Save hours on formatting for BMC Neuroscience: a ready structure you fill in, check and export.
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Charis Ringland
Qiqi Chen
Gang Li
Anja Reinert
Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 28 September, 2026
Use this BMC Neuroscience template when the manuscript has to match that journal before you upload it. Check the current rules on the BMC Neuroscience journal page.
It is the writing shell for BMC Neuroscience: title and authors, the abstract, the body, declarations, figures, and the reference list. The limits that decide a desk reject are on the journal page linked above.
A BMC Neuroscience submission has a title page with authors and affiliations, an abstract, keywords, the main text for your article type, declarations, the reference list, and figures and tables. This page does not invent a word limit. Where a rule is not listed below, it was not confirmed.
Read the full rules on the journal page linked above before you upload.
The sections a BMC Neuroscience submission is built from, in order: title page, abstract, keywords, main text, declarations, references, figures, and tables. It does not replace the journal's own checklist.
| Element | BMC Neuroscience requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Not specified in the official author guidelines |
| Main text | Organize sections for the chosen article type; no single overall word limit is stated in the accessible guide |
| Declarations | Ethics approval/consent as applicable; competing interests; funding; data availability |
| Figures/tables | Publication-ready; cited in order |
| Supplemental | Upload separately when used |
| Keywords | Not specified in the official author guidelines |
| References | Citation style not stated in the accessible author guidelines; match recent articles and any editor instructions |
| Peer review | Peer reviewed; blind model not specified in the official author guidelines |
| Submission | link.springer.com/journal/12868/submission-guidelines |
Reference managers format BMC Neuroscience citations with the BioMed Central reference style, with numbered citations in the text. Zotero and Mendeley list it as "BMC Neuroscience" in the open Citation Style Language database.
In-text citation: [1] for a two-author article, [2] for a single-author book.
Reference list entries:
These examples show the pattern, not real sources. If the author guide gives a different rule for DOIs or for how many authors to list before et al., follow the guide.
Open the author guide once before you draft and once before you upload. Match a recent BMC Neuroscience paper for depth, headings, and figure style.
Then submit on the journal's portal, not from this page.