KONA Powder and Particle Journal No. 41 (2024) 286/https://doi.org/10.14356/kona.2024023

Information Article

General Information
History of the Journal
The KONA journal (currently called “KONA Powder andParticle Journal”) was first published as an open-accessed scientificjournal in 1983 by the Council of Powder Technology, Japan (CPT),
which was established in 1969 by Hosokawa Micron Corporation
as a nonprofit organization to promote powder technology, in order
to introduce excellent Japanese papers to the world. From issue
No.8, the CPT changed its editorial policy to internationalize theKONA journal and to incorporate papers by authors throughout theworld. In response to this change, three editorial blocks have beenorganized worldwide: Asian–Oceanian, American and European–African. Issues from No.1 (1983) to No.12 (1994) of the KONA
journal were published by the CPT, and issues from No.13 (1995)
and onwards by the Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation.
The policy and system have not changed even after the Hosokawa
Foundation took over the publication from the CPT. From issue
No.38 (2021), the KONA journal primarily publishes review articles
by leading researchers, including established and recentlyPh.D.-awarded young researchers in the field.
Aims and Scope
KONA publishes review and original research papers in a broad
field of powder and particle science and technology, ranging fromfundamental principles to practical applications. Papers on criticalreviews of existing knowledge in special areas are particularly welcome.
The submitted papers are published only when they are judged
by the Editor to contribute to the progress of powder science andtechnology, and approved by any of the three Editorial Committees.
The paper submitted to the Editorial Secretariat should not havebeen previously published.
Category of Papers• Invited articles
Review papers and feature articles invited by the KONA
Editorial Committees.
• Contributed papers
Original review papers and some limited number of original
research papers of high quality submitted to the KONA
Editorial Committees, and refereed by the reviewers and editors.
Submission of Papers
To submit your paper, please use the online Editorial Manager®
for KONA Online Paper Submission and Peer Review System. For
further information, please visit the journal’s website at https://www.kona.or.jp/jp/journal/info.html
Publication in KONA is free of charge.
Publication Schedule
KONA is an annual publication with an expected release datearound January 10th.
Subscription
KONA is distributed for free to senior researchers at universities
and laboratories, as well as to institutions and libraries in the field
throughout the world.
Instructions to Authors(1) Language

All submissions should be written in good English. Authors may
choose either British or American English, provided that the chosen
style is used consistently. Authors from non-English-speaking countries
are encouraged to use professional English editing services toproofread their manuscripts.

(2) Data Repository Information

In order to promote open data discoverability and use of research
outputs, this journal encourages authors to submit data files supporting
their manuscript work, which can be deposited in the journal’s
J-STAGE Data site <https://jstagedata.jst.go.jp/kona> after acceptanceof the paper through the peer-review process.
These data may describe observations, experiments, modeling oranalyses, and may take the form of databases, simulations, movies,
large figures, or as otherwise appropriate.
For questions or more information, please contact the KONA
Editorial Office (contact_zainq@hmc.hosokawa.com).

(3) Manuscript format• Electric files should be submitted to the Editorial Secretariat
via Online Submission System. Author’s short biography withless than 100 words per person should be attached to the finalversion.
• The structure of manuscripts should follow the following order;
title, authors, affiliations, abstract, graphical abstract, keywords, main text, (data availability statement), (acknowledgement), (nomenclature), references. The items with parentheses
are not mandatory.
• Full postal addresses must be given for all the authors. Indicate
the corresponding author by the asterisk mark“*” after thename. Telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address should
be provided for the corresponding author.
• Abstract should not exceed 200 words.
• Graphical abstract should be a concise, visual summary of thearticle which will be displayed in the contents list both onlineand print.
• The appropriate number of keywords is 5 or 6.
• The maximum pages printed in KONA are supposed to be:
15 for an original research paper and 25 for a review paper.
• Symbols and units should be listed in alphabetical order with
their definition and dimensions in SI units.
• The color figures will appear in color both on the KONA
Website (https://www.kona.or.jp) and also in the paper version.
• Concerning references, the alphabetical system should beadopted. Please use reference management software such as
Endnote to manage references as far as possible.
List: References should be arranged first alphabetically andthen further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one
reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be
identified by the letters “a”, “b”, “c”, etc., placed after the yearof publication.
Examples:- Reference to a book:
Strunk Jr. W., White E.B., The Elements of Style, fourth ed.,Longman, New York, 2000, ISBN: 9780205309023.

- Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

Mettam G.R., Adams L.B., How to prepare an electronic version ofyour article, in: Jones B.S., Smith R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to theElectronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 2009, pp.281–304.

- Reference to a journal publication:

Tsuji Y., Tanaka T., Ishida T., Lagrangian numerical simulation ofplug flow of cohesionless particles in a horizontal pipe, Powder
Technology, 71 (1992) 239–250. DOI: 10.1016/0032-5910(92)88030-L

Text: All citations in the text should refer to:
1. Single author: the author’s name (without initials, unlessthere is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
2. Two authors: both authors’ names and the year of publication;
3. Three or more authors: first author’s name followed by “etal.” and the year of publication.
Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups ofreferences should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.
Examples:“as demonstrated (Hidaka et al., 1995; Tsuji, 1992a, 1992b,1993). Mori and Fukumoto (2002) have recently shown ....”(4) Copyright and permission• The original paper to be submitted to KONA has not been
published before in any language or in any journals or media; it
is not submitted and not under consideration for publication inwhole or in part elsewhere.
• Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from thecopyright holders to reproduce any figures, tables and photos
for which copyright exists.
• The KONA Journal applies the Creative Commons Attribution
License to all works published by the Journal. Copyright stays
with the agreed copyright owner, and the Hosokawa Powder
Technology Foundation is granted the exclusive right to publish
and distribute the work, and to provide the work in all forms
and media.
• Users of the journal will be able to reuse the contents in any
way they like, provided they are accurately attributed. No
permission is required from either the authors or the publisher.

Free electronic publication of KONA is available at https://www.kona.or.jp286