期刊名称：MAMMAL STUDY
 投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
Instructions to Authors
Mammal Study is the official journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan. It publishes Original Articles, Short Communications and Reviews on all aspects of mammalogy quarterly, written in English. Manuscripts are submitted to qualified referees for critical scientific reviewing. Authors are notified, with referees' comments, on acceptance, rejection or need for revision within three months. The editor also customarily sends accepted manuscripts to qualified reviewers for English editing.
Submission of manuscripts
All correspondence regarding manuscripts and editorial matters should be addressed to:
- Dr. Ryuichi Masuda
Department of Natural History Sciences
Faculty of Science
Hokkaido University
Phone&Fax: +81-11-706-3588
E-mail: masudary AT ees.hokudai.ac.jp
Authors should submit the manuscripts as the following two attached files by E-mail: one is a PDF file including the text, figure legends, figures and tables; the other is a Word file including only the text.
Manuscripts as hard copies are also acceptable if authors cannot submit them by E-mail
Other correspondences
All correspondence regarding application for membership, subscription, address change, and other matters should be addressed to:
- The Mammalogical Society of Japan
c/o Nakanishi Printing Co., Ltd.
Shimodachiuri Ogawa Higashi, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8048, Japan
Fax: +81-75-415-3662
E-mail: msj AT nacos.com
(Application form for overseas membership)
Form of Manuscript
Manuscripts should be typed in the A4 size (21.0 x 29.7 cm) and double-spaced. Each sentence should conclude with a full stop followed by two spaces. An approximately 3 cm margin should be left on all sides. Do not hyphenate words at the right margin. Manuscripts should be arranged in the following order: on the first page, the title, name(s) of author(s) and affiliation, running head (fewer than 40 letters, including spaces), fax number and E-mail address for correspondence; from the second page, abstract (fewer than 200 words) and key words (five words or fewer), main text, acknowledgments, references, figure legends, figures and tables. Titles of papers must be accurate and concise, and (for abstraction services) include any relevant taxonomic name. Text pages should be numbered through from title to references. Manuscripts should be line-numbered, every five lines, in the left margin. Short Communications do not exceed four printed pages. Abstracts and key words are omitted from Short Communications.
Do not send original figures until the paper has been accepted.
Measurements, abbreviations and others
All measurements should be in metric units. The following abbreviations should be used. Length: km, m, cm, mm, etc.; area: km2, m2, etc.; volume: km3, m3, kl, l, ml, etc.; weight: kg, g, mg, etc.; time: hr, min, sec, etc.; others: cal, kcal, °C, Hz, df, P (probability), SD, SE, CV, etc. Arabic numerals should be used for numbers exceeding 10. Scientific names should be written in italic.
Tables and figures
Tables and figures should be simple and self-explanatory, and their preferred locations should be indicated in the right margin of the text.
References
References in the text should follow the forms: ˵Uchida and Shiraishi (1985) stated that ... ˶, (Abe and Kawamichi 1990), and (Miura et al. 1993). More than one reference within the same parentheses should be listed chronologically, alphabetically if of the same year. Full references cited must be listed alphabetically by the first author according to the following examples:
- Abe, H., Shiraishi, S. and Arai, S. 1991. A new mole from Uotsuri-jima, the Ryukyu Islands. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan 15: 47-60.
- Eisenberg, J. F. 1981. The Mammalian Radiations. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 610 pp.
- Geist, V. 1982. Adaptive behavioral strategies. In (J. W. Thomas and D. E. Toweill, eds.) Elk of North America. Pp. 219-277. Stackpole, Harrisburg.
- Obara, Y. 1991. Karyosystematics of the mustelid carnivores of Japan. Honyurui Kagaku [Mammalian Science] 30:197-220 (in Japanese with English abstract).
Authors are recommended to refer to recent issues of the journal for details of style and layout.
Proofs and reprints
Galley proofs will be sent to correspondence authors. Reprints may be purchased in blocks of 50.
Editorial Board
Editorial Board
- 2008-2010
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- Editor-in-Chief
- Ryuichi Masuda: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Associate Editors
- Tatsuo Oshida: Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan
- Yayoi Kaneko: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- Editorial Board
- Alexei V. Abramov: Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
Minoru Baba: Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Kitakyushu, Japan
Hideki Endo: Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan
Mahmut Halik: Xinjiang University, Urmuqi, China
Tohru Ikeda: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Nobuo Ishii: Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
Koichi Kaji: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Andrew Kitchener: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Naoki Kohno: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan
Liang-Kong Lin: Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
David W. Macdonald: Oxford University, Oxford, UK
William S. Modi: Zoological Society of San Diego, Escondido, USA
Masaharu Motokawa: Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Hiroko Nagai: Zoological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Stephen J. O'Brien: National Cancer Institute, Frederick, USA
Takuya Shimada: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Morioka, Japan
Boripat Siriaroonrat: Zoological Park Organization, Bangkok, Thailand
Hitoshi Suzuki: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Jon Swenson: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway
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