期刊名称：DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists
Development Growth & Differentiation publishes original papers dealing with all aspects of developmental phenomena in all kinds of organisms, including plants and micro-organisms.
Papers in any of the following fields will be considered: developmental genetics, growth, differentiation, morphogenesis, cellular kinetics, fertilization, cell division, dormancy, germination, metamorphosis, regeneration and pathogenesis, at the molecular biological, biochemical, biophysical and analytically morphological levels. Reports on techniques applicable to the above fields are also considered. Occasional reviews on subjects selected by the Editors will be published.
Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists
Edited by:
Sadao Yasugi
Print ISSN: 0012-1592
Online ISSN: 1440-169X
Issues per Volume: Bi-monthly
Current Volume: 46
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2002: 104/153 (Cell Biol); 23/33 (Developmental Biol)
Impact Factor: 1.496 |
Instructions to Authors
Acceptance
Manuscripts are accepted whether or not the author is a member of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists and on the understanding that the content has not been published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are peer reviewed by two anonymous reviewers and the Editor. The Editorial Board Members reserve the right to refuse any material for publication and advises that authors should retain copies of submitted manuscripts and correspondence as material cannot be returned. Final acceptance or rejection rests with the Editorial Board Members. The review process takes about 1 month, after which the author is notified of the decision and provided with copies of the reviewers’ comments. Depending on the month of publication of the next available issue, manuscripts will usually be published within 3 months from the date of receipt of the final version by the Editor-in-Chief.
Review articles
Review articles are usually submitted upon invitation by the Editors, but the Editorial Board welcomes voluntary contributions. Reviews should be a focused, brief treatment of a contemporary development in a single area, and are usually no longer than 6 to 8 printed pages. Authors wishing to contribute Review Articles should contact the Editor-in-Chief, Dr Y. Hiromi or Dr H. Takeda (review editors) before submission.
Copyright
Papers accepted for publication become copyright of The Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists and authors will be asked to sign a transfer of copyright form. In signing the transfer of copyright it is assumed that authors have obtained permission to use any copyrighted or previously published material. All authors must read and agree to the conditions outlined in the Copyright Assignment Form, and must sign the Form or agree that the corresponding author can sign on their behalf. Articles cannot be published until a signed Copyright Assignment Form has been received.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Online submission
As of March 2004, the submission and peer review process for Development Growth and Differentiation has been transferred to an online system, Manuscript Central. The use of this system will speed the review process, improve accuracy, enable immediate distribution, and allow authors to track their own manuscripts. To access this system for submission and review, go directly to http://dgd.manuscriptcentral.com. For assistance, please contact Ms Kyoko Shimozaki (email: kyoko.shimozaki@blackwellpublishingasia.com).
Manuscripts should be written so that they are intelligible to the professional reader who is not a specialist in the particular field. Where contributions are judged as acceptable for publication on the basis of scientific content, the Editor or the Publisher reserve the right to modify typescripts to eliminate ambiguity and repetition and improve communication between author and reader. If extensive alterations are required, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision.
Covering letter and ethics
Papers are accepted for publication in the journal on the understanding that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. This must be stated in the covering letter.
Authors must also state that the protocol for the research project has been approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee of the institution within which the work was undertaken and that it conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki in 1995 (as revised in Edinburgh 2000). All investigations on human subjects must include a statement that the subject gave informed consent and patient anonymity should be preserved. Any experiments involving animals must be demonstrated to be ethically acceptable and where relevant conform to the Guidelines approved by the institution where the experiments were performed.
Authors should declare any financial support or relationships that may pose conflict of interest.
Submission by disk
For authors unable to submit their manuscripts online, manuscripts should be submitted on disk and sent by registered mail to: Dr S. Yasugi, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minamiohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan (fax: (+81) 426 77 2572; email: dgdedit@comp.metro-u.ac.jp).
Use a new disk rather than a reformatted disk; the disk must contain the relevant file(s) only. Authors should supply their paper as formatted text. It is essential that the hardware and the word processing package are specified on the disk (e.g. IBM, Word 7), as well as the first author’s surname.
The entire article (including tables) should be supplied as a single file; only electronic figures should be supplied as separate files. Please adhere to the following instructions:
● Do not use the carriage return (enter) at the end of lines within a paragraph.
● Turn the hyphenation option off.
● 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 (German esszett) for β (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 carriage returns within cells.
● Digital figures must be supplied as .tif or .eps files at a resolution of at least 300 d.p.i.
Web-based author guidelines
If possible, authors should visit the Blackwell Publishing websites for authors at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Authors/journal.asp and http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp which detail further information on the preparation and submission of articles and figures and gives access to the Blackwell House Style guide.
PREPARATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Submissions should be doubled-spaced, on one side only of A4 paper. The top, bottom and side margins should be 30 mm. Laser or near-letter quality print is essential. All pages should be numbered consecutively in the top right-hand corner, beginning with the title page. Indent new paragraphs. Turn the hyphenation option off, including only those hyphens that are essential to the meaning.
Style
The journal uses US spelling and authors should therefore follow the latest edition of Merriam–Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. The Editors reserve the right to forward accepted manuscripts to an English Language consultant for language improvement. The cost of the English revision will be charged to the author.
All measurements must be given in SI units as outlined in the latest edition of Units, Symbols and Abbreviations: A Guide for Medical and Scientific Editors and Authors (Royal Society of Medicine Press, London).
Abbreviations should be used sparingly and only where they ease the reader’s task by reducing repetition of long, technical terms. Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation.
At the first mention of a chemical substance, give the generic name only. Trade names should not used. Drugs should be referred to by their generic names, rather than brand names.
Parts of the manuscript
Manuscripts should be presented in the following order: (i) title page; (ii) abstract and keywords; (iii) text; (iv) acknowledgments; (v) references; (vi) figure legends; (vii) tables (each table complete with title and footnotes); and (viii) figures.
Footnotes to the text are not allowed and any such material should be incorporated into the text as parenthetical matter.
Title page
The title page should contain: (i) the title of the paper; (ii) the full names of the authors; (iii) the addresses of the institutions at which the work was carried out together with (iv) the full postal and email address, plus facsimile and telephone numbers, of the author to whom correspondence about the manuscript, proofs and requests for offprints should be sent.
In keeping with the latest guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, each author’s contribution to the paper is to be quantified.
The title should be short, informative and contain the major key words. A short running title (less than 40 characters, including spaces) should also be provided.
Abstract and key words
Articles must have an abstract that states in 200 words or less the purpose, basic procedures, main findings and principal conclusions of the study. The abstract should not contain references. Five key words should be supplied below the abstract for the purposes of indexing and should be taken from those recommended by the Index Medicus Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html).
Introduction
This section should include sufficient background information to set the work in context. The aims of the manuscript should be clearly stated. The introduction should not contain either findings or conclusions.
Materials and Methods
This should be concise but provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be repeated by others. The source of material should be given in detail (i.e. company/institution, state/province, country) where possible.
Results
Results should be presented in a logical sequence in the text, tables and figures; repetitive presentation of the same data in different forms should be avoided. The results should not contain material appropriate to the Discussion.
Discussion
This should consider the results in relation to any hypotheses advanced in the Introduction and place the study in the context of other work.
Acknowledgements
The source of financial grants and other funding should be acknowledged, including a frank declaration of the authors’ industrial links and affiliations. The contribution of colleagues or institutions should also be acknowledged. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not allowed.
References
The Harvard (author, date) system of referencing is used. In the text, give the author’s name followed by the year in parentheses: Sago (2000). If there are two authors use ‘and’: Baskin and Baskin (1998); but if cited within parentheses use ‘&’: (Baskin & Baskin 1998). When reference is made to a work by three or more authors, the first name followed by et al. should be used: Powles et al. (1998). If several papers by the same author(s) and from the same year are cited, a, b, c, should be used after the year of publication to differentiate between papers.
In the list, references should be listed in alphabetical order. Cite the names of all authors when there are six or fewer; when more than six cite the first three plus et al.
Personal communications, unpublished data and publications from informal meetings are not to be listed in the reference list but should be listed in full in the text (e.g. A. Smith, unpubl. data, 2000).
References should be listed in the following form.
Journals
Okada, M. & Kobayashi, S. 1987. Maternal messenger RNA as a determinant of pole cell formation in Drosophila embryos. Dev. Growth Differ. 29, 185-192.
Powles, S. B., Lorraine-Colwill, D. F., Dellow, J. J. & Preston, C. 1998. Evolved resistance to glyphosate in rigid ryegrass (Lolium rigidium) in Australia. Weed Sci. 46, 604-608.
Sago, R. 2000. [Weed seedbank response to herbicide use in rice paddy fields.] J. Weed Sci. Tech. 45, 81-87 (in Japanese with English abstract).
Books
Baskin, C. C. & Baskin, J. M. 1998. Seeds. Academic Press, London.
Chapter in a book
Wylie, C. C., Scott, D. & Donnovan, P. J. 1986. Primordial germ cell migration. In Developmental Biology, Vol. 2 (Ed. L. W. Browder), pp. 433-448. Plenum Press, New York.
Tables
Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. Each table should be presented on a separate sheet of A4 paper with a comprehensive but concise legend above the table. Tables should be double-spaced and vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parenthesis; all abbreviations should be defined in footnotes (using symbols †,‡,§,¶ in that order); and table legend/footnotes should be understandable without reference to the text.
Figures
All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) are classified as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text. If it is considered necessary by the author that a figure be cited earlier in the text (i.e. out of numerical order) then the citation should read "cf. Fig. 5". Figures should be sized to fit within the column (80 mm), intermediate (117 mm) or the full text width (167 mm).
Line figures should be supplied as sharp, black and white graphs or diagrams, drawn professionally or with a computer graphics package; lettering should be included.
Individual photographs forming a composite figure should be of equal contrast, to facilitate printing, and should be accurately squared. When labeling parts of composite figures, authors are encouraged to use lower case letters; however the labels in the legends will be changed by the publisher to match that used in the figure. Magnifications should be indicated using a scale bar on the illustration.
Graphics should be supplied as high resolution (at least 300 d.p.i.) files, saved as .eps or .tif format. A high-resolution print-out must also be provided. Digital images supplied only as low-resolution print-outs cannot be used.
Color figures
Color photographs will be published at no charge to the author.
Suggestions for Cover photographs are welcome. Usually one or two photographs are included on the cover. Photographs must appear in a submitted manuscript.
While color is a significant and effective vehicle for delivering information in figures, not all people perceive color information in the same way. To ensure that readers with most color-vision types will be able to comprehend your data, the Editor-in-Chief strongly recommends the following guidelines for preparation of color figures:
● Avoid using red characters on a dark background.
● In panels showing fluorescent double-staining micrographs and DNA chips, do not use the combination of red and green; use magenta and green instead.
● In color graphs and line drawings, use both color and shape (solid and dotted lines, different symbols, various hatchings etc.) so that communication does not rely on color information alone.
Additional information can be found at URL: http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/
Figure legends
Legends should be self-explanatory and typed on a separate sheet. The legend should incorporate definitions of any symbols used and all abbreviations and units of measurement should be explained so that the figure and its legend is understandable without reference to the text. (Provide a letter stating copyright authorization if figures have been reproduced from another source.)
PROOFS, OFFPRINTS AND PAGE CHARGES
Proofs
Proofs will be sent via email as an Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) file and should be returned within 3 days of receipt. Alterations to the text and figures (other than the essential correction of errors) are unacceptable at proof stage and authors may be charged for excessive alterations.
Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read the PDF. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following Web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof.
Authors should therefore supply an email address to which proofs can be emailed. Proofs will be faxed if no email address is available. If absent, authors should arrange for a colleague to access their email, retrieve the PDF proof and check and return them to the publisher on their behalf.
Offprints
A minimum of 50 offprints will be provided upon request, at the author’s expense. An Offprint Order Form outlining the cost of offprints will be sent to the corresponding author with the page proofs. Offprints will be provided only if a completed Offprint Order Form is returned to the publisher by mail by the specified date.
Page charges
Authors will be allowed eight (8) printed pages per article without charge. Authors will be charged for excess text and illustrations on a per page basis (12,000 yen per page).
Blackwell Publishing Asia’s Tokyo office has Japanese speakers available to answer queries on tel: +81 3 5215 3051; fax: +81 3 5215 3052.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Sadao YASUGI Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji
Editors
Kiyokazu AGATA RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe
Koji AKASAKA Hiroshima University, Hiroshima
Makoto ASASHIMA The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Hajime FUJISAWA Nagoya University, Nagoya
Yasushi HIROMI National Institute of Genetics, Mishima
Atsushi KUROIWA Nagoya University, Nagoya
Hiroki NISHIDA Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama
Kiyotaka OKADA Kyoto University, Kyoto
Hideyuki OKANO Keio University, Tokyo
Noriko OSUMI Tohoku University, Sendai
Noriyuki SATO Kyoto University, Kyoto
Tetsuya TABATA The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Hiroyuki TAKEDA The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Hideko URUSHIHARA University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
Editorial Board
Shinichi AIZAWA RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe
Richard. R. BEHRINGER University of Texas, Texas
Igor DAWID National Institute of Health, Bethesda
Hiroyuki IDE Tohoku University, Sendai
Laurinda A. JAFFE University of Connecticut, Connecticut
Motoya KATSUKI National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki
Hisato KONDOH Osaka University, Osaka
Maria LEPTIN Universityof Köln, Köln
David McCLAY Duke University, Durham
Katsuhiko MIKOSHIBA The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Yoshitaka NAGAHAMA National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki
Harukazu NAKAMURA Tohoku University, Sendai
Norio NAKATSUJI Kyoto University, Kyoto
Yasuyoshi NISHIDA Nagoya University, Nagoya
James C. SMITH The Wellcome Trust, Cambridge
Dawid L. STOCUM Indiana University, Purdue
Naoto UENO National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki
Ken-ichi YAMAMURA Kumamoto University, Kumamoto
Katsutoshi YOSHIZATO Hiroshima University, Hiroshima
Advisory Board
Hans BODE University of California, Irvine
Ken W. Y. CHO University of California, Irvine
Eric H. DAVIDSON California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Edward M. DE ROBERTIS University of California, Los Angeles
Goro EGUCHI Kumamoto University, Kumamoto
David EPEL Stanford University, Stanford
Walter J. GEHRING University of Basel, Basel
Scott F. GILBERT Swarthmore College, Swarthmore
John B. GURDON University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Nobutaka HIROKAWA The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Motonori HOSHI Keio University, Tokyo
Tim HUNT ICRF Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire
Shinya INOUE Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Chiaki KATAGIRI Tenshi College, Sapporo
Nicole LE DOUARIN CNRS Collège de France, Nogent-sur-Marne
Yoshio MASUI University of Toronto, Toronto
Masukichi OKADA International Institute for Advanced Studies, Kyoto
Tokindo OKADA Biohistory Research Hall, Takatsuki
Hiraku SHIMADA Fukuyama University, Fukuyama
Claudio STERN University College of London, London
Masatoshi TAKEICHI RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe
Ikuo TAKEUCHI Novartis Foudation, Takarazuka
Paul M. WASSERMAN Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley
Ryuzo YANAGIMACHI University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Address for Editorial Correspondence: Dr S. Yasugi, Department of Biological
Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1
Minamiohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan (fax: (+81) 426 77 2572;
email: dgdedit@comp.metro-u.ac.jp).
Production Editor
Christopher HAWKES Christopher.Hawkes@blackwellpublishingasia.com
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