Change Again: A New Look for Journal Articles

The Journal of Child Neurology: 28 Years and Still Improving

“…In 2013, a new set of Instructions for Authors has been published to clarify all the necessary manuscript preparation requirements. 6 Particularly critical for the authors are the various disclosures 7 of author contribution (role), declaration of conflicting interest, funding, and ethical approval (including the name and approval number of any approving committees), that have taken on increasing importance because of the escalating amount of fraud and misconduct in scientific publication. [8][9][10][11] Another major reason for triage rejection of manuscripts has been the excessive (and sometimes absurd) use of abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms (designated as ''abbrevobabble'' 12,13 ).…”