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as a supplement in the journal. The submission rules of thesummary of the Annual Meetings will be stated in theannouncement of the meetings.

INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS（2008年１月改定）

1. Editorial Policy
Journal of Electron Microscopy Technology for Medicineand Biology is the official journal of The Japanese Society ofElectron Microscopy Technology for Medicine and Biology.
This journal publishes articles written in Japanese or English
about electron microscope and research using electron
microscopy. The decision to publish the submitted manuscripts
will be made by the Editorial Committee. Papers aboutmorphological studies using microscopes excluding electron
microscope may be accepted based on the judgment of theEditorial Committee.

3. Copyright
The Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy Technologyfor Medicine and Biology holds the property in copyright
related to articles that are published. Authors are required toobtain approval from The Japanese Society of Electron
Microscopy Technology for Medicine and Biology, toreproduce the article in its entirety or in part.
4. How to Submit Article Manuscripts.
Three sets of manuscripts, three sets of photographs, figures
and tables, and one electronic file (CD) should be submitted.
Only manuscripts should be written into a CD as a document
file (.doc or .docx) or a text file (.rtf or .txt). Title, author’sname and the name of the software should be written on theface of the CD. These manuscripts, photographs, figures,tables, and CD should be sent to the Chief-Editor, Shin-ichi
Izumi, Department of Cell Biology, Nagasaki University
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 852-8588 Japan (Tel& Fax: +81-95-819-7632, e-Mail: s-izumi@nagasaki-u.ac.jp).
Submitted manuscripts, photographs, figures, tables, and CD
will not be returned to the author. The deadlines are January
31st and August 31st of each year, while contributions could
be received at any time.

Three kinds of papers are published which are (a) reviews,(b) original articles, and (c) notes such as short reports,
technical improvements or commentaries. An original article
should consist of contents that have not been publishedelsewhere. A review or a note should be an article that isinstructive or suggestive to other researchers as much as
possible. A review should not exceed 8 printed pages, anoriginal article should not exceed 6 pages, and a note should
not exceed 2 pages. Any article that exceeds the limit of theprinted-pages may be accepted according to the judgment of
the Editorial Committee with extra charge for the printed
pages as mentioned below.
Generally as a rule, the first author should be a member of
The Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy Technology for
Medicine and Biology. Non-member students of this society
can contribute to an article as the first author if his/hercorresponding author is a member of the society. TheEditorial Committee may receive and print an article from
non-members of the society. The page charge for an article bya non-member is mentioned below.

5. Page Charges
Regarding manuscripts where the page number is within thelimit stated earlier, the author must pay the charge described asfollows up to the fixed pages. For members, a review costs
40,000 yen, an original article costs 30,000 yen, and a notecosts 10,000 yen. For non-members, a review costs 60,000yen, an original 45,000 yen, and a note 20,000 yen. However,the charge of an invited article is free up to the pages requestedby the Editorial Committee. The author must pay 10,000 yen
per extra page. In addition, there will also be an extra charge
for color pages. Twenty five reprints will be sent to the author
without a charge. More reprints will be available at a nominalcost.

2. Type of Contributions
The contributions are classified into three types. (1) A
general contribution, which was voluntarily written by amember of this society. (2) Recommended contribution by amember of this society who was suggested to prepare amanuscript by the chairperson of the annual meetings or thehead of a board. (3) Invited contribution is a manuscript
requested by the Editorial Committee according to therecommendation of the head of a board. Author(s) of theinvited contribution is not always member(s) of this society.

HOW TO PREPARE MANUSCRIPT

1. The manuscript should be prepared using a personalcomputer. Manuscripts in English should be written using
double spacing on A4-sized white paper with 2.5 cmmargins on all sides.

General and recommended articles are subjected to editorial
review and if required the manuscript must be revised.
Regarding invited articles, some changes might be requested tobe made by the Editorial Committee. Summaries of theAnnual Meetings of The Japanese Society of Electron
Microscopy Technology for Medicine and Biology are printed

2. The first page of the manuscript should contain the Title,
Authors’ full name, Institution, and Author’s institutional
address in English.

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should be written double spaced on a separate sheet.

3. The second page contains an Abstract written in English(not exceeding 250 words) and less than five keywords.

9. In case of quotation of tables, figures or photos from otherpublications, author(s) must obtain permission of thereproduction from both the author and the publishingcompany, and state the source clearly.

4. After the third page, the text should be written according to
the following sections.
1) Introduction, 2) Materials and Methods, 3) Results, 4)
Discussion, 5) References, 6) Legends to figures and tables.
(5) and (6) should be written on a separate sheet. In thisjournal, the text is printed in a two-column style, and thewidth of one column is 8.4 cm. A review includes about
41,288 characters in 8 printed pages, an original article
about 30,056 characters in 6 pages, and a note about 7,400
characters in 2 pages. Since the area of 1 cm x 8.4 cm cancontain 90 characters, and the area of 1 cm x 9.0〜17.5 cm
can contain 180 characters, the author(s) should calculate
the number of characters corresponding to each figure ortable.
5. References should be numbered on the upper-right cornerwith parenthesis according to the citation in the text. The
references should be written as follows on separate sheets.
1) Sasaki, H., Matsui, C., Kiyosue, Y., Furuse, M., Tsukita,
S. (2003). Dynamic behavior of paired strands withinapposing plasma membranes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.
100 : 3971-3976.
2) Sasaki, H. (2003). Freeze-Fracture Analysis of RenalEpithelial Tight Junctions. Methods in Molecular Medicine(Ed. Goligorsky, M.S.), Humana Press Inc., Totowa NJ,
pp.155-166.
6. The following can be used as weight and measure units.
km, m, cm, mm, µm, nm, kl, l, ml, µl, km3, m3, cm3, mm3,µm3, kg, g, mg, µg, ng, pg, km2, m2, cm2, mm2, µm2, M,mM, µM, N, %, g/l, mg/l, µg/l, ppm, ppb, 。C, pH, Bq, Pa,year(s), month(s), week(s), day(s), hr, min, s.
7. Technical terms related to morphology can be usedaccording to latest edition of Nomina Anatomica Japonica(Maruzen). Latin should be written in italics, or underlined.
8. Each table should be presented on a separate sheet. Tables
should be numbered as ‘Table 1’, and supplied with thetable’s number and title. Figures and photographs should
be numbered as ‘Fig. 1’, and the figure number, firstauthor’s name, and the orientation of upside should bewritten on the reverse side of each figure or photograph.
Scale bar should be inserted on EM photographs which areprinted as final size for publication. The width of tables,figures, or photographs is limited to less than 8.4 cm or 17.5cm. The maximum length of each is limited to less than 22cm. Titles and detailed explanations of tables, figures andphotographs belong in the Legends of Figures, which
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