期刊名称：JOURNAL OF GENERAL PLANT PATHOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
About this journal
The Journal of General Plant Pathology presents papers dealing with plant diseases or their control, including pathogen characterization, identification of pathogens, disease physiology and biochemistry, molecular biology, morphology and ultrastructure, genetics, disease transmission, ecology and epidemiology, chemical and biological control, disease assessment, and other topics relevant to plant pathological disorders. This is the journal of the Phytopathological Society of Japan.
Related subjects » Agriculture - Microbiology - Plant Sciences
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Aims and scope The Journal of General Plant Pathology welcomes all manuscripts dealing with plant diseases or their control, including pathogen characterization, identification of pathogens, disease physiology and biochemistry, molecular biology, morphology and ultrastructure, genetics, disease transmission, ecology and epidemiology, chemical and biological control, disease assessment, and other topics relevant to plant pathological disorders.
Instructions to Authors
Journal of General Plant Pathology
Aims and scope
The "Journal of General Plant Pathology" welcomes all manuscripts dealing with plant diseases or their control, including pathogen characterization, identification of pathogens, disease physiology and biochemistry, molecular biology, morphology and ultrastructure, genetics, disease transmission, ecology and epidemiology, chemical and biological control, disease assessment, and other topics relevant to plant pathological disorders.
Types of papers published
Contributions should fit one of the following categories: (i) Full-length articles, (ii) Short communications, (iii) Disease notes, (iv) Techniques, (v) Letters to the editor, and (vi) Reviews. Full-length articles and short communications: These should be original research reports that have not been submitted elsewhere. Disease notes: Authors should describe symptoms, the hosts, when and where the disease occurred, and pathogen identification (or proof of pathogenicity). They should also state the significance of the disease. Techniques: JGPP accepts only reports of techniques that are unique and useful in the plant pathology field. Letters to the editor: A letter to the editor is a comment on research published in the journal or elsewhere. Reviews: Reviews should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief prior to submission.
Manuscript submission
- Legal requirements
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities - tacitly or explicitly - at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
- Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
- How to submit
Manuscripts should be written in English. If the manuscript conforms to the guidelines specified in the instructions, the date received will be the date the manuscript was received at the editorial office. Authors should submit their manuscripts to the Journal of General Plant Pathology online. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens overall publication times. Please connect directly to the site and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen. In case you have any difficulty while submitting your manuscript online, click on Help in the upper left corner.
Please view your Reference Checking Results during electronic submission and attempt to resolve any problems with your references prior to submitting your manuscript.
Editorial procedure
The Editorial Committee reserves the right to accept or reject the manuscript for publication. The Committee may advise the author to revise the manuscript according to suggestions by reviewers. A manuscript written in poor English may not be accepted regardless of its content. When revision of a manuscript has been requested, the revised manuscript should be returned within one month after notification. Otherwise, the manuscript will be processed as one withdrawn from submission. The accepted date will be the day when the Editor-in-Chief has judged it to be publishable after the completion of the reviewing process.
New nucleotide data must be deposited in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases and an accession number obtained before a paper can be accepted for publication. Submission to any one of the three collaborating databanks is sufficient to ensure data entry in all. The accession number should appear as a footnote on the title page: The nucleotide sequence data reported are available in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under the accession number(s) ----. The accession number should also be included in the text, tables, or figure legends, as appropriate.
Please indicate the source of microbiological cultures. Authors are encouraged to deposit cultures at recognized institutions and cite the place of deposit in the text.
Page limits and page charges
Reviews and Full-length articles should not exceed 8 and 6 printed pages, respectively, and Short communications and Letters to the editor should be no longer than 3 printed pages. Disease notes should not exceed 2 pages, and Techniques should not exceed 4 pages. Pages beyond these limitations will be subject to an excess page charge. Reviews and Full-length articles cannot exceed 12 and 10 printed pages, respectively, and Short communications or Letters to the editor, 5 printed pages. Disease notes cannot exceed 3 printed pages.
For a corresponding author who is a member of the Phytopathological Society of Japan (PSJ), there is no page charge. For a nonmember corresponding author, the page charge is US$15 per printed page. The excess page charge is US$150 per page for members and nonmembers alike.
This statement of page charges notwithstanding, a Japanese corresponding author will be charged at a different standard and should pay in yen as specified in the general requirements in the Japanese Journal of Phytopathology (no charge and JPY 6000 per printed page for members and nonmembers, respectively; JPY 36 000 per excess page for members and nonmembers alike.)
Because of fluctuation in printing costs, page charges are subject to change without notice.
Editorial office
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of General Plant Pathology,
Prof. Tetsuro OKUNO
Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Kyoto University,
Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Tel.: +81-75-753-6131; Fax: +81-75-753-6131
e-mail: okuno@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Manuscript preparation
Manuscripts should be formatted with 3-cm margins, 25 lines per page on either A4 (21.0 × 29.7 cm) or 8½ × 11-inch page. All pages, including tables, figures, and legends, should include the author's name and the page number at the top right corner for identification. Line numbers should also be included in the left margin of all papers. Italic and boldface type should be specified using the features of standard word-processing software.
Arrangement of the manuscript
Pages should be numbered consecutively and arranged in the following order.
Page 1: Title page
The title page should include:
- A concise and informative title
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
- The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
- Total text pages
- The numbers of tables and figures
Page 2: Abstract and keywords
- Abstract
Please provide an abstract of no more than 250 words for Reviews and Full-length articles, 100 words for Short communications, Letters to the editor, Disease notes and Techniques. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
- Keywords
Please provide a maximum of six keywords which can be used for indexing purposes, including the name of organisms (common name or scientific name), method or other words or phrases that represent the subject of the study, such as fungistasis, Fusarium oxysporum, phytoalexins, late blight, Solanum tuberosum.
Page 3: Text
Please provide a text, divided into the following sections: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, and figure legends. Authors should consult recent issues for details of style and presentation. A short communication, letter to the editor, or disease note should not be divided into sections, except for References. Mathematical equations should be written in a form such as (RT/nF)•ln(b/a).
Text formatting
For submission in Word
- Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 12-point Times Roman) for text.
- Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
- Do not use field functions.
- Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
- Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
- Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
Note: If you use Word 2007, do not create the equations with the default equation editor but use MathType instead. Save your file in doc format. Do not submit docx files.
Heading levels
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.
Abbreviations and acronyms
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Units of measurement
Length: km, m, mm, µm, nm, etc.
Area: km2, m2, cm2, etc. a, ha are acceptable.
Capacity: kl, l (liters in the text), ml, µl, etc. Do not use lambda and italic l.
Volume: km3, m3, cm3 (not cc), mm3, etc.
Mass: kg, g, mg, µg (not gamma), ng, pg, etc.
Time: s, min, h, day(s), week(s), month(s), year(s)
Concentration: M, mM, N, % (only after number and in tables and figures), g/l, mg/l, µg/l,
ppm, ppb
Temperature: ºC
Gravity: ×g
Molecular weight: mol wt
Others: Radioisotopes: 32P
Radiation dose: Bq
Oxidation-reduction potential: rH
Hydrogen ion concentration: pH
Terminology
Genus and species names should be in italics. The common names of plants should not be capitalized.
Equations
Please use the standard mathematical notation for formulae, symbols etc.:
- Italic for single letters that denote mathematical constants, variables, and unknown quantities
- Roman/upright for numerals, operators, and punctuation, and commonly defined functions or abbreviations, e.g., cos, det, e or exp, lim, log, max, min, sin, tan, d (for derivative)
Bold for vectors, tensors, and matrices.
Footnotes
Footnotes on the title page are not given reference symbols. Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
Ethical standards
Please include at the end of the acknowledgements a declaration that the experiments comply with the current laws of the country in which they were performed.
Conflict of interest
Authors must indicate whether or not they have a financial relationship with the organization that sponsored the research. They should also state that they have full control of all primary data and that they agree to allow the journal to review their data if requested.
References
The list of References should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.
Citation in text
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:
- Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson 1990).
- This result was later contradicted (Becker and Seligman 1996).
- This effect has been widely studied (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al. 1995; Kelso and Smith 1998; Medvec et al. 1993).
List style
The reference list at the end of the paper should include only works cited in the text and should be arranged alphabetically by the last names of the first author of each work. References should be cited as follows: journal papers - names and initials of all authors, year in parentheses, full title, journal as abbreviated in accordance with international practice, volume number, first and last page numbers; books - names and initials of all authors, year, chapter title, names and initials of all editors, full title, edition, publisher, place of publication.
- Journal article
Virtudazo EV, Nakamura H, Kakishima M (2001) Phylogenetic analysis of sugarcane rusts based on sequences of ITS, 5.8 S rDNA and D1/D2 regions of LSU rDNA. J Gen Plant Pathol 67:28–36
- Book
Kempken F (ed) (2002) The mycota XI. Agricultural applications. Springer, Berlin
- Book chapter
Waterhouse PM, Upadhyaya NM (1999) Genetic engineering of virus resistance. In: Shimamoto K (ed) Molecular biology of rice. Springer, Berlin, pp 257–281
- Article by DOI
Kirschner R, Braun U, Chen Z-C, Oberwinkler F (2002) Pleurovularia, a new genus of hyphomycetes proposed for a parasite on leaves of Microstegium sp. (Poaceae). Mycoscience 43:15–20. doi: 10.1007/s102670200003
Escuadra GME, Amemiya Y (2008) Suppression of Fusarium wilt of spinach with compost amendments. J Gen Plant Pathol. doi: 10.1007/s10327-008-0090-8
- Online document
Doe J (1999) Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their effects. Royal Society of Chemistry. Available via DIALOG. http://www.rsc.org/dose/title of subordinate document. Cited 15 Jan 1999
Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal's name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see
http://www.issn.org/en/node/344
Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic data rests entirely with the author.
Tables
- All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- For each table, please supply a table title. The table title should explain clearly and concisely the components of the table.
- Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table title.
- Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
- A unit of measure should be reported as the actual quantity multiplied by a power of 10 to give the reported quantity (the unit may be changed by the use of m or µ).
Figures
- Figures should match the size of either the column width (8.4 cm) or the printing area (17.4 × 23.4 cm).
- All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c). If illustrations are supplied with uppercase labeling, lowercase letters will still be used in the figure legends and citations.
- Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- For each figure, please supply a figure legend.
- Make sure to identify all elements found in the figure in the legend.
- Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the legend.
- For more information about preparing your illustrations, please follow the hyperlink to the artwork instructions on the right.
- The publisher reserves the right to reduce or enlarge figures.
- Figure legends should be grouped together in text.
Electronic supplementary material
Electronic supplementary material (ESM) for an article in the journal will be published on SpringerLink provided the material is submitted to the editors in electronic form together with the paper and is subject to peer review, and is accepted by the journal editors.
ESM may consist of
- information that cannot be printed: animations, video clips, sound recordings
- information that is more convenient in electronic form: sequences, spectral data, etc.
- large original data that relate to the paper, e.g. additional tables, illustrations, etc.
- If supplying any ESM, the text must make specific mention of the material as a citation, similar to that of figures and tables (e.g., ". . . as shown in Animation 3.").
- For details on formats and other information, please follow the hyperlink to the specific instructions for electronic supplementary material on the right.
After acceptance by the journal editors ESM will be published as received from the author in the online version only.
After acceptance
Upon acceptance of your article you will receive a link to the special Author Query Application at Springer’s web page where you can sign the Copyright Transfer Statement online and indicate whether you wish to order OpenChoice, paper offprints, or printing of figures in color. Once the Author Query Application has been completed, your article will be processed and you will receive the proofs.
- Open Choice
In addition to the normal publication process (whereby an article is submitted to the journal and access to that article is granted to customers who have purchased a subscription), Springer provides an alternative publishing option: Springer Open Choice. A Springer Open Choice article receives all the benefits of a regular subscription-based article, but in addition is made available publicly through Springer's online platform SpringerLink. We regret that Springer Open Choice cannot be ordered for published articles.
- Copyright transfer
Authors will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the Phytopathological Society of Japan and Springer Japan (or grant the Publisher exclusive publication and dissemination rights). This will ensure the widest possible protection and dissemination of information under copyright laws.
Open Choice articles do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. In opting for open access, they agree to the Springer Open Choice Licence.
- Offprints
Offprints can be ordered by the corresponding author.
- Color illustrations
Online publication of color illustrations is free of charge. For color in the print version, authors will be expected to make a contribution towards the extra costs. Otherwise the figures will be printed in black and white. Please note that, in such cases, it is authors’ responsibility to prepare figures to be illustrative enough to convey the necessary information even after they are converted into black and white.
Proof reading
Authors are informed by e-mail that a temporary URL has been created from which they can obtain their proofs. Proofreading is the responsibility of the authors.
The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables and figures. Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the Editor.
After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.
Online First
The article will be published online after receipt of the corrected proofs. This is the official first publication citable with the DOI. After release of the printed version, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers.
(Revised on 23 Apr. 2010)
Editorial Board
Editorial Board
Editor-in-chief
Tetsuro OKUNO
Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Tel. +81-75-753-6131; Fax + 81-75-753-6131
e-mail: okuno@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Associate Editors
Kazuya AKIMITSU
Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
József BURGYAN
Plant Biology Institute, Godollo, Hungary
Sheng Yang HE
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Sri Hendrastuti HIDAYAT
Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia
Yasufumi HIKICHI
Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan
Kazuyuki HIRATSUKA
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
Takashi HIROOKA
Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Mitsuro HYAKUMACHI
Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
Kiyoshi ISHIGURO
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
Masayasu KATO
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
Kook-Hyung KIM
CALS Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Yasuyuki KUBO
Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan
Yong-Hwan LEE
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Steven A. LOMMEL
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Tatsuya NAGATA
Universidade de BrasÃlia, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Hitoshi NAKAMURA
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
Shigetou NAMBA
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Keiko T. NATSUAKI
Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
Richard J. O'CONNELL
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Koeln, Germany
Satoshi T. OHKI
Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan
You-Liang PENG
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Barry SCOTT
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Hideki TAKAHASHI
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Tohru TERAOKA
Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology (TUAT), Tokyo, Japan
Yukio TOSA
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Kenichi TSUCHIYA
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Shinya TSUDA
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization , Tsukuba, Japan
Takashi TSUGE
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Shigenobu YOSHIDA
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Nobuyuki YOSHIKAWA
Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
Editorial Managers
Kazuyuki MISE (Chief)
Masanori KAIDO
Akinori KIBA
Tomofumi MOCHIZUKI
Hitoshi NAKAYASHIKI
Chihiro TANAKA
Yoshitaka TAKANO
Motoaki TOJO
Seiji TSUGE
Gento TSUJI
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