Child Neurology Open
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Child Neurology Open (CNO) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focusses on the most current information from clinical and investigative studies in the wide field of clinical pediatric neuroscience.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/childneurologyopen. Please see the Submission Guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.
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Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.
The APC for CNO is $2000 USD.
The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
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Child Neurology Open (CNO) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access forum for the most current information from clinical and investigative studies in the wide field of clinical pediatric neuroscience. Published articles come from a variety of disciplines, including child neurology, pediatric neurosurgery, pediatric neuroradiology, child and adolescent psychiatry, pediatric neuropsychology, developmental and behavioral pediatrics, and developmental neurobiology. Following careful peer review of submitted material, subsequent acceptance results in very rapid online publication and indexing in the major scientific publication databases.
| Marc C. Patterson, MD, FRACP | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Alison Christy, MD, PhD | Providence Health and Services, Portland, OR, USA |
| Autumn Ivy, MD, PhD | Children’s Hospital of California, University of California - Irvine, CA, USA |
| Kyle Steinman, MD, MAS | Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Yinding Wang | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Shawn C. Aylward, MD | Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Sonika Agarwal, MBBS, MD, DNB, MNAMS | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Tally Lerman-Sagie, MD | Wolfson Medical Centre, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Angela Curcio, MD | Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
| Aliya Frederick | University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA |
| Inna Hughes | University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA |
| Laura Kirkpatrick, MD | UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Douglas Nordli, MD | Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Phillip L. Pearl | Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA |
| Joanne Kacperski, MD, FAHS | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Aviva Fattal-Valevski, MD, MHA | Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Daniel Bonthius, MD, PhD | University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
| Denia Ramirez-Montealegre, MD, MPH, PhD | University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA |
| Ronald R. Seese, MD, PhD | Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH, USA |
| Grace Gombolay, MD | Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Jan-Mendelt Tillema, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Lawrence A. Zeidman, MD | University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Harry T. Chugani, MD | New York University, NY, USA |
| Geetanjali Rathore, MD | Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA |
| Anne M. Connolly, MD | Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA |
| Andrea Gropman, MD | Children's National Medical Center, Children's Research Institute, Washington DC, USA |
| Bernard Maria, MD, MBA | Atlantic Health System, Morristown, New Jersey, USA |
| Suresh Kotagal | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Catherine Amlie-Lefond, MD | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Jenny Wilson, MD | Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA |
| James W. Wheless, MD | The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA |
| Sonika Agarwal, MBBS, MD, DNB, MNAMS | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Richard B. Carozza, MD | Vanderbilt Children's Hospital |
| Eleni Drakou, MD | Isabelle Rapin Division of Child Neurology, Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center |
| Whitney Fitts, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Mekka Garcia | New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA |
| Ariel Heller, MD | Medical University of South Carolina, USA |
| Bianca C. Kapoor-Heaphy, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Dennis Keselman, MD | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Laura Kirkpatrick | UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Hitoshi Gene Koshiya | UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Grant L. Lin, MD, PhD | Stanford University, Department of Neurology |
| Nehali Mehta, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Maksim Parfyonov | British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Praveen Kumar Ramani, MD | UAMS College of Medicine, Arkansas Children's Hospital |
| Pasquale J. Accardo, MD | Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA |
| Guillermo E. Agosta, MD | Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Leland E. Albright, MD | University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA |
| Gulay Alper, MD | Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Catherine Amlie-Lefond, MD | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Banu Anlar, MD | Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey |
| Ian J. Butler, MD | UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA |
| Carol S. Camfield, MD | Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada |
| Peter R. Camfield, MD, FRCPC | Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada |
| Eva Catenaccio | Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Hsiao-Tuan Chao, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA |
| Keith Coffman, MD | Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA |
| Abigail Collins, MD | Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA |
| Anne Comi, MD | Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Anne M. Connolly, MD | Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA |
| Shlomi Constantini, MD, MSc | Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Patricia K. Crumrine, MD | Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Paolo Curatolo, MD | University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy |
| Louis Dang, MD, PhD | University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| Danielle de Campo | Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Emily de los Reyes, MD | The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Radhika Dhamija, MBBS | Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA |
| Aron J. Diament, MD | University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Michael M. Dowling, MD, PhD | UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA |
| Michael Duchowny, MD | Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL, USA |
| Wendy Edlund | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Kathryn Elkins | Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Kevin C. Ess, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA |
| Jason Fangusaro, MD | Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Donna M. Ferriero, MD | University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Francis M. Filloux, MD | University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| Laura Flores-Sarnat, MD | University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, USA |
| Daniel Freedman | Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Stephen Fulton, MD | University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA |
| Dawn Gano, MD | University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Thomas J. Geller, MD | St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA |
| Amy C. Goldstein, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Meredith Golomb, MD | Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Danielle Gordon | UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| William Graf, MD | Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA |
| Lorie Hamiwka, MD | Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Kenton R. Holden, MD | Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC, USA |
| Mackenzie Howard, PhD | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA |
| Keith Hyland, PhD | Horizon Molecular Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Rebecca Ichord, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Katie Ihnen | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Christine Imms, MD | Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia |
| Saba Jafarpour | Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Yuwu Jiang, MD, PhD | Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China |
| Sergiusz Jóžwiak, MD | Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland |
| Stanley D. Johnsen, MD | St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA |
| Lori Jordan, MD | Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA |
| Makiko Kaga, MD | National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan |
| Angelina M. Kakooza, MMed | Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda |
| Edward M. Kaye, MD | Stoke Therapeutics, Bedford, MA, USA |
| Gesina Keating, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Marjolijh Ketelaar, PhD | University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Yasmin Khakoo, MD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA |
| Mary Kay Koenig, MD | University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA |
| Alfried Kohlschütter, MD | University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany |
| Mark S. Korson, MD | Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
| Barry Kosofsky, MD, PhD | Cornell University, New York, NY, USA |
| Eric Heath Kossoff, MD | Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Michael Kruer, MD | Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA |
| Paul D. Larsen, MD | University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA |
| Evan Lewis, MD | SickKids Hospital - Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Taryn Liu | Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA |
| Kenneth J. Mack, MD, PhD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Annette Majnemer, OT, PhD | McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada |
| Macpherson Mallewa, MBBS, PhD, MRCP | Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi |
| Elysa Marco, MD | University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Bernard Maria, MD, MBA | Atlantic Health System, Morristown, New Jersey, USA |
| Harold Marks, MD | Drexel University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Hugh McMillan, MD, DSc | University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| Nehali Mehta | University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Douglas C. Miller, MD, PhD | University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA |
| Steven P. Miller, MD | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Jonathan Mink, MD, PhD | University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA |
| Mark Mintz, MD | The Center for Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Health, Voorhees, NJ, USA |
| Wendy G. Mitchell, MD | Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Leslie A. Morrison, MD | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
| Kathryn North, MD, FRACP | Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia |
| Hope O'Brien | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Hema Patel, MD | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| John M. Pellock, MD | Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA |
| Milivoj Velickovic Perat, MD | University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Danielle Pier, MD | MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA |
| Sigita Plioplys, MD | Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Deborah L. Renaud | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Wammanda D. Robinson, FWACP | Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria |
| Michael Rotstein, MD | Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Pauline Samia, MPhil | Aga Khan University-Nairobi, Kenya |
| Harvey B. Sarnat, MD | Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada |
| G. Bradley Schaefer, MD | University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, USA |
| L. Gail Scher, MBBCh, MMed, FCPaeds (SA) | Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Benjamin Schindel | Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Nina Felice Schor, MD, PhD | University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA |
| Namrata Shah, MD | The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA |
| Renée Shellhaas | University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| Michael Shevell, MD | McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada |
| Pratibha Singhi, MD | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chandigarh, India |
| John Slopis, MD | The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA |
| Steven P. Sparagana, MD | Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, Dallas, TX, USA |
| David Stark, MD | Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA |
| Kyle Steinman, MD, MAS | Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Bedirhan Tarhan | |
| Ann H. Tilton, MD | Children's Hospital New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA |
| Alcy R. Torres, MD | Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
| Sara Trowbridge | Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA |
| Michelle Tutmaher | Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Nerija Vaiciene-Magistris, MD | Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania |
| Marissa Vawter, MD | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Nathan Watemberg, MD | Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Mary Anne Whelan, MD, PhD | The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York, NY, USA |
| Jo Madeleine Wilmshurst, MB, BS, MRCP, FCP | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Elaine C. Wirrell, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Max Wiznitzer, MD | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Gordon Worley, MD | Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
| Joanna Wrede, MD | Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Yvonne Wu, MD, MPH | University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Jo Jo Yang | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA |
This journal has ceased publication and is not accepting new submissions.
The journal Child Neurology Open (CNO) is an interdisciplinary, peer‐reviewed, open access forum for
the most current information from clinical and investigative studies in the wide field of clinical pediatric
neuroscience. Published articles comes from a variety of disciplines, including child neurology, pediatric
neurosurgery, pediatric neuroradiology, child and adolescent psychiatry, pediatric neuropsychology,
developmental and behavioral pediatrics, and developmental neurobiology. Following careful peer
review of submitted material, subsequent acceptance results in very rapid online publication and
indexing in the major scientific publication databases. Published articles appear on the Sage Journals
online platform, which helps readers to delve more deeply into the topic of the article through the
cross‐linking of bibliographies and carefully categorizing articles with related published materials.
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing,
and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Please read the guidelines below then visit the journal’s submission site
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/childneurologyopen to upload your manuscript. Please note that
manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Sage Publishing disseminates high-quality research and engaged scholarship globally, and we are committed to diversity and inclusion in publishing. We encourage submissions from a diverse range of authors from across all countries and backgrounds.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Child Neurology Open will be
reviewed.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original
work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the
Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published
elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of
any copyright works not owned by you.
If you have any questions about publishing with Sage, please visit the Sage Journal Solutions Portal
Please note: The APC for CNO is $2000 USD.
If you have a topic suggestion for a JCN/CNO podcast, please email JChildNeurologyPodcast@gmail.com.
Please read the Manuscript Submission Guidelines below before submitting your manuscript here:
- Open Access
- Article processing charge (APC)
- What do we publish?
3.1 Aims & scope
3.2 Article types
3.3 Writing your paper
3.3.1 Making your article discoverable - Editorial policies
4.1 Peer Review Policy
4.2 Authorship
4.3 Acknowledgements
4.3.1 Writing assistance
4.4 Funding
4.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
4.6 Research ethics and patient consent
4.7 Clinical Trials
4.8 Reporting guidelines
4.9 Data - Publishing policies
5.1 Publication ethics
5.1.1 Plagiarism
5.1.2 Prior publication
5.2 Contributor's publishing agreement - Preparing your manuscript
6.1 Word processing formats
6.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
6.3 Supplementary material
6.4 Reference style
6.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
7.1 How to submit your manuscript
7.2 Title, keywords and abstracts
7.3 Information required for completing your submission
7.4 ORCID
7.5 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
8.1 Sage Production
8.2 Continuous publication
8.3 Promoting your article - Further information
Child Neurology Open is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is
made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons
license and will be hosted online in perpetuity. Publication costs of the journal are covered by the
collection of article processing charges which are paid by the funder, institution or author of each
manuscript upon acceptance. There is no charge for submitting a paper to the journal.
For general information on open access at Sage please visit the Open Access page or view our OpenAccess FAQs.
2. Article processing charge (APC)
If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge
(APC) is payable. This APC covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely
available online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.
Please note: The APC for CNO $2000 USD.
The article processing charge (APC) is payable only if your article is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Tax-exempt status can be indicated by providing appropriate registration numbers when payment is requested. Please see further details here.
Before submitting your manuscript to Child Neurology Open, please ensure you have read the
Aims & Scope.
- Original Research Articles
- Review Articles/Topical Reviews/Clinical Reviews/State‐of‐the‐Art Reviews Letters
- Case Reports/Series
- Case reports should be approximately 1200 words in length and must have an unstructured abstract of approximately 150 words, up to 15 references, and one or two figures and tables. They should be structured for peer review as follows: title page (including title, all authors and affiliations, contact details and keywords), abstract, introduction, case, discussion/conclusion, acknowledgements, funding acknowledgements, declaration of conflict of interest, references, and figure and table legends. Figures and tables should be submitted as separate files.
- Perspectives
Child Neurology Perspectives highlight important issues and experiences in child neurology through personal vignettes or opinion essays. Topics can include ethics, research, health policy, public health, medical education and residency, the experience of medicine and the patient-physician relationship.
Perspectives requirements:
1. 1500 words or less
2. 3 authors or fewer
3. 5 references or fewer
4. Patient permission has been obtained or identities are obscured
- Journal Club
1. Papers for our Journal Club must be written by grad students and postdocs. Collaboration is allowed.
2. Authors should avoid any possible conflicts of interest, such as an ongoing or previous collaboration with the original authors.
3. Authors must avoid writing an overly critical or complimentary review. Critiques must be thoughtful and well-reasoned.
Structure of a Journal Club paper should include:
Background/summary - This includes a brief overview of the topic, including what question/s the study addresses along with a brief summary of the findings and any controversy that may surround these findings.
A critique section- This includes critical evaluations of the findings, comparisons or contradictions with other findings, a critique of the methodology, an alternate interpretation of the paper's findings.
Conclusion- A recap of the paper's main message and significance along with a summary of your main points.
An explanatory figure is allowed, but must be original and not copied from the reviewed paper.
Please limit your paper to a maximum of 1500 words, not including references. Please avoid unnecessary jargon.
Submitted within 2 months of original article publication
Authors should avoid conflicts of interest:
- Not being from the same institution
- Not having collaborated with the original authors
- Not currently involved in exactly the same area of research
- Educational Case Reports
A case report with review of the literature illuminating a learning topic for residents and fellows. These will be reviewed primarily by members of the Residents and Fellows Board. Approximately 1200 words in length with an unstructured abstract of approximately 150 words; up to 15 references; and one or two figures and tables.
The Sage Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources. Sage Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.
3.3.1 Making your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title,
keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search
engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article,
write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway:
How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online
Following a preliminary triage to eliminate submissions unsuitable for Child Neurology Open all
papers are sent out for review. The covering letter is important. To help the Editor in his
preliminary evaluation, please indicate why you think the paper suitable for publication.
The journal’s policy is to have manuscripts reviewed by two expert reviewers. Child Neurology
Open utilizes a single-anonymize peer review process in which the reviewer’s name and information is
withheld from the author. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, while maintaining
rigor. Reviewers make comments to the author and recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief
who then makes the final decision.
The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for
possible publication in the journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by
alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor / Board member will have no
involvement in the decision-making process.
Child Neurology Open is committed to delivering high quality, fast peer-review for your paper,
and as such has partnered with Publons. Publons is a third party service that seeks to track,
verify and give credit for peer review. Reviewers for Child Neurology Open can opt in to Publons
in order to claim their reviews or have them automatically verified and added to their reviewer
profile. Reviewers claiming credit for their review will be associated with the relevant journal,
but the article name, reviewer’s decision and the content of their review is not published on the
site. For more information visit the Publons website.
The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for
possible publication in the journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by
alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no
involvement in the decision-making process.
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing
authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed
to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all
those who:
(i) Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition,
analysis or interpretation of data,
(ii) Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
(iii) Approved the version to be published,
(iv) Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public
responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. Each author should have
participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the
content.
When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the
individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully
meet the criteria for authorship.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone
does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for
authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on
authorship.
Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
4.3.1 Third party submissions
Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:
• Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
• Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
• Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.
Where appropriate, Sage reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do
not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors
must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of
input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of
Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
Child Neurology Open requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion
under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the Sage
Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of
funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the
public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
4.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
It is the policy of Child Neurology Open to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all
authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please include any declaration at the end of your manuscript after any acknowledgements and
prior to the references, under a heading ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’. If no declaration is
made the following will be printed under this heading in your article: ‘None Declared.’Alternatively,
you may wish to state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest.’
When making a declaration the disclosure information must be specific and include any financial
relationship that all authors of the article has with any sponsoring organization and the for‐
profit interests the organization represents, and with any for‐profit product discussed or implied
in the text of the article.
Any commercial or financial involvements that might represent an appearance of a conflict of
interest need to be additionally disclosed in the covering letter accompanying your article to
assist the Editor in evaluating whether sufficient disclosure has been made within the
Declaration of Conflicting Interests provided in the article.
For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations.
4.6 Research ethics and patient consent
Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the World Medical
Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct,
Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, and all papers
reporting animal and/or human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant
Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure
that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the
approval number.
For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether
participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.
Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in
the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for
patient information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or a legally
authorized representative. Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without
informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital
numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless
the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives
written informed consent for publication. Identifying details should be omitted if they are not
essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be
obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is
inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect
anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do
not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note. When informed consent has been
obtained it should be indicated in the submitted article.
Please also refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants.
All research involving animals submitted for publication must be approved by an ethics committee with oversight of the facility in which the studies were conducted. The Journal has adopted the ARRIVE guidelines.
In line with the Declaration of Helsinki 1975, revised Hong Kong 1989, we encourage authors to
register their clinical trials (at http://clinicaltrials.gov or other suitable databases identified by
the ICMJE). If your trial has been registered, please state this on the Title Page. When reporting
experiments on animals, indicate on the Title Page which guideline/law on the care and use of
laboratory animals was followed.
Child Neurology Open conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a
WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment as a
condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration
number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Child Neurology Open has adopted the proposal from the International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors (ICMJE) which requires, as a condition of consideration for publication of clinical
trials, registration in a public trials registry. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient
enrolment. The clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract of
the article. For this purpose, a clinical trial is defined as any research project that prospectively
assigns human subjects to intervention or comparison groups to study the cause‐and‐effect
relationship between a medical intervention and a health outcome. Studies designed for other
purposes, such as to study pharmacokinetics or major toxicity (e.g. phase I trials), would be
exempt.
The relevant EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines should be followed depending on the type
of study. For example, all randomized controlled trials submitted for publication should include
a completed CONSORT flow chart as a cited figure and the completed CONSORT checklist should
be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. Systematic reviews and metaanalyses
should include the completed PRISMA flow chart as a cited figure and the completed
PRISMA checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. The
EQUATOR wizard can help you identify the appropriate guideline.
Other resources can be found at NLM’s Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives.
Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to
refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the
Publication Ethics page on the Sage Author Gateway.
Child Neurology Open and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other
breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our
authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally,
we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be
checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have
plagiarized other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with
insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve
the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum
(correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of
the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal
action.
If material has been previously published, it is not generally acceptable for publication in a Sage
journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be
considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the Sage Author Gateway or if in
doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
5.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s
Publishing Agreement. Child Neurology Open publishes manuscripts under Creative Commons
licenses. The standard license for the journal is Creative Commons by Attribution NonCommercial
(CC BY-NC), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as
the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial. For more information, you are
advised to visit Sage's OA licenses page
Alternative license arrangements are available, for example, to meet particular funder
mandates, made at the author’s request.
The preferred formats for your manuscript are Word DOC, RTF, XLS. LaTeX files are also
accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines
page of our Author Gateway. The text should be double‐spaced throughout and with a minimum
of 3cm for left and right hand margins and 5cm at head and foot. Text should be standard 10 or
12 point.
6.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please
visit Sage’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in color will appear in color online. Photographic illustrations should be
rendered with at least 300 dpi; please use CMYK color conversion if possible. Graphs made with
Office software such as Microsoft Excel, can be provided in their original format to facilitate
conversion into printable format with preserved quality. Any other line graphs/illustrations
should preferably be provided in EPS format with a resolution of at least 600 dpi to prevent
ragged lines when printed. A figure image should be at least 160 mm in width at the appropriate
resolution. For further guidance on how to prepare your digital image see
http://art.cadmus.com/da/index.jsp.
Graphs and images that are unsuitable may be returned to the author for amendment, causing
delay in publication.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images
etc.) alongside the full-text of the article. These will be subjected to peer-review alongside the
article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files,
which can be found within our Manuscript Submission Guidelines page.
Child Neurology Open adheres to the AMA reference style. Please review the guidelines on AMA
to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the AMA output file here.
6.4.1 Units of Measurement
Units of measurement should be expressed in SI and metric units; older conventional units may
be added in parentheses.
6.4.2 Nomenclature
Use the generic or chemical name of any drug, in lower case; the specific trade name
(capitalized) may be given in parentheses after the first text reference.
6.4.3 Standard abbreviations and symbols
Standard Abbreviations and symbols should be used, then defined in full in the first instance
unless they are standard units of measurement. Avoid any use of abbreviations in the article
title and abstract.
6.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript
formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit
Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
7.1 How to submit your manuscript
Child Neurology Open is hosted on Sage Track, a web based online submission and peer review
system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/childneurologyopen to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to
create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely
that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript
online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
7.2 Title, keywords and abstracts
Please supply a title, short title, an abstract and keywords to accompany your article. The title,
keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article online through online search
engines such as Google. Please refer to the information and guidance on how best to title your
article, write your abstract and select your keywords by visiting the Sage Journal Author
Gateway for guidelines on How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
Keywords: 2‐10 to accompany the abstract. They should, if possible, be drawn from the MeSH
list of Index Medicus and be chosen with a view to useful cross‐indexing of the article.
Abstract: The abstract should accurately and concisely reflect the content of the article, and
should be limited to 150 words. Please avoid reference citations and undefined abbreviations in
the abstract.
7.3 Information required for completing your submission
Provide full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and
telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should
be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the
submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must
match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the
required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files
(including reporting guidelines where relevant).
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any
illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further
information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please visit our
Frequently Asked Questions on the Sage Journal Author Gateway.
8. On acceptance and publication
If your paper is accepted for publication after peer review, you will first be asked to complete the
contributor’s publishing agreement. Once your manuscript files have been checked for Sage Production,
the corresponding author will be asked to pay the article processing charge (APC) via a payment link.
Once the APC has been processed, your article will be prepared for publication and can appear online
within an average of 30 days. Please note that no production work will occur on your paper until the
APC has been received.
Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the
production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be
returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all
author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and
that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.
One of the many benefits of publishing your research in an open access journal is the speed to
publication. With no page count constraints, your article will be published online in a fully
citable form with a DOI number as soon as it has completed the production process. At this time
it will be completely free to view and download for all.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is
as widely read and cited as possible. The Sage Author Gateway has numerous resources to help
you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the Manuscript Submission
process should be sent to Sage Customer Service.