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GENERAL GUIDELINES
Scope of the Journal
Korean Journal of Microbiology (Korean J. Microbiol., KJM) publishes papers that deal with research on microorganisms, including archaea, bacteria, yeasts, fungi, microalgae, protozoa, and simple eukaryotic microorganisms. Topics considered for publication include biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, molecular biotechnology, virology, immunology, microbial pathogenesis, ecology, environmental microbiology, molecular systematics, bioinformatics, chemical or physical characterization of microbial structures or products and basic biological properties of organisms.
Submission of Papers
All submissions to KJM must be made electronically via the web-enabled
online manuscript submission and review system : http://www.kjom.org/submission
(E-mail submissions will not be accepted). Information regarding acceptable
types of files for submission can be found on the On-line Submission page of
the Journal Homepage. It is recommended that all tables and figures be
assembled into a single file together with the main text when submitted.
The manuscript must be accompanied by a cover letter stating the title of the
manuscript, name, affiliation, and title of each author, and complete mailing
address(es), telephone and fax number(s) of the corresponding author,
electronic mail address(es) if available.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced and all pages, including the abstract,
figures, and tables, should be numbered in sequence. Manuscript pages must
have margins of at least 2.5 cm on all four sides.
Editorial Office
The Microbiological Society of Korea
Rm. 810 (New Bldg.), The Korea Science & Technology Center 22, Teheran-ro
7-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06130, Republic of Korea
E-mail: msk@msk.or.kr
Tel: +82-2-3453-3386
Fax: +82-2-3453-3322
EDITORIAL POLICY
Originality
Only papers that report novel and significant scientific findings in microbiology will be considered and accepted for publication. Manuscripts submitted to JM must represent reports of original research. A manuscript will be accepted on the conditions that the presented work was not published previously, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Authorship and Ethical Issue
Anyone who made a substantial contribution to the work may be included
in the author list. Credit for authorship should be based on the four criteria: (1)
substantial contributions to conceptualization, design, and the acquisition,
analysis, and interpretation of data; and (2) drafting of the article or revising it
critically for significant intellectual content; and (3) final approval of the
version to be published; and (4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of
the work, ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part
of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Any contributions for
the paper which do not fit all four of these criteria should be listed in the
“Acknowledgements” of the paper. The corresponding author is responsible
for ensuring that all the listed authors have agreed to all of the content,
including the author list and author contribution statements and approved the
manuscript submission to the journal. The corresponding author is also
responsible for managing all communication between the journal and all
co-authors before and after publication. To avoid any possible dispute during
processing, authorship changes including the order of authors’names during
revision must be agreed upon by all of the authors and brought to the editor’
attention in the cover letter submitted with the revised version.
Manuscripts dealing with any experimental work on humans or animals
should meet the relevant regulations or requirements imposed by institutional
or governmental authorities. All research on human subjects should be
conducted in accordance with the ethical standards outlined in the Helsinki
Declaration of 1975 (revised 2013), and the research protocol must be
approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to conducting
experiments. All research involving experimental animals should be reviewed
and approved by the author(s)’ Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees
(IACUC) prior to commencing the study, and should be performed in
accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines and regulations.
Details of the ethical approval status of the research must be described in the
“Ethical Statement” section of the manuscript (after “Conflict of Interest”),
including the IRB and/or IACUC approval number(s). If the study was exempt
from ethics approval, author(s) should clearly state the reasons in the generated
statement.
Eusure correct use of the terms sex (when reporting biological factors) and
gender (identity, psychosocial or cultural factors), and unless inappropriate,
report the sex and/or gender of study participants, the sex of animals or cells,
and describe the methods used to determine sex and gender. If the study was
done involving an exclusive population, for example in only cases (e.g., prostate cancer), authors should define how they determined race and ethnicity
and justify their relevance. The editor reserves the right to reject papers if
ethical aspects are in doubt. For the policies on the research and publication
ethics not stated in this instruction,
"Guidelines on Good Publication (http://www.publicationethics.org/international-standards-editors-and-authors) can be applied.
Conflict of Interest : Authors must agree to disclose all affiliations, funding
sources, and financial or management relationships that could be perceived as
potential sources of bias. Anything that can be perceived as a potential conflict
of interest should be disclosed within the statements section, during
submission. A conflict of interest statement can be automatically generated in
the final publication version of the article.
Also members of KJM Editorial Boards are required to disclose any actual and
potential conflicts of interest upon accepting an editorial or review assignment.
If there is a possibility of financial or other conflict of interest that may affect, the assignment should be rejected. Furthermore, information obtained from the
reviewed paper should not be used before it is published.
Failure to declare competing interests can result in the rejection of a
manuscript. If an undisclosed competing interest comes to light after
publication, KJM will take action in accordance with internal policies and
Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines.
Copyright : KJM requires the corresponding author to sign a copyright transfer
agreement on behalf of all the authors. This agreement form is sent to the
corresponding author when the manuscript is accepted and scheduled for
publication. Unless the signed agreement form is received, KJM will not
publish the manuscript.
Page Charges : Page charges are currently 50,000 KRW for members, 70,000
KRW for non-members and US$30 for overseas author per page. A page charge
form is sent along with page proofs and a reprint order form to the corresponding
author prior to publication. Invited minireviews are not subject to page charges.
Review Process :All manuscripts are reviewed confidentially by members of
the editorial board or qualified reviewers. When a manuscript is submitted to
KJM, it is given a manuscript number and assigned to one of the members of the
board for review. The manuscript number should be referred to in any
subsequent communications between the corresponding author and the editor
or the Editorial Office. The reviewers operate under the Guidelines for
Reviewers and are expected to complete their reviews as soon as possible. The
corresponding author is generally notified of the reviewers’decision to accept,
reject, or require modification or revision from the editor or the Editorial Office
within 4 weeks of submission. When a manuscript is returned to the corresponding
author for modification or revision, it should be returned to the editor within 2
months, or it may be considered withdrawn. The authors should supply the
Authors’Checklist and Response to the editor along with the modified or
revised manuscript. Manuscripts that have been rejected or withdrawn may be
resubmitted if the major criticisms have been properly addressed. As with the
initial submission, resubmitted manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover
letter stating that the manuscript is a resubmission and describing in detail what
changes have been made. The same editor that handled the original submission
will normally handle the resubmitted manuscript.
Notification of Acceptance : When an editor has decided that a manuscript is
acceptable for publication, the corresponding author and the editorial office
will be notified. The Editorial Office will check if the manuscript was prepared
according to the guidelines, however the authors are primarily responsible for
the format and quality of the paper. The editor of KJM will complete the
assignment of editing after the manuscript is considered to meet the prescribed
standards.
Page Proofs : The Editorial Office sends printed page proofs and a page charge/
reprint order form to the corresponding author. Page proofs should be
corrected, signed by the corresponding author and mailed back to the editorial
office within 5 days, however extensive corrections, additions, or deletions
should not be made during the proof stage. Important new information or
references of unpublished data or personal communications that have become
available in the time between acceptance of the manuscript and receipt of the
proofs may be inserted with the permission of the editor. Otherwise, changes
are limited to correction of spelling errors, incorrect data, grammatical errors
and updated information regarding references.
Reprints : Reprint charge is currently 30,000 KRW for the initial 50 copies.
Extra copies are available for 20,000 KRW per additional 50 copies. It can be
ordered and purchased through the page charge/reprint order form that is sent
to the corresponding author prior to publication.
ORGANIZATION AND FORMAT
REVIEWS
Reviews are brief summaries of developments in fast moving areas. They must be based on published articles, and may address any subject within the scope of JM. Minireviews are invited by the editors, not solicited, and are not subject to editorial review. Anyone, wishing to submit minireviews, should provide a potential title and subject of the review article to the editors to seek permission.
REGULAR PAPERS
Regular papers are considered the usual format of KJM. Each manuscript
should present the results of an independent and cohesive study. Thus,
numbered series titles are not allowed. Avoid the main title/subtitle
arrangement, complete sentences, and unnecessary articles. A regular paper
should include all of the elements described in this section.
The entire manuscript, including the figure legends, table legends, and
References, should be double spaced and pages should be numbered.
Manuscript pages should have line numbers. The font size should not be larger
than 12.
KJM strongly recommends using the past tense to narrate particular events
in the past, including procedures, observations, and data pertaining to the study
that you are reporting. Use the present tense for your own general conclusions,
conclusions of previous researchers, and generally accepted facts. Thus, most
of the Abstract, Materials and Methods, and Results sections will be in the past
tense, and most of the Introduction and Discussion sections will be in the
present tense.
Manuscripts may be editorially rejected on the basis of poor English or lack
of format conformity to the Instructions.
Title Page :On the title page, include the title, running title (not to exceed 10
words), name of each author, address(es) of the institution(s) where the work
was performed, each author’ affiliation, and a footnote indicating the present
address of any author no longer at the institution where the work was
performed. Place an asterisk after the name of the corresponding author.
Abstract : The abstract should not exceed 250 words, and should concisely
summarize the basic content of the paper. Experimental details should not be
presented in the abstract. Avoid abbreviations and do not include references or
diagrams. Provide less than six keywords at the bottom of the Abstract.
Introduction : The introduction should supply sufficient background information
to allow the reader to understand and evaluate the results of the present study
without referring to previous publications on the topic. The introduction should
also provide the rationale for the present study. Use only those references
required to provide the most salient background rather than an extensive review
of the topic.
Materials and Methods : The Materials and Methods section should include
sufficient technical information to allow the experiments to be repeated. Give
enough information about the maker and model of instrument, operating
conditions and other details of the experimental procedures. For commonly
used materials and methods (media and protein determinations for example), a
simple reference is sufficient. Enzyme purifications or procedures should be
described as briefly as possible. If several alternative methods are commonly
used, it is helpful to identify the method briefly as well as to cite the reference.
Describe new methods or techniques in detail and give sources of unusual
chemicals, equipment, or microbial strains so that another investigator can
repeat the same procedure. When a large number of microbial strains, mutants,
bacteriophages, or plasmids are used, include tables identifying their sources
and properties.
Results : The Results section should include results of the experiments.
Extensive interpretation of the results should be reserved for the Discussion
section. Present the results as concisely as possible in one of the following: text,
table(s), or figure(s). Avoid extensive use of graphs to present data that might
be more concisely presented in the text or tables. Limit photographs,
particularly photomicrographs and electron micrographs, to those that are
absolutely necessary to show the experimental findings. Number figures and
tables in order and be sure to cite all figures and tables in the text.
Discussion : The Discussion section should provide an interpretation of the
results in relation to previously published works and should not contain
extensive repetition of the Results section or reiteration of the Introduction. In
short papers, the Results and Discussion sections may be combined.
Acknowledgements : Acknowledgments of financial and personal assistance are to
be given in a separate paragraph(s) as briefly as possible.
Conflict of Interest : Author(s) must disclose any relationships that could be
perceived as potential sources of bias.
References : The References section should include all journal articles, books,
patents, and theses cited in the text, tables or figures. Arrange the citations in
alphabetical order based on the first authors’name. Abbreviate journal names,
according to BIOSIS Serial Sources, in italic letters. Cite the references in the
text by author name(s) with the publication year. Single- and double-authored
papers are cited by both authors’last names, whereas papers with more than
three authors are cited by the first author’ last name followed by et al. in italic.
Other relevant sources, such as articles submitted for publication, unpublished
data, or personal communication, should not be listed in this section, but can be
cited in the text
Follow the styles shown in the examples below.
Anagnostopoulos C and Spizizen J.1961. Requirements for transformation in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 81, 741–746.
Berry LJ, Moore RN, Goodrum KJ, and Couch RE Jr. 1977. Cellular requirements for enzyme inhibition by endotoxin in mice, pp. 321–325. In
Schlessinger D. (ed.), Microbiology-1977. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C., USA.
Dhole A, Ortega I, and Berauer C.1989. Effect of oxygen on in vitro growth of
Mycobacterium leprae. Abstr. U-82, p. 168. Abstr. 89th Annu. Meet. Am.
Soc. Microbiol
Koo CS, Seo SK, Kim D, and Jang D. 2018. A novel marinederived bacterium,
and cosmetic compositions using the same. Vol. KR1019186 73B1,
Republic of Korea.
Leadbetter ER. 1974. Order II. Cytophagales nomen novum, p. 99. In Buchanan
RE and Gibbons NE. (eds.), Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology,
8th ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Miller JH. 1972. Experiments in molecular genetics, pp. 352–355. Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, N.Y., USA.
Na JU, Youn H, and Kang SO. 1993. Physicochemical characterization of
chlorosome isolated from Chlorobium limicola NCIB 8327. Korean J.
Microbiol. 32, 9–6.
Powers RD, Dotson WM Jr, and Hayden FG. 1982. Program Abstr. 22nd
Intersci. Conf. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother., iv Abstr. 448.
Sigma Chemical Co. 1989. Sigma manual. Sigma Chemical Co., St Louis,
Missouri, USA.
Wei LJ. 2005. Master thesis. Studies on anatomy structure characteristics of
some cycads and adaptation of them and environment. Guangxi University,
Guangxi, China.
NOTES
The note format is intended for the presentation of brief observations that do not warrant full-length papers. Submit Notes in the same way as regular papers. They receive the same review and are not considered preliminary communications. Notes should be prepared according to the following guidelines. The abstract should not exceed 100 words. Section headings (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion etc.) should not be used in the body of Note. Text should not exceed 2,000 words, excluding the Title page and References, and the number of figures and tables should also be kept to a minimum. Present acknowledgments in a separate paragraph, but do not use a heading. The References section is identical to that of Regular Papers.
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS
Genome Announcements are brief papers which report either a complete
genome sequence(s) or a draft whole-genome sequence(s) of bacteria, archaea,
viruses and eukaryotes. The paper should address the microbial origin and
methodologies used in sequencing and assembly of obtained sequences.
The contents are as follow:
ERRATA
The Erratum section includes correcting errors that occurred during typing, editing, or printing (like as a misspelling, a dropped word) of a published article. Send Errata to the KJM editorial office by e-mail (msk@msk.or.kr).
Corrigenda
The Corrigenda section is for correcting errors of a scientific nature or omission that do not affect the original results of a published article. Send the Corrections of a scientific nature to the KJM editorial office by e-mail (msk@msk.or.kr).
FAST-TRACK PUBLICATION (ACCELERATED PUBLICATION)
A fast-track process is available for authors who desire quick publication of their papers. Authors should contact the Editorial Office (E-mail: msk@msk.or.kr) for fast-track submission. Authors must submit a cover letter stating the novel and significant results of the research and the need for fast-track publication. The review process will be conducted as rapidly as possible, usually within 7-10 working days of receipt, and publication of accepted papers in an issue will follow within 3 months of the date of acceptance. Manuscripts requiring major revisions will not be accepted, but can be considered for normal-track review. Authors will be charged 70,000 KRW for members, 90,000 KRW for non-members and US$40 for overseas author per printed page of fast-track publication. Additionally, 50,000 KRW (US$50) will be charged for the initiation of fast-track review.
MANUSCRIPT CHECKLIST
Please check each of the following items prior to submission of a manuscript.
▢ The manuscript was prepared using the Microsoft Word.
▢ Telephone and fax numbers, and E-mail address of the corresponding author
▢ Running title, Keywords
▢ Page and line numbers
▢ Species names in the title were not abbreviated.
▢ All tables (including title, description, footnotes) and figures (separated from figure legends) are provided in a single file with main text for initial submission.
▢ References were listed alphabetically by the names of the first author.
▢ All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa.
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