Announcement

Mokuzai Gakkaishi / Journal of Wood Science

Article Submission to Journal of Wood Science (JWS)

Journal of Wood Science (JWS) will be published as fully open-access journal from 1. Jan. 2019. The website for paper submission is already opened from 30. Sep. 2018.

  1. The website for paper submission is;
    http://www.editorialmanager.com/jwsc/default.aspx
    You can reach this website from the website of JWS;
    https://jwoodscience.springeropen.com/
    The website is different from the present website.
  2. Please submit your paper finished carefully according to the “Submission Guide lines”.
  3. Article-processing charge (APC) of 1266.5 EUR is available for publication in the Journal of Wood Science(Original Article, Review Article, Note, Rapid Communication).
    If you hope to apply for the APC, please contact at the time of submission.
    If you do not apply it, the APC for non-members (1490 EUR) will be done.
  4. APC for the members of the Japan Wood Research Society will be announced to the members per E-mail.
  5. For Inquiries about paper submission and publication, please send e-mail from the site “contact us” at the header linkage of the website. The staff of Springer nature responds your inquiry.

(Caution)

The submitted papers which the review has not been completed in the previous editorial manager system, have been handled according to the previous author’s guidelines in the same system as previous one. The papers will be published as fully accessed paper after Jan. 2019. The APC for the papers are charged according to the previous author’s guideline.

Open access of Journal of Wood Science (JWS) (181107)

Journal of Wood Science (JWS) will be fully accessed journal from Jan. 2019.

All the articles will be published at the journal’s website ;
https://jwoodscience.springeropen.com/
which you can read and down load the articles freely.

(Caution 1)

The articles published in the issue 6 of Vol.64 (2018) will be fully open accessed articles in 2019 according to the previous sequence.

(Caution 2)

The Japan Wood Research Society holds the copyright of all the articles published by 2018 (Volume 64). For the permission of copy usage of the articles, please inquire the society. The copyright of the fully accessed articles published after 2019 belongs to the authors. By proper referring procedures, the contents of the papers can be referred by third party. The authors can use the contents for their dissertation without the society’s permission or referring information.

Agreement concerning the receipt of manuscript of Mokuzai Gakkaishi and Journal of Wood Science(Revised October 17, 2009)

The manuscript of Mokuzai Gakkaishi and Journal of Wood Science received by Editorial Office will be assigned as a new submission immediately after checking the submission procedures and necessaries. Successively, suitable referees for the peer review will be slated by Editor-in-Chief as early as possible through his contact with adequate members of Editorial Board.

Relocation of the Editorial Office

The Editorial Office of the Journal of Wood Science will move at the end of March 2010 from the Department of Socio-Environmental Energy Science, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University to the Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University.

From the beginning of April 2010, inquiries about paper submission and all other correspondences for editing operations should be sent to the attention: Editorial Office of the Journal of Wood Science, c/o Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. Phone & Fax: +81-75-753-6074, E-mail: edit-office@jwrs.org.

The launch of new online manuscript submission and tracking system for Journal of Wood Science from August 3, 2009.

The Journal of Wood Science (JWS) is pleased to announce the launch of its new online manuscript submission and tracking system from August 3, 2009. The JWS electronic submission-tracking site can be found in home page of the Japan Wood Research Society (JWRS).

The JWS electronic submission-tracking site:

Home page of the JWRS → Journals

New “Instructions to Authors” can be available in this site.

>After the JWS electronic submission-tracking system starts, the system will provide online peer review services, and track manuscripts through the review process. Key features include automatic conversion of authors’ submissions into PDF format as well as supporting submissions in various file formats and special characters. Upon the initial use of the site, the authors are requested to register themselves for new manuscript submission. Information on the submitted manuscript can be available anytime from the above-mentioned web site.

For the submitted manuscripts before this system starts, the review and resubmission processes will be made as before.

Manuscripts that arrive at the Editorial Office on and after August 3, 2009 will be returned to the authors.

Agreement concerning the receipt of manuscript of Mokuzai Gakkaishi and Journal of Wood Science (July 16, 2005)

The manuscript of Mokuzai Gakkaishi or Journal of Wood Science received more than 7 days before the editorial meeting will be considered as a new submission and will be taken up in the meeting. The editorial meeting is ordinary organized on the fourth Thursday every month. The manuscript that arrived later will be taken up as a new submission in the editorial meeting in the next month.

Instructions to Authors was revised on February 21, 2004.

Instructions to Authors was revised on October 19, 2002.

Increased grant-in-aid support to the Journal of Wood Science and revision of ITA.

We are pleased to announce an increase this fiscal year in grant-in-aid support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for publication of the Journal of Wood Science. The additional support will make it possible to increase the number of pages for each volume.  The society continues to operate under a tight annual budget, however. After discussion by the central boards and consultation with the publisher, it was decided that effective January 1, 2004, authors will receive 25 complimentary offprints of their articles. For details, please refer to the “Offprints” section of “Instructions to authors” in this issue. We appreciate your continued support and understanding.. May 24, 2002

Journal of Wood Science has been selected for coverage in ISI products.

Insitute for Scientific Information, ISI, informed us that Journal of Wood Science has been selected for coverage in ISI products and that beginning with Vol. 44, No. 1, 1998, imformation on the contents of this publication will be indexed in Current Contents®/Engineering, Computing and Technology, Science Citation Index®– Expanded (SciSearch®), ISI Alerting ServicesSM, and Materials Science Citation Index®.

Instructions to Authors was revised on October 31, 1998.

According to this revision, contributions from nonmembers from outside Japan are acceptable without any extra charge. The editors welcome the submission of manuscripts from any country.