Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics ( Author guidelines )

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics
_ Author guidelines

All manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed. Therefore, the author name(s) should appear only on the title page. Authors should avoid revealing their identities in the body or reference section of the manuscript. All identifying information associated with the manuscript will be deleted prior to review in order to preserve anonymity.

:: Manuscripts may only be submitted as a Microsoft Word file. Other text formatting programs are not acceptable.

:: Manuscripts must be double-spaced in 12 point font, Times New Roman, with pages numbered consecutively throughout the entire paper.

:: Manuscripts must not exceed 30 double-spaced, word-processed pages (including abstracts, references, figures, tables, and appendices). Allow margins of 1.5 inches (3.5 cm) on top, bottom, and left side as well as 2 inches (5 cm) on the right side. Papers should be left justified.

:: Place the title of the manuscript, but not the author name(s), at the top of the second page, followed by an abstract not exceeding 200 words.

:: In the main part of the manuscript, use bold subheadings (12 point font, Times New Roman) to structure the paper, e.g., introduction, conceptual background, methodology, results, discussion, implications. Please use not more than one level of subheadings. Do not number subheadings.

:: Please do not use in-text accentuations such as italics or bold.

:: Please do not use footnotes; only a very limited number of endnotes are acceptable.

:: Please use a space between number and percentage sign, e.g. 1 %.

:: Use points as decimal separators, e.g. 13.5 or 145.2 and commas as thousand separators, e.g. 1,000 or 22,000.

:: Citations in the text should be in line with the following style: For example: Petermann (1996) within in the text or (Petermann 1996) at the end of a sentence. In case of two authors, please connect them with “and”. For example: (Anderson and Weitz 1992). In case of more than two authors, abbreviate co-authors with “et al.”. For example: (Cahill et al. 1996). In case of more than one source per citation, please list those sources in chronological order using semicolons. For example: (Anderson and Weitz 1992; Burke et al. 1992; Aaker 1997). When citing the same author(s) more than once, use semicolons to separate the years of publication. For example: (Hall and Hall 1990; 1991). Only use page numbers if you cite original text. For example: Zaltman (1997) argues neuroscientific technologies “have created new opportunities to measure with far greater precision than previously possible” (p. 432).

:: References are to be listed chronologically, last name first, followed by initials. Use the subheading “References”. Do not abbreviate the list of authors with “et al.“ in the references.

:: For journals: Last name, F. (year), title, in: journal, volume, pages. Example: Dolan, R. (2002), Emotion, cognition, and behavior, in: Science, 298, 1191-1194.
For books: Last name, F. (year), title, city: publisher. Example: Bollen, K.A., Curran, P.J. (2006), Latent curve models: a structural equation perspective, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience.
For book sections: Last name, F. (year), title, in: last name of editor, F. (ed.), book title, city: publisher, pages. Example: Phelps, E.A., LeDoux, J.E. (2000), Emotional networks in the brain, in: Lewis, M., Haviland-Jones, J.M. (eds.), Handbook of emotions, New York, NY: Guilford Press, 157-172.
For electronic sources: Last name, F. (year), title, URL, access date: date. Example: Marketing Science Institute (2004), 2004-2006 Research Priorities, http://www.msi.org/msi/pdf/MSI_RP04-06.pdf, access date: 09/16/2006.

:: Figures and tables must be included at the end of the manuscript. The figure number (table number) and title should be typed in the same line, centered, separated by colon. For example: Figure 1: Psychological processes. In the text, the location of figures and table should be indicated. For example: Please insert Figure 1 here. Additionally, submit figures and tables as separate Microsoft Powerpoint or Microsoft Excel files.

:: All figures and tables should be as simple as possible. I.e., they must only be in black/white, with a white background, 2-dimensional, no bold lines, no italics, no colors, 12 point font, Times New Roman.

Text Formatting:

Endnote (ens-file)

Put the ens-file in the “Styles“-folder of the Endnote program folders. You can then specify NeuroPsychoEconomics as output-style and your citations and references will be in the required format.