Instructions for Manuscript preparation
Typing:
The text should be double-spaced throughout on A4 paper with margins on all sides ofapproximately 3 cm. Pages and lines must be numbered consecutively throughout theentire text, starting with the title page. Characters to be printed in italic, bold, or small
capital letters should be entered using the features of the word processing software. Use
italic font for non-English terms, scientific names of organisms and mathematicalparameters and variables, including statistics, but do not apply italic to Anglicized terms
such as ‘et al.’.
Title page:The first page of the manuscript must contain the following information: (1) the title, (2)the full name(s) of the author(s), (3) the affiliation(s) of the author(s), (4) abstract of 250
words or less in a single paragraph, and (5) up to five keywords.
Use superscript numbers to link authors’ names and affiliations and an asterisk toindicate the corresponding author as shown in the example below.
Toshihiro Yamada1*, Nur Supardi Md Noor2 and Toshinori Okuda1
1

Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8521, Japan
2Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, 52109, Malaysia*Corresponding author: (e-mail address)

Text:
The text of the article should be divided into the following sections: Introduction,Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, andAppendices. Sections of the manuscript may differ slightly depending on thesubmission type.
Units of measurement:
Use metric units unless otherwise required. All specifications of measurements must
follow the SI system. All biological and chemical terms should follow current standards

for international nomenclature. Use the italic "l" for liter, °C for temperature (do not usea Fahrenheit scale), etc.
Insert space between numbers and units (i.e., 3 min, 40 μg/ml, and 50 ha), but do not
between numbers and symbols such as "%" and "°C" (i.e., 3%, 20°C, and $100). Use"%" only with numerals and in tables and figures. Otherwise, use the word "percentage"(e.g., percentage of forest cover).
Tables:Tables must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals.
Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title. Any explanation essential tothe understanding of the table such as abbreviations should be given as a footnote below
the table.
Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. If necessary, additional spaceshould be used to separate columns.
Figures:Figures (drawings and photographs) must be numbered consecutively with Arabicnumerals. Figure legends should be brief and self-explanatory and should be placed in a
separate section at the end of the text.
Figures should be in the desired final size and should match the size of either thecolumn width (8.0 cm) or the printing area (16.4 × 23.4 cm). The publisher reserves theright to reduce or enlarge figures.
Figure parts should be identified by lowercase roman letters (a, b, etc.).
Color figures will always be published in color.
References
All publications cited in the text should be given in a reference list following the text.
Citations of "unpublished results" or papers "in preparation" should be included in thetext but not in the reference list. Articles cited in the text should be referred to by thesurname of the author with the year of publication in parentheses without a comma in
between the name and year. If there are more than two authors, only the first author'sname is given followed by et al. In the reference list, surnames and initials of all authors

should be given, and the references should be listed alphabetically by the first authors'
surnames. Use the following examples for citations in the text:(Tanaka et al. 2010)(FAO 2011)(Angelsen and Lund 2011)
Use the following examples when arranging the references:a. Journal articles
Tanaka S, Lattirasuvan T, Nakamoto K, Sritulanon C, Sakurai K. 2010. Soil fertility
under various types of upland farming in northern Thailand: Case study of avillage located in a transitional zone of hill evergreen and mixed deciduousforests. Tropics 18: 185-199.
b. Books[FAO] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2011. Global forest
resources assessment 2010: main report. FAO, Rome.
c. Edited books
Angelsen A, Lund JF. 2011．Designing the household questionnaire. In: Angelsen A,Larsen HO, Lund JF, Smith-Hall C, Wunder S (eds) Measuring livelihoods andenvironmental dependence. Earthscan, London. 107-126.
d. Electronic materials
Scheer MB. 2011. Mineral nutrient fluxes in rainfall and throughfall in a lowland
Atlantic rainforest in southern Brazil. Journal of Forest Research 16(1): 76-81.
DOI: 10.1007/s10310-010-0222-9.
[OECD] Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2012. Promoting
growth in all regions. OECD Publishing.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264174634-en (cited October 1, 2018).
e. Foreign language

Published English translation can be used with reference to the original language inbrackets. Titles in languages that do not use the Latin alphabet and do not have apublished English translation can be transliterated, for example, by applying the Pinyinsystem to Chinese, and the Hepburn or Modified Hepburn system to Japanese. An
English translation of the title should be shown in brackets following the original title.
For production
After acceptance of the paper, the author is responsible for preparing files forpublication. The file name should include the table/figure number and the reference
number. Text, Table and Figure files are prepared as follows:
Text:
Submit in Microsoft Word format.
Tables:Submit all tables as separate files in Microsoft Excel format.
Figures:
Submit all figures as separate files. Drawings and texts shall be saved in vector format.
Please note that color figures will be printed in color. Please refer the charge for color
prints and PDF files on Submission Form.
Proofreading
Proofreading is the responsibility of the authors. Authors should make their proof
corrections (formal corrections only) on a printout of the supplied PDF file, checking
that the text is complete and that all figures and tables are included. Substantial changesin content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title, and authorship, are not allowed
without the approval of the responsible editor.
Offprints
Offprints may be ordered in lots of 50 for an additional fee.