Submission Guidelines for the Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University(Instituted October, 2003, Revised January, 2010)
A. General Rules
1. Paper and its author(s)Papers in the Journal must be based on research complying with the conditions
a, b, c, or d, below. In addition, the papers must be results of research works
completed at laboratories in the Faculty of Agriculture (including the Biotron
Institute, and the Institute of Tropical Agriculture), Kyushu University.
a. Staff members in the Faculty of Agriculture and/or the School of Agricultureor the equivalent.
b. Graduate, undergraduate, and research students who engage in researchunder the Faculty members, or those who are recognized as having theequivalent academic ability.
c. Visiting professors or researchers from other universities.
d. Researchers from other institutions who have conducted joint research with
our faculty member(s). However, in the event of b, c, or d, the paper must be
co-authored by our faculty member(s).
2. CopyrightThe copyrights of the papers published with the Journal belong to the Facultyof Agriculture, Kyushu University. All issues involving copyrights will be
conducted by the editorial board. This copyright rule applies from the Journal
published on February 28th, 2003 and thereafter (starting from Journal Vol. 47
No. 2).
3. Writing and Submission of Paper
a. Fill in the submission application form designated by the editorial board,and then have it approved by a professor (or an associate professor) in theFaculty for proofreading. Submit the form and one copy of it to the editorialboard.
b. Papers for submission must be written in such languages as English, French,and German.
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c. Refer to section B below for further information about preparation of paper.
d. The editorial board may ask the author(s) to make necessary revisions
including table(s) or figure(s), and/or ask for further explanation ifnecessary.
4. The Content Order and Length of Paper
a. Papers are listed in the Journal in such order as Plant Science, Zoology,Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Soil and Groundwater Studies, andSocial Sciences. Papers in the same research field will be processed in theorder in which they are received.
b. Each paper is limited to 20 printed-page length or less.
c. If tables or figures are colored, the author‟s laboratory is responsible for thecost of printing them.
5. Revisiona.

All submissions of final copy should be made to the editorial boardmember(s). The author must proofread as accurately and quickly as possible,and submit no later than the designated day. As a rule, the author is allowed tomake the second revision.
b.

The author is allowed to fix only typographical errors, but not allowed todelete or add text, nor alter tables or figures.
c.

Please read the revision manual for further information.

6. Submission Fee¥ 10,000 JPY per paper. The author‟s laboratory is responsible for this payment.
7. Reprinting (Additional Copies)
a. A special request for extra copies must be notified on the submission
application form.
b. It will cost ¥ 100 JPY per each copy, and the author‟s laboratory is
responsible for the payment.

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B. Instructions for the Preparation of the Paper
1. The Paper must be submitted as an electronic file. Figures or tables should be saved
as a separate file. (If any figures or tables cannot be computerized, original printed
figures or tables are acceptable). Submit these files in a recording medium (CD-R,or USB flash memory), and a copy of the printed manuscript (paper, figures, tables,figure captions, and table titles) to the editorial board. Use a Windows or Mac word
processor. Please contact the editorial board in advance if you would like to use
other word processors or any special recording media.
2. All authors must write the title, author(s)‟ name(s), and their laboratory on the firstpage of the paper, and running head (see Section B-8 below) must be written inupper margin on the first page. Text must start from the second page, and use
footnotes when necessary.
3. All pages must be numbered.
4. The Paper must be double-spaced on A4 size paper (27 lines per page).
5. The Paper generally should be composed in the following order: Abstract,
Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements,References. The abstract must be at the beginning of the text. Chapter titles should
be written in all capital letters, subsequent paragraph titles in bold and relevant
clauses in italics. There is no need to put level numbers.
6. The length of abstract must be 300 words or less.
7. The abstract must be written in English, even if the paper is written in anotherlanguage.
8. Insert a running head, abbreviated paper‟s title and author(s)‟ name(s), in the upper
margin on the first page. If there are two authors, abbreviate as J.O. Smith andM.A. Jones, and if there are three authors or more, abbreviate as J.O. Smith et al.
9. The university‟s name must be in Italics. There are (some) other Latin terms thatneed to be in Italics as follows: et al., ex, ibidem (or ibid.), in litteris (or in litt.), invacuo, invitro, in vivo, per os.
However, the following Latin terms do not need to be written in Italics: ca., cf., e.g.,
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etc., i.e., l.c.(or loc.cit), vid., viz.
Signs that stand for a physical amount and variable quantities must be in Italics.
Signs of vector quantity must be in bold and Italics, and subscripts or superscriptsthat show physical amount and variable quantities must be written in Italics.
Other subscripts or superscripts should be written in Roman style.
10. It is preferable that the following confusing letters should be clarified:
1(one) and l (lower-case L) and I (capitalized i)o and o(Italics) and O (capitalized o) and 0 (number)-(hyphen) and －(minus) and ― (dash)
You Should write down the name beside Greek letters with a pencil such as “pi” toπ or “tau” to τ.
Specify an adequate method in case where a term with a hyphen such as co-sponsor,
or one-sided comes at the physical end of a line (write // in red as one/-/, forexample).
11. Use a font the editorial board designates. However, if the author has some particularpreferences, mention it in the paper, and also inform the board upon its submission.
Especially, please pay careful attention when writing mathematical formulasymbols.
12. Use the International System of Units (SI)
13. Indicate the appropriate places to insert figures or tables within the paper.
14. In the case of drawing figures by hand, draw clearly and in detail with black ink. A
2/3-reduction ratio for figures would be adequate. Therefore, draw the original
figure while keeping in mind the reduction ratio and printed figure. There is norestriction for size of the printed figure. A picture is considered as a figure andnumbered consecutively.
Tables must be as simple as possible, and please avoid tables which cross
page-breaks or needs a folded leaf. In addition, figure captions or table titles should
also be as simple as possible, and explain it within the text if necessary. Also, please
put together figure captions and table titles on a separate page and attach it at theend of the paper.
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15. The size of captions and other text with figures should fit with each figure. Use
rotring or type tone in the event of handwriting. Freehand drawings will not beaccepted.
16. Follow these writing instructions for references
a. References must be arranged in alphabetical order by the surname of theauthors cited.
b. If references have the same authors, list them in the order they were published,earliest coming first. If years of publication are the same, put a, b, or c, after theyear. If there are more than three authors and even though the second or otherauthors are different, put a, b, or c, after the year.
c. If the paper cited is co-authored, the references must be in alphabetical order by
the first author‟s surname, and the second author‟s surname and so on.
d. If the author cited has both single and joint papers, first, list the single paper
according to instruction „b‟ above, and then joint papers following instruction „c‟above.
e. How to Write References.
(i)

Each reference should be cited in the following order: Author‟s name, year,
title, journal‟s name, volume, and page numbers. Indicate the volume numberin parenthesis if the cited volume does not have the pages numberedconsecutively.
It is important to note authors‟ names (no lower-case), the order of surname
and first name after the second author (different order from the first author),
full title of the paper, journal‟s name (abbreviated, written in Italics), volume
or issue, and page number (only the volume number is in bold).
For Example:
Smith, J.O., R. L. Lemaster and M.A. Jones 1961 The effect of cortisone on
the release and metabolism of thyroid hormone. J. Invertebr. Phys.,
10:55-90(ii) How to cite a book. For example:
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For example:
Lack, D. 1947 Darwin‟s Finches, 1st ed. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge(England) pp. 15-18.
(iii) Citation of Translated version
As reference of a book, the title must be in Italics.
For example:
Lysenko, T.D. 1946 Heredity and Its Variability. Transl. By T. Dobzhansky,King‟s Crown Press, New York.
(iv) To cite an article listed in a book or books in series.
List in order of author‟s name, year, title, and authority (in this case, use
double quotation marks, no Italics used) volume number (only for books inseries), editor, publisher, and page numbers.
For example:
Stern, H. 1960 Biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid. In “Methods inBiochemistry”, Vol.4, ed. by G. Hopkins and O. Smith, Academic Press Inc., NewYork, pp.210-300
17. Cite the author‟s name and year to paraphrase within the text, such as:
Their odour is said to resemble that of ripe pears of bananas (Locy and Johnston, 1920).
Davidson et al. (1951) analyzed the amino acid composition of soil by paper
chromatography.
When you cite the author‟s name, use and, et, und, such as Smith and Crowson (1970) if
there are two authors. If there are more than three authors, use et al. such as Schwarz

et al. (1972).
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18. Use a superscript number to footnote. However, use an asterisk (*) to indicate
corresponding author(s) on the first page. Also, avoid using footnotes for figures ortables, rather explain them within the text. If you really need to use footnotes,
please make them simple.

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