期刊名称：JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
 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
Publishes descriptions of basic research on microorganisms, including fungi and other unicellular eukaryotic organisms. Topics include structure and function, biochemistry, enzymology, metabolism and its regulation, molecular biology, genetics, plasmids and transposons, general microbiology, applied microbiology, genetic engineering, virology, immunology, clinical microbiology, microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, food microbiology, molecular systematics, chemical or physical haracterization of microbial structures or products, and basic biological properties of organisms.
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Instructions to Authors
Instructions for Authors
The Journal of Microbiology
GENERAL GUIDELINES
Submission of Papers
The manuscript must be accompanied by a cover letter stating the title of the manuscript, names of each author, and complete mailing address(es), telephone and fax number(s) of the corresponding author, electronic mail address(es) if available and the former manuscript number and year if it is a resubmission. It also include the pre-describe of the manuscript. It may be no more than 300 words long and must be typed double spaced.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced and all pages including the abstract, figures, and tables should be numbered in sequence. Place the last two items after the References section. Manuscript pages must have margins of at least 2.5 cm on all four sides. Authors who are not confident of the writings in English should have checked their manuscripts by an English proof-reader.
Editorial Office
The Microbiological Society of Korea
Rm. 810 (New Bldg.), The Korea Science & Technology Center
635-4, Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu
Seoul 135-703, Korea.
E-mail: msk@msk.or.kr
(TEL: 82-2-3453-3321)
(FAX: 82-2-3453-3322)
EDITORIAL POLICY
ORGANIZATION AND FORMAT
EDITORIAL POLICY
Originality
Papers that report novel and significant scientific findings in microbiology will be considered and accepted for publication. Manuscripts submitted to JM must represent reports of original research. A manuscript will be accepted on condition that the presented work was not published previously, and also is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Authorship
Anyone who made substantial contribution to the work may be included in the author list. All authors of each manuscript are responsible for the entire paper and must have agreed that the corresponding author has the authority to act on behalf of all authors on all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript. To avoid any possible dispute during the processing, authorship changes including the order of authors' names during revision must be agreed by all of the authors and must be brought to the editor¡¯s attention in the covering letter with the revised version.
Copyright
JM requires the corresponding author to sign a copyright transfer agreement on behalf of all the authors. This agreement form is sent to the corresponding author when the manuscript is accepted and scheduled for publication. Unless the signed agreement form is received, JM will not publish the manuscript.
Ethical Aspects
Manuscripts dealing with any experimental work with human or animal materials should meet the relevant regulations or requirements imposed by the institutional or governmental authority. It should be clearly stated in the manuscript that the work has complied with such regulations or requirements. Copies of these regulations and guidelines must be available for review by the editor if necessary. The editor reserves the right to reject papers of which the ethical aspects are doubtful.
Page Charges
Page charges are currently 40,000 Korean won (or 35 US dollar) per page. A page charge form is sent along with page proofs and a reprint order form to the corresponding author. Invited minireviews are not subject to page charges.
Availability of Materials
By publishing in JM the authors agree that any microbial strains, plasmids, viruses, and other materials such as prions or cell lines newly described in the articles are available in a timely fashion to members of the scientific community for noncommercial purposes.
JM strongly encourages the authors to deposit important strains in publicly accessible culture collections and to refer to the collections and strain numbers in the manuscript. The authors should indicate laboratory strain designations and donor source when the culture or subculture specimen is distributed by individuals.
Nucleotide and Amino Acid Sequences
Any nucleotide or amino acid sequences that were determined for the first time should be deposited to a public database, such as GenBank, EMBL or DDBJ, and the accession numbers should be included in a separate paragraph in the Materials and Methods section. It is expected that the sequence data will be publicly available no later than the publication of the article.
Review Process
All manuscripts are reviewed confidentially by the members of the editorial board or qualified reviewers. When a manuscript
is submitted to JM, it is given a manuscript number and is assigned to one of the members of the board for review purposes. The manuscript number should be referred to in any subsequent communications between the corresponding author and the editor or the Editorial Office. The reviewers operate under the Guidelines for Reviewers and are expected to complete their reviews as soon as possible. The corresponding author is notified of the reviewers' decision to accept, reject, or require modification or revision from the editor or the Editorial Office, generally within 4 weeks after submission.
When a manuscript is returned to the corresponding author for modification or revision, it should be returned to the editor within 3 months, or it may be considered withdrawn. The authors should supply the Authors¡¯ Checklist and Response to the editor along with the modified or revised manuscript. Manuscripts that have been rejected or withdrawn may be resubmitted if the major criticisms have been properly addressed. As with initial submission, resubmitted manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter stating that the manuscript is a resubmission and describing in some details what changes have been made. The resubmitted manuscripts will be normally handled by the same editor for the original submission.
Notification of Acceptance
When an editor has decided that a manuscript is acceptable for publication, the corresponding author and the editorial office will be notified. The Editorial Office will check if the manuscript was prepared according to the guidelines, but it is the authors who are primarily responsible for the format and quality of the paper. The editor of JM will complete the assignment of editing when the manuscript is considered to meet the prescribed standards.
Page Proofs
The Editorial Office sends printed page proofs and a page charge/reprint order form to the corresponding author. The page proofs that are corrected and signed by the corresponding author should be mailed back to the editorial office within 48 hours. The proof stage is not the time to make extensive corrections, additions, or deletions. Important new information or references of unpublished data or personal communications that have become available between acceptance of the manuscript and receipt of the proofs may be inserted with the permission of the editor. Otherwise, changes are limited to correction of spelling errors, incorrect data, and grammatical errors and updated information for references.
Reprints
Fifty copies of reprints are provided free of charge and sent to the corresponding author. Extra copies (in multiples of 50) can be ordered and purchased through the page charge/reprint order form mailed to the corresponding author.
ORGANIZATION AND FORMAT
Regular Papers
Regular papers are considered the usual format of JM. Each manuscript should present the results of an independent and cohesive study. Thus, numbered series titles are not allowed. Avoid the main title/subtitle arrangement, complete sentences, and unnecessary articles. A regular paper should include the elements described in this section.
Type all of the manuscript double spaced, including the figure legends, table legends, and References, and number all pages. Manuscript pages should have line numbers. The font size should be not bigger than 12.
JM strongly recommends using the past tense to narrate particular events in the past, including the procedures, observations, and data of the study that you are reporting. Use the present tense for your own general conclusions, the conclusions of previous researchers, and generally accepted facts. Thus, most of the Abstract, Materials and Methods, and Results sections will be in the past tense, and most of the Introduction and Discussion sections will usually be in the present tense.
Manuscripts may be editorially rejected on the basis of poor English or lack of the format conformity to the Instructions.
JM no longer accepts submissions in Note format. Instead, Editorial Board retains the right to demand authors to convert their submissions in Note format based on recommendation by reviewers. Notes should be prepared according to the following guidelines. The abstract should not exceed 100 words. Section headings (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion etc.) should not be used in the body of Note. Text should not exceed 2,000 words excluding the Title page and References, and the number of figures and tables should also be kept to a minimum number. Present acknowledgments in a separate paragraph, but do not use a heading. The References section is identical to that of Regular Papers.
Title Page : On the title page, include the title, running title (not to exceed 10 words), name of each author, address(es) of the institution(s) where the work was performed, each author's affiliation, and a footnote indicating the present address of any author no longer at the institution where the work was performed. Place an asterisk of upper case after the name of the corresponding author.
Abstract : The abstract should not exceed 250 words, and concisely summarize the basic content of the paper. Experimental details should not be presented in the abstract. Avoid abbreviations and do not include references nor diagrams. Provide less than six key words at the bottom of the Abstract.
Introduction : The introduction should supply sufficient background information to allow the reader to understand and evaluate the results of the present study without referring to previous publications on the topic. The introduction should also provide the rationale for the present study. Use only those references required to provide the most salient background rather than an extensive review of the topic.
Materials and Methods : The Materials and Methods section should include sufficient technical information to allow the experiments to be repeated. Give enough information about the maker and model of instrument, operating conditions and other details of the experimental procedures. For commonly used materials and methods (media and protein determinations
for example), a simple reference is sufficient.
Enzyme purifications or procedures should be described as briefly as possible. If several alternative methods are commonly used, it is helpful to identify the method briefly as well as to cite the reference. Describe new methods or techniques in detail and give sources of unusual chemicals, equipment, or microbial strains completely so that another investigator can repeat the same procedure. When a large number of microbial strains, mutants, bacteriophages, or plasmids are used, include tables identifying their sources and properties.
Results : The Results section should include results of the experiments. Extensive interpretation of the results should be reserved for the Discussion section. Present the results as concisely as possible in one of the followings: text, table(s), or figure(s). Avoid extensive use of graphs to present data that might be more concisely presented in the text or tables. Limit photographs, particularly photomicrographs and electron micrographs, to those that are absolutely necessary to show the experimental findings. Number figures and tables in order and be sure to cite all figures and tables in the text.
Discussion : The Discussion section should provide an interpretation of the results in relation to previously published works and should not contain extensive repetition of the Results section or reiteration of the Introduction. In short papers, the Results and Discussion sections may be combined.
Acknowledgments : Acknowledgments of financial and personal assistance are to be given in a separate paragraph(s) as briefly as possible.
References : The References section should include all journal articles, books, patents, and theses cited in the text, tables or figures. Arrange the citations in alphabetical order by the first author's name. Abbreviate journal names, according to BIOSIS Serial Sources, in italic letters. Cite the references in the text by author name(s) with the publication year. Single-and double-authored papers are cited by the authors¡¯ last names, whereas papers with more than three authors are cited by the first author¡¯s last name followed by et al. in italic. Other relevant sources such as articles submitted for publication, unpublished data, or personal communication should not be listed in this section, but can be cited in the text.
Follow the styles shown in the examples below.
Anagnostopoulos, C. and J. Spizizen. 1961. Requirements for transformation in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 81, 741-746.
Berry, L.J., R.N. Moore, K.J. Goodrum, and R.E. Couch, Jr. 1977. Cellular requirements for enzyme inhibition by endotoxin in mice, p. 321-325. In D. Schlessinger (ed.), Microbiology-1977. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C., USA
Dhole, A., I. Ortega, and C. Berauer. 1989. Effect of oxygen on in vitro growth of Mycobacterium leprae. Abstr. U-82, p. 168. Abstr. 89th Annu. Meet. Am. Soc. Microbiol.
Leadbetter, E.R. 1974. Order II. Cytophagales nomen novum, p. 99. In R.E. Buchanan and N.E. Gibbons (eds.), Bergey's manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Miller, J.H. 1972. Experiments in molecular genetics, p. 352-355. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
Na, J.-U., H. Youn, and S.-O. Kang. 1993. Physicochemical characterization of chlorosome isolated from Chlorobium limicola NCIB 8327. Kor. J. Microbiol. 32, 9-16.
Powers, R.D., W.M. Dotson, Jr., and F.G. Hayden. 1982. Program Abstr. 22nd Intersci. Conf. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother., iv Abstr. 448.
Sigma Chemical Co. 1989. Sigma manual. Sigma Chemical Co., St Louis, Missouri, USA
Smyth, D.R. 1972. Ph. D. thesis. University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Minireviews
Minireviews are brief summaries of developments in fast moving areas, must be based on published articles, and may address any subject within the scope of JM. Minireviews are invited by the editors, not solicited in public, and not subject to the editorial review.
Anyone, who wants to contribute minireviews, should provide potential title and subject of the review article to the editors to seek permission.
Errata
The Erratum section includes correcting errors that occurred during the typing, editing, or printing (like as a misspelling, a dropped word) of a published article. Send Errata to the editorial office by e-mail (msk@msk.or.kr).
Author¡¯s Correction
The Author¡¯s Correction section provides a correcting error of a scientific nature and omission that do not effect to the original results of a published article. Send the Corrections of a scientific nature to the JM editorial office by e-mail (msk@msk.or.kr).
Fast-track publication (Accelerated publication)
Fast-track process is available for authors who wish quick publication of their papers. Authors should contact Editorial Office (fax: 82-2-3453-3322, e-mail: msk@msk.or.kr) for fast-track submission. Authors must submit a cover letter stating the novel and significant results of the research and the need for fast-track publication. The review process will be as rapid as possible, usually within 7-10 working days of receipt, and publication of accepted papers in an issue will follow within 2 months from the date of acceptance. Manuscripts requiring major revisions will not be accepted, but can be considered for normal-track review. Authors will be charged 100,000 won per printed page of fast-track publication. Additionally, 100,000 won will be charged for the initiation of fast-track review.
ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
Photographs
Photographs must be of sufficient contrast to withstand the inevitable loss of contrast and detail inherent in the printing process. Submit one photograph of each figure in the manuscript. Photocopies are not acceptable. If possible, the figures submitted should be the size they will appear when published so that no reduction is necessary. If they must be reduced, make sure that all elements, including labeling, can withstand reduction and remain legible. Electron and light micrographs must be direct copies of the original negative. Indicate the magnification with a scale marker on each micrograph.
Computer-Generated Images
Computer-generated images should be the highest-quality and simplest reproduction of illustration(s).Grayscale or color image should have a minimum resolution 225 dpi. Line drawing should have a minimum resolution 600 dpi.
Color Photographs
Color photographs are usually discouraged. However, if necessary, include an extra copy at the time of manuscript submission so that a cost estimate for printing may be obtained. The cost of printing color photographs must be paid by the author.
Drawings
Submit graphs, charts, sequences, complicated chemical or mathematical formulas, diagrams, and other drawings as glossy photographs made from finished drawings not requiring additional artwork or typesetting. Computer-generated graphics produced on high-quality laser printers are also acceptable. No part of the graph or drawing should be handwritten. In figure ordinate and abscissa scales as well as table column headings, avoid ambiguous use of numbers with exponents. For example, representation of 10,000 cpm on a figure ordinate should be written like 10 kcpm. Likewise, the preferred designation for an enzyme activity of 0.06 U/ml would be 60 mU/ml (milliunits per milliliter).
Presentation of Nucleic Acid Sequences
Nucleic acid sequences of limited length which are the primary subject of a study may be presented freestyle in the most effective format. Submit the sequence as a camera-ready copy of dimensions in standard orientation.
Figure Legends
Legends should provide enough information so that figures are understandable without frequent reference to the text. However, detailed experimental methods must be described in the Materials and Methods section, not in a figure legend. Define all symbols and abbreviations used in the figure.
Tables
Type each table on a separate page. The headings should be sufficiently clear so that the meaning of the data will be understandable without reference to the text. Explanatory footnotes should not include detailed descriptions of the experiment. Tables must include enough information to warrant table format.
Editorial Board
Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Sang Ho Choi
NRL of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology
Department of Food Biotechnology
Seoul National University
Seoul 151-921, S. Korea
(TEL) 82-2-880-4857
(FAX) 82-2-873-5095
Managing Editors
Seung Hyun Han
School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Che Ok Jeon
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
Sung Gyun Kang
Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Ansan, Korea
Hojeong Kang
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Dae-Hyuk Kim
Chonbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea
GwangPyo Ko
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Je Chul Lee
Kyungbuk National University
Editorial Board
Jin Hyun Ahn, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
Jin-Woo Bae, Kyung Hee University
Diana Boraschi, National Research Council, Italy
Jeong-Heon Cha, Yonsei University College of Dentistry
Dipankar Chatterji, Indian Institute of Science, India
You-Hee Cho, Sogang University
Jang-Cheon Cho, Inha University
Hyen-Mi Chung, National Institute of Environmental Research
Ian Dawes, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
Ji-Sook Hahn, Seoul National University
Nam Soo Han, Chungbuk National University
Satoshi Hanada, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Gerald L. Hazelbauer, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Soon Gyu Hong, Korea Polar Research Institute
Won-Ki Huh, Seoul National University
Eun-Kyeong Jo, Chungnam National University
Beom Sik Kang, Kyungpook National University
Hae-Yeong Kim, Kyung Hee University
Myung Hee Kim, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Kwan Soo Ko, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
Dae-Hyuk Kweon, Sungkyunkwan University
Inhyung Lee, Kookmin University
Young-Min Lee, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine
Yeonhee Lee, Seoul Woman's Univesrity
Joon-Hee Lee, Pusan National University
Jin-Won Lee, Hanyang University
Sung Jae Lee, Kyung Hee University
Soo Jae Lee, Chungbuk Nat'l University
Sang Hee Lee, Myongji University
Young Woon Lim, National Institute of Biological Resources
Kozo Makino, Osaka University, Japan
A. C. Matic, Stanford Univ, USA
Woojun Park, Korea University
Soon-Jung Park, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Claude Parsot, Pasteur Institute
Moon Jung Song, Korea University
Olli H. Tuovinen, Ohio State Univ., USA
Jin Ho Yoon, Sungshin Women's University
Jung-Hoon Toon, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Hwan Youn, California State University, Fresno
Cheol-Won Yun, Korea University
Cheol H. Yu, Seoul National University
Sung-Hwan Yun, Soonchunhyang University
Gerben Zylstra, Rutgers Univ., USA
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