Instructions to authors
Submissions considered for publication in Journal of the Juzen Medical Society arereceived on the understanding that they have not been accepted for publication elsewhere
and that all of the authors agree to the submission. Reviews, articles and abstracts of thesociety, and others are received. Manuscripts should be read by colleagues who areproficient in English before submission.
I. Submission of manuscripts
1) Submit manuscripts in two (one original and one copy) with a floppy disk, an MO or
CD-R disk (on Windows or Macintosh format), which recorded your manuscript in textstyle. We can accept image and table formats as follows．
Image formats
Photoshop (.eps)
Photoshop LE (.eps)
PowerPoint (.eps, .jpeg)
Others (.eps, .jpeg, .tiff) are accepted.
Table formats
Adobe Illustrator (eps; save as under Ver. 8.0)
Excel2) Complete style printed manuscripts on white A4 paper, without hyphenation, with 2.5 to
3 cm margins on the right and left sides, 4 cm margins on the upper and lower sides, double
spaced copies including figures and tables must accompany the disk.
3) Special characters such as italics, bold subscript, superscript, Greek letters, mathematicalsymbols etc. should be clearly indicated.
4) It is important that authors should receive permission of human experiments or animalexperiments from Ethical Committees of School of Medicine in Kanazawa University
before submission.
5) When the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors must agree to automatictransfer of copyright to the Juzen Medical Society.
II. Manuscript format
The manuscript should be set out with the following sections beginning on a new page1) title page including title of paper; full names, affiliations of all cited authors, runningtitle (not exceed 30 words), corresponding author’s name, full mailing address, telephone
number, fax number, and e-mail address; present address of authors
2) abstract must not exceed 250 words in one paragraph, within 5 key words (small letters
except a proper noun), and abbreviations; (authors should note abbreviations except in atable of abbreviations)
3) text and acknowledgments4) references
5) figure legends
6) tables with their legends.

Organize the document as follows:
1) Title page2) Abstract(page break)3) Introduction(page break)4) Materials and methods
5) Results6) Discussion7) Acknowledgment
8) Reference list

(page break)9) Tables(page break)10)Figures(page break)11) Legend to figure(page break)

Drawings and charts for reproduction should be black and laser printed. Photographs(maximum 8 cm in width x 24.5 cm in length of one column, or 16 cm in width 24.5 cm inlength of two columns) and drawings should be numbered and the authors should indicate
either of the two. Color illustrations are acceptable, however, the authors are requested topay the extra publication costs. Abbreviations should conform to the style accepted in theJapanese Medical Sciences and used in Journal of the Juzen Medical Society and theQuarterly Cumulative Index Medicus.
Ⅲ. References
Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text.
Identify references in text, tables and legends by Arabic numerals superscript (e.g.
Kanazawa1), Kanazawa K2)3), Kanazawa K4)-6) et al.) All references cited, and only these,must be listed at the end of the paper. All authors’ names should be listed. Abbreviations ofjournals must conform to those used in Index Medicus of the National library of Medicine.
The format should conform to the examples listed below:
References to a journal:
1) Zarrow MX, Holmstrom EG, Sahlnick HA. The concentration of relaxin in the bloodstream and other tissues of women during pregnancy. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 14; 22-27,
1955
References to a book2) Bull HG. Physiological Biochemistry, 2nd ed, p97-107, John Wiley & Sons Inc, NewYork, 1951
3) Leibovitz B, Siegel BV. Ascorbic acid and the immune response. In M Philips, A Baetz(eds), diet and Resistance to Disease, 1st et, pl-25, Plenum Press, New York, 1981
If the manuscript will be accepted, author corrects only factual errors and printer’s errors,
and other changes will not be permitted. Author will be charged for text, color figures andreprints.
Ⅳ. Submit and inquiry office:Complete 2 sets of manuscripts, including 2 sets of figures, should be sent toEditorial Office of Journal of the Juzen Medical Society
Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8640, Japan
Tel: 076-265-2131, Fax: 076-234-4208
E-mail: kenkyu@adm.kanazawa-u.ac.jp