent from the patients (or their legal representatives) for the publication
  • Financial Statement and Conflicts of Interest
  • References
  • Tables, graphs and figures

The total length of the manuscript should not exceed 1, 200 words.

The Abstract will be presented on separate page with a maximum of 100 words. It should be written in a single paragraph. At the end, 3-6 keywords should be included, to help in the classification of the article, placing the source in parentheses (MeSH, NLM).

A maximum of three tables, graphs or figures are accepted.

The maximum number of references is 5.

 

Authors should follow the CARE guidelines and submit a completed CARE checklist as a supplementary file (template available here: https://www.care-statement.org/checklist).

 

Technical Note

A technical note article presents a technique, instrumentation, exploration method, or an assessment method that is truly new compared to earlier publications. Surgical techniques should be supported by sufficient experience and contain substantial illustrations, including videos.

It should be presented maintaining the following order:

  • Title page
  • Unstructured Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Technique description
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Financial Statement and Conflicts of Interest
  • References
  • Tables, graphs and figures

The total length of the manuscript should not exceed 1, 200 words.

The Abstract will be presented on separate page with a maximum of 100 words. It should be written in a single paragraph. At the end, 3-6 keywords should be included, to help in the classification of the article, placing the source in parentheses (MeSH, NLM).

A maximum of three tables, graphs or figures are accepted.

The maximum number of references is 5.

 

 

Infographics in Neurosurgery

An Infographic is a visual representation of information, data, or knowledge intended to

present scientific research quickly and clearly and allows the reader to see patterns and

trends. It may be submitted with a brief description with a maximum of 500 words. The maximum number of references is 5.

  • Information is based on scientific fact rather than opinion.
  • All images and text should be free of any copyright infringement. The authors are responsible for compliance and including the relevant credits where necessary.
  • Provide credit to all sources, references, facts and figures used in the infographic.
  • Infographics should be saved as a PNG format.

 

 

Open Access/ Fees

The JNSPG does not charge a submission, publication, or open access fees for the Journal Neurocirugía Hoy.

 

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