期刊名称：MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Overview
Microbiology and Immunology is published in association with Japanese Society for Bacteriology, Japanese Society for Virology, and Japanese Society for Host Defense Research. It is peer-reviewed publication that provides insight into the study of microbes and the host immune, biological and physiological responses.
Fields covered by Microbiology and Immunology include:Bacteriology|Virology|Immunology|pathogenic infections in human, animals and plants|pathogenicity and virulence factors such as microbial toxins and cell-surface components|factors involved in host defense, inflammation, development of vaccines|antimicrobial agents and drug resistance of microbes|genomics and proteomics.
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Aims and ScopeMicrobiology and Immunology is a multidisciplinary journal aimed at providing insight into the study of microbes and the host immune, biological and physiological responses, and therapeutics. The journal publishes reports of significant results as high quality original articles and notes dealing with advanced research in all fields of bacteriology, virology, and immunology, and related fields; pathogenic infections in humans, various animals including invertebrates, and plants; pathogenicity and virulence factors such as microbial toxins and cell-surface components; factors involved in host defense, inflammation, development of vaccines; antimicrobial agents and drug resistance of microbes; genomics and proteomics. Microbiology and Immunology also features review and mini-review articles targeted broader audience, not limited to researchers in these fields.
KeywordsMicrobiology, immunology, bacteriology, virology, Japan, Host Defense
Abstracting and Indexing Information
- Biological Abstracts® (Thomson ISI)
- BIOSIS Previews® (Thomson ISI)
- CAB HEALTH (CABI)
- CABDirect (CABI)
- CSA Biological Sciences Database (CSA/CIG)
- CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database (CSA/CIG)
- CSA Immunological Abstracts (CSA/CIG)
- CSA Microbiology Databases (CSA/CIG)
- CSA Virology and AIDS Abstracts (CSA/CIG)
- Current Abstracts (EBSCO)
- Current Contents®/Life Sciences (Thomson ISI)
- Embase/Excerpta medica (Elsevier)
- Embiology (Elsevier)
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Thomson ISI)
- MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM)
- Protozoological Abstracts (Elsevier)
- Review of Medical and Veterinary Mycology ()
- Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®)
- Science Citation Index® (Thomson ISI)
Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
LATEST INFORMATION
Case reports are no longer accepted.
EDITORIAL REVIEW AND 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. Final acceptance or rejection rests with the Editorial Board, who reserves the right to refuse any material for publication.
Manuscripts should be written so that they are intelligible to the professional reader who is not a specialist in the particular field. They should be written in a clear, concise, direct style. Where contributions are judged as acceptable for publication on the basis of content, the Editor and 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.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mai. Authors must supply an email address as all correspondence will be by email. Two files should be supplied: the covering letter and the manuscript (in Word or rich text format (.rtf)). The covering letter should be uploaded as a file not for review.
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.
Will authors please note that Word 2007 is not yet compatible with journal production systems. Unfortunately, the journal cannot accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents until such time as a stable production version is released. Please use Word’s ‘Save As’ option therefore to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.
• Submissions should be double-spaced.
• All margins should be at least 30 mm.
• All pages should be numbered consecutively in the top right-hand corner, beginning with the title page.
• Do not use Enter at the end of lines within a paragraph.
• Turn the hyphenation option off; include only those hyphens that are essential to the meaning.
• 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 ß (German esszett) for (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).
Each figure should be supplied as a separate file, with the figure number incorporated in the file name. For submission, low-resolution figures saved as .jpg or .bmp files should be uploaded, for ease of transmission during the review process. Upon acceptance of the article, high-resolution figures (at least 300 d.p.i.) saved as .eps or .tif files should be uploaded. Digital images supplied only as low-resolution files cannot be used.
Further instructions are available at 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 except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium. This must be stated in the covering letter.
The covering letter must also contain an acknowledgment that all authors have contributed significantly, and that all authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript.
Authors must declare any financial support or relationships that may pose conflict of interest by disclosing at the time of submission any financial arrangements they have with a company whose product figures prominently in the submitted manuscript or with a company making a competing product. Such information will be held in confidence while the paper is under review and will not influence the editorial decision but, if the article is accepted for publication, the Editor will usually discuss with the authors the manner in which such information is to be communicated to the reader.
If tables or figures have been reproduced from another source, a letter from the copyright holder (usually the Publisher), stating authorization to reproduce the material, must be attached to the covering letter.
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 no indication is given that author material should be returned, Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy and electronic material two months after publication.
ARTICLE TYPES
Original Articles. Original reports of research or papers giving a full account of an investigation can be submitted. Original Articles are preferably limited to seven printed pages or less and should be divided into sections under the subheadings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References, with an accompanying abstract not exceeding 250 words.
Notes. Short preliminary reports of important findings can be submitted as Notes. A Note is preferably limited to three printed pages or less. A Note should not be divided into individual sections, but should be accompanied by an Abstract not exceeding 100 words.
Reviews and Mini-Reviews. In addition to solicited reviews and mini-reviews (reviews hereafter), Microbiology and Immunology will consider publication of unsolicited reviews on timely subjects. Reviews should have an accompanying abstract not exceeding 250 words. Mini-Reviews are less than 7 pages. These will be subjected to peer review by the editorial board to determine whether the topic is of interest to the readers of Microbiology and Immunology, whether the authors provide a balanced viewpoint and whether the article is clearly presented and timely. The authors are advised to send a brief description of their review articles by email to the Editorial Office to give an account for their topics prior to submission.
Case reports are no longer accepted.
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Authors must 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 (as revised in Tokyo 2004), available at http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm.
All investigations on human subjects must include a statement that the subject gave informed consent. Patient anonymity should be preserved. Photographs need to be cropped sufficiently to prevent human subjects being recognized (or an eye bar should be used).
Any experiments involving animals must be demonstrated to be ethically acceptable and where relevant conform to national guidelines for animal usage in research.
COPYRIGHT
Authors publishing in the Journal will be asked to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement. In signing the form 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 form, and must sign the form or agree that the corresponding author can sign on their behalf. Articles cannot be published until a signed form has been received. Authors can download the form from http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/mim_cta.pdf
STYLE OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Manuscripts should follow the style of the Vancouver agreement detailed in the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ revised ‘Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication’, as presented at http://www.ICMJE.org/.
Spelling. The Journal uses US spelling and authors should therefore follow the latest edition of the Merriam–Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
Units. All measurements must be given in SI or SI-derived units. Abbreviations for measurable units should be as follows (without period): cm, mm, μm, nm, A, ml, μl, g, μg, ng, pg, C (degree, Celsius), hr, mm, sec, nM, nM, rpm, Hz, cpm, Ci. mCi, pCi, nCi, pCi, R, log (base 10), ln (base e), etc., but liter(s).
Abbreviations. Genus names, drugs, or any other abbreviations should be spelled out in full when first used in the text and in the Abstract. A list of the abbreviations arranged in alphabetical order must be provided on a separate page.
Trade names. Drugs should be referred to by their generic names. If proprietary drugs have been used in the study, refer to these by their generic name, mentioning the proprietary name, and the name and location of the manufacturer, in parentheses.
Micro-organism nomenclature. The names of the organism and binary names must conform with international rules of nomenclature. The spelling of bacterial names should follow the amended edition of the Approved List of Bacterial Names published at American Society for Microbiology, 1990 and validation lists published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (formerly the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology). Non-valid names must be enclosed in quotation marks. Current approved bacterial names can be confirmed at the world wide web site of the List of the Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature (http://www.bacterio.cict.fr) or Bacterial Nomenclature Up-to-Date (http://www.dsmz.de/bactnoml bactname.htm). Descriptions of new taxon should not be submitted unless a specimen (normally a live culture) has been deposited in at least two or more public culture collections from two or more countries and it is designated as a type strain in the paper. Names used for viruses should be those approved by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) and published in Virus Taxonomy: Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses: Seventh Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (M.H.V. van Regenmortel et al., ed., Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2000). Vernacular names may be used after viruses are first identified.
Registration of DNA sequences. A new DNA sequence(s) described in the article appearing in this journal is requested to be registered in DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan. A format for this registration is sent from DDBJ directly to the author after the publication.
PARTS OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Manuscripts should be presented in the following order: (i) title page, (ii) abstract and key words, (iii) text, (iv) acknowledgments, (v) references, (vi) appendices, (vii) figure legends, (viii) tables (each table complete with title and footnotes), (ix) figures and (x) list of abbreviations. 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 complete mailing addresses of the institutions at which the work was carried out together with (iv) the email address, facsimile and telephone numbers of the author to whom correspondence about the manuscript 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. Do not use abbreviations in the title. A short running title (less than 40 characters) should also be provided.
The subject section and specified field must also be included on the title page (see Table 1 for information on these).
Original Articles and Notes must have an abstract that states in 250 or 100 (respectively) words or fewer, the purpose, basic procedures, main findings and principal conclusions of the study. The abstract should not contain references.
Two to four key words (for the purposes of indexing) should be supplied below the abstract in alphabetical order.
References
The Vancouver system of referencing should be used (examples are given below). In the text, references should be cited using Arabic numerals in round parentheses in the order in which they appear. If cited in tables or figure legends, number according to the first identification of the table or figure in the text.
In the reference list, cite the names of all authors. Do not use ibid. or op cit. 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). All citations mentioned in the text, tables or figures must be listed in the reference list.
Names of journals should be abbreviated according to the Serial Sources for the Biosis Data Base, available in most libraries or from http://www.biosis.org.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references.
We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote for reference management and formatting. Click here to download the most up to date EndNote reference style for Microbiology and Immunology.
Journal article
1 Vega K.J., Pina I., Krevsky B. (2006) Heart transplantation is associated with an increased risk for pancreatobiliary disease. Ann Intern Med 124: 980–83.
Book
2 Ringsven M.K., Bond D. (2007) Gerontology and Leadership Skills for Nurses, 2nd edn. Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers.
Chapter in a Book
3 Phillips S.J., Whisnant J.P. (2001) Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh J.H., Brenner B.M., eds. Hypertension: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management, 2nd edn. New York: Raven Press, pp. 465–78.
Appendices
These should be placed at the end of the paper, numbered in Roman numerals and referred to in the text. If written by a person other than the author of the main text, the writer’s name should be included below the title.
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. Number tables consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Type tables on a separate page with the legend above. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parentheses; all abbreviations must 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.
Figures
All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) are classified as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text. Magnifications should be indicated using a scale bar on the illustration. Use lower case figure part labels in multi-part figures: (a), (b), (c), etc.
Line figures should be sharp, black and white graphs or diagrams, drawn professionally or with a computer graphics package. Lettering must be included and should be sized to be no larger than the journal text.
Figure legends. Type figure legends on a separate page. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Equations
Equations should be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals; these should be ranged right in square parentheses. All variables should appear in italics. Use the simplest possible form for all mathematical symbols.
ONLINE GUIDELINES
Visit the Microbiology and Immunology home page at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/mai for more information, and Blackwell Publishing’s web pages for submission guidelines and digital graphics standards at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/journal.asp and http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/illustration.asp
Author Services enables authors to track their article, once it has been accepted, through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated emails at key stages of production so they do not need to contact the production editor to check on progress. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources, including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.
Microbiology and Immunology is also available online at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com
Accepted Articles
Microbiology and Immunology offers Accepted Articles for all articles. Accepted Articles is a Wiley-Blackwell service whereby peer-reviewed accepted articles are published online prior to their ultimate inclusion in a print or online issue. Articles published within Accepted Articles have been fully refereed, but have not been through the copy-editing, typesetting and proof correction process.
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 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 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.
OFFPRINTS
A free PDF offprint will be supplied to the corresponding author. A minimum of 50 additional offprints will be provided upon request, at the author’s expense. These paper offprints may be ordered online. Please visit http://offprint.cosprinters.com/, fill in the necessary details and ensure that you type information in all of the required fields.
If you have queries about offprints please email offprint@cosprinters.com
PUBLICATION FEES
Page charge.
No page charge is levied as below:
Ÿ Originals Articles of seven pages or less
Ÿ Notes of three pages or less
Ÿ Reviews of seven pages or less
A page charge fee of ¥14,000 is required per printed page for excess pages (eight or more for Original Articles and Reviews and four or more for Notes). A form requesting payment will be available for download with your PDF proof.
Online Open
OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive.
For the full list of terms and conditions, see http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/authorresources/onlineopen.html#OnlineOpen_Terms
Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/MAI_OOF.pdf
Please complete the form and return it to the Editorial Office below upon acceptance of your manuscript together with the signed Copyright Transfer Agreement or as soon as possible after that, preferably within 24 hours to avoid any delays.
Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.
EDITORIAL OFFICE ADDRESS
Microbiology and Immunology Editorial Office
Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley Japan
Frontier Koishikawa Bldg. 4F
1-28-1 Koishikawa
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
112-0002 Japan
Email: mai@wiley.com; tel: +81 3 3830 1256/ 1268 ; fax: +81 3 5689 7278.
Table 1. Subject sections (bacteriology, virology and immunology) and specified fields listing
Bacteriology
Antibacterial agents and chemotherapy
Applied microbiology
Bacterial components
Bacterial ecology
Clinical bacteriology
Epidemiology
Genetics
Intracellular parasitology (Chlamydia, Rickettsia)
Morphology
Mycology
Pathogenesis
Physiology and metabolisms
Taxonomy
Toxin
Vaccines
Miscellaneous
Virology
Animal DNA virus
Animal RNA virus
Bacterial virus
Clinical virology
Epidemiology
Oncology
Plant virus
Retrovirus
Vaccines and antiviral agents
Viral immunology
Viral vector
Miscellaneous
Immunology (Host Defense)
Adhesion and costimulation
Allergy and inflammation
Antigen and superantigen
Autoimmunity and immunodeficiency
Clinical immunology
Cytokines and cytokine receptors
Developmental immunology
Infection immunity
Innate immunity
Lymphocytes
Macrophages, dendritic cells and leukocytes
MHC and antigen presentation
Tolerance and immune regulation
Transplantation immunity
Tumor immunity
Editorial Board
EDITORS IN CHIEF
Bacteriology
Yasuhiko Horiguchi, Osaka University, Osaka
Virology
Takaji Wakita, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo
Immunology
Terutaka Kakiuchi, Toho University, Tokyo
EDITORIAL BOARD
Bacteriology
Akio Abe, Kitazato University, Tokyo
Takayuki Ezaki, Gifu University, Gifu
Masahito Fukunaga, Fukuyama University,Fukuyama
Toshiya Hirayama, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki
Tetsuya Iida, Osaka University, Suita
Byeonghwa Jeon, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Shigeru Kamiya, Kyorin University, Mitaka
Susumu Kawamoto, Chiba University, Chiba
Ikuo Kawamura, Kyoto University, Kyoto
Yoshiaki Kawamura, Aichi-Gakuin University, Aichi
Ichizo Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Kiyoshi Konishi, Nippon Dental University, Tokyo
Sohkichi Matsumoto, Osaka City University, Osaka
Naoaki Misawa, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki
Koji Nakayama, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki
Yoshikazu Nishikawa, Osaka City University, Osaka
Akira Nishizono, Oita University, Oita
Eric Oswald, Toulouse, France
Joon Haeng Rhee, Chonnam National University, Korea
Tadashi Shimamoto, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima
Kazuhiro Tateda, Toho University, Tokyo
Haruaki Tomioka, Shimane University, Shimane
Takao Tsuji, Fujita Health University, Toyoake
Mineo Watanabe, The Kitazato Institute, Tokyo
Virology
Hidetoshi Ikeda, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Tokyo
Masayuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba
Yasushi Kawaguchi, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Satoshi Koike, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo
Kazuhiro Kondo, The Jikei University, Tokyo
Tetsuro Matano, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Yuko Morikawa, Kitazato University, Tokyo
Hironori Sato, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo
Tetsuro Suzuki, Hamamatsu University, Shizuoka
Makoto Takeda, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo
Kaoru Takeuchi, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
Keizo Tomonaga, Osaka University, Suita
Tatsuya Tsurumi, Aichi Cancer Center, Nagoya
Akio Yamada, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo
Immunology (Host Defense Research)
Masashi Emoto, Gunma University, Gunma
Kazuyoshi Kawakami, Tohoku University, Sendai
Misao Matsushita, Tokai University, Hiratsuka
Goro Matsuzaki, Univeristy of Ryukyus, Nishihara
Akio Nakane, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki
Naohito Ohno, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji
Nobuo Ohta, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo
Takashi Onodera, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Tsukasa Seya, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
Masahiko Sugita, Kyoto University, Kyoto
Uki Yamashita, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu
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