INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Clay Science is an international journal of original research papers or reviews in clay mineralogy and related ﬁelds including 1) earth sciences, 2)
resources, 3) materials, 4) chemistry and physics, 5) soils and fertilizers, 6) construction and agricultural civil engineering, and other related areas.
Manuscripts should be original, and have not been published and are not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Author(s) must also agree
that manuscript will not be submitted elsewhere while in the review process for Clay Science. All manuscripts should have been checked by a native
English speaker prior to submission.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Type of Manuscript

Clay science accepts various types of manuscripts: original papers, notes, reviews, letters, and other contributions related to clay science.

Manuscript format

Each manuscript must be written in English (American English spellings), and should be organized in the order; title page, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, ﬁgure captions, ﬁgures, and tables. The entire manuscript should be typewritten on A4 size with double spacing using Times
New Roman of 12 point font. Do not right-justify type. Margins should be 2.5 cm at the top, sides and foot of each page. Each page should be numbered at the center of the bottom starting with the title page. Text lines must be sequentially numbered throughout the text. SI units should be used intext, ﬁgures, and tables, but angstrom (Å) may be used also if usage is consistent within the manuscript. A manuscript template can be downloaded
from website (URL: http://www.cssj2.org/).

Title pageThe title page should include in the following order: manuscript title, full names of authors, addresses of institutions of authors, a shorter running
title, and footnotes to the name and complete mailing and e-mail addresses of the corresponding author. Manuscript title and full names are in all
capital letters and centered on the page. The corresponding author is identiﬁed with asterisks (*). If the authors have more than one aﬃliation, superscript alphabets should be used to indicate the aﬃliation.

Abstract pageThe heading “ABSTRACT” is in capital letters and centered at the top of the abstract page. The abstract body should not exceed 300 words andshould contain only one paragraph clearly representing objective, materials and methods, results, and conclusions. Provide several key words after“Key words:” at the bottom of the abstract.

Text

The text should include: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and conclusions. First-order headings (INTRODUCTION, DISCUSSION, etc.) are in all capital letters and centered on the page. Second-order headings should be in lowercase letters, italicized, and placed at theleft-hand margin of the page. Third-order headings are italicized, placed at the beginning of the paragraph but without an indent, and followed by aperiod.

References

References are cited in the text by the name of the author and the year of publication, e.g., Sudo (1975) or Sato and Kizaki (1972). For referenceswith more than two authors, use ʻʻet al.” as in White et al. (1992). Citations in parentheses must include a comma, e.g. (White et al., 1992). Full references should be listed alphabetically by author at the end of the paper in the form: surname of the author followed by a comma and the initials, yearof publication in parentheses, full name of the journal, volume number, ﬁrst and last page numbers. Use italic for the full name of journals and boldfor the volume numbers. For example:BRINDLEY, G.W. (1965) Complexes of primary amines with montmorillonite and vermiculite. Clay Minerals, 6, 91–96.
FARMER, V.C., MCHARDY, W.J., PALMIERI, F., VIOLANTE, A., and VIOLANTE, P. (1991) Synthetic allophanes formed in calcareous environments: Nature, conditions of formation, and transformations. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 55, 1162–1166.
BARKER, W.W., WELCH, S.A., and BANFIELD, J.F. (1997) Biogeochemical weathering of silicate minerals. Pp. 391–428 in: Geomicrobiology:
Interactions between Microbes and Minerals (J.F. Banﬁeld and K.H. Nealson, editors). Reviews in Mineralogy, 35, Mineralogical Society ofAmerica, Washington D.C.
ILER, R.K. (1979) The Chemistry of Silica. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 866 pp.

Tables, figures, and captions

Tables, ﬁgures, and captions should be on separate pages in a single ﬁle of the manuscript. Figures should be drawn on a white background in blackink. Lines, symbols, and letterings should be drawn enough to allow for proper reduction. Times New Roman and Helvetica, or equivalent typefaces,
must be used for the lettering on the ﬁgures. The preferred format for ﬁgures are JPEG or TIF formats. The units on the axis labels of ﬁgures should
follow the axis label and be enclosed in parentheses. All ﬁgures and tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Table 1, Table 2,etc.), and should always be cited in the text as, e.g., Fig. 1, Figs 2 and 3, Table 1, Tables 2 and 3 or, if starting a sentence, Figure 1.

SUBMISSION

All manuscripts must be submitted in a single Microsoft Word ﬁle as e-mail attachment to editor in chief (T. Nakato, e-mail: nakato@che.kyutech.
ac.jp). All parts of the manuscript (title page, abstract page, text, acknowledgments, references, ﬁgure captions, ﬁgures, and tables etc) should be ina single ﬁle. Do not send as separate ﬁles. Manuscripts submitted to the Clay Science are normally reviewed by one or more referees, an associate
editor, and editor in chief.

PROOFS AND OFFPRINT

The PDF proofs will be sent to the corresponding author on the title page. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked immediately
for typographical errors and returned within 48 hours of receipt. Authors can also order 50 oﬀprints for 3,300 yen per page. Additional oﬀprints canbe accepted only in increments of 50.
Charges for oﬀprint
Copies / pages

24

68

1050

6,600

13,20019,80026,40033,000100

7,700

15,40023,10030,80038,500150

8,800

17,60026,40035,20044,000200

9,900

19,80029,70039,60049,500PAGE CHARGESPage charges are required for publication in Clay Science. The page charge is 6,600 yen for the ﬁrst journal page, and 6,600 yen for each additional
2 pages. Corresponding authors must pay a page charge etc. when the submitted paper is accepted. The paper is published after the conﬁrmation of
the page-charge-payment. Payment by credit card is acceptable. The remittance fee will be borne by the sender. Color charge is not added to J-STAGE
open-access-documents. Color-print-charge is 5,500 yen per manuscript.