Submission Checklist

REMEMBER TO INCLUDE

In cover letter:

  Name, postal address, phone number and e-mail address of the corresponding author.

  Name of an Associate Editor with expertise in the area of the study (if no Associate Editor is suitable, the Editorial Office will handle the submission). No authors of a submission can serve as the Handling Associate Editor. Additionally, an Associate Editor who has collaborated with the authors in the past three years cannot serve as the Handling Associate Editor.

  Statement that all authors have contributed to the work, agree with the presented findings, and that the work has not been published before nor is being considered for publication in another journal.

  A list of at least 6 potential reviewers knowledgeable in the area of the study (including the name of a statistician if needed) and potential reviewer conflicts.

  Statement that procedures involving experiments on human subjects are done in accord with the ethical standards of the Committee on Human Experimentation of the institution in which the experiments were done or in accord with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975.

  Statement that procedures involving experimentation on animal subjects are done in accord with either the guide of the institution in which the experiments were done, or with the National Research Council's guide for the care and use of laboratory animals.

  Statement of all financial and material support for this research and any potential conflicts.

In manuscript:

 Compliance with guidelines on human experimentation as well as protocol approval by a local Institutional Review Board should be specified.

 Compliance with guidelines of animal experimentation as well as protocol approval by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee should be specified.

 Statement of all financial and material support for this research and any potential conflicts should also be clearly identified in the acknowledgement section.

 Nomenclature for amyloids should follow the 2014 guidelines of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Society of Amyloidosis (Amyloid 21, 221–224, 2014), e.g., amyloid-β (Aβ) and amyloid-β protein precursor (AβPP).

 Manuscripts should be double spaced with 1" margins on all sides, including the abstract and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should include a page number centered at the bottom.

 Manuscripts must have an abstract (250 words or less) and 4-10 keywords.

 References should be cited in order of appearance with numbers between square brackets. All publications cited in the text should be presented in order of appearance in a list of references following the acknowledgments section of the manuscript and before the tables and/or figure legends.