Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Vision

• Applied: Clinically relevant Only (not basic neuroscience)

• Concise: Bullet points, simple short sentences not long paragraphs

• Mobile: This is a mobile-friendly resource, keep that in mind

• Peer-reviewed: Everyone participates in the Peer-review process

• Open-access: We are open-access and heavily support open access

• Up-to-date: All chapters are revised completed on an 18-month cycle

Resource

• We have a nearly full-time graphics editor and this resource is going to be heavy on creatives (table, flowcharts, Diagnostic algorithms, figure, diagrams, illustrations), etc

• Post your graphics needs in the discord channel and we will get it made for you

• Post your needs in terms of images, radiographs, photos in the discord Channel

• ONLY Use OPEN-ACCESS to directly include in the chapter

• Notion Guide to learn editing in Notion

Writing Tips

• Review past published chapters to understand styling

• Review past chapters in your category to reference material in your own chapter

Outlining

• Imagine yourself as a medical student

• Imagine you need to take care of a patient

• What do you need to know to take care of that patient?

• If you only had 10 mins

• What are the essentials for taking care of the patient

• Now prepare an outline first

• Now figure out the best way to represent data
• Text (bullet points)
• Flowchart
• Table
• Figure
• Diagram
• Illustration

Sections

• Introduction

• Emphasis (use Notion Callout function to create a small emphasis section)

• Definition

• Classification

• Etiology

• Differential Diagnosis
• Create an algorithm of Differential diagnosis

• Diagnostic Criteria

• Epidemiology

• Pathogenesis

• Patient History
• List of essential history questions

• Neurological Exam
• List essential neurological exam findings

• Workup
• Labs
• Imaging
• Monitoring

• Management
• Pharmacological
• Included dosage range, duration, side effects etc
• Non-pharmacological
• Surgical
• Symptomatic

• Natural History

• Prognosis

• On-going Clinical Trials
• Search clinicaltrial.gov to see if you can include information on ongoing clinical trials

• Further Reading
• Two references
• Recent Review article
• Recent Guideline
• Preferably Open-access source

• Bibliography
• APA 7 styling
• Review
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Referencing

• Decrease redundancy

• Internally reference book chapters that are already published

• Prefer Open-access

• Review
  Understanding Open-access

• Styling APA

• Select the Data you want to reference

• For e.g,