TOPICS
AND GENERAL STYLE OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JUNE:
JUNE publishes peer-reviewed reports of innovations in any area of
undergraduate neuroscience education related to the mission of advancing
undergraduate neuroscience on topics such as novel pedagogy and original
laboratory exercises. All articles should be written for an audience
of college faculty and include references to relevant literature,
supplies, and/or supplemental materials such as animations, websites,
etc. Figures and qualitative or quantitative assessment of pedagogical
outcomes are strongly encouraged.
JUNE also invites
submissions as letters to the editor and reviews of textbook, curricular,
equipment, or media.
All submissions
must be original work in English that is unpublished and not submitted
for publication elsewhere. JUNE does not publish articles on neuroscience
exercises for pre-college students and does not serve as a journal
for undergraduates to publish the results of experiments (though
undergraduate co-authors who have contributed significantly to the
development and/or assessment of lab exercises are welcomed).
JUNE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the editor-in-chief electronically
(email or disk) as Microsoft Word Documents in publication ready
format according to the formatting guidelines below. A sample
MSWord document is available on the JUNE website for
further reference and may be used as a template. All articles will
ultimately be published as PDF
documents.
Manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter from the corresponding author that briefly describes the significance and originality of the work, indicates that the manuscript has neither been publised nor under consideration at another journal, indicates that the work adhered to appropriate ethical guidelines for any human and/or animal experimentation, discloses any potential competing interests, and indicates that all authors have agreed to submission of the manuscript. Contact information for at least four potential peer reviewers should also be included in the cover letter. Potential reviewers should be experts in the field, able to objectively assess the manuscript, and not current or recent collaborators.
The submission deadline for consideration
for the spring issue is March 15th, and August 1st for the fall
issue, though earlier submission is encouraged and manuscripts are reviewed as they are received.
Inquiries regarding
submissions should be directed to the following:
Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education
c/o Dr. Gary Dunbar, Editor-in-Chief
Central Michigan University
Psychology Department
Mount Pleasant, MI 48859
989-774-3282 (phone)
989-774-2553 (fax)
Gary.dunbar@cmich.edu
JUNE PUBLICATION
The electronic format of JUNE allows rapid review and publication. The average time between submission and return of reviewer comments is currently 28 days. Accepted manuscripts are published in the next issue of JUNE and there is no "backlog" to delay publication. JUNE is supported by FUN and there is no charge to authors submitting or publishing in JUNE. FUN membership is not required, but is encouraged. All articles published in JUNE will be freely available to all readers.
FORMATTING
GUIDELINES: (also consult the JUNE article template, available
as a MSWord or PDF document)
Margins:
Top, Left, & Right = 0.5", Bottom = 0.56"margin
Headers:
all 8 point Arial
First page:
"The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE),
Fall 2002, 1(1):1-10"
Subsequent odd pages "The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience
Education (JUNE), Fall 2002, 1(1):1-10 2"
Subsequent even pages "First Author Last Name et al. five
spaces Running Title (<60 characters) five spaces page number"
Note: actual
page numbers will be determined when the issue goes to press and
will be completed by the editor.
Title:
14 point bold Arial, left justified
Authors:
12 point bold Arial, left justified, institutional affiliations
denoted by superscripted numbers
Institutional
Affiliations: 10 point italicized Arial, left justified Department(s),
College/University, City, State (or country if non US), Zip code
Abstract:
10 point Arial, right & left justified, 2 column format (3.65"
columns with 0.2" separation)
Key words:
10 point italicized Arial, right & left justified, terms separated
by semicolons, first line indented five spaces
Section Headings:
No explicit Introduction heading, but sections such as Materials
& Methods, Results, Discussion, & References should be in
all caps, bold, 12 point Arial
Text: 10
point Arial, right and left justified, 2 column format (3.65"
columns with 0.2" separation), first line of section's first paragraph is not indented, all subsequent paragraph lines are indented five spaces
Figures:
Color or black and white figures should be inserted directly into
the most appropriate location within manuscript as either one column
(3.65") or two column (7.5") widths. In general figures
that are one column width are easier to format than those that span
two columns. (Authors inserting 2 column wide figures will need
to insert section breaks before and after the wide figure). Inserting
the figures and legends after the text has been finalized is recommended.
Figure Legends:
Arial 9 point "Figure 1" in italics 9 point Arial with a period following. Legend
title and text of legend in regular Arial 9 point. Figure section references in the legend should be italicized (e.g., A and B).
References:
Follow the citation style of Journal of Neuroscience. References
should be in alphabetical order, right and left justified in Arial
9 point with 1/8" indentation of the second and subsequent
lines. All references should be parenthetically noted in the text
in chronological order (Keller, 1991; Riddle et al., 1995; Lewin
and Barde, 1996).
Keller R (1991) Early embryonic development of Xenopus laevis. In:
Xenopus laevis: Practical uses in cell and molecular biology (Kay
BK, Peng HB, eds) pp 102-116. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Lewin GR, Barde YA (1996) Physiology of the neurotrophins. Annu
Rev Neurosci 19:289-317.
Riddle DR, Lo DC, Katz LC (1995) NT-4-mediated rescue of lateral
geniculate neurons from effects of monocular deprivation. Nature
378:189-91.
Acknowledgements
and contact information for corresponding author: place text
following last reference in 8 point Arial, right and left justified
as separate paragraphs for acknowledgements and corresponding author.
The full postal and electronic mailing addresses of the corresponding
author must be included.
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