Information for authors in English manuscripts(December 13, 2012 updated)
Journal of Japanese Society for Breastfeeding Research is the official journal ofthe Japanese Society for Breastfeeding Research, publishing articles ofscientific excellence in breastfeeding and human milk.
REVIEW AND SELECTION OF PAPERS
Original articles are evaluated by at least two expert reviewers assigned by theEditor.
COPYRIGHT
Authors publishing in the Journal will be asked to sign an Exclusive License
Form. In signing the form it is assumed that authors have obtained permission touse any copyrighted or previously published material. All authors must read andagree to the conditions outlined in the form, and must sign the form or agree thatthe corresponding author can sign on their behalf. Articles cannot be publisheduntil a signed form has been received. Manuscripts submitted under the
category of Original Article should not have been published elsewhere or beunder consideration for publication by any other journal.
ETHICS
Investigations on human subjects should conform to accepted ethical standards.
Fully informed consent should be obtained and noted in the manuscript. Patientanonymity should be preserved. Authors must state that the protocol for theresearch project has been approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committeeof the Institution.
STYLE OF MANUSCRIPTS
All contributions should be written in Japanese or English. Spelling should be
American (current English usage). Manuscripts should follow the style of theVancouver agreement detailed in the International Committee of Medical Journal
Editors’ revised ‘Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical
Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication’, as presented at
http://www.ICMJE.org.
The Editor reserves the right to modify typescripts to eliminate ambiguity andrepetition and improve communication between author and reader. If extensivealterations are required, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision.
The revised manuscript should be submitted to the editorial within 6 months,
otherwise the manuscript is considered as newly submitted one. Manuscripts
should be as concise and clear as possible. Manuscripts not following theInstructions for Authors shall be returned to the authors.
MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES
Authors are invited to submit articles in the following categories:
Original Articles
Clinical Investigations: Human studies, especially in clinical settings, as well as
field works of breastfeeding.
Laboratory Investigations: Experimental animal studies and studies in vitro.
Patient Reports: Case reports of significance.
Letters to the Editor and Replies: All letters should offer objective andconstructive criticism of published articles in Journal of Japanese Society forBreastfeeding Research.
Features
Invited Papers: Papers by experts on progress in major areas of breastfeeding
and milk.
CONFLICT OF INTERREST
You must submit an attached sheet to disclose presence or absence of items todeclare in terms of conflicts of interests at the time of submission for a research
paper.
If you have no item to disclose, add a sentence at the end of your paper that you
do not have any item to disclose which the Japanese Society for Breastfeeding
Research defines.

If you have, add a sentence at the end of the paper that you

have the items to disclose, for example, amounts (Japanese yen) from (name ofcommercial entity).
About the following items (No.1 to 4) to disclose which the Japanese Society for
Breastfeeding Research defines, you must circle “Yes” or “No”. In case of “Yes”,
fill in the names of commercial entities and the amounts.
A completed form of declaration must be signed by all authors.
Items to declare as conflict of interests in Japanese Society for
Breastfeeding Research
1. When payment related to clinical research from a single commercial entity
exceeds 2,000,000 yen per year (including overhead expenses deducted byown institution).

2. When personal profit for consultancy, education and lectures, orcompensations from a single commercial entity exceeds 1,000,000 yen peryear (including tax and withholding).
3. When personal profit related to clinical research (stock ownership or options,executive compensation, patent royalties, etc) from a single commercial entity
exceeds 1,000,000 yen per year (excluding investment trust fund or fundmanagement by multiple funds which cannot be controlled by the person
concerned).
4. When first-degree relatives of researchers work in commercial entities fallingunder any of 1 to 3 of the above items.
* Personal profits: From January 1st to December 31th in the previous year
* Payment related to clinical research: From January 1st to December 31th in theprevious year, or from April 1st in the previous years to March 31th in thepresent year
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
The printed manuscripts and the covering letter should be sent to the address
below by postal mail. In addition, the manuscript and the covering letter shouldbe e-mailed tojjsbr-office@umin.ac.jp
Shiho Iwasaki
Journal of Japanese Society for Breastfeeding Research
Yokohama City University Medical Center, Perinatal Center for Maternity andNeonate,
4-57, Urafune-Cho, Minami-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture232-0024, JAPANAuthors must supply an e-mail address as all correspondence will be by email.
Two files should be supplied: the covering letter and the manuscript (in Word orrich text format (.rtf)). All articles submitted to the Journal must comply with theseinstructions. Failure to do so will result in return of the manuscript and possible
delay in publication.
• Submissions should be double-spaced.
• All margins should be at least 30 mm.
• All pages should be numbered consecutively in the top right-hand corner,

beginning with the title page.
• Do not use Enter at the end of lines within a paragraph.
• Turn the hyphenation option off; include only those hyphens that are essential
to the meaning.
• Specify any special characters used to represent non-keyboard characters.
• Take care not to use l (ell) for 1 (one), O (capital o) for 0 (zero) or ß (Germanesszett) for b (Greek beta).
• Use a tab, not spaces, to separate data points in tables. If you use a table
editor function, ensure that each data point is contained within a unique cell (i.e.
do not use Enter within cells).
Figures should be supplied as separate files, with the figure number
incorporated in the file name. Upon acceptance of the article, high resolution
figures (at least 300 d.p.i.) saved as .eps or .tif files should be sent as
attachment files. Digital images supplied only as low-resolution files cannot beused.
Clinical and Laboratory Investigations should not exceed 25 typed pages,
including references, figures and tables.
Patient Reports should not exceed five typed text pages, with no more than
three figures and/or tables and 10 references. An abstract is not necessary. The
size of figures and tables should be no more than one final printed page.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Conventional Manuscript
The manuscript should be arranged as follows, with each section beginning on aseparate page.
Covering letter
The covering letter should state that the manuscript is being submitted to Journalof Japanese Society for Breastfeeding Research only, that it has not been, andwill not be submitted elsewhere, and that should it be published in Journal ofJapanese Society for Breastfeeding Research (J Jpn Soc Breastfeed Res), it will
not be published elsewhere without permission of the Editors. Authors must alsodeclare any financial support or relationships that may pose conflict of interest.
Title pageThe title page should include the following, in this order:(1) Category of manuscript: The category of manuscripts (as listed above)should appear on the title page.
(2) Title: The title should be concise and informative, not exceeding 80
characters and spaces. The main title should, where possible, contain the major
key words used in the body of the paper. If a subtitle is necessary, it should belinked to the main title with a colon.
(3) Full names and academic degrees of the authors.
(4) Departments and institutions in which the work was performed.
(5) Name(s) and address(es) of the author(s): The full postal address, telephone
and facsimile numbers, and e-mail address of the author who will check theproofs and receive correspondence should be included (in English andJapanese for local authors), as well as the present address of any author if
different from where the work was carried out.
(6) Number of text pages, reference pages, tables, figures and legends tofigures.
Abstract
This should be a concise, structured abstract of no more than 300 words,
consisting of four paragraphs labeled as Background, Methods, Results andConclusions. They should briefly describe, respectively, the purpose, basic
procedures, main findings and the principal conclusions of the investigation.
New and important information should be emphasized.
When the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors will be asked toprepare Japanese abstract of no more than 400 words.
Key words
Five key words, for the purposes of indexing, should be supplied below theabstract, in alphabetical order, and should be taken from those recommended by
the US National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)browser list at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html.
Main text
The text of observational and experimental articles is usually divided into
sections with headings Methods, Results and Discussion. Long articles mayneed subheadings within some sections.
The purpose of the article and the rationale for the study or observation should
be summarized in an introductory paragraph.
Methods should be described in sufficient detail to leave the reader in no doubt
as to how the results were obtained.
Results should be presented in a logical sequence in the text. Tables and figures
should not include material appropriate to the discussion.

Discussion The new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions
should be emphasized, without repeating data in detail. This section should
consider the implications of the findings and their limitations. Link theconclusions with the goals of the study, and relate the observations to otherrelevant studies. New hypotheses and recommendations, when appropriate,
may be included.
Acknowledgments should be made only to persons who have genuine
contributions and who endorse the data and conclusions. The source of financial
grants and other funding must be acknowledged, including a frank declaration of
the authors’ industrial links and affiliations.
References
Cite references in text by using superior Arabic numerals in the order in which
they appear in the text. Abbreviate titles of the journals according to Index
Medicus. List all authors when three or fewer; when four or more list only the first
three and add et al.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references.
Examples of correct reference format:
Standard journal article:
1. Mizuno K, Ueda A. Changes in sucking performance from nonnutritive sucking
to nutritive sucking during breast- and bottle-feeding. Pediatr Res. 2006;59:728–731
Chapter in a book:
2. Tildon JT, Roeder LM. Metabolic and endocrine aspects of SIDS: An overview.
In: Tildon JT, Roeder LM, Steinschneider A (eds).
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Academic Press, New York, 1983;243–262.
Books and other monographs:
3. Hutson JM, Beasley SW, Woodward AA. Jones’ Clinical Paediatric Surgery,4th edn. Blackwell Science, Melbourne, 1992.
Tables and Figures
Tables should be included on a separate page, numbered with Arabic numerals
and accompanied by short titles at the top. Each table must be referred to in thetext. Explanatory matter should be placed in footnotes below the tabular matterand not included in the title. All non-standard abbreviations should also beexplained in the footnotes. Footnotes should be indicated by *, †, ‡, §. Statisticalmeasures such as SD (standard deviation) or SEM (standard error of the mean)
should be identified in headings. Vertical rules and horizontal rules between
entries should be omitted.

Figures All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) are classified as figures.
Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text. Figures should be sized
to fit within the column (83 mm), intermediate (118 mm) or the full text width (173mm). Magnifications should be indicated using a scale bar on the illustration.
Authors will be charged for the publication of color figures.
Figure Legends Type figure legends on a separate page. Legends should beconcise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable
without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used anddefine/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Units and Abbreviations
Manuscripts should be in metric units. Standard abbreviations may be used andshould be defined in the Abstract and on first mention in the text. In general, aterm should not be abbreviated unless it is used repeatedly and the abbreviationis helpful to the reader.
Proofs and Offprints
The proof should be checked, and approval to publish the article should bemailed by the date indicated; otherwise, it may be signed off by the Editor or held
over to the next issue. A minimum of 30 offprints will be provided upon request,at the author’s expense. Regular papers may not exceed four printed pages(including illustrations, tables and references). Exceeding this limit will incur apage charge for each exceeding page (5,000 yen per one page). Case Reports
may not exceed two printed pages.
PRE-SUBMISSION ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITING
Authors for whom English is a second language should have their manuscript
professionally edited before submission and send a certification of having beenedited by a native English speaker.
DEFINITION
Please refer the definition of exclusive breastfeeding as follows; Human milk is
the only food provided. Medicines, minerals, and vitamins may also be given
under this definition, but no water, juice, or other preparations. Infants fed
expressed human milk from their own mothers or from a milk bank by gavage
tube, cup, or bottle also can be included in this definition if they have had nonon-human milk or foods (Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians. AAP/ACOG2006).