Appendices & SI (Supporting Information)
guide in the ESJ journals
Editorial Office, Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ)ver. en-1.1. 23 May 2020 (Japanese ver.)Additional information helps readers better understand the article- There are two different types of the additional information :Appendices & SI
- For submission, please prepare the additional information files
separately from the manuscript file.
(1) What is the difference of Appendices & SI ?
Appendices

Print version

SupportingInformation

Online onlyAppendices contain extra material (usually tables, lists, equations or
lengthy sections of text), published at the very end of the article withcopyediting. The Editorial Office recommends authors to choose SI insteadof Appendices for readability.
* Appendices must be numbered separately from the figures/tables of themain body (e.g. Figure A# and Table A#).
SI is information that is not essential to the article, but provides greater
depth and background. It is hosted online and appears without editing ortypesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc..
* SI will be published as received format without any conversion, editing, orreformatting.
1(2) File size/format of SI- Less than 10MB is acceptable for each SI file
- Various file formats are acceptable as SIs.
Text, graphic and presentation files >>PDF, standard MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,Project, Access, etc.)
Graphic files >> TIF, EPS, GIF, PNG, JPG, BMP, PS
Embedded graphics are recommended (the files pasted inthe Word file)
Spread sheets >> PDF, Word if the author doesn’t intend
the file to be modified>> Excel
if the author wants readers
to calculate using the file
Audio files >> MP3, AAC, WMAVideo files >> QuickTime, MPEG, AVI
If the data and/or scripts are deposited at the publicly data repository,
please mention the location of the materials in the text.

(3) Captions of SI file
Please provide a caption (& footnote) to all SI file. Do not separate thecaption from the SI file.

FIGURE S1 Relationshipbetween ### and +++ …
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If SI file cannot include thecaption (e.g. mpg file), please
prepare the text file separately
and summarize them in a zip fileZIP(4) Name of SI file and it’s structure- Tables and figures for SI should be named as Table S1,Table S2, …
and Figure S1, Figure S2…
Several figures/tables can besummarized in one file・・・

page-1TABLE S1 TABLE S2TABLE S#・・・
FIGURE S1 FIGURE S2

page-2

FIGURE S1 TABLE S1

FIGURE S#
Save as single PDF/Word file.
e.g. [Author name]_SI.pdf- Other SI, e.g. source literature list,
sound data, movie, please name them
SI 1, SI 2… in the order ofappearances in the text
SI 1・・・PBD
SI 2

SI #*Please prepare tables and figures basically according to AUTHOR GUIDELINES and “How toimprove your figures”. http://www.esj.ne.jp/er/ImproveFigures/How_to_improve_your_figures.pdf(5) For the further information-Supporting Information FAQs, Wiley (Click here)
Author guidelines of Ecological Research, Plant Species Biology, andPopulation Ecology
The Ecological Society of Japan Journals, Wiley (Click here)
Ecological Research, ESJ (Click here)
ESJ Figures/tables guide: “How to improve your figures”

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