Please submit your manuscript directly to the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences via the ScholarOne Manuscripts website.
Set up or login to your account, enter your Author Center, and follow the instructions carefully.
Upload your manuscript for submission, along with the Conflict of Interest form(s), if required. Please note, COI forms are encouraged at your first submission, but not required unless you are submitting a revised manuscript.
To avoid any potential confusion, please make sure that all co-authors’ disclosures are also listed in a paragraph at the end of your submitted manuscript, which must match all disclosures listed on the co-authors’ COI form(s).
In your ScholarOne Author Center, when you upload your manuscript files, you will have the opportunity to number them and designate the exact order. Please be aware that this is the same order they will appear in when they are converted and merged into PDF and HTML files, which the system will create for you.
Next, you will be directed to the final web page, which is the last stage of the submission process. You will be prompted to review the PDF and HTML files of your manuscript (there will be a red "X" next to this step if it is not yet completed). If the PDF and HTML files are not converted properly, you can add, replace or delete any of the previously uploaded manuscript files. To change them, please go back to the Files Upload area.
Once the PDF and HTML files are converted properly, if all of the other steps have been completed at the final stage, please click the "Submit" button to finish submitting your manuscript.
After you submit your manuscript, you will receive an automated e-mail confirmation stating that your manuscript was submitted successfully, and a ScholarOne manuscript reference number will be generated for your submission.
The unique ScholarOne manuscript reference number assigned to your manuscript should be quoted in all correspondence with the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences Office and Publisher.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Licence to publish
Before Cambridge can publish your manuscript, we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article. The original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged. For full details see the publishing agreement page.