Scope and Policy: The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (KJPP) is the official journal of both the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology. The journal is published bi-monthly in English. Submission of any original paper in the physiological and pharmacological sciences and on the interactions of chemicals with biological systems is invited. Articles on original methodologies in physiological and pharmacological research will also be considered for publication. Reviews can also be included for publication in the
KJPP.
Editorial procedures: BBecause the
KJPP is operated jointly by two societies, the editorial processes are overseen by two Editors-in-Chiefs, one from each society. Manuscripts are generally reviewed by two referees. Usually authors will receive an Editorial Report within one month of receipt of the complete manuscript to the editorial office. The final decision rests with the
KJPP. Any appeal against the editorial decision must be made within 2 weeks of the date of the decision letter. Manuscripts considered unsuitable for a full review, for whatever reason, will be rejected to allow authors to submit elsewhere with a minimum of delay.
Ethical policies: It is expected that authors submitting papers to the
KJPP will have conducted their work in strict accordance with the author's institutional review board, the name of which must be stated.
Authorship: The corresponding author submitting a manuscript must ensure that all authors listed are eligible for authorship. The Editors expect each author to have read the complete manuscript and to take responsibility for the content and completeness of the manuscript and to understand that if the paper, or part of the paper, is found to be faulty or fraudulent, then he/she shares responsibility with his/her coauthors. If authorship of a manuscript changes during the publication process, notification of the change, signed by the corresponding author and any authors whose names have been added to or removed from the manuscript, must be sent to the Editorial Office. A statement that certain authors have contributed equally to the work may be included as a footnote on the title page.
Material transfer: Authors of papers published in the
KJPP are obligated to honor any reasonable request by qualified investigators for unique propagative materials, such as cell lines, hybridomas, and DNA clones, that are described in the paper.
Duplicate publication: The corresponding author must verify that the manuscript has been approved by all authors, has not been previously reported, and will not be submitted elsewhere while under review by the
KJPP. If any preliminary or related report other than an abstract of 400 words or fewer has been published or submitted, or is in consideration of publication, a copy must accompany the submission.
Conflict of interest: Authors are required to disclose any potential conflict of interest such as financial involvement or patent ownership. Where such information is not already disclosed in the manuscript, it will be held in confidence during the review process. Should the article be accepted for publication the relevant information will be given in the Acknowledgements.
Copyright Notice: KJPP and Medrang Inc. have chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) to all manuscripts to be published. Once the paper is published, the copyright will be released by the
KJPP and publisher under the "Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License", enabling the unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction of the published article in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. If the manuscript contains a figure or table reproduced from a book or another journal article, the authors should obtain permission from the copyright holder before submitting the manuscript, and be fully responsible for any legal and/or financial consequences if such permissions are not obtained.
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Publication costs: 1. Page charges: Basic page charge is 500,000 KRW, which includes the charge for 30 offprints for all published manuscripts. 2. Colour charges: Authors will be assessed a charge for each page with color figure(s). Color figures can generally be reproduced in acceptable quality in black and white if authors are unwilling or unable to pay for color charges. Authors are asked to contribute towards the cost of printing color figures. 3. Offprint charges: Authors are supplied with a PDF file of the final published article. Offprints can be purchased from the publisher by completing the Offprints Order Form provided with the proof. For further information contact MEDrang Inc.: info@medrang.co.kr
Administrative Procedures: All submitted manuscripts must contain original research that has not been published previously and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts can be submitted by E-mail or mail. E-mail submission: for instructions on email submission protocol, visit: http://www.koreaphysiol.org or http://www. kosphar.org Submission by mail: Submit three print copies of each manuscript, including one original set with high quality graphics, along with a Manuscript submission form (available at http://www.koreaphysiol.org or http://www.kosphar.org) A letter must be included indicating the address, telephone and fax numbers, and E-mail address of the corresponding author. Send manuscripts and correspondence to:
Editorial Office of the KJPP, Physiology Dusan We've Sentium (1209), 158-4 Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-090, Korea.
Tel: 82-2-568-8026, Fax: 82-2-568-8051, E-mail:
physiology@koreaphysiol.orgEditorial Office of the KJPP, Pharmacology 208, HYUNIL BD, 210-26 Seongsan 1-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-846, Korea.
Tel: 82-2-326-0370, Fax: 82-2- 326-0371, E-mail:
head@kosphar.orgDate of receipt: The date of receipt of each paper will be printed and is normally the date on which the manuscript is first received in the Editorial Office. The date of receipt published will then refer to the date when the complete submission was received.
| ORGANIZATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT |
Manuscripts should be submitted initially
as MS Word or PDF files. Numbered figures and tables should be included in the file in the first instance. To facilitate the reviewing process, the submitted manuscript should be formatted with the body text in 11 point
Times New Roman, and a line spacing of two. Text should be left-aligned and surrounded by 3 cm margins. Upon acceptance, an MS Word file of the manuscript will be required. High-quality figure files will be requested if necessary. The authors must also ensure that the figure legends apply to both versions of the figures. The manuscript is to be arranged in the following order: (
a) title, author(s), complete address(es) of institution(s), abbreviations, running title, and address for correspondence; (
b) Abstract and keywords; (
c) Introduction; (
d) Methods; (
e) Results; (
f) Discussion; (
g) Acknowledgements; (
h) References; (
i) Figure legends; (
j) Tables; and (
k) Figures. Number all pages with the title page as page 1. To make papers more readable and informative, the
KJPP requests that authors mark the followings for typesetting in
italics(a) Biological name of organisms:
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, E. coli(b) Restriction enzymes and some of enzymes:
EcoRI, Taq polymerase
(c) Name of genes:
src, c-H-
ras,
myc(d) Latin:
in vivo, in vitro, in situ(e) Some of chemical structure: trans-retinol,
cis-acting, N-carbamoylaspartate
(f) Centrifugation force: 100,000
gTitle Page: The title of the manuscript should be as short and informative as possible. It should not contain nonstandard abbreviations, subtitles, or colons, nor exceed two printed lines (about 18 words). The
KJPP reserves the right to reword titles, with the final approval of the authors. The title page should also give the names of all authors and their complete mailing addresses. The title page should also include the name, the telephone and fax numbers, and the E-mail address of the author to whom all correspondence about the manuscript, including proofs, will be sent.
Abbreviations: Standard abbreviations may be used without definition. Any nonstandard abbreviations should be spelled out on first usage, followed by the abbreviated form in parentheses. Thereafter, the abbreviated form must be used throughout the manuscript. In other cases, authors should avoid abbreviations unless they are easily understood and help in reading the paper. When introduced, in the abstract and text or in labeling figures, abbreviations must be defined at first in the abstract and text, respectively. A list of preferred abbreviations is available to download here (
http://jp.physoc. org/misc/abbreviationslist.pdf).
Abstract: The abstract should succinctly and clearly describe the major findings reported in the manuscript. It must neither exceed 250 words nor contain nonstandard or undefined abbreviations or specialized terms. The abstract should be able to stand completely by itself, since it is frequently used as an abstract in indexes.
Keywords: Five keywords should be appended to the abstract in alphabetical order. The keywords should be standard MeSH-Medline terms (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh). The list submitted may be amended to ensure that entries are MeSH-Medline terms.
Introduction: The introduction should present the purpose of the studies reported and their relationship to earlier work in the field. It should not be an extensive review of the literature nor, in general, exceed two typed pages.
Methods: The Materials and Methods should be as brief as possible but sufficiently complete to permit a qualified reader to repeat the experiments reported. Only truly new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited in references. Modifications of previously published procedures need to be given in detail only when this is necessary to repeat the work.
Results: The results of experiments should be presented in figures and tables, although some results that do not require documentation can be given solely in the text. Extensive discussion should not be given in the Results section.
Discussion: The discussion should be pertinent to the results. Speculation is to be based on data only and this section should not repeat results.
Acknowledgements: The acknowledgement should include sources of financial support, if any.
References: References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Authors should identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in bracket, e.g., In the adrenal medulla, Ang II releases catecholamines (CA) by a direct action [1,2], mediated either by circulating Ang II or by the intrinsic adrenal rennin angiotensin system [1-3]. References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure. The titles of journals are abbreviated according to the style used in the list of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE, posted by the NLM on the Library's web site (
http://www.nlm.nih.gov). Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references. References for journals and books should be in the following styles:
Journal articlesHong SM, Lee JH, Yeo SB, Cha CI, Park BR. Temporal changes of the calcium-binding proteins in the medial vestibular nucleus following unilateral labyrinthectomy in rats. Kor J Physiol Pharmacol. 2008;12:95-109.
MonographEyre HJ, Lange DP, Morris LB. Informed decisions: the complete book of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. 2nd ed. Atlanta: American Cancer Society; c2002 May. 768 p.
Tables: Tables with their titles should be double-spaced, each on a separate sheet, with an explanatory title and sufficient experimental detail in the accompanying legend so as to be intelligible without reference to the text. Do not duplicate data by presenting it both in the text and in a table or figure. Type table footnotes, lettered a, b, etc., at the end of a table.
Figures: Each figure should be accompanied by a label (e.g., Fig. 1) and an explanatory legend. You can also upload each figure files or merged under pptx format. The title should be part of the legend and not lettered onto the figure itself. Legends should be concise. However, the legend should include sufficient detail to make them intelligible without reference to the text, should define all labels and symbols used in the figure art, and should provide other essential information such as magnification or scale bar dimension. For paper submission, line drawings should be submitted as three sets of glossy prints which are large enough to be legible when reduced (not larger than 8��10 in or 20��25 cm). All figures should be referred to the text and be numbered consecutively. They are expected to be identified on the reverse side with the author's name, the number and the orientation of the figure such as top or bottom, etc.
Symbols, units, mathematical notation and abbreviations: The following are to be used throughout: unpunctuated (��g, mg, g, kg, ��l, ml, l, mm, cm, m, msec, sec, min, h, %, oC, ��M, mM, M, LD50, wt), and punctuated (i.v., i.p., s.c., i.m., p.o., Vol., Fig., approx., temp., etc).
Chemical and biological nomenclature: In general, the conventions in chemical nomenclature adopted by the Biochemical Society should be followed. These are described in the Biochemical Journal Instructions to Authors available online from
http://www.BiochemJ.org.
Editor-in-Chief