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1.

Materials Transactions, Guide for Authors

General“Materials Transactions” is a collaboratively published journal by 12 institutes. This guide describes
submission guidelines of manuscript for authors through The Japan Institute of Light Metals, hereinafter called“JILM”.
2.

Authors Instruction

In submission of the manuscript to Materials Transactions, it is required to meet the following conditions.
(1) The paper must be clearly written in English and have originality. It has been neither copyrighted, published,
nor under contribution for publication elsewhere.
(2) Its contents contribute to the academic and scientific or technological development of the light metals andthe related materials.
(3) It accords with Bylaws for Contribution to Materials Transactions.
(4) It has been made according to the 2436 Manuscript Instructions.
(5) Authors agree to transfer the copyright of the paper to JILM.
(6) Authors pay the contribution and publication charge after the manuscript is accepted for publication.
(7) Illegal and inappropriate research conducts are prohibited. Authors must agree to accept to be punished forthe illegal conduct and to be taken measures for the inappropriate conduct based on the rules prescribed byJILM. Examples of the judgement of the multiple submissions are shown in Annex.
(8) Authors agree to preserve the raw data, the experiment note, the specimen, the reagent and so on, which areused to write the paper and can verify the research results, in five years after publication.
(9) First author must be a member of JILM.
3.

Category of papers(1) Regular article: (Less than 10 printed pages)
Papers should have original content which reports the experimental and technological results of the lightmetals and the related materials. It is required that the scientific or technological quality is included sufficiently.
Papers based on published Japanese papers (KEIKINZOKU, Journal of JILM) will be accepted as long as
they are submitted within two years of the publication. A footnote should be added to identify the originalJapanese paper.
(2) Review or Overview: (Less than 15 printed pages)
An instruction article fairly describing recent researches, their backgrounds and survey about a particularsubject referring important papers for non-particular readers.
Papers based on published Japanese papers (KEIKINZOKU, Journal of JILM) will be accepted as long as
they are submitted within two years of the publication. A footnote should be added to identify the originalJapanese paper.

(3) Technical Article: (Less than 10 printed pages)
Technical articles which report original experimental results and surveys about experimental techniques,
production techniques, equipment, utilizing technologies, standard, database of light metals.
Papers based on published Japanese papers (KEIKINZOKU, Journal of JILM) will be accepted as long as
they are submitted within two years of the publication. A footnote should be added to identify the original
Japanese paper.
(4) Express Rapid Publication: (Less than 4 printed pages)
Short papers suitable for the rapid publications, such as with novel and significant research results, newknowledge and ideas or proposals on technological developments are in this category.
(5) Current Trends in Research: (Less than 10 printed pages)
An article intelligibly explains summary of the current trends in research of papers which has been publishedin the special issue or has been awarded "Best Paper Award", by referring the related papers and their GraphicalAbstracts(6) Opinion: (Less than 2 printed pages are available for publication)
An opinion or a discussion against articles published in Materials Transactions, as well as replies from theauthors. The article must include contribution to the scientific or the technical development.
4.

Prohibition of illegal conduct and inappropriate conduct of the research

In submission, authors should not do illegal conduct and inappropriate conduct of the research prescribed in
the rules by JILM. As shown in an attached table, the papers are subject to judgment with regard to theacceptability as the original papers, containing the duplicated contents from company technical reports, theuniversity bulletin, papers submitted to disclosed publication which are not regarded as original papers, abstract
for the international conferences and symposiums, and international conference proceedings, which has noISBN or ISSN number.
Since authors have the responsibility of the contents of the published paper, the authors are responsible forthe accountability of the doubts of illegal conduct and inappropriate conduct of the research when they arise.
When the unlawful conduct is proved, the paper is rejected, warned by the Editor's Announcement or retracted
from the database as punishment. When the inappropriate conduct is proved, measures are taken based on therules prescribed by JILM.
5.

Copyright

The authors must follow the copyright policy of JILM.
6.

Manuscript submission

Authors must submit their manuscripts using online submission system athttps://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/matertrans.
Available file type(1) Text

MS-WORD (*.doc, *.docx)(2) Figures and Tables
Microsoft Word/ Excel/ PowerPoint
Adobe Illustrator (save as version 10)
JPEG (high resolution, low compressed)
TIFF
PNG
GIF (not see-through, assign all colors)
PDF (no down sampling and no compression, All fonts must be embedded)

7.

Editorial procedure(1) The Received date is the date when the manuscript is received by the Editorial Committee.
(2) The Accepted date is the date when the acceptance is notified by a reviewer to the Editorial Committee.
(3) Papers which violate the Bylaws for Contribution shall not be accepted.
8.

Reviewing

The contributed papers are all subject to peer review by the Editorial Committee, regardless of the original
publication in Japanese. Therefore, the manuscript may be returned for revision or rejected. In the case that thepaper was resubmitted after the time limit for revision, it will be regarded as a newly contributed paper. Even if
the paper is returned within the time limit for revision, the Editorial Committee can change the accepted date if
the contents of the paper are revised too much.
8.1 Time limit for revision

Category of papers

Time limit for revision

Regular Article, Technical Article, Review and Overview

20 days

Regular Article (Express Publication) and Opinion

15 daysExpress Rapid Publication

7 days

8.2 Notification of the acceptance of the paperIf the Editorial Committee accepts a paper for publication, the author will be notified in due course. Major
revision such as author addition is not permitted after the acceptance.
8.3 Notification of the rejection of the paper

If the Editorial Committee decides to reject a manuscript for publication in Materials Transactions, theauthor will be notified with reasons for the paper being rejected.
8.4 Proof reading(1) The authors are responsible for the first proof reading, which is requested after typesetting process isfinished.
(2) All corrections for a main body, tables and figures should be clearly indicated in the proofs.

(3) If changes or replacement of the figure(s) and table(s) are needed, the authors must send JILM new figure(s),as well as the eps file(s) by e-mail with attached file. In that case, 1,100 JPY(1,000 JPY without tax) per one
figure is needed to pay for charge.
(4) Unless both the corrected proofs and the list of the corrections are returned to JILM and the payment
confirmation is finished in time, your paper will be delayed for Materials Transactions next issue.
9.

Cost borne by contributors (all NOT including tax)

(1) Authors pay the Publication Fee. The ID/Password will be presented to subscribe online journal for one
year from publication of their paper.
(2) The members of JILM can get member discount of 11,000 JPY(10,000 JPY without tax) if the paper is morethan 6 printed pages.
(3) To publish figures in color, authors should pay 1,100 JPY(1,000 JPY without tax) per color figure/table.
Color figures/tables are available only in online journal so journal booklets and reprints will be printed allin monochrome.
(4) The Express Charge for Regular Article is 11,000 JPY(10,000 JPY without tax).
(5) The Express Charge for Express Rapid Publication (less than 4 printed pages) is 22,000 JPY(20,000 JPYwithout tax).
(6) The additional reprint charge shall be borne by the contributor.
(7) When authors want reprints with a cover, the cover charge will be 11,000 JPY(10,000 JPY without tax)
regardless of the number of pages or copies.
Within10 pages

2 pages

3 pages

4 pages

5 pages

6 pages

7 pages

8 pages

9 pages

Author in

22,00033,00044,00055,00066,00084,70099,000118,800

132,000

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JPY

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20,00030,00040,00050,00060,00077,00090,000108,000

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10. Withdrawal of manuscript(1) In the case that a manuscript is withdrawn, a written notice of withdrawal should be addressed to the EditorialCommittee.
(2) If the withdrawal notice is received after the completion of the printing frame, the author will be subject toa framing fee which is a half of the Contribution and Publication Charge.
11. Erratum(1) Erratum can be published if the author hopes after the paper is published.
(2) In case of author's mistake, the author will bear the cost for Erratum which is 22,000 JPY(20,000 JPY withouttax) for one article.

Annex:Type of publication
PublicPublication

Original papers
With review
published on academic
journals
Review papers published With review
on academic journals

ClosedPublication

CorrespondWithout review

Not correspondText or reference books

Without review

Not correspondInternational conference
proceedings and long
abstract with ISBN or
ISSN number

With review

CorrespondWithout review

Not correspond

Patents

LimitedCirculation

Correspond/Not Correspondto duplicate submission
CorrespondNot correspondDisclosed academic
dissertation by online

With review

Determined by the EditorialCommittee

Company technicalreport and university
bulletinReports on Grant-in-Aidfor Scientific Researchand competitive
research funding
Abstracts of domestic
conference andsymposium
Short abstract within 2
pages of international
conference
Closed reports atsymposium orinternational conference
proceedings without
ISBN or ISSN number
Research reports inorganization

Without review

Not correspond to duplicate
submission

Without review

Not correspondWithout review

Not correspondWith andwithout review

Not correspondWithout review

Not correspondWithout review

Not correspondAcademic dissertation
without online accessWith review

Not correspond