Updated August 2025
Author License Policy
Authors grant JNeurosci a license to publish their work and copyright remains with the author. For articles published after 2014, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) retains an exclusive license to publish the article for 6 months; after 6 months, the work becomes available to the public to copy, distribute, or display under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY). This license allows data and text mining, use of figures in presentations, and posting the article online, provided that the original article is credited.
Material published from 2010 to 2014 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-NC-SA). SfN holds copyright for material published before 2010.
Open Choice
Authors may pay a surcharge to make their article freely available under a CC-BY license immediately upon publication. Authors can select the Open Choice option at submission, revision, or acceptance.
Author Rights
Authors do not need to obtain permission to reuse their material, including to:
- ⁘ Reuse figures and tables in future works
- ⁘ Include articles in theses or dissertations
- ⁘ Reprint articles in books or compilations of their work
- ⁘ Deposit the accepted manuscript version of their manuscript in an institutional repository or on their personal website. The JNeurosci-formatted PDF may be used 6 months after issue publication, or immediately if published Open Choice.
The original article in JNeurosci must be cited and linked to, where appropriate.
NIH Public Access Policy
As of July 1, 2025, authors are required to deposit their author accepted manuscript upon acceptance to PubMed Central (PMC) for publication for public availability without embargo upon the official date of publication. The author accepted manuscript is the version of the author’s work that was accepted to publish in the journal, including revisions made during peer review. The official date of publication is the date on which the final published article is first made available in final, edited form. The NIH policy does not conflict with JNeurosci’s exclusive license to publish the work for the first 6 months as the JNeurosci policy applies to the final, copyedited version of the article. NIH-funded authors are not required to select the Open Choice option to comply with the new requirement.
To submit the author accepted manuscript to PMC, authors will need to use the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system. The NIH website has more detailed information about the submission process, https://www.nihms.nih.gov/about/overview/, as well as tutorials on how authors should submit their work through the NIHMS system, https://www.nihms.nih.gov/help/tutorials/.
Funder Mandates
JNeurosci automatically deposits all articles in PubMed Central regardless of funding status. Articles are deposited once they have appeared in an issue and will be freely available 6 months from the issue date, unless the authors selected Open Choice. Furthermore, authors may deposit their final, accepted manuscript file, including revisions made during peer review, to funder, institutional, or other repositories at any time.
Permission to Reuse JNeurosci Material
Anyone may reprint original JNeurosci material without requesting permission. A full journal reference and link to the version of record, where appropriate, must be included.
For content published before 2010, a copyright statement (“Copyright [year] Society for Neuroscience”) should be included.
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