Cognitive Neuropsychology

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Published By: Psychology Press

Volume Number: 28

Frequency: 8 issues per year

Print ISSN: 0264-3294

Online ISSN: 1464-0627

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Instructions for Authors

AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL

Cognitive Neuropsychology aims to promote the investigation of human cognition that is based on neuropsychological methods including brain pathology, recording, stimulation or imaging. The research can involve brain-lesioned or neurologically-intact adults, children or non-human animals as long as it makes an explicit contribution to our understanding of normal human cognitive processes and representations. Cognition is understood broadly to include the domains of perception, attention, planning, language, thinking, memory and action. The research may, additionally, contribute to issues regarding clinical populations and the neurobiology of cognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology is currently the only journal in which the focus is the investigation of human cognition informed by neural data.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

New manuscripts should be submitted through our ScholarOne Manuscripts online submission site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pcgn

New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. If any assistance is needed with this, please feel free to e-mail the ScholarOne Manuscripts administration assistant, Duncan Nicholas, at reviews@psypress.co.uk. You may also contact the Editorial Assistant by phone on 02070 177730.

If you wish to submit a revision of a manuscript that was not previously submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscripts website, please send it and your covering letter to the Editorial Assistant by email.

Manuscripts should be submitted as a single file in a standard document format type such as Word or Rich Text Format. Title page, figures and tables should be integrated into the main document in the correct position they should appear in the text. Please do not place Tables and Figures at the end on separate sheets

All manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement confirming that it has not been previously published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. There is no word limit for papers submitted to this journal.

All manuscripts should be submitted in American Psychological Association (APA) format following the latest edition of Publication Manual of the APA (currently 5th edition).

Authors may request blind refereeing. In this case, it is the responsibility of the author to prepare his or her manuscript such that after detachment of the title page no clues remain as to authorial identities.

Each paper submitted to the Editor will be assigned to an appropriate member of the Board of Editors, who will thenceforth have full editorial responsibility for the paper, and will obtain and transmit to authors reviews from at least two independent reviewers.

METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Papers should in general satisfy methodological standards expected of publications on normal cognitive processes in such journals as the Journal of Experimental Psychology or Cognitive Psychology, as well as satisfying requirements appropriate for neuropsychological publications in journals such as Brain (e.g., where studies of neuropsychological patients are reported, efforts should be made to provide a clear background description of the general neurological and neuropsychological status of the patient).

The importance of single case studies for the resolution of theoretical issues is acknowledged, and methodologically adequate single case studies are welcomed. In reports of such studies, the nature of a patient's deficits should be documented in quantitative terms (a simple syndrome label is insufficient). The level of detail required here depends upon the specific hypothesis being tested. Essentially what is needed is documentation of the presence of specified deficits and preserved capacities as these are related to particular hypotheses.

In reports of group studies, criteria for selecting and for grouping patients must be detailed and explicit, and related to the particular hypotheses being tested. The designation of a group of patients simply as "Broca's aphasics", for example, would not be sufficient. A set of patients classified as Broca's aphasics can be extremely heterogeneous, and any conclusions reached in such a study may, in fact, be true for only a few of the patients in this group. One way around this problem is to treat each patient as an individual, i.e., carry out single case studies. Another is to provide explicit evidence of homogeneity of the group in a group study.

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Seeking permission to use other sources

FORMAT

Typescripts. The style and format of the typescripts should conform to the specifications given in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Typescripts should be double spaced, Times New Roman font size 12, with adequate margins, and numbered throughout. The title page of an article should contain only:

(1) the title of the paper, the name(s) and address(es) of the author(s);
(2) a short title not exceeding 40 letters and spaces, which will be used for page headlines;
(3) name and full contact address of the author to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent;
(4) your telephone, fax and email details, as this helps speed of processing considerably.
(5) 5 keywords

Abstract. An abstract of 100-150 words should follow the title page on a separate page.

Headings. Indicate headings and subheadings for different sections of the paper clearly. Do not number headings.

Acknowledgements. These should be as brief as possible and typed on a separate page at the beginning of the text.

Permission to quote. Any direct quotation, regardless of length, must be accompanied by a reference citation that includes a page number. Any quote over six manuscript lines should have formal written permission to quote from the copyright owner. It is the author's responsibility to determine whether permission is required from the copyright owner and, if so, to obtain it. (See Seeking permission to use other sources for a template of a letter to use when seeking copyright permission).

Footnotes. These should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Essential footnotes should be indicated by superscript figures in the text and collected on a separate page at the end of the manuscript.

References:

Reference citations within the text. Use authors' last names, with the year of publication, e.g., “(Brown, 1982; Jones & Smith, 1987; White, Johnson, & Thomas, 1990)”. On first citation of references with three to five authors, give all names in full, thereafter use [first author] “et al.”. In the references, the first six authors should be listed in full.

If more than one article by the same author(s) in the same year is cited, the letters a, b, c, etc., should follow the year. If a paper is in preparation, submitted, or under review, the reference should include the authors, the title, and the year of the draft (the paper should also be cited throughout the paper using the year of the draft). Manuscripts that are “in press” should also include the publisher or journal, and should substitute “in press” for the date.

Reference list. A full list of references quoted in the text should be given at the end of the paper in alphabetical order of authors' surnames (or chronologically for a group of references by the same authors), commencing as a new page, typed double spaced. Titles of journals and books should be given in full, e.g.:

Books:
Rayner, E., Joyce, A., Rose, J., Twyman, M., & Clulow, C. (2008). Human development: An introduction to the psychodynamics of growth, maturity and ageing (4th ed.). Hove, UK: Routledge.

Chapter in edited book:
Craik, F. I. M., Naveh-Benjamin, M., & Anderson, N. D. (1998). Encoding processes: Similarities and differences. In M. A. Conway, S. E. Gathercole, & C. Cornoldi (Eds.), Theories of memory (Vol. 2, pp. 61–86). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Journal article:
Adlington, R. L., Laws, K. R., & Gale, T. M. (2009). The Hatfield Image Test (HIT): A new picture test and norms for experimental and clinical use. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 31, 731–753. doi:10.1080/13803390802488103

Tables. These should be kept to the minimum. Each table should be integrated with the text, typed doubled spaced giving the heading, e.g., "Table 2", in Arabic numerals, followed by the legend, followed by the table. Make sure that appropriate units are given.

Figures. Figures should only be used when essential and the same data should not be presented both as a figure and in a table. Where possible, related diagrams should be grouped together to form a single figure. Each figure should be integrated with the text, typed doubled spaced giving the heading, e.g., "Figure 2", in Arabic numerals, followed by the caption, followed by the figure.

For more detailed guidelines see Preparation of Figure Artwork.

Statistics. Results of statistical tests should be given in the following form:

"... results showed an effect of group, F(2, 21) = 13.74, MSE = 451.98, p < .001, but there was no effect of repeated trials, F(5, 105) = 1.44, MSE = 17.70, and no interaction, F(10, 105) = 1.34, MSE = 17.70."

Other tests should be reported in a similar manner to the above example of an F -ratio. For a fuller explanation of statistical presentation, see the APA Publication Manual (6th edition).

Abbreviations. Abbreviations that are specific to a particular manuscript or to a very specific area of research should be avoided, and authors will be asked to spell out in full any such abbreviations throughout the text. Standard abbreviations such as RT for reaction time, SOA for stimulus onset asynchrony or other standard abbreviations that will be readily understood by readers of the journal are acceptable. Experimental conditions should be named in full, except in tables and figures.

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