Updated March 2022
Media and Embargo Policies
SfN promotes research in its journals by providing embargoed Early Release papers and recently published research to public information officers and reporters. The embargo for eNeuro Early Release articles distributed in SfN’s weekly media email lifts at 1 p.m. Eastern Time the following Monday. The embargo for all other articles lifts at the time of online publication. For more information on the embargo policy and media outreach, please see For the Media.
eLetters
eLetters allow readers to comment on eNeuro articles, with the goal of facilitating open exchanges on the science published in eNeuro. Responses can be submitted by clicking the “Respond to this article” button located to the right of the article text online. Please note that communications meant solely for the authors of an article, including requests for reagents or assistance, should be sent instead to the address listed in the footnotes of the original article (after the phrase “Correspondence should be addressed to ...”).
Responses should be concise, or fewer than approximately 250 words. It is acceptable to publish a more extensive commentary on an external site (e.g., arXiv) and submit an abstract of that commentary with a URL as a response.
Responses will be screened for significance and appropriateness. Publication is at the discretion of the editors. eNeuro will not publish responses that are not in the spirit of constructive scientific discourse or are without evidenced-based facts. Only one response (and optional reply to that response from the author) will be published concerning a given issue per article. Although responses cannot be edited by the submitting author after publication, eNeuro reserves the right to amend, edit, or remove materials at any time.
Certain material is inappropriate for responses. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Requests for medical advice or assistance
- Unpublished data (including figures or tables)
- Comments that advertise or promote specific commercial interests
- Comments that promote specific political or religious viewpoints
- Comments that are not supported by scientific facts
- Comments from authors with real or apparent conflicts of interest
- Comments that are rude, libelous, or inflammatory
- Comments that are anonymous or written under a pseudonym
Authors must include a name and email address to be published with the response. Citations should be included as necessary and should be in the same format as used in eNeuro.
All authors of responses are subject to the guidelines described in the Responsible Conduct Regarding Scientific Communications. Responses must observe any licenses or copyrights on original material. Submitting authors are entirely responsible for the accuracy of the content of responses; specific claims must be supported by references, and opinion or speculation must be so specified in the response. Financial contributions to the work being reported should be clearly acknowledged, as should any potential conflict of interest.
eLetters may be cited as follows:
- Smith, A.B., Title of response letter (electronic response to Jones, C.D., Title of original paper. eNeuro 2015:35:19101. DOI:10.1523/eNeuro.e5813-12.2015).
Errata
Authors who discover errors in articles they have published should have the corresponding author contact eneuro@sfn.org with a detailed description of the requested correction. Requests for corrections that affect the interpretation or conclusions of a published article will be reviewed by the editors.
Retractions
eNeuro will retract an article at the authors’ request unless it is under review for a possible violation of SfN’s Guidelines for Responsible Conduct Regarding Scientific Communication. The authors must provide an explanation of the error(s) prompting the retraction. Statements of retraction may not assign blame to specific authors or laboratories. To request a retraction, the corresponding author should contact the Central Office at eneuro@sfn.org.
The editors reserve the right to retract an article at any time after publication without the consent of the authors if an investigation by an appropriate authority reveals a violation of SfN’s Ethics Policy, regardless of whether the violation was intentional.
In retraction statements, eNeuro clearly distinguishes between author-initiated retractions and those initiated by the editors because of violations of SfN’s guidelines.