Tips for Faster Peer-Review
Letter to the Editor
The Letter to the Editor reports a short but exciting finding in a particular field of neuroscience with high quality and of broad interest. The letter should be brief yet concise, and no specific subsections are required. No Materials and Methods section is needed, but any technical information which the authors think is important should be submitted as supplementary materials. For Letter to the Editor, the total character count should not exceed 15,000 and the display items should be limited to 2. References are limited to 15. No abstract and subsections are needed.
Research Highlight
The Research Highlight describes exciting research advances based on one breakthroughs recently published. It highlights the main results of the research, emphasizes the significance and provides further discussion or commentary on the topic. Research Highlight is up to 10,000 characters in length with no more than 10 references and one or two figures. No abstract and subsections are needed.
Perspective
For Perspective, the article should contain discussion on recent primary research literature similarly as Review. Yet, Perspective is shorter in length (no more than 20,000 characters) and focuses on a narrower scope. It is possible that in Perspective authors advocate a position over a controversial issue or a speculative hypothesis. One or two schematic illustrations are allowed to make the Perspective more comprehensive. References are limited to 20.