期刊名称：ANATOMICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and Scope
Anatomical Science International (formerly titled Kaibogaku Zasshi) is the official English journal of the Japanese Association of Anatomists, and publishes original research articles dealing with morphological sciences in animals and humans.
Papers in any of the following fields will be considered: molecular, cellular, histological and gross anatomical studies on normal and experimental animals and humans. Functional morphological, biochemical, physiological and behavioral studies are considered if they include morphological analysis. Reports on techniques applicable to the above fields are also considered. Occasional reviews on subjects selected by the Editors will be published. Miscellaneous items, including essays, book reviews and commentaries may also be published on approval of the Editorial Committee.
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Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
Aims and Scope
Anatomical Science International (formerly titled Kaibogaku Zasshi) is the official English journal of the Japanese Association of Anatomists, and publishes original research articles dealing with morphological sciences in animals and humans.
Papers in any of the following fields will be considered: molecular, cellular, histological and gross anatomical studies on normal and experimental animals and humans. Functional morphological, biochemical, physiological and behavioral studies are considered if they include morphological analysis. Reports on techniques applicable to the above fields are also considered. Case reports on gross anatomy, highlighting anatomically important data that analyse the process of morphogenesis, are also considered. Case reports merely describing variations will not be accepted. Occasional reviews on subjects selected by the Editors will be published. Miscellaneous items, including essays, book reviews and commentaries may also be published on approval of the Editorial Committee.
Acceptance
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are peer reviewed by two anonymous reviewers and the Editor. The Editorial Board reserves the right to refuse any material for publication and advises that authors should retain copies of submitted manuscripts and correspondence, as material cannot be returned. Final acceptance or rejection rests with the Editorial Board.
Submission of Manuscripts
All articles submitted to the journal must comply with these instructions. Failure to do so will result in return of the manuscript and possible delay in publication. Manuscripts should be written so that they are intelligible to the professional reader who is not a specialist in the particular field. Where contributions are judged as acceptable for publication on the basis of scientific content, the Editor or the Publisher reserve the right to modify typescripts to eliminate ambiguity and repetition and improve communication between author and reader. If extensive alterations are required, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision.
Manuscripts should be sumbitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/asi
For assistance, please contact the Editorial Office (email: asi@blackwellpublishing.com). Further instructions are available from the submission site. All articles submitted to the journal must comply with these instructions.
- Digital figures must be supplied as .tif files at a resolution of at least 300 d.p.i. If necessary, the Editorial Assistant will request that authors supply hard copies of their figures. If authors are unable to provide digital figures, then three sets of printed figures will need to be supplied as bromides or laser printouts on smooth, clean, white paper.
- Upon acceptance of the article, high-resolution figures (at least 300 d.p.i.) saved as .eps or .tif files or two sets of printed figures should be provided. Digital images supplied only as low-resolution files cannot be used.
Further instructions are available from the submission site.
Covering Letter
Papers are accepted for publication in the journal on the understanding that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. This must be stated in the covering letter. The covering letter must contain an acknowledgment that all authors have contributed significantly, and that all authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript. In keeping with the latest guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, each author's contribution to the paper is to be quantified. Authors must also state that the protocol for the research project has been approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee of the institution within which the work was undertaken and that it conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki in 1995 (as revised in Edinburgh 2000). All investigations on human subjects must include a statement that the subject gave informed consent and patient anonymity should be preserved. Any experiments involving animals must be demonstrated to be ethically acceptable and where relevant conform to national guidelines for animal usage in research. Authors should declare any financial support or relationships that may pose conflict of interest.
Preparation of the Manuscript
Submissions should be printed, doubled-spaced, on one side only of A4 size (297x210 mm). The top, bottom and side margins should be 30 mm. Laser or near-letter quality print is essential. All pages should be numbered consecutively in the top right-hand corner, beginning with the title page. Indent new paragraphs. Turn the hyphenation option off, including only those hyphens that are essential to the meaning.
Style
The journal uses US spelling and authors should therefore follow the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. All measurements must be given in SI units. Abbreviations should be used sparingly and only where they ease the reader's task by reducing repetition of long, technical terms. Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation. Upon its first use in the title, abstract and text, the common name of a species should be followed by the scientific name (Genus, species and authority) in parentheses. However, for well-known species, the scientific name may be omitted from the article title. If no common name exists in English, the scientific name should be used only. Drugs should be referred to by their generic names, rather than brand names.
- It is essential that the final, revised version of the accepted manuscript and the file saved on disk are identical.
- Do not use the carriage return (enter) at the end of lines within a paragraph.
- Turn the hyphenation option off.
- Specify any special characters used to represent non-keyboard characters.
- Take care not to use l (ell) for 1 (one), O (capital o) for 0 (zero) or ?(German esszett) for beta (Greek beta).
- Use a tab, not spaces, to separate data points in tables.
- If you use a table editor function, ensure that each data point is contained within a unique cell, i.e. do not use carriage returns within cells
Parts of the Manuscript
Manuscripts should be presented in the following order: (i) title page, (ii) abstract and keywords, (iii) text, (iv) acknowledgments, (v) references, (vi) appendices, (vii) figure legends, (viii) tables (each table complete with title and footnotes) and (ix) figures. Footnotes to the text are not allowed and any such material should be incorporated into the text as parenthetical matter.
Title page: The title page should contain (i) the title of the paper, (ii) the full names of the authors and (iii) the addresses of the institutions at which the work was carried out together with (iv) the full postal and email address, plus facsimile and telephone numbers, of the author to whom correspondence about the manuscript, proofs and requests for offprints should be sent. The present address of any author, if different from that where the work was carried out, should be supplied in a footnote. The title should be short, informative and contain the major key words. A short running title (less than 40 characters, including spaces) should also be provided.
Abstract and key words: All articles must have a brief abstract that states in 250 words or fewer the purpose, basic procedures, main findings and principal conclusions of the study. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references. Five key words (for the purposes of indexing) should be supplied below the abstract, in alphabetical order, and should be taken from those recommended by the US National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list (www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html).
Text: Authors should use subheadings to divide the sections of their manuscript: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References.
Acknowledgments: The source of financial grants and other funding should be acknowledged, including a frank declaration of the authors' industrial links and affiliations. The contribution of colleagues or institutions should also be acknowledged. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not allowed.
References: The Harvard (author, date) system of referencing is used. In the text give the author's name followed by the year in parentheses: Smith (2000). If there are two authors use 'and': Smith and Jones (2001); but if cited within parentheses use '&': (Smith & Jones 2001). When reference is made to a work by three or more authors, the first name followed by et al. should be used: MacDonald et al. (2002).
In the list references should be listed in alphabetical order. Cite the names of all authors when there are six or fewer; when more than seven list the first three followed by et al. Names of journals should be abbreviated in the style used in Index Medicus.
Reference to unpublished data and personal communications should not appear in the list but should be cited in the text only (e.g. Smith A, 2000, unpublished data).
Journals
Carmichael ST, Price JL (1994) Architectonic subdivision of the orbital and medial prefrontal cortex in the macaque m. J Comp Neurol 346, 366-402.
Books
Swanson LW (1992) Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam.
Chapter in a book
Mogenson GJ, Brudzynski S, Wu M, Yang C, Yim C (1993) From motivation to action: a review of dopaminergic regulation of limbic-nucleus accumbens-ventral pallidum-pedunculopontine nucleus circuitries involved in limbic-motor integration. In: Limbic Motor Circuits and Neuropsychiatry (Kalivas PW, Barnes CD, eds). CRC Press, Boca Raton, 193-236.
Tables: Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. Each table should be presented on a separate sheet of A4 paper with a comprehensive but concise legend above the table. Tables should be double-spaced and vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parentheses; all abbreviations should be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: ? ? ? , should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings. The table and its legend/footnotes should be understandable without reference to the text.
Figures: All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) are classified as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text. Figures should be sized to fit within the column (80 mm), intermediate (105 mm) or the full text width (167 mm). Magnifications should be indicated using a scale bar on the illustration.
Line figures should be supplied as sharp, black and white graphs or diagrams, drawn professionally or with a computer graphics package; lettering should be included and should be sized to be no larger than the journal text.
It is preferred that figures are supplied both electronically and as harc-copy printouts.
Photographs should be supplied as sharp, glossy, black and white photographic prints and must be unmounted. Individual photographs forming a composite figure should be of equal contrast, to facilitate printing, and should be accurately squared. Photographs need to be cropped sufficiently to prevent the subject being recognized, or an eye bar used.
Colour figures: Colour photographs should be submitted as good quality, glossy colour prints. A charge of ?4 000 for the first three color figures and ?2 000 for each extra color figure thereafter will be charged to the author.
Figure legends: Type figures legends on a separate pages. Legends should be concise but comphrehensive: the figure and the legend must be understandable without references to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations used and units of measurement
Copyright
Papers accepted for publication become copyright of the Japanese Association of Anatomists and authors will be asked to sign an Exclusive Licence Form. Authors can download the form from http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/BPA_ELF.pdf In signing the transfer of copyright it is assumed that authors have obtained permission to use any copyrighted or previously published material. All authors must read and agree to the conditions outlined in the Exclusive Licence Form, and must sign the Form or agree that the corresponding author can sign on their behalf. Articles cannot be published until a signed Exclusive Licence Form has been received.
Author material archive policy
Authors who require the return of any submitted material that is accepted for publication should inform the Editorial Office after acceptance. If not indication is given that author material should be returned, Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy and electronic material two months after publication.
On-line Guidelines
If possible, authors should visit the Blackwell Science websites for authors at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/journal.asp and http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp which detail further information on the preparation and submission of articles and figures.
Proofs
It is essential that corresponding authors supply an email address to which correspondence can be emailed while their article is in production.
Word files of edited articles will be sent for checking via email and should be returned to the Publisher. It is essential that these files are checked carefully, as the cost of changes made at a later stage may be charged back to the author. Full instructions on how to correct and return the file will be attached to the email.
Notification of the URL from where to download a Portable Document Format (pdf) typeset page proof, associated forms and further instructions will be sent by email to the corresponding author. The purpose of the pdf proof is a final check of the layout and of tables and figures. Alterations other than the essential correction of errors are unacceptable at the pdf proof stage. The proof should be checked and approval to publish the article should be emailed to the Publisher by the date indicated; otherwise, it may be signed off on by the Editor or held over to the next issue.
Online early
Anatomical Science International is covered by Blackwell Publishing's OnlineEarly service. OnlineEarly articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. OnlineEarly articles are complete and final. They ahve been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in fianl form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of OnlineEarly articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so OnlineEarly articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allsows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article. More information about DOIs can be found at http://www.doi.org/faq.html.
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Editorial Board
Editorial Information
Editor-in-Chief:
Shohei Yamashina (Sagamihara)
Associate Editor:
Kuniaki Takata (Maebashi)
Managing Editors
Gross and Clinical Anatomy:
Tatsuo Sakai (Tokyo)
Osamu Ohtani (Toyama)
Kodo Kodama (Kumamoto)
Molecular and Cell Biology and Histology:
Shohei Yamashina (Sagamihara)
Kuniaki Takata (Maebashi)
Hajime Sawada (Yokohawa)
Development, Plasticity and Repair:
Takahiko Yokoyama (Kyoto)
Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience:
Mitsuhiro Kawata (Kyoto)
Emiko Senba (Wakayama)
Dental Anatomy and Mineralized Tissues:
Yoshiro Takano (Tokyo)
Anatomy Education:
Kazuhiro Abe (Sapporo)
Anthropology:
Hajime Ishida (Okinawa)
Editorial Board
Toshitaka Akisaka (Gifu)
Kazuhiro Etoh (Tokyo)
Toyoshi Fujimoto (Nagoya)
Nobutaka Hirokawa (Tokyo)
Yoshinobu Ide (Chiba)
Tetsuo Inokuchi (Kurume)
Hidemi Ishida (Kyoto)
Takeshi Kaneko (Kyoto)
Tasuku Kimura (Tokyo)
Hisatake Kondo (Sendai)
Takeyasu Maeda (Niigata)
Akira Mizoguchi (Mie)
Takuro Murakami (Okayama)
Fusayoshi Murata (Kagoshima)
Yoshiaki Nojo (Fukui)
Hiroki Otani (Izumo)
Hidehiro Ozawa (Siojiri)
Tatsuo Sato (Tokyo)
Yoichi Satoh (Morioka)
Harumichi Seguchi (Kochi)
Yosaburo Shibata (Fukuoka)
Yasuo Sugiura (Nagoya)
Shigenori Tanaka (Kanazawa)
Toshio Terashima (Kobe)
Masaya Tohyama (Osaka)
Kiyotaka Toshimori (Miyazaki)
Yasuo Uchiyama (Osaka)
Tatsuo Ushiki (Niigata)
Masahiko Watanabe (Sapporo)
International Advisory Board
Ermanno Bonucci (Rome, Italy)
Kequan Chen (Beijing, China)
Sa Sun Cho (Seoul, Korea)
M.-H. Chun (Seoul, Korea)
In Hyuk Chung (Seoul, Korea)
Y. T. Chung (Il?City, Korea)
Marjorie A. England (Leicester, UK)
Raymond F. Gasser (New Orleans, USA)
Gong Ju (Xi'an, China)
Tomas Hokfelt (Stockholm, Sweden)
Wolfgang Kummer (Giessen, Germany)
Arthur D. Loewy (St Louis, USA)
John F. Morris (Oxford, UK)
Antonio Nanci (Montreal, Canada)
Michael Pietrusewsky (Honolulu, USA)
Alessandro Riva (Monserrato, Italy)
Birgit H. Satir (New York, USA)
Peter Satir (New York, USA)
Gary C. Schoenwolf (Salt Lake City, USA)
Torstein Sjovold (Solna, Sweden)
Charles E. Slonecker (Vancouver, Canada)
Murray S. R. Smith (Sydney, Australia)
Kwok-Fai So (Hong Kong, China)
Ii-sei Watanabe (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Qunyuan Xu (Beijing, China)
Robert D. Yates (New Orleans, USA)
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