Instructions for Authors

Scope: Medical Mass Spectrometry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, and publishes
articles related to the use of mass spectrometry in biomedical fields. Submission of anarticle implies that the work has not been published or submitted for publicationelsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or asymposium.
Manuscript Type: Medical Mass Spectrometry publishes research papers, shortcommunications, and reviews. There are no strict page limits for them. However, weadvise a maximum length of up to 6000 words including 20-30 references, plus 4-6
figures and 1-3 tables for a research paper. For a short communication, we advise amaximum length of 3000 words including 15 references, plus 2 figures and/or tables. Fora review, we advise a maximum length of 9000 words including references, plus figures,and tables. Manuscripts must be written double-spaced in English.
Manuscript Submission: Manuscripts in Word files and their PDF files should be sent
to the following secretariat of Japanese Society for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry by email.
Ono/Shiozaki
Secretariat of Japanese Society for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry
e-mail: iap-proof@bunken.co.jp
TEL: +81-3-3362-9742
FAX: +81-3-3364-0041

Cover Letter: The manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover lettershould contain significance of the work, novelty of the work, and contribution to the field.
Title Page: The title page should contain the name(s) of the author(s), the affiliation(s)and address(es) of the author(s), and the e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of thecorresponding author.

Abstract Page: The abstract page should contain an abstract of 150 to 250 words and 5keywords. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified
references.
Text: The text of a research paper and a short communication should be divided into
Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, Conflictof Interest, and References. Statement on funding should also be included in
Acknowledgements.
Informed Consent and Animal Welfare: In cases where a study deals with humansubjects or live animals, the methods section of the manuscript should include a statementthat all experiments were performed in compliance with the relevant laws and/orinstitutional guidelines. A statement should also be included that informed consent wasobtained from human subjects.
Conflict of Interest: All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflictof interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people ororganizations that could inappropriately influence or be perceived to influence their work.
Tables and Figures: Each table and figure must have a caption. Each table isaccompanied by its legend typewritten double-spaced on the same sheet, and figurelegends, also typewritten double-spaced, are to be separated from the main text.
Photographs of high quality may be requested for printing of morphological data. Colorfigures can be reproduced if necessary, but the authors will be expected to contributetowards the cost of printing. Color figures are free of charge for online publication.
References: References must be numbered according to the order of appearance in thetext and use superscript numbers with right side half brackets. For reference style, follow
the examples listed below with journal abbreviations according to Cumulated IndexMedicus. The names and the initials of the first five authors, followed by “et al” if there
are other coauthors, should be listed.
For journal articles
Tucker HN, Molinary SV: Gas chromatography in diagnostic biochemistry of abnormal
valine metabolism. Clin Chem 19: 1040-1045, 1973.
For books

Danner DJ, Elsas LJ: Disorders of branched-chain amino and keto acid metabolism, inScriver CR, Beaudet AL, Sly WS, Valle D (eds): The metabolic basis of inherited disease.
p. 679, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1989.
Page Proofs: The corresponding author will receive PDF proofs, and the authors should
correct only typesetting errors. After correcting, page proofs must be returned promptly.
Publication: The articles are published online soon after acceptance on the web site
http://www.jsbms.jp/, and then are printed in the journal Medical Mass Spectrometry. If
you wish to print in color, we will charge 37000 yen per page.
Copyright Transfer: Upon acceptance of your article, authors will be asked to transfer
copyright of the article to Japanese Society for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry. All
published manuscripts become the permanent property of Japanese Society for
Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, and may not be published elsewhere without permission
from the Society.