投稿規定(Instruction to Authors)

IThe Cell Structure and Function is the official on-line journal of the Japan Society for Cell Biology, which electronically publishes papers dealing with molecular and cell biology at http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/csf. All manuscripts must be written in English. Scientists in any country may submit papers irrespective of possessing a membership of the Japan Society for Cell Biology. Five types of papers are published; (a) full articles, (b) short communications, (c) mini-reviews and reviews, (d) technical notes, and (e) perspectives. Papers of all categories can be submitted individually and are subject to peer review processes. Full articles and short communications are regarded original papers and should consist of contents that have not been published elsewhere. The paper-bound form of the journal is also available for libraries.

HOW TO SUBMIT MANUSCRIPTS
Submit a PDF or MS-Word format file of the manuscript from the on-line submission web page at http://ess.jstage.jst.go.jp/portal/CSF. Figures can be separately submitted from the same web site in several other formats. If there is any problem in on-line submission, contact the editorial office below.

Editorial Office
The Cell Structure and Function
Laboratories for Biomolecular Networks, Department of Frontier Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University
1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, JAPAN
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REVIEW AND REVISION OF MANUSCRIPTS
The Editor-in-Chief asks handling of the submitted manuscript to one of Associate Editors as Monitoring Editor. Monitoring Editor will then selects two appropriate referees to review the manuscript. When required, a revised manuscript should be submitted within two months, otherwise it will be dealt as a newly submitted one. HOW TO PREPARE MANUSCRIPTS OF ORIGINAL PAPERS

Full Articles
Style. Manuscripts should be arranged in a PDF or MS-Word format with double spacing throughout leaving liberal margins of at least 3 cm. Each manuscript consists of Title, Authors, Affiliations, Key words, Running title, Footnotes including abbreviations, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, Tables, Legends to Figures, and Figures including photographs. The first page of each manuscript should contain; Title, Authors' full name, Affiliations, Key words, Running title, and name and full address (including telephone number, facsimile number and e-mail address) of the corresponding author.

Title Page: The title should briefly but clearly inform the content of the article. Even for a series of papers by the same authors, do not use the same main title with numbering minor titles. Do not use abbreviations in the title except for those generally used in related fields.

Authors: Write the full names of authors.

Affiliations: Write the full names of institutions (Laboratory, Department, Institute and/or University). The addresses of the institutions should be given. When authors belong to different institutions, their respective addresses should be indicated by superscript numbers. When authors have new addresses, they should be given in footnote and are indicated by superscript symbols (*, ** etc.).

Key Words: At most five key words can be given.

Running Title: The running title should not exceed 50 characters, including spaces.

Footnote Page: Footnotes should be typed in a separate sheet (the second page of the manuscript), if any. Abbreviations should be listed here.

Abbreviations: Popular abbreviations can be used without any explanation. They include ATP (NTP), ADP (NDP), AMP (NMP), cAMP, DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, DEAE. EDTA, and SDS. Each abbreviation is given in the text in parentheses together with the non-abbreviated term when it appears in the text (except title and summary) for the first time.

Abstract: The abstract should clearly show within 250 words the basic content of the paper; the problem dealt with, experimental approach, main results and findings, and conclusions. Avoid specific abbreviations in the abstract. When it is necessary to refer to the previous publication(s), it can be cited in the abstract but the article title should be omitted; e.g. Maekawa, S., Endo, S., and Sakai, H. (1989). Cell Struct. Funct., 14: 249-259. The abstract should be typed on a separate sheet (the third page when footnotes are used or the second page when footnotes are not used in the manuscript). Introduction: The introduction should provide sufficient background information to allow the reader to understand the purpose of the investigation and its relation to other works in related fields, but should not include an extensive review of the literature.

Materials and Methods: Description of methods should be brief, but include sufficient details to allow the experiments to be repeated. Sources of unusual chemicals, animals, microbial strains or equipment should be described. The location (City, Nation) of the company should be described. When hazardous materials and dangerous procedures are used in the experiments and precautions against them are not widely recognized, the authors are recommended to describe such matters. On behalf of the Japan Society for Cell Biology, the editorial boards of this journal recommend each contributor that experiments using materials from human sources will have been performed in accordance with the principles embodied in the Declaration of Helsinki and that experiments using animals and materials prepared from animals will have been performed under the Guideline approved by the institution.

Results: This section includes the results of the experiments. The results and discussion sections may be combined if doing so is expected to help the readers to understand and evaluate the paper. Tables and figures including photographs can be used to show the experimental results (see below). Excessive explanation of the data shown in tables and figures should be avoided.

Discussion: The discussion should be concise and deal with the interpretation of the results. Models or hypotheses may be proposed in this section only when they are newly suggested by the results obtained in the experiments. Do not repeat the description of the experimental results in this section.

Acknowledgments: This section should be brief.

References: All the publications cited in the manuscript are listed alphabetically by the first author. When two or more publications cited in the text are of the same first author, they should be listed in the order of publication year. References are cited in the text by surname and year such as (Tuma et al., 1999; Hurd and saxton, 1998). Work of "submitted for publication" or "in preparation" may be cited in the text by indicating so in parenthesis. Meeting abstracts must not be cited in References, but may be cited in the text by indicating the publication abstract, page, and year. Oral presentations without publication of abstracts and personal communications must not be cited. An "in press" paper may be included in references if the paper is expected to come out during processing of the manuscript for publication in The Cell Structure and Function. In this case, the authors may be required to send 3 copies of the preprint to the editorial office for help in reviewing. Journal abbreviations should follow the system in the Serials Sources for the Biosis Data Base published by Bio Sciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA). Examples of reference citations are as follows:

1. 1. Edelman, G.M. 1987. Neural Darwinism. Basic Books, Inc., New York. 371pp.
2. 2. Nishida, E., Tobe, K., Kadowaki, T., Kasuga, M., Sato, C., and Sakai, H. 1988. Stimulation of the phosphorylation of cytoskeletal 350-kDa and 300-kDa proteins by insulin-like growth factor-I, platelet-derived growth factor and phorbol ester in rat 3Y1 cells. Cell Struct. Funct., 13: 417-423.
3. 3. Yamamori, T., Osawa, T., Tobe, T., Ito, K., and Yura, T. 1982. Escherichia coli gene (hin) control transcription of heat-shock operons and cell growth at high temperature. In Heat Shock from Bacteria to Man (M.J. Schlesinger, M. Ashburner, and A. Tissieres, eds.). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, pp131-137.

HOW TO PREPARE TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Tables: Number tables consecutively with Roman numerals (I, II, III, IV etc.). A title should be given to each table and be typed with capital letters. Explanatory material and footnotes are typed below the table. Designate footnotes by alphabetic superscripts, such as a), b). Units of measure should be given to numeral values at the heads of the columns. Avoid detailed explanation of experimental conditions under which data shown in the table are obtained (it should be included in Materials and Methods).

Figures: Figures include line drawings and photographs. Single-column figures must not exceed 84×220 mm. Double-column figures must not exceed 173×220 mm. Both line drawings and photographs should be submitted on glossy paper in triplicate and be planned so that they can be reproduced without reduction. Magnifications of photographs should be indicated in the legends and/or by scales attached on the photographs. Illustrations must be self-explanatory and be numbered consecutively in Arabic numbers (i.e., Fig. 1, Fig. 2 ...). Each figure should have a short title. Legends to figures should be typed on a separate sheet(s) from the text. In the legends to Figures, write sufficient experimental details to make the Figures intelligible but avoid duplicate descriptions of those in Materials and Methods. Figures should be marked on the reverse side with figure number, first author's name, and orientation (top).

Color photographs: The cost of printing color photographs must be borne by the author(s).

Short Communications
Follow the instructions for full articles, except that the total word number of the main text (excluding references, tables and figure legends) is limited to 2000. Abstract of no more than 200 words is required but other sections (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Acknowledgement) can be appropriately combined.

OTHER CATEGORIES OF MANUSCRIPTS
Reviews and Mini-reviews

Technical Notes

Perspectives

PROOFS AND OFFPRINTS
Page proof is sent to the corresponding author indicated on the first page of the manuscript from the printer. The author must return the proof to the printer office within 2 days.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright of articles printed in the CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION lies with the Japan Society for Cell Biology.