Instructions to Authors / Sensors and Materials

Sensors and Materials — Instructions to Authors

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Types of Manuscript
Contributions should be specified as research papers, review papers,

technical papers, perspectives, or letters.

Topics to be covered include

physical/mechanical sensors, bio/chemical sensors, materials, related
technologies, and sensor applications.

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Policies
Manuscripts submitted to this journal must not have been previously

published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The authors of an accepted manuscript shall agree to transfer the copyrightof the manuscript to MYU K.K.

All papers published in Sensors andMaterials in 2019 and later are available under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0).

Any further

distribution of the work in Sensors and Materials must display Sensors andMaterials, volume no., page no., and digital object identifier (DOI).

For

papers published in Sensors and Materials in 2018 and earlier, the authors ofan accepted paper are required to submit a permission request form to theEditorial Department before publishing its PDF file on their own academicwebsite.

3.

Review
All manuscripts must be reviewed by two reviewers recommended by

the Editor(s) (for general contributed manuscripts) or Guest Editor(s) (for1Instructions to Authors / Sensors and Materials
manuscripts submitted to special issues).

The final decision (accept/reject)regarding the manuscript is made by the Editor(s) or Guest Editor(s).

4.

Fees
The authors are obliged to pay the following fees.

4.1

Publication fee
The authors are obliged to pay the publication fee determined inaccordance with the number of pages published in Sensors and Materials.

4.2

Number of pages

Publication fee (2023)

up to 4 pages

JPY 129800

5–6

JPY 134200

7–8

JPY 139700

9–10

JPY 145200

11–12

JPY 151800

13–14

JPY 158400

15–16

JPY 165000

17–18

JPY 171600

19–20

JPY 178200

21–22

JPY 184800

Proofreading fee
After submission, all manuscripts will be subject to our English

proofreading service.

If the quality of the English of the manuscript does

not satisfy the journal standards, the authors must bear the proofreading fee(JPY 11000–44000, depending on the amount of corrections), which will becharged with the publication fee.

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4.3

Color printing fee
Color figures will be published as they are in the electronic version but

will be printed in black and white in the printed version of the journal andreprints.

If you prefer color figures in the printed version, a supplemental

fee will be charged (JPY 22000 per color page).

4.4

Reprints
If you request reprints, you will be obliged to pay an additional fee (forexample, 30 copies of a 10-page paper: JPY 11000).

5.

Withdrawal
A manuscript once accepted for publication should not be withdrawn

without special reason.

If the authors withdraw their manuscript once ithas been accepted, the authors must pay the cancellation fee, which will bedetermined in accordance with when the authors informed us of thecancellation.

6.

For details, please contact us.

PDF
The payment of the publication fee entitles you to a PDF file of yourpaper free of charge.

7.

Use of Figures
Authors must obtain formal permission from relevant publishers to use

figures and tables taken from already published papers. The reference
numbers should be appropriately given in the body of the text and in thefigure or table caption to clarify the source.

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8.

Use of Human-derived Samples
Authors are required to describe in their manuscripts that they haveobtained formal approval from the appropriate ethical committee and how
consent was obtained from participants when the research involves humanparticipants and human-derived samples.

9.

Contact

Editorial Department of Sensors and Materials
MYU K.K.
E-mail: myukk@myu-inc.jp
TEL: 81-3-3827-8549, FAX: 81-3-3827-8547

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