FINAL SUBMISSION: STRUCTURE AND LAYOUT GUIDELINES

Paper: white bond, 8 1/2 x 11 inches
Margins: 1 inch on all four sides
Spacing: Double-space everything (including quotes, notes, tables, and references)
Pagination: Number pages consecutively, starting with the title page; place author and title in the upper left-hand corner and page numbers in the upper right-hand corner of each page.

FIGURES
Design your figures so that they will reduce legibly to one column (3.25") wide or-- though only in rare cases--one page (6.8125") wide. In sizing your figures, bear in mind that 1 column inch equals about 70 words. Thus, if you use a modestly-sized figure such that figure + caption is one coumn wide and 3" deep, then you must subtract 200 words from the word count that has been allowed for your article. You should thus design your figures (if any) so that they are few in number, offer a very clear message that enriches the text, and have a full and helpful caption.

FORM OF MANUSCRIPT
Each manuscript should consist of the following elements, in the given order:

Title Page

This page should include the full chapter title, authors' names, addresses, and email addresses (as they should appear in the book), a short title (50 characters maximum, including spaces) for the running head, and the contact author's phone, fax, and email address.

Text

Text starts on a new page numbered as page 2. The first section should be titled Introduction and should offer a non-technical overview of the material to be covered in the article (Note: There will not be an abstract in Handbook articles). Use no more than two levels of subheadings in dividing the text into sections. Do not number the sections. Use a large font, with boldface uppercase underlined for Heading 1 and boldface alone for Heading 2. The final section is to be titled Discussion and should summarize key points, and discuss open questions, and linkages with other areas of Brain Theory and Neural Networks.

Mention each table and figure in the text, but group tables and figures separately outside the main body of the text.


Equations Numbered equations should have the number set in parentheses (thus), and these should be tabbed to the right margin. The text following an equation should have no indent unless it begins a new paragraph.

No Footnotes or endnotes

No acknowledgments

References

The references should start on a new page immediately following the main text. See the separate section below for further details.

Cross-references

Cross references should be in caps, and of the form ARTICLE TITLE (q.v.) or (see ARTICLE TITLE), depending on whether or not the title of the reference to the article occurs in the flow of the text.

Tables

Type each table on a separate page and number them in order of appearance in the text. Try to keep tables as simple and direct as possible. A table with too much information crammed into it is often as valueless as one with insufficient information.

Figure captions

Collect all figure captions into a single, continuous, double-spaced list, starting on a new page. If the figure has already been published, give a bibliographic reference and obtain the necessary permissions. Always use the wording provided by the grantor of permission for the credit line. Make the legend information so that the essential message of the figure can be understood without reference to the text.

Figures (final)

Provide high-quality computer files or camera-ready hard copies of figures. In any case provide labels with the article's title and the figure number, and an arrow indicating the correct orientation (i.e., which direction is up).

REFERENCES

References in the text refer parenthetically to authors cited, including year of publication, e.g., Smith (1972) or (Smith 1972; Smith and Jones 1966). For more than three authors, use "et al." (Smith et al. 1960).

Double-space all references, leaving one extra line space between them. The bibliography for your article should contain at most 15 references in all, and should contain textbook treatments of the topic and related background material, relevant review articles, and original research cited in your article.

Many authors of the first round of papers received for the first edition treated the references as they would in an ordinary article -- emphasizing the coverage of research papers. But the list of references is not to assuage fellow experts! It is there primarily to help readers who look to you for an introduction to your topic. Please make an extra effort to look at current textbooks, as well as other sources for excellent reviews, and provide generous coverage of such articles, perhaps with brief annotations where appropriate. When referring to a text, please specify which sections or chapters are relevant. Also, bear in mind the wide varieties of expertise of our readers. Good references on background topics, as well as on the core topic of the article itself, can be most helpful to such readers.

Use the heading References for this section, and place an asterisk to the left of those of your 15 citations that are expository. Do not mark a book with an asterisk unless it is introductory. Moreover, you may want to list specific chapters at the end of the citation of a book to guide the reader to material most relevant to your article.