Developmental Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary journal publishing papers covering all stages of invertebrate, vertebrate and human brain development. Emphasis is placed on publishing fundamental as well as translational studies that contribute to progress in understanding mechanisms of normal development as well as genetic and environmental causes of abnormal brain development. The journal provides valuable information for both physicians and biologists. The journal accepts original research reports, reports on technological advances, and long and short reviews. Current topics of particular interest to the journal include:

• Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Stem Cell-derived Models of Neurological Disease
• Injury of the Developing Nervous System
• Pre-clinical models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

 

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Journal Sections

Journal Club: Letters that briefly discuss recently published Developmental Neuroscience papers only or in addition to papers published elsewhere. All papers published in this section should present a short overview of the topic and questions addressed in the reviewed paper, a description of the key findings, and a brief discussion and critical evaluation of the paper. The Journal Club articles must offer more than a summary of the original article and highlight developments in the field. Presentation of unpublished work or results is not acceptable. The authors of the paper must be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or the equivalent. At the time of the Journal Club articles’ submission, the highlighted papers should have appeared no earlier than the last two issues of the Journal. We encourage authors to contact the Journal’s Editorial Office (dne@karger.com) before writing a Journal Club paper to reserve the articles they wish to discuss. Authors of the reviewed papers will be invited to read the Journal Club before publication. If the authors choose to reply, their response will be linked to the published Journal Club. Journal Club papers should not exceed 1500 words; a maximum of 1 to 2 figures and a maximum of 1 table may be included (please see the template below).

Article Types
Research Article

Research Articles report on primary research. They must describe significant and original observations. Consideration for publication is based on the article’s originality, novelty, and scientific soundness, and the appropriateness of its analysis.
Research Articles are reports of original work. Authors are asked to follow the EQUATOR Network for Research Articles.
Prior approval from an Institutional Review Board (IRB) or an Ethics Review Committee is required for all investigations involving human subjects.

A downloadable template is available below.

Documents

Research Article (DOCX, 39 KB)

Articles should be approximately 25 typed manuscript pages with 6–8 figures and will occupy approximately 12 printed pages in final.

Review Article

Review Articles are considered reviews of research or summary articles. They are state-of-the-art papers covering a current topic by experts in the field. They should give evidence on and provide answers to a well-defined aspect or question in a particular area. Review Articles must include a critical discussion of the reported data and give a clear conclusion with potential impacts on the standard of care.

A downloadable template is available below.

Documents

Review Article (DOCX, 32 KB)

Articles should be approximately 8–10 typed manuscript pages and will occupy approximately 3–5 pages in final form.

Brief Report

Brief Reports are short and/or rapid announcements of research results. They must contain data derived from cutting-edge research and be of potential interest to a large proportion of the readership. They are independent, concise reports representing a significant contribution to the field. Such communications should represent complete, original studies and should be arranged in the same way as full-length manuscripts with subheadings.

A downloadable template is available below.

Documents

Brief Report (DOCX, 36 KB)

Commentary
Commentaries draw attention to a jointly published article, discussing the context or implications of the article and highlighting points of wider relevance to the field. Commentaries are presented from the author’s perspective and do not include original data. Commentaries are invited by the Editors and relate to an article in the same issue.
 
A downloadable template is available below. 
Documents

Commentary (DOCX, 33 KB)

Commentaries are brief focused reviews on recently published literature in the field. 
Letter

Letters may explore subjects related to matters discussed in the journal, providing the author’s perspective on a subject. Letters may discuss a recently published article and may lend support or constructively critique the article in line with the author’s experience. The editors reserve the right to share such letters to the authors of the article concerned prior to publication in order to permit response, ideally in the same issue of the journal. Letters should not include original data.

A downloadable template is available below. 

Documents

Letter (DOCX, 33 KB)

Authors may wish to submit the following type of Letter: 
Journal Club: Letters that briefly discuss recently published Developmental Neuroscience papers only or in addition to papers published elsewhere. All papers published in this section should present a short overview of the topic and questions addressed in the reviewed paper, a description of the key findings, and a brief discussion and critical evaluation of the paper. The Journal Club articles must offer more than a summary of the original article and highlight developments in the field. Presentation of unpublished work or results is not acceptable. The authors of the paper must be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or the equivalent. At the time of the Journal Club articles’ submission, the highlighted papers should have appeared no earlier than the last two issues of the Journal. We encourage authors to contact the Journal’s Editorial Office (dne@karger.com) before writing a Journal Club paper to reserve the articles they wish to discuss. Authors of the reviewed papers will be invited to read the Journal Club before publication. If the authors choose to reply, their response will be linked to the published Journal Club. Journal Club papers should not exceed 1500 words; a maximum of 1 to 2 figures and a maximum of 1 table may be included.
Methods Article

Methods Articles describe methods or protocols used to perform an experiment or carry out a research plan. They should not report research results. Authors may submit a Study Protocol outlining a research and/or statistical analysis plan for proposed, or ongoing, but incomplete, research studies, including but not limited to, clinical trials, population-based studies, clinical outcome studies, and service evaluations. Only study protocols that have received ethical approval will be considered and, where expected by community convention, study protocols must be pre-registered and the trial/study registration number should be provided in the manuscript. Manuscripts reporting study protocols must adhere to the relevant reporting guidelines for their study design, such as the SPIRIT, PRISMA-P or other relevant reporting guidelines as detailed on the Equator Network website. 

A downloadable template is available below.

Documents

Method Article (DOCX, 36 KB)

Method Article for Study Protocol (DOCX, 37 KB)

Methods articles should describe a new technological advance or innovative application of existing methods that open-up new research possibilities. 
Contact Information

Should you have any problems with your submission, please contact the editorial office:

Editorial Office Developmental Neuroscience
S. Karger AG
P.O. Box
CH–4009 Basel (Switzerland)
Editorial Office

Editor-in-Chief 
J. LoTurco – University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
 
 
Associate Editors
P.G. Bhide – Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
J.M. Lauder – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
C. Mallard – Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
R.S. Nowakowski – Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
 
D.L. Silver – Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Durham, NC, USA
G.D. Stanwood – Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
F. Szele – University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
S. Tan – Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
 
 
Editorial Board
K. Blomgren – Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
R.W. Brown – East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
A.T. Campagnoni – UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA, USA
D.B. Campbell – Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
K. Campbell – University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
J. Corbin – Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
R.H. Dyck – The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
A.J. Eisch – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
M.A. Fox – Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, USA
J.E. Goldman – Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
M. Hajihosseini – University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
C. Harwell – Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
T.F. Haydar – Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
S. Iyengar – National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon, India
B.E. Kosofsky – Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
A. LaMantia – George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
S.W. Levison – NJMS-UH Cancer Center, Newark, NJ, USA
M.C. McKenna – University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
P. McQuillen – University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
K.-A. Nave – Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
A. Nishiyama – University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
L.J. Noble – University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
A. Obenaus – University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
J.M. Pasquini – University of Buenos Aires – CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J.R. Perez-Polo – Shriner's Hospital for Children, Galveston, TX, USA
D.W. Pfaff – The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
S.J. Pleasure – UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
R. Ragupathi – Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J.B. Relvas – Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
C.L. Robertson – University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
R. Skoff – Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
B. Stevens – Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
S. Tole – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
F.M. Vaccarino – Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
S.J. Vannucci – Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
D.W. Walker – RMIT University School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Z. Yang – Fudan University, Shanghai, China
B. Zalc – Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
C. Zhu – Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China