Additional instructions/guidelines
Title page
– A concise and informative title
– Full name and surname of each author
– Affiliation(s) and address(es) of each author
– E-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
-Conflict of Interest-if None possible text: "The authors have no financial interest in any materials or equipment used in this study"
– Notes regarding sponsoring organizations
Abstract.
A summary of the most important results and conclusions . The abstract should be divided into four sections: Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions. (see guidelines section)
Introduction.
The Introduction should state the purpose of the investigation and give a short review of the pertinent literature (max. one printed page).
Materials and methods
The Materials and methods section should follow the Introduction and should provide enough information to permit repetition of the experimental work.
For particular chemicals or equipment, the name and location of the supplier should be given in parentheses.
Results.
The Results section should describe the outcome of the study. Data should be presented as concisely as possible, if appropriate in the form of tables or figures, although very large tables should be avoided.
Discussion.
The Discussion should be an interpretation of the results and their significance with reference to work by other authors.
Acknowledgements.
These should be as brief as possible. Any grant that requires acknowledgement should be mentioned. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
Appendices.
If there is more than one appendix, they should be numbered consecutively. Equations in appendices should be designated differently from those in the main body of the paper, e.g. (A1), (A2) etc. In each appendix equations should be numbered separately.
Additional Reference explanation for Acta Neurochirurgica
References should be ALPHABETICALLY arranged A,B,C...
Personal communications should only be mentioned in the text. Citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets, and the list of references at the end of the paper should be both alphabetized under the first author's name and numbered. References by the same author or team of authors should be listed in chronological order.
The list of References should only include works that are cited in the text and have been previously published or accepted for publication. Personal communications should only be mentioned in the text. Papers which have been accepted for publication but not yet published should be included in the list of references with the name of the journal and the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) code of the cited literature. The author is responsible for the accuracy of the references.
Here are some examples of reference style:
Journal articles
1.Coupland SE, Bechrakis NE, Anastassiou G, Foerster AMH, Heiligenhaus A, Pleyer U, Hummel M, Stein H (2003) Evaluation of vitrectomy speciments and chorioretinal biopsies in the diagnosis of primary intraocular lymphoma in patients with Masquerade syndrome. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 241: 860-870
2.Ivert L, Kong J, Gouras P (2003) Changes in the choroidal circulation of rabbit following RPE removal. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol DOI 10.10007/s00417-003-0653-5
3.Tian S, Lennerstrand G, Nishida Y, Tallstedt L (2003) Eye muscle force development and saccadic velocity in thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 241:740-746
Books
Larcher W (1995) Physiological plant ecology, 3rd edn. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York
Multiauthor books
Hovind HJ (1986) Traumatic birth injuries. In: Raimondi AJ, Choux M, Di Rocco C (eds) Head injuries in the newborn and infant (Principles of pediatric neurosurgery). Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 87-109
Illustrations and Tables.
All figures (photographs, graphs or diagrams) and tables should be cited in the text, and each numbered consecutively throughout. The placement of figures and tables should be indicated in the left margin. For submission of figures in electronic form see below.
Line drawings. Please submit good-quality files. The inscriptions should be clearly legible.
Half-tone illustrations Please submit well-contrasted photographic files. Magnification should be indicated by scale bars.
Size of figures. The figures should either match the width of the column (8.6 cm) or be 13.1 cm or 17.6 cm wide. The maximum length is 22.4 cm.
Figure legends. Figure legends should be brief, self-sufficient explanations of the illustrations. The legends should be placed at the end of the text.
Tables. Tables should have a title and a legend explaining any abbreviation used in that table. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).
Colour illustrations. There is no extra charge for colour illustrations or figures.
