Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

• File 1. Anonymous manuscript (No information about authors, and in a Word file, fully editable, not in PDF format); The final statements on “Ethical implications” and “Use of artificial intelligence” should be included in this version, which is intended for external peer review, but without revealing any personal, academic, or institutional affiliation information that could identify the authors. Textual typologies declared by the journal: original research articles (including clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses), narrative reviews, clinical cases, updates, perspective articles, short communications and consensus. To check the conditions regarding the structure and scope of each text type: https://www.actaneurologica.com/index.php/anc/manuscripts
• File 2. Single submission form, with all information fully completed, including: article information, author information, letter of commitment, conflict of interest statement, publication license, and checklist (including final statements).
• Additional support files. Letter of approval from your institution's ethics committee, proof of clinical trial registration in a database (with the date and correct link for verification), checklists of methodologies used if applicable to the manuscript (CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA), or informed consent from patients (if applicable or if it is a clinical case).
• Resumen estructurado en inglés y español: Debe escribirse por apartados, que incluyan lo siguiente: (For original and review article: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and conclusions); (Clinical case: introduction, case presentation, discussion and conclusions); (Consensus: introduction, description of methodology, development of contents and conclusions); (Update, perspective and short communication article: introduction, body of text and conclusions). It is important to note that the abstract should not exceed 250 words.
• Keywords: must be between 6 to 12 words according to DeCS/MeSH https://decsfinder.bvsalud.org/dmfs
• Tables and figures should be mentioned in the body of the text, including titles and sources (indicate whether they are self-prepared or taken from another text).
• Include final statements in the single submission format, in the section indicated in the checklist:
  • Authors' contributions (this item is not required if the article is written by a single author; in the case of two or more authors, contributions should be declared according to the 14 roles in the CRediT taxonomy)
  • Ethical implications
  • Funding
  • Conflicts of interest
  • AI disclosure statement
  • Data availability statement
  • Acknowledgements (This is the only optional item; it is not necessary to include it if the author has no acknowledgments to make)
• Vancouver citation style: In this regard, it is important that the authors are careful in the inclusion of each source and that the correspondence between what is called in the body of the text and what appears in the final list is perfect. As the Vancouver style demands that the sources be numbered according to their order of appearance in the text, care must be taken to ensure that the numbering does not omit or repeat references.
  As for the citation structure of each bibliographic entry, the Vancouver style in Spanish can be consulted in the following manual (chapter 5, from page 79):
  https://medicina.uniandes.edu.co/es/noticias/estudiantes/manual-de-citas-y-referencias-bibliograficas
  In English, it can be consulted in this link of the National Library of Medicine:
  https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
• Inclusion of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). The authors have verified that all the references in their manuscript are correctly cited and that for those that have a DOI, it has been included, by using the following Crossref tool:
  As far as references are concerned, it is essential that each entry, in the final listing, has its DOI (digital object identifier). Crossref has a system that locates the DOI of the references that have it and it is very easy to use here:
  Simple Text Query: https://apps.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery
  There, you enter the complete block of references in the field and hit submit; after a few seconds, the system returns all the DOIs of the references that have it.