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Authors’ name. Use capital letter, spell first and last names full, middle initial.
Use superscript numbers after authors’ names to donate affiliations, even a single author
and a single affiliation.
Affiliation and address should be preceded by superscript number, include street address
and postal code
Running head. Maximum length 40 characters.
Abstract. Less than 200 words for Regular paper, and less than 100 words for Short
communication.
List no more than five Key words.
Section headers (Materials and methods, Results, and so on) are necessary for Regular
paper, whereas unnecessary for Short Communication except Acknowledgements and
References.
Italicize scientific names of microorganisms, from domains, phyla, to genera, and species.
Purchased companies should be given their city and country in the first appearance (from
the second, only the company name).
Check again whether the citations are adequate.
All the references in the list must be cited in the text.
Reference list. Arrange the citation in alphabetical order. Follow the styles shown in the
example below, which is identical to the ASM style except not bold letter in authors’
names. Add comma before “and” in the authors’ names. Volume of journals, bold.
Remove a space between colon after the volume number and pages
Title of citations. Do not use capital letter in each word except the first word.
(Bad example: Isoprenoid Quinone Profiles for Identifying and Clasifying …..)
Figure legends should be self-explanatory, but brief to avoid redundancy in the main text.
Newly reported DNA and/or amino acid sequences must be deposited to public
databases. The accession numbers should be given.
Examples of References.
1) Hiraishi, A. 1989. Isoprenoid quinone profiles for identifying and classifying microorganisms
in the environment, p. 663—668. In T. Hattori, Y. Ishida, Y. Maruyama, R.Y. Morita, and A.
Uchida (ed.), Recent advances in microbial ecology. Japan Scientific Societies Press, Tokyo,
Japan.
2) Hiraishi, A., S. Kaiya, H. Miyakoda, and H. Futamata. 2005. Biotransformation of
Polychlorinated dioxins and microbial community dynamics in sediment microcosms at
different contamination levels. Microbes Environ. 20:227—242.
3) Saito, A., and K. Minamisawa. 2007. Evaluation of the nitrogen-fixing ability of endophytic
clostridia based on acetylene reduction and reverse transcription-PCR targeting the nifH
transcript and ribosomal RNA. Microbes Environ. 21:23—35.