Note to authors to submit the ICAUMS conference paper to JMSJ

The ICAUMS conference papers will be published on the special issue of the Journal of the Magneticcs Society of Japan (JMSJ) in May 2013. The manuscript must be submitted via the MSJ (Magnetic Society of Japan) web submission system.

AAuthors are requested to prepare their manuscripts for review in Portable Document File (PDF) format, and should follow the style in "A Camera-Ready Format for Submission of Manuscripts to the Magnetics Society of Japan" (Word, PDF). Please note that the manuscript will be published after the usual review process in JMSJ.

Prohibition of Duplicate Contributions

It is forbidden to submit a manuscript to JMSJ, which has already been published in or submitted to another journal, except for the case of Invited Review Papers. It is also forbidden to submit to another journal a manuscript identical or very similar in content to one submitted to JMSJ.

Submission of the manuscript

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Review stage

Authors are requested to prepare their manuscripts for review in PDF format. Please follow the writing style in "A Camera-Ready Format for Submission of Manuscripts to the Magnetics Society of Japan" (Word, PDF).
The paper must be submitted via the MSJ (Magnetic Society of Japan) web submission system. To submit your manuscript, please login as an "Author", and Select "Submit New Manuscript" on the author main menu.
There are 9 steps to complete the submission. At the 1st step, you will be asked to select article type and research field of the manuscript, and you may select as:

At the end of each step you must click "Next".
At the 2nd step, you will be requested to enter the manuscript title. Please copy the article title (Full Title) into the secondary full title box.
At the 4th step, please select ICAUMS Invited Paper / ICAUMS Contributed Paper.
At the 6th step, you will be asked to select the classification. Check one of appropriate fields of your manuscript and press "Select".
After the step 9 you have to approve your uploaded manuscript, and click "Submissions Waiting for Author's Approval" to complete the submission.
After the first reviewing, the authors may be requested to revise your manuscript according to referee's comments. The revised manuscript will be submitted from "Submissions Needing Revision".

English rewriting

If authors request English rewriting or are requested to rewrite English by reviewers, the MSJ provides English rewrite for your manuscript. The manuscript for English rewrite should be prepared in 12-point font, double space, and single column format, and should be uploaded as "English Rewrite" file at the final step of the submission. The fee for the rewrite will be 3,000 yen per journal page and charged from the MSJ office.

Final submission stage

After your paper is accepted, you will be asked to prepare final camera-ready manuscript, Copyright Transfer Form, and Reprint Order Form. The authors publishing their manuscript in JMSJ must purchase at least 100 reprints. More detail information on the price of the reprints will be in the order form. The final manuscript should be prepared according to "A Camera-Ready Format for Submission of Manuscripts to the Magnetics Society of Japan" (Word, PDF), and the dates of receipt, revised (in case of major corrections), and acceptance should be added after the Reference section. The dates will be provided by the MSJ Editorial office and will appear in the acceptance e-mail. If the author requires color page printing, please fill Color Page Charge Form, and send it together with the printed manuscript. (If not, it is not necessary to submit this form.) The fee for the color printing will be 50,000 yen/page.

The final manuscript must be sent BOTH by regular mail and by uploading from the system.

- Printed final camera-ready manuscript
- Copyright Transfer Form
- Reprint Order Form
- Color Page Charge Form (optional)

should be sent by REGULAR MAIL to:

The Magnetics Society of Japan
5th floor, Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijyo Ogawamachi Bidg.
2-8 Kanda Ogawamachi, Ciyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0052, Japan
Tel +81 3-5281-0106, Fax +81 3-5281-0107

- Electronic manuscript (pdf file)
should be submitted via system.

Guideline for preparation of manuscripts

Authors should prepare their manuscripts for review in accordance with the following guideline.

Lengths of manuscripts

The maximum paper length is six journal pages for invited papers and four journal pages for contributed papers. Information on the required formats of manuscripts and characters is given in "A Camera-Ready Format for Submission to the Magnetics Society of Japan" (Word, PDF).

Title

The title of the manuscript should properly and clearly express the contents in English. The length of the title should not be unnecessarily long.

Authors' names and affiliations

The authors' names, affiliations, and their addresses should be given only in English. If the authors are not affiliated to the same organization, " * ", " ** ", etc. are used after the authors' names and before the corresponding affiliations.

Abstract

All manuscripts must include an abstract in English. The abstract must be a single paragraph containing no more than 200 words for Invited and Contributed Papers.

Key words

All manuscripts should include a list of key words in English. Key words should appear after the abstract under the heading "Key words:" and should be separated by commas. Five to ten Key words conveying the content of the manuscript should be selected from the body of the manuscript. Key words should be entirely in lowercase characters except when they are typically written in uppercase characters or in abbreviated forms. Key words should include only adjectives and nouns, and should not include articles, prepositions, or conjunctions.

Body of manuscript

Body of the manuscript should be prepared in accordance with the following rules:

1. Variables and mathematical expressions appearing in the body of the manuscript must be in italic characters, and must be properly spaced and clearly legible.
2. Product names or numbers may not be used.
3. Words in compound or abbreviated forms are allowed only when these forms are in common usage.
4. Names of materials should be expressed precisely.
5. The international system units (SI) are recommended for use in the manuscripts. However, the usage of other units including cgs is allowed in the manuscripts. For understanding the system of units including SI, the article, "Recommended units", should be referred.
6. Units should not be written by using italic characters. The space should be inserted between the numerical and the unit.

Appendix and acknowledgement

Appendix should be laid after the main body and the acknowledgement should be before the references.

References

Reference number in the body of the manuscript should be written as superscripts, such as ¹⁾ or ^3)-5). Appropriately numbered references should appear at the end of the manuscript after the title of "References". The abbreviated names for the journals should be used with the reference to the "Journal Title Abbreviations".

Dates of receipt, revise and acceptance of a manuscript

The dates on which a manuscript and the revised one (in case of major corrections) were received, and the date on which the manuscript was accepted, should be given as shown in "A Camera-Ready Format for Submission of Manuscripts to the Magnetics Society of Japan" (Word, PDF). The Editorial Committee will inform these dates to the authors.

Figures, Tables, and Photographs

Figures and photographs must be numbered as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, and so on. Similarly, tables must be numbered as Table 1, Table 2, and so on. Use uppercase characters only for the first character of the first words in a group, except in all-caps abbreviations (e.g., LCD) or other cases where such usage is standard (e.g., van Alphen). The captions and legends of tables should appear above the tables and those of figures and photographs should appear below.

Inquiries

If you have any questions for Paper submission, please inquire of the MSJ office.