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／Mammal Study (Print ISSN: 1343-4152, Online ISSN: 1348-6160) is the international journal published quarterly by the Mammal Society of Japan. It is cited in Science Citation Index Expanded by Clarivate Analytics (previously Thomson Reuters), and publishes three types of contributions on basic and applied biology of mammals: Original paper, Rapid communication, and Review. Submission can be made by members and non-members of the society.
Mammal Study especially encourages publications for the study of mammals in Asia. In addition to the printed journal, the electric version of Mammal Study can be accessed at BioOne (https://bioone.org/journals/mammal-study). Authors are recommended to follow Instructions to Authors and refer to recent issues of the journal for details of style and layout.
Original papers, Rapid communications, and Reviews should be original and involve new scientific findings and ideas, and cannot have been published in or con-currently submitted to other journals or kinds of publications irrespective of written languages. A Rapid communication is a brief report on the discovery of facts and concepts with high scientific or news values, and is defined as a paper in which prompt communication is thought to be beneficial. All co-authors should read the submitted manuscript and agree on the submission. Corresponding author should be a single person and have been delegated the responsibility for the editorial process of the manuscript. Double corresponding authors are not permitted. All manuscripts that include sampling and handling animal specimens are required to follow the Guidelines for the Procedure of Obtaining Mammal Specimens as Approved by the Mammal Society of Japan (http://www.mammalogy.jp/en/guideline.pdf). Authors are recommended to note in the manuscript the approvement number (e.g., from the government of their country or from the animal care and use committee of their institution) for sampling and handling wild mammals. Authors who are not native English speakers should seek English correction before submission. Online supplementary materials can be accepted on condition that total file size does not exceed 50 MB. Online supplementary materials must be supplied with manuscript submission for peer-review. There is no publication charge to the author except for color prints and the open access option as mentioned below.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to scientific review. Initial review is done for the manuscript submitted as an Original paper or a Review by the Editor-in-Chief and by the associate editor in charge of the manuscript, who evaluate whether the manuscript is of sufficient quality and general interest for further review. Manuscripts that pass this initial evaluation will be sent to at least two qualified reviewers before the editor decides on publication. Authors are notified within three months about the decision of acceptance, minor or major revision, encouraged resubmission, and reject, and provided with reviewers’ and associate editor’s comments. The revised manuscript is required to be re-submitted within two months after the notification. The manuscript submitted as a Rapid communication is screened by the Editor-in-Chief and, if it is deemed appropriate, proceeds to the peer-review process. For a manuscript judged to be inappropriate as a Rapid communication, authors are encouraged to resubmit it as an Original paper. Peer-review for a Rapid communication will be carried out by at least one qualified reviewer. Authors are notified within four weeks about the decision of acceptance and provided with comments from the reviewer and the associate editor in charge of the manuscript. The revised manuscript is required to be re-submitted within three weeks after the notification. Authors of any types of manuscripts can recommend preferred and non-preferred reviewers, but the reviewer selection is made by the associate editor in charge of the manuscript.
Authors should submit the manuscripts via ScholarOne Manuscripts online submission system for Mammal Study. The combined size for all uploaded files should be no larger than 10 MB. In the case that files to be uploaded exceed this limit, authors should contact the editorial office beforehand. The URL is as follows.
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mamst
To submit your manuscript, first create an account on ScholarOne Manuscripts, and then access the Author Center. Click on the ‘Submit New Manuscript’ and follow the instructions. All necessary information should be provided, and the transformed PDF file for review purposes should be carefully checked by the authors before finalizing the submission. Incompleteness of authors’ information or PDF transformation errors may cause delay of the review process.
All correspondences regarding manuscripts and editorial matters should be addressed to:
Editor-in-Chief, Jun J. Sato, PhD
Department of Biotechnology, Fukuyama University
Higashimura-cho, Aza, Sanzo, Fukuyama, Hiroshima 729-0292, Japan
TEL: +81-84-936-2112 (ext. 4624)
E-mail: mammal_study[AT]mammalogy.jp
Galley proof and the reprint order form will be sent to the corresponding author. Reprints may be purchased in blocks of 50. PDF file of published paper is provided to the corresponding author free of charge. All the communication for proof and reprints will be made using e-mail between author, editor, and printing company.
The copyrights for articles in Mammal Study are held by the Mammal Society of Japan. For the purpose of an institutional repository, authors can upload the preprint after informing EIC in advance and also can make the author’s accepted manuscript public after 1 year of publication (the authors must not use the Mammal Study version).
The authors can choose the open access option. The article processing charge (APC) is set to JPY 100,000 (+tax) and JPY 50,000 (+tax) for non-members and members of the Mammal Society of Japan, respectively. For the latter, at least a member of the Mammal Society needs to be included in the authors.
Among the articles published in Mammal Study, a few excellent papers are selected to receive the Mammal Study Award in each year. The Mammal Study Award Committee evaluates all published papers. Authors of the award-winning papers are provided a certificate and the right to make their paper Open Access for free.
Manuscript text file should be prepared as Microsoft Word in the A4 size (21.0 × 29.7 cm). Margin should be 30 mm on all sides for all submitted pages. Do not hyphenate words at the right margin. Font size and line spacing in the text should be 12 pt and 24 pt, respectively. Text pages should be numbered in the center of the footer. Line number should be given in the left margin for every fifth line (e.g., 1, 5, 10, 15, etc.). Each sentence should conclude with a full stop followed by a single space.
Manuscript text file should be arranged in the following order: on the first page, the title, name(s) of author(s) and affiliation, running head (fewer than 40 letters, including spaces), total number of words including references, and e-mail address for correspondence; from the second page, abstract (fewer than 200 words), abstract in a second language (if preferred, see below), and key words (five words or fewer that are not found in the title in alphabetical order), main text (Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, and Discussion), acknowledgments, references, figure legends. Titles of papers must be accurate and concise, and (for abstract services) include any relevant taxonomic name. Tables and figures are not included in the manuscript file but will be submitted as separate files.
Authors may include an abstract in a second language following the English abstract. This second abstract will be published with the article both online and in print, though only the English abstract will be used for reference and citation. If the authors elect to include a second abstract, they must first provide a translation of the word "abstract" in the second language (in bold), e.g., Abstract in Japanese (要旨), where “要旨” means “Abstract” in Japanese, followed by faithful translations of the manuscript title and the English abstract. It should be noted that the Editor-in-Chief may reject the second abstract if the content is deemed to differ sufficiently from the English abstract or is otherwise unable to verify the content of the second abstract.
Each table should be prepared separately by Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word and uploaded individually. A title should be incorporated in each table.
Each figure should be prepared separately and uploaded individually. Figures should be simple and self-explanatory. The recommended formats for figures are TIF, EPS, PSD (Adobe Photoshop), and AI (Adobe Illustrator). Color figures are charged JPY 44,000 for each page with color figures. Black and white (B/W) figures should be carefully prepared to be clear for the reader, and gray tone should be avoided as much as possible. If the authors choose to use color illustration, authors should select the color to increase clarity for the reader. For B/W figures, all the submitted files for review also should be B/W. Color photos and illustrations can be printed in B/W and published in color in the PDF for free, with the authorization of the associate editor in charge of the manuscript and editor-in-chief. In this case, figures should be informative even in B/W print. When authors request this option, both the color and B/W figures should be submitted. The resolution of color pictures should be a minimum of 300 dpi.
Authors are requested to use the International System of Units (SI, Système International d’Unités) where possible for all measurements (see SI Brochure: The International System of Units, Eighth edition, 2006, https://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf). Arabic numerals should be used for numbers exceeding 10. Numerals of 10 or less than 10 should be spelled out.
Numerals at the beginning of sentences should also be spelled out. Scientific names, but not the taxonomic authority, should be written in italics.
All details of statistical outcomes reported should be provided, and degrees of freedom should be reported as subscripts of test statistics (e.g., t2 = 3.76, P < 0.04; F6,198 = 0.253, P = 0.618).
Other statistical standards:
SD, SE, df
All tests in italics: F, G, H, P, R, r, R2, t, U, V, W, z, etc.
Spell out chi-square test but use χ2 with values; e.g., we used a chi-square test, but χ2 = 234.55.
Define analysis of variance and other statistical acronyms (e.g., coefficient of variation, confidence interval, etc.) at first use; thereafter use ANOVA, CV, CI, etc.
There are no strict requirements for reference formatting at initial submission. References can be in any style or format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter, and the article number or pagination must be present. Authors will be requested to adopt the following reference style during the review process.
References in the text, figure, table, and appendix
References in the text, figure, table, and appendix should refer to: Single author: Motokawa (2008) / (Motokawa 2008)
Two authors: Uchida and Shiraishi (1985) / (Uchida and Shiraishi 1985)
Three or more authors: Miura et al. (1993) / (Miura et al. 1993)
In case where an exact verbatim quotation is provided, the authors can specify the page number, such as “Motokawa (2008: 73) stated that ...”.
More than one reference within the same parentheses must be listed chronologically, and alphabetically if of the same year. In case that the authors cite both single author’s and his or her collaborative papers in the same year, the single author’s paper should be placed first. An example of references in parentheses in the text is: (Shimada 2008; Motokawa et al. 2009; Oshida 2009; Oshida et al. 2009, 2010; Sato et al. 2010)
The precise journal and page information must be provided for references cited in the Abstract according to the following example: Sato et al. (2014; Mammal Study 39: 1–10) / (Sato et al. 2014; Mammal Study 39: 1–10).
References in the References section
All references cited in the text, figures, tables, and appendices must appear in the References section, and vice versa. References in this section should be listed alphabetically by the first author according to examples below. Unpublished manuscript (in preparation, submitted, or in review), unpublished data, and/or personal communication are not allowed to be listed in the References section, but may be mentioned in the text.
If more than one reference from the same author(s) is cited, they must be distinguished by the letters a, b, c, etc. after the year (e.g., 1997a). If the first authors are the same and the other authorships are different among the papers of the same year, those references must be listed alphabetically according to the surname of the second or later authors. For papers with more than 10 authors, “et al” must be used after the 10th author name. The journal name must not be abbreviated. The issue number should be provided if the pagination is not consecutive between different issues. For references not written in English, (in Japanese), (in Japanese with English abstract), or derivatives from these styles must be placed prior to the last period in the reference. References only for the authority for a taxonomic name should not be listed in the Reference section.
