Annals of Business Administrative Science
Instructions to Authors
Copyright, Open Access and Fees
The Annals
of Business Administrative Science (ABAS) is an English-language, Open
Access, online journal that communicates the results of business research
conducted in Japan to international researchers. Founded in 2002, ABAS is published
by the Global Business Research Center (GBRC), a non-profit organization
established by the Department of Management, Graduate School of Economics of
the University of Tokyo.
ABAS has a
distinctive outlook that distinguishes it from other international social
science journals. Articles are clear, concise and comprehensible to a broad
audience and cover a range of theoretical, empirical and technical approaches
to problems in the business sciences. Articles can be innovative in style but
must be focused and allow readers to immediately understand the themes and
conclusions; they should avoid advanced mathematical and statistical methods.
ABAS is an open access journal which means that all content is freely
available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed
to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts
of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior
permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the
BOAI definition of open access.
The
journal’s rigorous peer review process ensures that important articles are
published for the benefit of a large and diverse readership. The journal is listed
in many of the major indexing services.
ABAS upholds the highest standards in scholarly
publishing. Manuscripts submitted to ABAS must be related to recent studies in
business administration and prepared in accordance with the policies described
within this document and otherwise at the journal’s website.
Before submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors
must ensure that they have read and complied with the journal’s policies. The
journal reserves the right to reject without review, or retract, any manuscript
that the Editor believes may not comply with these policies.
The responsibilities of the journal’s authors, editors,
reviewers and publisher regarding research and publication ethics are described
in full below.
Submission to the journal implies that the manuscript
has not been previously published (in part or in whole, in any language), is
not in press, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Authors must inform the editors if any related
manuscripts are under consideration, in press or published elsewhere. The
availability of a manuscript on a publicly accessible preprint server does not
constitute prior publication (see the Preprints section of these Instructions
to Authors).
If authors choose to submit their manuscript elsewhere
before a final decision has been made on its suitability for publication in ABAS,
they should first withdraw it from ABAS.
This journal does not charge submission charges.
Submission to the journal implies that the manuscript
is original work. The journal may use Crossref’s
Similarity Check software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal content. By
submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors agree to this screening. Any
manuscript with an unacceptable level of unoriginal material may be rejected or
retracted at the Editors’ discretion. Any relevant previous work must be fully
attributed and appropriately cited.
To support the wide
dissemination of research, ABAS encourages authors to post their
research manuscripts on community-recognized preprint servers, either before or
alongside submission to the journal. This policy
applies only to the original version of a manuscript that describes primary
research. Any version of a manuscript that has been revised in
response to reviewers’ comments, accepted for publication or published in the
journal should not be posted on a preprint server. Instead, forward links to
the published manuscript may be posted on the preprint server.
Authors should retain copyright in their work when
posting to a preprint server.
When assessing the novelty of a manuscript submitted
to the journal, the editors will not be influenced by other manuscripts that
are posted on community-recognized preprint servers after the date of
submission to ABAS (or after the date of posting on a preprint server, if the
manuscript is submitted to the journal within 4 months).
Submission to the journal implies that all authors
have seen and approved the author list. Changes to the author list after
manuscript submission – such as the insertion or removal of author names, or a
rearrangement of author order – must be approved by all authors and the Editor.
Authors should include an Author Contributions section in their manuscript that
lists all individuals who participated in the preparation of the manuscript, in
the order of the extent of their contributions. For more information, see the
Manuscript Preparation section of these Instructions to Authors.
Authors are encouraged to consider the International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations on Defining the Role of Authors and
Contributors. The ICMJE recommends that authorship is based
on four criteria: making a substantial contribution to the conception or design
of the work, or the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the
work; drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important
intellectual content; approving the final version of the manuscript for
publication; and agreeing to be held accountable for all aspects of the work.
Any contributor who has met all four criteria should be an author on the
manuscript. Contributors who do not meet all four criteria should not be
authors of the manuscript but may be included in the Acknowledgements section
instead.
Authors may digitally manipulate or process images,
but only if the adjustments are kept to a minimum, are applied to the entire
image, meet community standards, and are clearly described in the manuscript.
All images in a manuscript must accurately reflect the original data on which
they are based. Authors must not move, remove, add or enhance individual parts
of an image. The Editors reserve the right to request original, unprocessed
images from the authors. Failure to provide requested images may result in a
manuscript being rejected or retracted.
If a manuscript includes material that is not under
the authors’ own copyright, the authors must obtain permission from the
copyright holder(s) to reproduce it.
If a manuscript includes previously published
material, the authors must obtain permission from the copyright owners and the
publisher of the original work to reproduce it. The authors must cite the
original work in their manuscript.
Copies of all reproduction permissions must be
included with the manuscript when it is first submitted.
ABAS aims to ensure the dissemination of knowledge,
especially that which is inaccessible to the journal’s broad international
audience. In line with ICMJE policies, the journal therefore considers articles
that have been previously published in Japanese if the following conditions are
met:
· All authors of the original
publication agree to the secondary publication, but understand that acceptance
in the journal is not guaranteed.
· The manuscript undergoes full peer review.
· Editors from both journals approve
of the re-publication.
· Full copyright permissions, per the
section ‘Reproducing copyrighted material’, are supplied upon manuscript
submission.
· A reasonable period of time has
elapsed before the publication of the English version, to maintain the priority
of the original publication. This time will be decided by the editors of both
journals.
· The journal’s audience is different
to the original publication’s audience. Differentiating elements can include
that the original publication and the original journal are published wholly in
Japanese; the original journal is not in the Science Citation Index Expanded
(Clarivate Analytics), Scopus (Elsevier) or other large international database;
and the original journal has a restricted distribution (e.g.
in print to members of a society only). Authors should contact the
Editor-in-Chief for clarification if needed.
· The secondary publication faithfully
reflects the data and interpretations of the original publication.
Secondary publications will include text that
indicates they are fully peer-reviewed translations of an original publication.
They will contain a statement such as: “Part or all of this article was
originally published in Japanese as [citation (20ZZ)]”.
ABAS supports the appropriate sharing and archiving of
research data. The journal’s research data policies described herein are based
on community standards and resources such as Hrynaszkiewicz et al (2020). Authors must
disclose the source of data and materials, such as public repositories,
companies or commercial manufacturers, by including accession numbers or
company details in their manuscript, as appropriate.
Research data that are not required to verify the
results reported in articles are not covered by this policy. In addition, this
policy does not require public sharing of quantitative or qualitative data that
could identify a research participant, unless participants have consented to
data release. The policy also does not require public sharing of other
sensitive data, such as those covered by nondisclosure agreements (note that
these details must be listed in the Competing Interests section of the
manuscript). Alternatives to public sharing of sensitive or restricted data
include:
· deposition of research data in
controlled-access repositories
· anonymization or de-identification
of data before public sharing
· sharing only metadata about the
research data
· stating the procedures for accessing
the research data in the manuscript and managing data access requests from
other researchers.
Authors may make their own data and materials
available in Supplementary Material, or by linking from their manuscript to
relevant community-recognized public databases or digital repositories. All
data sets must be made available in full to the Editors and reviewers during
the peer review process, and must be made publicly available by the date of
publication. Authors commit to preserving their data sets for at least 10 years
from the date of publication in the journal.
The journal encourages authors to grant reasonable
requests from colleagues to share any data, materials and protocols described
in their manuscript.
Authors of manuscripts describing experiments
involving humans or materials derived from humans must demonstrate that the
work was carried out in accordance with the principles embodied in the
Declaration of Helsinki, its revisions, and any guidelines approved by the
authors’ institutions. Where relevant, the authors must include a statement in
their manuscript that describes the procedures for obtaining informed consent
from participants regarding participation in the research and publication of
the research. Authors must protect the confidentiality of any research
subjects.
In the interests of transparency, the journal requires
all authors to declare any competing interests or conflicts of interest in
relation to their submitted manuscript in the ‘Competing Interests’ section of
their manuscript. A conflict of interest exists when there are actual,
perceived or potential circumstances that could influence an author’s ability
to conduct or report research impartially. Potential conflicts include (but are
not limited to) competing commercial or financial interests, commercial
affiliations, consulting roles, or ownership of stock or equity. In addition, authors
must disclose if the subject of a study, e.g. a business
or organization, supplied any material or data to any author or their
institution.
Authors should list all funding sources for their work
in the Acknowledgements section of their manuscript.
The journal maintains the confidentiality of all
unpublished manuscripts. By submitting their manuscript to the journal, authors
warrant that they will keep all correspondence about their manuscript (from the
Editorial Office, Editors and reviewers) strictly confidential.
Self-archiving, also known as Green Open Access,
enables authors to deposit a copy of their manuscript in an online repository. ABAS
encourages authors of original research manuscripts to upload their article to an
institutional or public repository immediately after publication in the journal.
J-STAGE preserves its full digital library, including ABAS,
with Portico in a dark archive (see https://www.portico.org/publishers/jstage/).
In the event that the material becomes unavailable at J-STAGE, it will be
released and made available by Portico.
The journal uses single-blind peer review. All
communication is via email with the corresponding author. ABAS aims to complete
the peer review process within 1 month.
When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, it is
assigned to the Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editor, who performs
initial screening. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal’s scope or are not
deemed suitable for publication are rejected without review. The remaining
manuscripts are assigned to a handling Editor who assigns two reviewers to
assess each manuscript. Reviewers are selected based on their expertise,
reputation and previous experience as peer reviewers. The deadline for
submission of the reviewers’ reports varies by article type.
Upon receipt of the two reviewers’ reports, the Editor
makes the first decision on the manuscript. If the decision is to request
revision of the manuscript, authors have 3 months to resubmit their revised
manuscript. Revised manuscripts submitted after this deadline may be treated as
new submissions. The Editor may send revised manuscripts to peer reviewers for
their feedback or may use his or her own judgement to assess how closely the
authors have followed the Editor’s and the reviewers’ comments on the original
manuscript.
The Editor then makes a recommendation to the
Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editor on the
manuscript’s suitability for publication. The Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editor is
responsible for making the final decision on each manuscript.
The members of the Editorial Committee act in advisory
roles, providing feedback as reviewers and making suggestions to improve the
journal. In cases where the
Editor-in-Chief is an author on a manuscript submitted to the journal, a member
of the Editorial Committee is responsible for making the final decision on the
manuscript’s suitability for publication in the journal.
Reviewers do not need to belong to the journal’s Editorial Committee. Reviewers are selected
based on their expertise in the field, reputation, recommendation by others,
and/or previous experience as peer reviewers for the journal.
Reviewers are invited within
1 week of an article being submitted. Reviewers are asked to submit their first
review within 2 weeks of accepting the invitation to review. Reviewers
who anticipate any delays should inform the Editorial Office as soon as
possible.
When submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors
may suggest reviewers that they would like included in or excluded from the
peer review process. The Editor may consider these suggestions but is under no
obligation to follow them. The selection, invitation and assignment of peer
reviewers is at the Editor’s sole discretion.
It is the journal’s policy to transmit reviewers’
comments to the authors in their original form. However, the journal reserves
the right to edit reviewers’ comments, without consulting the reviewers, if
they contain offensive language, confidential information or recommendations
for publication.
Articles in ABAS
must be:
· within the subject area of the
journal’s scope
· novel and original
· of high interest to the journal’s
international audience
· important additions to the field.
If a
manuscript does not meet the journal’s requirements for acceptance or revision,
the Editor may recommend rejection.
As the journal owner, the GBRC has granted the
journal’s Editorial Board complete and sole responsibility for all editorial
decisions. The GBRC will not become involved in editorial decisions, except in
cases of a fundamental breakdown of process.
Editorial decisions are based only on a manuscript’s
scientific merit and are kept completely separate from the journal’s other
interests. The authors’ ability to pay any publication charges has no bearing
on whether a manuscript is accepted for publication in the journal.
Authors who believe that an editorial decision has
been made in error may lodge an appeal with the Editorial Office. Appeals are
only considered if the authors provide detailed evidence of a misunderstanding
or mistake by a reviewer or editor. Appeals are considered carefully by the
Editor-in-Chief, whose decision is final.
ABAS maintains the confidentiality of all unpublished
manuscripts. Editors will not:
· disclose a reviewer’s identity,
unless the reviewer makes a reasonable request for such disclosure
· discuss the manuscript or its
contents with anyone not directly involved with the manuscript or its peer
review
· use any data or information from the
manuscript in their own work or publications
· use information obtained from the
peer review process to provide an advantage to themselves or anyone else, or to
disadvantage any individual or organization.
A conflict of interest exists when there are actual,
perceived or potential circumstances that could influence an editor’s ability
to act impartially when assessing a manuscript. Such circumstances might
include having a personal or professional relationship with an author, working
on the same topic or in direct competition with an author, or having a
financial stake in the work or its publication.
Members of the journal’s Editorial Board undertake to
declare any conflicts of interest when handling manuscripts. An editor who
declares a conflict of interest is unassigned from the manuscript in question
and is replaced by a new editor.
ABAS recognizes the importance of maintaining the
integrity of published literature.
A published article that contains an error may be
corrected through the publication of an Erratum. Errata describe errors that significantly
affect the scientific integrity of a publication, the reputation of the
authors, or the journal itself. Authors who wish to correct a published article
should contact the Editor who handled their manuscript or the Editorial Office
with full details of the error(s) and their requested changes. In cases where
co-authors disagree over a correction, the Editor-in-Chief may consult the
Editorial Board or external peer reviewers for advice. If an Erratum is
published, any dissenting authors will be noted in the text.
A published article that contains invalid or unreliable
results or conclusions, has been published elsewhere, or has infringed codes of
conduct (covering research or publication ethics) may be retracted. Individuals
who believe that a published article should be retracted are encouraged to
contact the journal’s Editorial Office with full details of their concerns. The
Editor-in-Chief will investigate further and contact the authors of the
published article for their response. In cases where co-authors disagree over a
retraction, the Editor-in-Chief may consult the Editorial Board or external
peer reviewers for advice. If a Retraction is published, any dissenting authors
will be noted in the text.
The decision to publish Errata or Retractions is made
at the sole discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.
Any member of the journal’s Editorial Board, including the
Editor-in-Chief, who is an author on a submitted manuscript is excluded from
the peer review process and from viewing details about their manuscript.
A manuscript authored by an editor of ABAS is subject to the same high standards of peer
review and editorial decision making as any manuscript considered by the
journal.
The journal will respond to allegations of ethical
breaches by following its own policies and, where possible, the guidelines of
the Committee on Publication Ethics
(COPE).
As part of their responsibilities, reviewers agree to
maintain the confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts at all times. By accepting the invitation to review a manuscript,
reviewers agree not to:
· disclose their role in reviewing the
manuscript
· reveal their identity to any of the
authors of the manuscript
· discuss the manuscript or its
contents with anyone not directly involved in the review process
· involve anyone else in the review
(for example, a post-doc or PhD student) without first requesting permission
from the Editor
· use any data or information from the
manuscript in their own work or publications
· use information obtained from the
peer review process to provide an advantage to themselves or anyone else, or to
disadvantage any individual or organization.
A conflict of interest exists when there are actual,
perceived or potential circumstances that could influence a reviewer’s ability
to assess a manuscript impartially. Such circumstances might include having a
personal or professional relationship with an author, working on the same topic
or in direct competition with an author, having a financial stake in the work
or its publication, or having seen previous versions of the manuscript.
Editors try to avoid
conflicts of interest when inviting reviewers, but it is not always possible to
identify potential bias. Reviewers are asked to declare any conflicts of
interest to the Editor, who will determine the best course of action.
ABAS is fully Open Access and uses a Creative Commons
(CC) license, which allow users to use, reuse and build upon the material
published in the journal without charge or the need to ask prior permission
from the publisher or author. More details on the CC license is
below.
Authors are free to post the final PDF version of
their ABAS publication to their institutional repository and personal websites,
provided that they cite the original source as follows: This article was
first published in Annals of Business Administrative Science, [volume],
[pages], [DOI].
Authors retain copyright but are required to sign a
License to Publish to grant the Global Business Research Center
permission to reproduce the work in ABAS under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
(Attribution 4.0 International) license. The CC BY 4.0 license permits
unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
original work is properly cited.
Some funding bodies require articles funded by them to
be published under a specific Creative Commons license. Before submitting your
work to the journal, check with the relevant funding bodies to ensure that you
comply with any mandates.
There are many costs associated with publishing
scholarly journals, such as those of managing peer review, copy editing,
typesetting and online hosting. To cover these costs in the absence of journal
subscriptions, authors (or their representatives) are asked to pay article
processing charges (APCs).
ABAS charges an APC of 150,000 Japanese yen (not
including taxes) per manuscript for all article types. Authors of accepted
manuscripts will be invoiced for the APC before publication of their
manuscript.
The journal
will waive the APC if none of the manuscript’s authors are professionally
affiliated with a research organization, or if all authors are from a ‘Least
Developed Country’ or ‘Other Low Income Country’ on
the OECD’s qualifying country list. Other waivers will be
considered on a case-by-case basis by the journal’s Editorial Office. The
corresponding author must apply for a waiver to the Editorial Office at abas@gbrc.jp before submission of the manuscript. Applications cannot be made after
the peer review process has begun.
The ability
of an author to pay the APC does not influence editorial decisions. To avoid
any possibility of undue influence, editors involved with the decision-making
process on submitted manuscripts are not involved in any deliberations on
waivers.
All
manuscripts must be submitted via email to the Editor-in-Chief via the
Editorial Office at abas@gbrc.jp. Upon initial submission, please
provide an MS-WORD (.docx) file that contains the text, tables, figures and any
other material. Ensure the subject of the email includes “manuscript
submission”. Instructions for revised manuscripts are provided with the first
decision letter, if relevant.
Include the
following information in the body of the email:
A. Manuscript title
B. Author information:
1) author name
2) affiliation and position
3) postal address
4) phone number
5) email address
6) ORCID iD (register
here if you do not have one).
ABAS aims
to provide a forum for article types that provide authors with innovative ways
to communicate important information that is in demand by readers. The journal
publishes three main manuscript types: Technical Notes, Fact-finding Reports
and Conceptual Papers. In addition, the Editorial Board will consider other
types of articles on a case-by-case basis. Authors of other manuscript types
should contact the Editor-in-Chief with a brief proposal before submission.
Manuscripts should be 10-15 journal pages in length.
Technical
Notes
Comprehensive
reports that comment on, clarify or highlight issues in previously published
research from any journal.
Fact-finding
Reports
Comprehensive
reports that detail the implications and consequences of important and interesting
research data.
Conceptual
Papers
Articles that
present novel or unique overviews by introducing and explaining interesting
conceptual models developed by the authors or others.
Authors are required to use the ABAS template file
and prepare manuscripts in English according to the instructions herein and in
the template. Manuscripts that do not adhere to the instructions will be
returned to the authors.
Manuscripts should be written in clear, grammatically
correct English. Authors whose native language is not English are strongly
encouraged to have their manuscript checked by a native English speaker or by an
editing service prior to submission. If a manuscript is not clear due to poor
English, it may be rejected without undergoing peer review.
Each manuscript should be structured with the
following sections: Abstract, Introduction, Methods,
Discussion, and Conclusion. Manuscripts must also include an Author Contributions
statement, Competing Interests statement, and an Acknowledgements section (see
below for further details). Upon first submission, the Authorship Contribution
Statement, Competing Interests, and Acknowledgements sections must be included
on the first page(s); this is to ensure the sanctity of the double-blind review
process. The sections are inserted into the manuscript after acceptance and before
publication.
The first page of each manuscript should contain, as
shown in the template file: Title, Authors’ full names, Affiliations, Keywords,
and the name and full address (including telephone number, facsimile number,
and email address) of the corresponding author.
The title should describe the content of the article
briefly but clearly and is important for search purposes by third-party
services. Do not use the same main title with numbered minor titles, even for a
series of papers by the same authors. Do not use abbreviations in the title,
except those generally used in the field.
Four to five keywords should be provided after the
Abstract.
The running title should not exceed 50 characters,
including spaces. It should be inserted into the appropriate place in the
template header (odd-numbered pages, except page 1). In addition, author
surnames should be included in the header of even-numbered pages.
Footnotes, if any, should be typed in a separate sheet
(the second page of the manuscript). Abbreviations should also be listed on
this page.
Each abbreviation should be defined in parentheses
together with its non-abbreviated term when it first appears in the text
(except in the Title and Abstract).
The Abstract should clearly express the basic content
of the paper in a single paragraph and should include the problem addressed,
main findings, and conclusions. Abstracts must not exceed 250 words for all
article types. Avoid using abbreviations. If it is essential to refer to a
previous publication, omit the article title (e.g.
Maekawa, S., Shintani, S., and Sakai, H. (2015). Business Journal, 14: 10–15).
The Introduction should provide sufficient background
information to allow the reader to understand the purpose of the investigation
and its relationship with other research in related fields, although it should
not include an extensive review of the literature.
The description of the methods should be brief, but it
must include sufficient details to allow the work to be repeated.
The Discussion should be concise and should deal with
the interpretation of the results. Novel models or hypotheses may be proposed
in this section only if they are suggested by the results obtained in the
experiments.
The conclusion should be a succinct summary of the work and its main
outcomes. Including information about possible future work can be of interest
to the readership.
Each published article includes an Author Contributions section that
concisely describes each author’s roles, using the text supplied on the front
page of the initial manuscript submission. Use initials to indicate author
identity. All authors must have reviewed, discussed, and agreed to the content
of the manuscript.
Each published article includes a Competing Interests section that uses
the text supplied on the front page of the initial manuscript submission. (Background
information is supplied in the ‘Author competing interests and conflicts of
interest’ section, above.) Each statement must include the author’s initials;
the nature of any financial support; the role in the research, if any, of any
person or organization funding the research; any in-kind labor support; and any
other potentially conflicting relationships or factors that the authors are
aware of. If no competing interests are to be declared, authors should include
the statement “The authors declare there are no competing interests”.
This section should be brief and should include a list
of all funding sources, including grant numbers, for the work.
The journal uses the Harvard citation style, where citations
in the text should be included using the parenthetical style (e.g. Wolchik et al. (2000)).
For the References section, list each source cited in
alphabetical order by the first author’s surname. Refer to the Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) for details on
style. Examples are listed below
Journal article
Wolchik,
S. A., West, S. G., Sander, I. N., Tein, J., Coatsworth, D., Lengua, L., et al.
(2000). An experimental evaluation of theory-based mother-child programs for
children of divorce. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68,
843–856.
Book
American Psychological Association (2010). Publication
manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association.
Book chapter
Freud, S. (1953). The method of interpreting dreams:
An analysis of a specimen dream. In J. Strachey (Ed. & Trans.), The
standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol.
4, pp. 96–121). Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books (Original work
published 1900)
Translated book
Takahashi, N. (1993). Nurumayuteki
keiei no kenkyu [A
study of lukewarm management]. Tokyo: Toyokeizai (in
Japanese).
Thesis
Adams, R.
J. (1973). Building a foundation for evaluation of instruction in higher
education and continuing education (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/
Report
Christensen, C. M., Suarez, F. F., & Utterback, J.
M. (1996). Strategies for survival in fast-changing industries. (Working Paper,
July 16, 97-009). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School.
Figures should be included after the main text. They
should be of high enough resolution for direct reproduction for printing. Note that
figures include line drawings,
photographs and charts. Magnifications of photographs should be indicated in
the legends and/or by scales included in the photographs. Illustrations must be
self-explanatory. Figures should be numbered consecutively using Arabic
numerals (e.g. Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.). Each figure
should have a short title. Figure legends should include sufficient
experimental details to make the figures intelligible; however, duplicating the
descriptions provided in other sections should be avoided.
Indicate in
the text where each figure should be inserted. Cite the original source, if
any, at the foot of each relevant figure.
Tables should be included after the main text. Number
tables consecutively using Arabic numerals (e.g. Table
1, Table 2, etc.). Each table should have a title in capital letters.
Explanatory material and footnotes should be typed below the table and should
be designated with superscript letters, such as a) or b). Units of measurement
should be included with numerical values at the top of columns. Avoid detailed
explanations of the experimental conditions used to obtain the data shown in
tables (which should be included in other sections as relevant).
Indicate in the text where each table should be
inserted. Cite the original source, if any, at the foot of each relevant table.
Supplementary material adds, but is not essential, to
a reader’s understanding of a manuscript. Authors are encouraged to submit
supplementary material for online-only publication. Supplementary material may
comprise data, text, audio or movie files, and is published online alongside
the accepted manuscript.
As supplementary material is peer-reviewed, authors
must submit it in its final form as part of their manuscript submission. After
a manuscript has been accepted for publication, authors may not make any
changes to the supplementary material.
Manuscripts that are accepted for publication are
copyedited and typeset by the journal’s production team before publication. The
journal is published 6 times per year and continuously online as Advance Online
Publication. All communication regarding accepted manuscripts is with the
corresponding author.
Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author, who
should check and return them within 48 hours. Only essential corrections to
typesetting errors or omissions are accepted; excessive changes are not
permitted at the proofing stage.
When returning the proofs, authors can choose Advance Online Publication (AOP), in
which unpaginated articles, in their final form, are published immediately
online ahead of the scheduled issue. AOP articles are assigned a Digital Object
Identifier (DOI). There are no additional fees for AOP.
When the article appears in the scheduled issue, the
DOI remains the same and a link to the AOP
version appears on the article page. As AOP
articles are in their final form, any corrections must be made via
Errata.
To contact
the Editorial Office or the Editor-in-Chief, please write to:
ABAS
Editorial Office
MERC,
University of Tokyo
Kojima Hall
Hongo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
JAPAN
Email: abas@gbrc.jp
Phone: +81 50
3825 0915
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Updated: 8 December
2020
Updated: 7 August 2023