Applied Cosmetic Science and Technology
Manuscript Submission Guideline

Please read the Instructions for Authors of ACST before submitting your manuscript.

1.　Preparation of Manuscript

Please consult papers in the same category as your submission (Originals, Short Communications, Reviews, or Materials published in the Journal of SCCJ and ACST) and prepare the manuscript according to the latest journal format. The manuscript may be prepared using templates accessible on the journal’s submission site. When writing manuscripts without using templates, prepare it in MS Word format as follows:

1.1　Arrange the contents in the following order:

Title page (manuscript category, title, authors’ names, affiliations, and email address of the corresponding author), abstract, keywords, text, references, figures, and tables.

1.2　Format the text in the following order:

1. Introduction, 2. Materials and Methods, 3. Results, 4. Discussion, 5. Conclusion, 6. References

1.3　Please write the manuscripts concisely.

1.4　For the title page, please write the following items in the order shown.

1. In the first line, write the manuscript category: Original, Short Communication, Review, or Material.
2. In the second line, write the manuscript title as a centered text. If there is a subtitle, write it on the next line.
3. Leave a blank line and enter the author’s name. When there are multiple co-authors from different affiliations, they use and match the authors and their affiliations. In addition, add^＊ in superscript on the name of the corresponding author.
4. Start a new line and enter researchers’ affiliations (institutions, departments, addresses, and postal codes). Superscripts are used to distinguish authors with different affiliations.
5. Enter the corresponding author’s email address in a new line.

1.5　Divide the manuscript into sections and subsections. Indicate first-, second-, and third-order headings as 1., 1.1. and 1.1.1., respectively.

1.6　When starting a new line, indent an appropriate number of spaces.

1.7　Use Arabic numerals when writing numbers.

1.8　When creating a footnote for a phrase in the sentence, mark it with a superscript letter on the right and use consecutive numbers for multiple footnotes. At the end of the subsection, we begin a new line, indent a one-character space, and write notes.

1.9　Abbreviations can be used when a term is used repeatedly in the manuscript. At the first mention of the term, write the abbreviation in parenthesis( ), and use the abbreviation thereafter. However, the following abbreviations can be used without definitions: UV, UVA, UVB, GLC, GC-MS, HPLC, TLC, ODS column, IR, ATP, mRNA.

2.　Chemicals and Other Materials

2.1　Do not use trade names for the materials and instruments described in the manuscript. If possible, chemical names (in principle, according to the IUPAC nomenclature) or common names. (State only facts when describing experimental methods)

2.2　When describing chemicals in the text, do not write the chemical formulae but use the chemical names of the compounds.

2.3　When using abbreviated symbols for chemical compounds, write the full name and abbreviated symbols at the first mention in the manuscript.

3.　Units, Symbols, Equations

3.1　Use universally recognized signs and symbols.

3.2　In principle, express units in International Units （SI）.

3.3　In principle, write equations in the following format:

$$\frac{a}{b}·\frac{a+b}{c+d}$$

However, when appearing in the text, present in one line as follows:

$$a/b·\left(a+b\right)/\left(c+d\right)$$

4.　Preparation of Figures and Tables

4.1　Prepare figures, photographs, and tables together with their titles and descriptions in a separate file from the text. Place figure captions below the figure; e.g., Fig.─1 (Caption), and place table captions above the tables; e.g., Table─1 (Caption). Present one set of results as a figure or table and avoid duplication.

4.2　Attach the figures, photographs, and tables to the template.

4.3　Attach the original figures, photographs, and tables after the text.

4.4　Draw figures clearly on plain white A4 paper, approximately two to three times the size of the published figures. Please ensure that the lines and points are clearly visible when the figures are reduced by approximately half (approximately one-quarter of the area) when published.

5.　References

5.1　Cite references at appropriate places by inserting consecutive numbers as superscripts on the right side, such as ^1–3. List the references at the end of the manuscript.

5.2　For abbreviations in the reference list, use the abbreviations shown in the latest abstract or index databases such as the Current Bibliography on Science and Technology and Chemical Abstracts.

5.3　Format the references in the following order: Author name(s), abbreviated journal name, issues, and pages (year). When the author’s name is in Western language, write the surname followed by the initial. In the case of multiple authors, all authors’ names are listed.

5.4　When citing research that is not yet in print, indicate by “（submitted for publication）”.

Journals

M. Higuchi, K. Kitahara, K. Shimizu, K. Hirai, T. Matsumoto, M. Takahashi, J. Soc. Cosmet. Chem. Jpn., 50, 321-328（2016）

J. P. Ebanks, A. Koshoffer, R. R. Wickett, S. Schwemberger, G. Babcock, T. Hakozaki, R. E. Boissy, J. Invest. Dermatol., 131, 1226-1233（2011）

Patent

Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication 04-230308 U.S.P. 2, 345, 645（1990）

Books

M. Liebsch, D. Traue, C. Barrabas, H. Spielmann, F. Gerberik, L. Cruse, W. Diembeck, U. Pfannenbecker, J. Spieker, H. G. Holzhütter, P. Brantom, P. Aspin, J. Southee, Prevalidation of the EpiDerm Phototoxicity Test, ed. by D. Clark, S. Lisansky, R. Macmillan, CPL Press, Newbury, 1999, p. 160-166

S. Ota, T. Niimura, R. Azuma, R. Suzuki, K. Kameyama, Proceedings of the 75th SCCJ Re- search Symposium, 2014, p. 8-9

ISO 25178-2：2012

Website

Koyama-kyugu, Kyudo Column. http://www.koyama-kyugu.com/archive/c017.php（accessed 2016.7.25）

EYJAFJALLAJÖKULL VOLCANO ASH（160 GR.）．http://nammi.is/islandische-vulkanasche-aus-dem-eyjafjallajokull-160-gr.html（accessed 2017.4.3）

6.　Supplementary Information

6.1　Supplementary Information can be a useful way for an author to include important ancillary information in the online version of an article. Examples of Supplementary Information include additional tables, datasets, figures, movie files, audio clips, 3D structures, and other related nonessential multimedia files. Supporting Information should be cited within the article text, and a descriptive legend should be included. It is published as supplied by the author, and proof is not made available prior to publication. Therefore, authors should provide the Supporting Information in the desired final format.

6.2　It’s vital that you carefully check the Supplementary Information before submission, as any modification after your paper is published will require a formal correction.

6.3　The maximum file size for additional files is 20 MB each, and files will be virus-scanned on submission.

6.4　If Supplementary Information is provided, please list the following information in a separate section of the manuscript:

File name (e.g., Additional file 1)
File format including the correct file extension pdf, .xls, .txt, .pptx
Title of data
Description of data

Supplementary files should be named “Supplementary Information 1” and so on and should be referenced explicitly by file name within the body of the article, e.g. ‘A supplementary movie file shows this in more detail [see Supplementary Information 1]’.