Revised on January 2022

Information for Authors
The Journal of Insect Biotechnology and Sericology publishes Regular Articles, Technical Reports and Short
Communications on all aspects of original research concerned with the studies of sericultural science and insect
technology. The journal is particularly dedicated to the publication of contributions of a basic and fundamental nature,
although it will accept suitable articles pertaining to the applications of sericultural science and insect technology.
Reviews will usually be invited by the Editorial Board. Prospective writers of reviews should first consult the Editor-inChief.
Articles will be published in English. When submitting the manuscript, authors who feel their English language
manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientificEnglish may wish to use the English Language Editing.
Manuscripts should be submitted to:
Chisa Yasunaga-Aoki, Editor-in-Chief
West 5-557, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University,
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
E-mail: yasunaga@grt.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Manuscripts should be submitted preferably by E-mail attachment. Manuscript files should be converted into portable
document files (PDF) and sent by E-mail, with a cover letter available from a website. E-Mail address of the Editor-inChief is shown above.
After the announcement of acceptance of the article, editable files are required for processing in production. The
following file format are acceptable: Microsoft Word for text
 PowerPoint (suitable for diagrams and/or images) for figures
 Microsoft Excel for tables
The editable files should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief by E-mail. In the case of sending by mail, the files should be savedin CD-R，DVD-R, or USB flash memory and be sent to the mailing address shown above.

Manuscript Preparation
1. Manuscript should be typed doble-spaced on 8 1/2"x11" (DIN A4) paper with a standard margin, within 80 words perline and 22 lines per page, with serial line numbers through the whole document.
2. Authors must write the tile, author(s)’s name(s), and affiliation, running tile (not exceeding 45 letters and spaces inlength), and correspondence information on the first page of the manuscript. The text must start from the second page.
3. The manuscript generally should be composed in the following order: ABSTRACT, Key words, INTRODUCTION,MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, and REFERENCES,
followed by Figure legends and Table titles. Chapter titles should be written in bold letters, subsequent paragraphtitles in bold and italics. There is no need to put level numbers. References should be cited in the text by the names ofauthors and years of publication. Papers written by 3 or more authors should appear with the first author's namefollowed by “et al.”.
1) The length of abstract must be 250 words or less. No abstracts required for Short Communications.
2) Four to six key words or phrases should be indicated after the abstract. The key words should be arrangedalphabetically.
3) How to write REFERENCES:
References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper in the following order: Author’s name(s), year,title, journal’s title, volume, and page numbers. Titles of journals should be abbreviated in accordance with theBiological Abstracts and the Chemical Abstracts. Indicate the volume number in parenthesis if the cited volume
does not have the pages numbered consecutively. Only the volume number is in bold.

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Example:
Grynkiewicz, G., Poenie, M. and Tsien, R.Y. (1985) A new generation of Ca2+ indicators with greatly improved
fluorescence properties. J. Biol. Chem., 280, 3440-3450.
References to a book should include authors' name, year of publication, title of book (editor(s) of the article, if any),edition (if other than the first) total pages or page(s) cited, publisher and place of publication.
Examples:Wagner, R.P. and Mitchell, H.K. (1964) In Genetics and Metabolism (2nd ed.), p. 673, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,New York.
Mayer, M.S. and Mankin, R.W. (1985) In Comprehensive Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology(Kerkut, G.A. and Gilbert, L.I. eds.), Vol. 9, pp. 95-144, Pergamon Press, Oxford.
4) Tables should be numbered and cited in the text in sequence using Arabic numerals (i.e. Table 1, Table 2 etc.). Eachtable must have a descriptive heading and explanatory legend to make the table understandable without reference
to the text.
5) Figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text (i.e. Fig. 1);
each figure should have a descriptive legend.
Type appearing within figures (axis labels, for example) is in Helvetica or a similar typeface and is of sufficient sizeand contrast to retain clarity if reduced in size.
4. Proof
Authors will receive a set of galley proof, with the original manuscript. After correction, the proof should be returnedto the Editor-in-Chief together with the original manuscript. Careful checking is needed even for proofs typeset fromelectric files since it receives some editorial modifications.
5. Reprints
Reprints should be ordered in units of 50 copies each at the time of submission of the manuscript by declaration on acover letter. The cost of each reprint is 100JPY per copy. Irrespective of the number of copies, 6,000JPY will becharged for extra covers provided at the special request of the author.
6. Copyright
All articles published in the journal are protected by copyright, which covers the exclusive rights to reproduce anddistribute the article. No material published in this journal may be reproduced without written permission from theeditor.
7. Charges.
1) 10,000JPY will be charged per manuscript as submission fee when the first author or corresponding author is not amember of The Japanese Society of Sericultural Science.
2) Authors will be charged 6,200JPY for each printed page and 16,200JPY for each color-printed page.
8. Author Inquiries.
Inquiries concerning subscriptions and business matters should be addressed to the Society.
The Japanese Society od Sericultural Science
Office: c/o National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Owashi 1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8634,
Japan
E-mail: jsss@silk.or.jp

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