Page 63 - COS-FOD2015

Submission Guidelines

Avoid statements such as “The significance of these results is discussed” that do not help the reader. The ab-
stract should be intelligible to the non-specialist as well as the specialist in your field, and hence should avoid
specialized terms and abbreviations.
ii) Key words. Provide 3-5 key words identifying the nature of the subject matter alphabetically in the last
part of the summary.
3. Introduction
The main part of an article should start with a brief Introduction, which outlines the historical or logical origins of
the study and clearly states the aim of the study and/or hypothesis to be tested, without repeating the abstract
or summarizing the results. Avoid giving an extensive review of the literature.
4. Materials and Methods
The materials and methods section should provide a sufficient detailed description of the methods to allow a
researcher to reproduce your work. Companies from which materials were obtained should be listed with their
location: city and state, province or country.

The Experimental Procedures or Materials and Methods should give sufficient details to enable the reader to
repeat your work exactly, if necessary. The necessity for conciseness should not lead to omission of im-
portant experimental details. Refer to previously published procedures employed by citation of both the
original description and pertinent published modifications, and do not include extensive description unless they
present substantially new modifications.

This section should present clearly but succinctly the experimental findings. Only results essential to establish
the main points of the work should be included. Numerical data should be analyzed using appropriate statistical
tests.

For guidelines on how to report statistical results, see Bailar, JC, Mosteller, F (1988) Guidelines for statistical
reporting in articles for medical journals. Ann Intern Med, 108:266-273; Curran-Everitt, D, Benos DJ, (2004)
Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American Physiological Society. J Neurophysiol,
92:669-671; Lang, TA, Secic, M (2006) How to report statistics in medicine: annotated guidelines for authors,
editors and reviewers, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, PA, ACP Press; Sarter M, Fritschy JM (2008) Eur J Neurosci
28:2363-2364. compact presentation.
Experimental animals: When experimental animals are used, specify species, strain, sex, age, supplier, and
numbers of animals used in total and for individual experimental conditions. The species should be identified
in the Title or Abstract.
Statistical methods: A complete description of statistical methods is required.

Permissions
If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright
holder concerned. It is the author's responsibility to obtain these in writing and provide copies to the publishers.
5. Results and Statistical Analyses
The observations should be presented with minimal reference to earlier literature or to possible interpretations.
The main statistical results should be reported in the Results section. The description of the statistical results
should include the proper statistical term (such as the F statistic) as well as the degrees of freedom and the
P value. The description of statistical results in the figure legends should be limited to important post hoc com-
parisons.
Statistical methods should be described with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to
the original data to verify the reported results. When possible, findings should be quantified and appropriate
measures of error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals) given. Details about eligibility criteria for sub-
jects, randomization and the number of observations should be included. The computer software and the statis-
tical method(s) used should be specified with references to standard works when possible
6. Discussion

The discussion section presents the interpretation of the findings, this is the only proper section for subjective
comments. The discussion section should be as concise as possible and should include a brief statement of the
principal findings while avoiding repetition of statements provided in the Abstract or the Results section.
A discussion of the validity of the observations, a discussion of the findings in light of other published work deal-
ing with the same or closely related subjects, and a statement of the possible significance of the work. Exten-
sive discussion of the literature is discouraged.
59