期刊名称：BIOSCIENCE OF MICROBIOTA FOOD AND HEALTH ISSN： 2186-6953 出版频率： Quarterly 出版社： BMFH PRESS, ATTN-BMFH, EDITORIAL OFF IPEC INC, 1-24-12 SUGAMO,TOSHIMA-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN, 170-0002   出版社网址： https://bmfh.jp 期刊网址： https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/bmfh/ 影响因子： 3.121 主题范畴： MICROBIOLOGY;    NUTRITION & DIETETICS 变更情况： 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal BMFH is a multidisciplinary journal aimed at providing insight into the study of intestinal microbiota, development of probiotics/prebiotics/biogenics, bioscience of lactic acid bacteria, and food immunology and food function. The journal publishes reports of significant results as high quality full papers and notes dealing with advanced research in these fields. Letters to the editor can be submitted to the journal. BMFH also features review articles targeted to broader audience. Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health is indexed and abstracted in the following media. · Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®)  · Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition · Biological Abstracts  · BIOSIS Previews The editors welcome original papers pertaining to all areas of intestinal microbiota of humans and other animals, food immunology, food function, and lactic acid bacteria. Subject Area Chemistry Biology, Life Sciences and Basic Medicine Agriculture and Food Sciences Instructions to Authors Download Instruction to Authors Revised September 28, 2021 BIOSCIENCE of MICROBIOTA, FOOD and HEALTH (BMFH) is the official joint scientific journal of The Intestinal Microbiology Society, Japan Society for Lactic Acid Bacteria and Japanese Association for Food Immunology. BMFH publishes original research and review articles, quarterly, in English, pertaining to all areas of intestinal microbiota of humans and other animals, food immunology, food function, and lactic acid bacteria. The aim of this journal is to exchange information on scientific and technological findings and to accelerate new borderless investigation/collaboration in these wide research areas. Topics of each area covered include: Intestinal microbiota of humans and animals composition, ecology, metabolic activities and taxonomy of intestinal microbiota/bacteria factors affecting intestinal microbiota roles of intestinal microbiota in host immunity, physiology, health and disease development and use of probiotics, prebiotics and biogenics Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) taxonomy, ecology, metabolism and applications of LAB biotechnology, molecular biology and omics of LAB fermentation, fermented foods and starte Food immunology and food function effects of food on innate and adaptive immunity food modulation of immune diseases and health evaluation methods of immune responses and food function intestinal immune responses etiological surveys and clinical studies of food allergy and life style-related diseases Mode of publication.The BMFH is an open-access journal published on the web. Editorial Policy. A manuscript is considered for publication on the understanding that: By submission of a manuscript the author(s) automatically grant(s) the exclusive right to the publisher to publish the manuscript in all forms (including electronic) and in all languages throughout the world. The author(s) transfer(s) copyright of the paper to the publisher. The manuscript is approved by all named authors. The manuscript reports original, unpublished work that is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscript will not be published elsewhere in any language or form without the permission of the publisher. The manuscript does not contain any table or figure or any other material that has been published elsewhere unless copyright permission has been obtained by the author(s). Papers describing experimental work with humans must include a statement that the Ethical Committee of the institution where the work was done had approved it, and that the participants gave their informed consent to the work. Also, experiments with animals or with genetically manipulated organisms must have been performed in accordance with the legal requirements of the relevant local or national authority, and procedures must be such that experimental animals do not suffer unnecessarily. The animal experimental work must also include a statement that the Ethical Committee of the institution where the work was done had approved it. The corresponding author must ensure that all authors have disclosed any conflicts of interest in the 12 months prior to the submission of the article. A conflict of interest includes relationships with corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the article. Affirmation of Originality and Assignment of Copyright Form. A completed Affirmation of Originality and Assignment of Copyright Form should be signed by all authors and submitted with the manuscript data in PDF form. Authors must attach the document at the end of the submitted manuscript. The form can be downloaded from the website of BMFH Press (https://bmfh.jp/). Submission. All submissions to BMFH must be made electronically. Requirements for submission are detailed at the home page of BMFAll submissions to BMFH must be made electronically. Requirements for submission are detailed at the home page of BMFH (https://bmfh.jp/). Articles should be divided into files as described below, and uploaded to the ScholarOne ManuscriptTM (SM) website (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bmfh). SM automatically creates a single pdf file from files uploaded individually. This pdf file is used in the reviewing process. Ensure that the text of the pdf file is accurate and that all images are sharp enough. The following files should be prepared. * Text of the manuscript: The file should contain all the text from the cover page to the references. - Manuscripts in Microsoft WORD are preferred. Standard fonts (Times New Roman, Century, Arial, Helvetica and Symbol) should be used. * Figures: Files should be submitted to SM in PowerPoint, WORD, EXCEL, Photoshop (JPEG, TIFF), etc., formats. Note that SHS, EXE, COM, VBS, ZIP formats and files with the new extension (.pptx) will not be accepted. * The use of Excel is recommended. The titles of Tables should clearly reflect the contents. Form of manuscripts. Manuscripts should be typed in English with wide margins using double spacing. Four types of manuscript will be accepted: 1) Full papers: It is recommended that Full papers should be divided into the following headings: Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, and References. The abstract should not exceed 250 words. 2) Notes: The Note format is intended for the presentation of brief observations that do not warrant Full papers. Each Note must have an abstract of no more than 100 words at the beginning of the paper. Section headings should not be added. 3) Reviews will generally be published by invitation only. Each review must have an abstract of no more than 250 words at the beginning of the paper. 4) Letters to the editor: The Editor-in-Chief will consider letters which will provide further debate on a particular topic arising from the publication of a paper in the BMFH. They should be no more than 500 words long. If the Editorin- Chief believes that publication is warranted, a reply will be solicited from the corresponding author of the article. The cover page of the manuscript should contain the (a) title, (b) authors’ full names, (c) complete mailing address of institute, corporation, or laboratory, (d) proposed running head not exceeding 60 letters, and (e) 3 to 7 key words for indexing. The length of papers, including Tables, Figures, and any other appendices, should not exceed eight PDF pages for a Full paper or Review article, and five for a Note. One PDF page with no title, tables, or figures, will have about 850 words. Supplementary files will be published online only. Supplementary files will not be edited by the publisher. Supplementary files should have a brief title. Author(s) must enter a minimum of two recommended reviewers through the reviewing system upon submission. When author(s) are requested to revise the manuscript, they must resubmit it within 2 months after receiving the comment, otherwise the paper will be considered as having been withdrawn. Abbreviations for measurable units should be (without period) as follows: m, cm, mm, mm, nm, L, dL, mL, mL, kg, mg, mg, ng, pg, °C, %, hr, min, sec, etc. Genus or species names, drugs, or any other abbreviations should be spelled out in full when first used in the text and in the Abstract. The Editors reserve the privilege of editing manuscripts to make them conform to the adopted style. Data availability. We recommend that all data and related meta-data underlying the findings reported in a submitted manuscript will be deposited in an appropriate public repository (GenBank, European Nucleotide Archives, National Center for Biotechnology and Information, National Bioscience Data Center, DNA data bank of Japan). References.　In the text, references should be cited by number. References should be listed in the order in which they appear in the article, and numbered as follows: Miki T, Okada N, Danbara H. 2004. Two periplasmic disulfide oxidoreductases, DsbA and SrgA, target outer membrane protein SpiA, a component of the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 type III secretion system. J Biol Chem 279: 34631－34642. Yonezawa H, Osaki T, Kurata S, Fukuda M, Kawakami H, Ochiai K, Hanawa T, Kamiya S. 2009. Outer membrane vesicles of Helicobacter pylori TK1402 are involved in biofilm formation. BMC Microbiol 9: 197. Available at: http:// www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/9/197 (accessed 2011-08-02) Salminen S, von Wright A, Ouwehand A. (eds). 2004. Lactic Acid Bacteria: Microbiological and Functional Aspects, Marcel Dekker, New York. Hirayama K, Rafter J. 2006. Probiotics in cancer prevention. In Probiotics in Food Safety and Human Health, Goktepe I, Juneja VK, Ahmedna M (eds), CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 365－381. Citations of “unpublished data,” “personal communications,” “abstracts,” and “theses,” will not be accepted as References, but may be used parenthetically in the text. Corresponding author will be charged the following fees after acceptance of manuscript for publication in BMFH. 1) Member (both corporate and individual) of either Japanese Association for Food Immunology, Japan Society for Lactic Acid Bacteria, or The Intestinal Microbiology Society: 5,000 JPY per 1 published page (plus local consumption tax where applicable). 2) Non-member of the above three societies: 10,000 JPY per 1 published page (plus local consumption tax where applicable). This is applicable to the manuscripts submitted after June 1, 2020. Electronic Submission (Manuscript CentralTM)  Instructions to Authors BMFH_Instructions_20210928.pdf Editorial Board Our Editorial team Shigeru KAMIYA Editor-in-Chief  Kyorin University, Tokyo Leon M.T. DICKS Editor  Stellenbosch University, South Africa Satoru FUKIYA Editor  Hokkaido University, Hokkaido Satoshi HACHIMURA Editor  The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Kazuhiro HIRAYAMA Editor  The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Yasushi KAWAI Editor  Nihon University, Kanagawa Haruki KITAZAWA Editor  Tohoku University, Miyagi Jan KOK Editor  University of Groningen, Netherlands Jun KUNISAWA Editor  National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Osaka Wan-Kyu LEE Editor  Chungbuk National University, South Korea Yuan-Kun LEE Editor  National University of Singapore, Singapore Wenhua LING Editor  Sun Yat-Sen University, Republic of China Soheila J. MALEKI Editor  United States Department of Agriculture, USA Takahiro MATSUKI Editor  Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo Vyacheslav MELNIKOV Editor  Gabrichevsky Research Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russia Atsushi NAKAJIMA Editor  Yokohama City University, Kanagawa Jiro NAKAYAMA Editor  Kyushu University, Fukuoka Toshifumi OHKUSA Editor  Juntendo University, Tokyo Nobuhiko OKADA Editor  Kitasato University, Tokyo Joseph RAFTER Editor  Karolinska Institute, Sweden Mitsuo SAKAMOTO Editor  RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba Seppo SALMINEN Editor  University of Turku, Finland Kei SONOYAMA Editor  Hokkaido University, Sapporo Ingrid SURONO Editor  Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia Tohru SUZUKI Editor  Gifu University, Gifu Hirofumi TACHIBANA Editor  Kyushu University, Fukuoka Masanori TOHNO Editor  NARO Central Region Agricultural Research Center, Tochigi Mamoru TOTSUKA Editor  Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Tokyo Noriko TSUJI Editor  AIST, Ibaraki Jin-Zhong XIAO Editor  Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., Kanagawa Kohji YAMAKI Editor  Kokusai Gakuin Saitama College, Saitama Yuji YAMAMOTO Editor  Kitasato University, Aomori