South Pacific Studies

1Instructions for Contributors
1. Editorial policy
The Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands’ South PacificStudies is an international and multidisciplinary journal publishing original papers on all
aspects of the South Pacific and its surrounding regions. South Pacific Studies is open to
all scholars and scientists. The South Pacific Studies accepts research papers, reviews,research notes and material. All the review articles are solicited.
2. Submission of manuscripts
All manuscripts must be sent to the Editorial Board for consideration. Manuscripts
submitted must not have been published, accepted for publication, or be underconsideration elsewhere. All manuscripts are to be written either in English or inJapanese. For non-native English speakers, it is the author’s responsibility to see that thelanguage of the text is linguistically correct before submission.
Send two hard copies of the manuscript together with a 3 1/2 inch diskette and/or
CD containing a Microsoft Word file and a plain text (ASC II) file. Authors may send
the files as e-mail attachments. Figures should be drawn on white paper as photo-readymaterials in separate sheets and/or electronic files.
Request of reprints (No. of copies) and the running title written within 50 lettersshould be submitted to the Editorial Board with the manuscript.
There is no page charge. The costs of reprint are payable directly to the printer.
3. Preparation of manuscript
All manuscript will be printed by offset process in black and white, however, atauthor’s expense, art pages, color prints and other special materials can be used.
Manuscript should be typed in English or in Japanese on one side of A4 size (210 x297 mm) bond paper or the near equivalent with double spacing throughout, leaving amargin of at least 3 cm all around. Font of ‘Times New Roman, 12 pt’ should be usedthroughout otherwise mentioned (Title; 18pt, Abstract and Key words; 10.5pt).
4. Layout of manuscripts
Manuscripts should, in general, be arranged in the following order: 1) Title 2)
Authors 3) Affiliations 4) Abstract (200 words) 5) Key words (six words or less) 6)
Text (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion or Results andDiscussion, 7) References. Acknowledgements for grants, people, etc. should be placed
before the References. Table and Figure captions should be placed at the end of the text.
1) Title
Times New Roman, 18 pt, Centered.

Satellite, Air and Ground Observations of Volcanic
Clouds over Islands of the South Pacific2South Pacific Studies

The title should be concise and informative.
Insert two lines between title and author’s name.
2) Author’s complete nameTimes New Roman, 12 pt, Centered.
Andrew TUPPER1, 2 and KINOSHITA Kisei2
Insert a line between author’s name and affiliation.
3) Affiliation
Academic affiliation and address (Times New Roman, 12 pt, Italic, Centered). In
addition to the postal address, provide fax number and e-mail address of thecorresponding author.
1: Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin, Australia,and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2: Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University 1-21-24 Korimoto
Kagoshima 890-8580 Japan4) Abstract
Abstract must begin with the heading ‘Abstract’ (Times New Roman, 10.5 pt, Bold,Centered). The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified
references and must not exceed 250 words (Times New Roman, 10.5 pt, double spaced).

Abstract
Volcanic ash is dangerous to aircraft. In response to this, a warning system has beencreated: the International Airways Volcano Watch. Many of the ---.
5) Key words
Key words must begin with the heading ‘Key words’ (Times New Roman, 10.5 pt,bold) followed by six words or less in alphabetical order (Times New Roman, 10.5 pt).
Key words: aviation safety, eruption height, volcanic ash, volcano

6) Text
Times New Roman, 12pt, double spaced. Headings such as Introduction, Materialsand Methods, etc.; Times New Roman, Bold, 12 pt, Centered. Second and lower level
headings should be left-justified and clearly distinguishable but not numbered.
Introduction
The majority of the islands of the western Pacific are part of the ‘Ring of Fire’, thezones of ----.

Instructions for contributors

3The complete scientific name (Genus, species and authority), and cultivar or strain
where appropriate, must be cited for every organism on first mention. The generic namemay be abbreviated to its initial thereafter, except where reference to other genera could
cause confusion. Vernacular names may be added, but should be used alone only when
they are unambiguous.
If a non-standard abbreviation is to be used extensively, it should be defined in full.
SI units should be used, e.g.: mg, g, kg, km, m, cm, mm, ppm, cpm, l (liter), ml, s(second), min (minute), h (hour) and mol, etc. If non-SI units have to be used, the SI
equivalents should be added in parentheses on first mention. Units should abbreviatedwhen preceded by a numeral: g, mg, ml, d, h, etc. (not followed by full stops). Use theminus index (m-2, I-1, h-1) except in such cases as 'per plant' or 'per plot'. If elaborate use
is made of units, symbols and abbreviations, these may be explained in the paper.
Standard chemical symbols and abbreviations for chemical names may be used ifthey are concise and widely accepted. Numbers up to ten should be given in words
except when referring to measurements; give 11 and upwards as numerals, except at thebeginning of a sentence. Fractions should be expressed as decimals. Use '%' not 'percent' in the text. Dates should be cited thus: 1 Sept. 2003.
Mathematical equations will not necessarily fit within a single typeset column andshould be subdivided appropriately in the manuscript. Authors should also make any
special typography which may be required.
Citations in the text should take the form: JOHNSON and CASADEVALL (1994) or(SAWADA 1987, KINOSHITA 1990a, b). When papers are written by three or moreauthors, abbreviate to the name of the first author followed by et al. throughout.
7) References
Abbreviation for journal names should follow the convention accepted in theauthor’s discipline. Each entry of citations in the list must conform as nearly as possible
to one of these three styles in alphabetical order, according to the type of publication
cited:References
Journal article
SATSUMA, T. 1986. Plants of Sakurajima Volcano. South Pacific Studies, 2: 1-23.
Book
PARMENTIER, R. J. 1987. The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau, 341
pp., The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
WUERCH, W. L. and BALEENDORF, D. A. (eds.) 1994. Historical Dictionary of Guamand Micronesia, 172 pp., The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen.
Chapter in a publication

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LEVIN, D. A. and WILSON, J. B. 1978. The Genetic Implications of EcologicalAdaptations in Plants. In: Structure and Functioning of Plant Populations (Eds.
FREYSEN, A. H. J. and WOLDENDORP, J. W.), 75-100, North-Holland Publ. Co.,
Amsterdam.
Citations such as papers 'in press' may appear in the list, but not papers 'submitted' or'in preparation'. In the text refer to paper 'in press' by the expected year of publication.
Avoid 'unpublished work'. A 'pers. comm.' may be cited in the text, but not in the list.
8) Figures
Figures (diagrams, graphs or photographs) should be drawn on white paper
separately so that they are photo-ready images. Authors may provide figures as theelectronic version in either JPEG, TIFF or Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format asoriginal figures. Figures should be saved in separate files without their captions, whichshould be included with the text. The optimal resolutions are from 300 dpi(photographs) to 1200 dpi (line figures). Higher resolutions will cause file size problems
and lower resolutions compromise quality.
5. Procedure after acceptance
A manuscript considered for South Pacific Studies is reviewed by referees. Theauthor should make appropriate changes according to suggestions proposed by thereferee and the editor. The editor retains the right to modify the style and length of amanuscript.
The corrected proof with a floppy disk of the revised version should be returned tothe editor immediately. The author may send the corrected version as e-mail attachedfiles. The author receives the galley proofs for final checking.
6. Copyrights
Upon the acceptance of the manuscript, all the copyright with respect to thepublication, mechanically, electronically (off-line and on-line) or otherwise, reprinting
and translation are reserved by the Kagoshima University Research Center for thePacific Islands.
For more information on preparing manuscripts, please contact Editorial Board.
Editorial Board
Research Center for the Pacific Islands
Kagoshima University
1-21-24, Korimoto
Kagoshima 890-8580
Japan
TEL: +81-99-285-7394
FAX: +81-99-285-6197
E-mail: shimaken@cpi.kagoshima-u.ac.jp