期刊名称：PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Phycological Research is published by the Japanese Society of Phycology and complements the Japanese Journal of Phycology. The purpose of Phycological Research is to facilitate the international exchange of phycological information by publishing international research dealing with phycology.
The Journal accepts review articles, original research aticles, research notes and book reviews in all aspects of basic and applied research on algae. The broad range of subjects includes phylogenetics and taxonomy, ecology and population biology, morphology, cellular and molecular biology, physiology and biochemistry, genetics, photobiology, biotechnology, and fisheries.
Authors wishing to contribute review articles should contact the Editor or Associate Editors before submission.
Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
Instructions for Authors
Aims and Scope
Phycological Research is published by the Japanese Society of Phycology and complements the Japanese Journal of Phycology. The purpose of Phycological Research is to facilitate the international exchange of phycological information by publishing international research dealing with all aspects of phycology.
Contributions may take the form of Review Articles, Original Research Articles, Research Notes and Book Reviews. Original Research Articles and Research Notes should not normally exceed 12 and four printed pages, respectively. Authors wishing to contribute Review Articles should contact the Editor or Associate Editors before submission.
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 (chosen by the Editor and Associate Editors) 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 materials cannot be returned. Final acceptance or rejection rests with the Editor.
A publication fee of ?2 000 is required per accepted manuscript if the author is not a member of the Japanese Society of Phycology.
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. Authors not writing in their first language are asked to have manuscripts checked for grammar and syntax before submission.
Author material archive policy
Authors who require the return of any submitted material that is accepted for publication should inform the Editorical Office after acceptance. If no indication is given that author material should be returned, Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy and electronic material two months after publication.
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.
Authors should declare any financial support or relationships that may pose conflict of interest.
Submission
Before sending off your manuscript, please check that: (i) three copies (the original and two copies) are enclosed; (ii) the reference section is in the proper format; (iii) all references cited in the text are included in the reference section; and (iv) the pages are numbered. The manuscript should be submitted to the Editor:
Dr Kazuo Okuda
Department of Natural Environmental Science
Faculty of Science
Kochi University
Kochi 780-8520
Japan
Email: okuda@cc.kochi-u.ac.jp
It is preferred that manuscripts be submitted by email, with hardcopies sent separately by courier or registered mail.
Copyright
Papers accepted for publication become copyright of the Japanese Society of Phycology and authors will be asked to sign a transfer of copyright form. 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 Copyright Assignment Form, and must sign the Form or agree that the corresponding author can sign on their behalf. Articles cannot be published until a signed Copyright Assignment Form has been received.
Preparation of the Manuscript
Submissions should be printed, doubled-spaced, on one side only of A4 paper. 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 Merriam–Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
All measurements must be given in SI units as outlined in the latest edition of Units, Symbols and Abbreviations: A Guide for Medical and Scientific Editors and Authors (Royal Society of Medicine Press, London).
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.
The complete scientific names (genus, species and authority), and cultivar or strain where appropriate, should be given for every organism when first mentioned. The generic name may be abbreviated to an initial in subsequent references except where intervening references to other genera would cause confusion. Common names of organisms, if used, must be accompanied by the correct scientific name on first mention. New botanical names proposed in the manuscript must also be mentioned in the Summary.
Parts of the manuscript
Manuscripts should be presented in the following order: (i) title page, (ii) summary and key words, (iii) text, (iv) acknowledgments, (v) references, (vi) figure legends, (vii) tables (each table complete with title and footnotes) and (viii) 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 (including the class/division designation when a generic or specific name is used, but not containing authorities for scientific names), (ii) the full names of the authors, (iii) the addresses of the institutions at which the work was carried out, as well as the present address of any author if different to that where the work was carried out and (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 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.
Summary and key words
Articles must have an Summary that states in 300 words or less the purpose, basic procedures, main findings and principal conclusions of the study. The names of organisms used (including authorities) should be given, and new taxa that are described should be mentioned. New botanical names proposed in the manuscript must also be mentioned in the Summary. References to the literature should not be included. The Summary should not contain abbreviations or references. Three to ten key words should be supplied below the abstract for the purposes of indexing.
Text
Authors should use subheadings to divide the sections of their manuscript.
Introduction: This section should include sufficient background information to set the work in context. The aims of the manuscript should be clearly stated. The introduction should not contain either findings or conclusions.
Materials and methods: This should be concise but provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be repeated by others. The source of material should be given in detail, where possible. The strain or clone numbers of cultures used, and their availability, must be given.
Results: Results should be presented in a logical sequence in the text, tables and figures; repetitive presentation of the same data in different forms should be avoided. The Results should not contain material appropriate to the Discussion.
Discussion: This should consider the results in relation to any hypotheses advanced in the Introduction and place the study in the context of other work. Only in exceptional cases should the Results and Discussion sections be combined.
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: Sago (2000). If there are two authors use ‘and? Baskin and Baskin (1998) to link author names in all cases. When reference is made to a work by three or more authors, the first name followed by et al. should be used: Powles et al. (1998). If several references by the same author(s) and from the same year are cited, a, b, c etc. should be put after the year of publication. Within parentheses, groups of references should be listed in chronological order.
In the list references should be listed in alphabetical order. Cite the names of all authors when there are seven or fewer, when more than seven cite the first three plus et al.
Personal communication, unpublished data and publications from informal meetings are not to be listed in the reference list but should be listed in full in the text (e.g. Smith A, 2000, unpublished data).
References should be listed in the following form.
Journals
Honda, D., Kawachi, M, and Inouye, J. 1995. Sulcochrysis biplastida gen. et sp. nov.: Cell structure and absolute configuration of the flagellar apparatus of an enigmatic chromophyte alga. Phycol. Res. 43: 1?6.
Books
South, G. R. and Whittick, A. 1987. An Introduction to Phycology. Blackwell Science, Oxford, 350 pp.
Chapter in a book
Wynne, M. J. 1981. Phaeophyta: Morphology and classification. In Lobban, C. S. and Wynne, M. J. (Eds) The Biology of
Seaweeds. Blackwell Science, Oxford, pp. 52?5.
Website
Ocean Primary Productivity Team (home page on the internet). 2000. Ocean primary productivity study. Institute of Marine Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick [updated: 5 October 2000; cited 21 Janurary 2002]. Available from: http:marine.rutgers.edu/opp/
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. Use superscript letters (not numbers) for footnotes; *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. 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. Each figure should be labeled on the back in very soft marker or chinagraph pencil, indicating name of author(s), figure number and orientation. (Do not use an adhesive label.) Figures should be sized to fit within the column (80 mm), intermediate (118 mm) or the full text width (169 mm).
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.
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; otherwise, written permission to publish must be obtained. Magnifications should be indicated using a scale bar on the illustration, with the scale indicated above or beside the bar.
On initial submission of manuscripts, figures should be supplied as high-quality print-outs, original line drawings or photographs. On acceptance for publication, electronic files should be submitted along with the high-quality print-out, if possible. If supplied electronically, graphics should be supplied as high resolution (at least 300 d.p.i.) files, saved as .eps or .tif format. A high-resolution print-out must also be provided. Digital images supplied only as low-resolution print-outs cannot be used.
Color figures
Color photographs should be submitted as good quality, glossy color prints. A charge of ?0 000 for the first three color figures and ?5 000 for each extra color figure thereafter will be charged to the author.
Figure legends
Legends should be self-explanatory and typed on a separate sheet. The legend should incorporate definitions of any symbols used and all abbreviations and units of measurement should be explained so that the figure and its legend is understandable without reference to the text. (Provide a letter stating copyright authorization if figures have been reproduced from another source.)
Research Notes
Research Notes should contain a summary and key words, but the rest of the text does not need to follow the format described above. However, references, tables and figures must follow this format.
Manuscripts by Email or on Disk
Authors are required to provide their manuscripts by email or on disk; however, disks should not be sent until the manuscript has been accepted.
Use a new disk rather than a reformatted disk; the disk must contain the relevant file(s) only. Authors should supply their accepted paper as formatted text. It is essential that the hardware and the word processing package are specified on the disk or body of the email (e.g. IBM, Word 7), as well as the first author’s surname, the journal title and the manuscript number.
The entire article (including tables) should be supplied as a single file; only electronic figures should be supplied as separate files. The following instructions should be adhered to.
?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 b (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.
Online guidelines
If possible, authors should visit the Blackwell Publishing 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 and Offprints
Proofs
Proofs will be sent via email as an Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) file and should be returned within 3 days of receipt. Alterations to the text and figures (other than the essential correction of errors) are unacceptable at proof stage and authors may be charged for excessive alterations.
Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read the PDF. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following website: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof.
Authors should therefore supply an email address to which proofs can be emailed. Proofs will be faxed if no email address is available. If absent, authors should arrange for a colleague to access their email, retrieve the PDF proof and check and return them to the publisher on their behalf.
Offprints
A minimum of 50 offprints will be provided upon request, at the author’s expense. An Offprint Order Form outlining the cost of offprints will be sent to the corresponding author with the page proofs. Offprints will be provided only if a completed Offprint Order Form is returned to the publisher by the specified date.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Kazuo Okuda, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan
Associate Editors
Antonio Flores-Moya, Faculty of Science, University of Málaga, Spain
Daisuke Fujita, Department of Marine Biosciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan
Gert Hansen, Botanical Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ken-ichiro Ishida, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University, Japan
Ulf Karsten, Institute of Aquatic Ecology ?Applied Ecology ?University of Rostock, Germany
Christos Katsaros, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Greece
Jeong Ha Kim, Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Gwang Hoon Kim, Department of Biology, Kongju National University, Korea
Kazuhiro Kogame, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
John W. La Claire II, Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ichiro Mine, Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Japan
Taizo Motomura, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Japan
Orlando Necchi Jr, Zoology and Botany Department, São Paulo State University, Brazil
Hisayoshi Nozaki, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
John West, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Australia
Giuseppe C. Zuccarello, National Herbarium Netherlands, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Editorial Advisory Board
Yuji Fujita, Nagasaki, Japan
Terumitsu Hori, Tsukuba, Japan
Takeo Horiguchi, Hokkaido, Japan
Ichiro Imai, Kyoto, Japan
Hironao Kataoka, Sendai, Japan
Hiroshi Kawai, Kobe, Japan
Dieter G. Müller, Konstanz, Germany
Masao Ohno, Kochi, Japan
Megumi Okazaki, Tokyo, Japan
Robert Sheath, Guelph, Canada
Makoto M. Watanabe, Tsukuba, Japan
Yasutsugu Yokohama, Shizugawa, Japan
Isao Inouye, Tsukuba, Japan
Address for Editorial Correspondence
Kazuo Okuda, Graduate School of Kuroshio Science, Kochi University, 2-5-1 Akebono-cho, Kochi 780-8520, Japan (email okuda@cc.kochi-u.ac.jp).
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