The Award for Young Investigator of
Japanese Society for Biological Sciences in Space
The BSS Young Investigator Award was established in 1996. Nominations will be made based on a paper or series of papers published in BSS. The author, who has presented the core portion of the publication and who has not yet reached 40 years of age, are eligible.

When you submit your manuscript for the first time,
send your manuscript as an attached form in an E-mail to the address "submit*jsbss.jp"

Journal Policies

1) Manuscripts are accepted provided they have not been published previously or concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere. The peer-review process will take about one month, and then the author is notified of the editorial decision with the reviewer’s comments. The accepted manuscripts will usually be published within one month from the date of receipt of the final version by the Editor-in-Chief. When revisions are requested prior to final decision, revised papers must be received within 2 months or they will be treated as new submissions.

2) The corresponding author must have obtained permission from all authors for the submission of the manuscript. All authors, members, referees, and editors must disclose any association that poses a Conflict of Interest in connection with the manuscript.

3) Research involving Human and Animal Subjects and Clinical Trials must have been approved by the author's institutional review board. For research using Recombinant DNA, physical and biological containment must conform to guidelines of a corresponding agency. Authors must follow the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' policy (www.icmje.org).

4) Errata. BSS publishes corrections for errors, made by the journal or authors, of a scientific nature that do not alter the overall basic results or conclusions of a published article. BSS publishes retractions for major errors that may call into question the source of the data or the validity of the results and conclusions of an article. Errata are published at the discretion of the editors and appear as formal printed and online notices in the journal.

Guidelines on the submission of manuscripts

1) For the first submission, the authors must prepare the entire manuscript (double-spaced text, figures with a sufficient resolution and tables) converted in a single PDF file. All pages should be numbered consecutively including those containing acknowledgements, references, tables and figure legends. Line numbers are desirable. Before the electronic submission of the manuscript, we ask you to carefully check the PDF file on its printed form. Only the PDF file will be used for peer review.

2) We recommend the submission by email to "submit★jsbss.jp" with the PDF file as an attachment file. In your email, the subject should be written as "submission to BSS" and the email text for a covering letter contains the following:

3) If the manuscript is a resubmission, a complete list of all changes made, keyed to the comments of the reviewers and editor.

4) If you do not receive any reply mail within a week, please contact again (mailto:submit★jsbss.jp).

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