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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
The 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
Tel.:81-6-6879-4605
Fax.:81-6-6879-4609
E-mail:
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.
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