Guide for Authors
World Neurosurgery has an open access mirror journal, World Neurosurgery: X.
Submission checklist
You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.
Ensure that:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
Please note that it is our journal policy to only permit one author to be listed as the corresponding author for an article. Please avoid listing multiple corresponding authors on your title page or manuscript.
Please ensure that the following items are present.
Required files to be uploaded:
• Cover Letter
• Title Page (see 'Essential title page information' section for further details) containing: title, all authors' complete names, all authors' highest academic degree and affiliations, corresponding author name and contact details, key words (3 to 7) and short/running title
• Manuscript
• Disclosure-Conflict of Interest
• Abbreviation List
• Figures, if applicable
• Tables, if applicable.
Further considerations:
• Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
• A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
• Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed
• Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements
Ethics in publishing
Please see our information on Ethics in publishing.
Studies in humans and animals
If the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. The manuscript should be in line with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age and ethnicity) as per those recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly.
Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and should be carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments, or the National Institutes of Health guide for the care and use of Laboratory animals (NIH Publications No. 8023, revised 1978) and the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript that such guidelines have been followed. The sex of animals must be indicated, and where appropriate, the influence (or association) of sex on the results of the study.
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