Instructions for Authors

All manuscripts should be sent as an E-mail attachment to:

Dr. KAWAMURA, Kunio
Editor-in-Chief

Viva Origino Editorial Office
Department of Applied Chemistry
Graduate School of Engineering
Osaka Prefecture University
Sakai, Gakuen-cho 1-1, Osaka 599-8531, NIPPON (JAPAN)
TEL +81-72-254-9284 , FAX:+81-72-254-9910

Papers should be written in English or Japanese. In the case of Japanese manuscript, the abstract should be written in English. Papers should be divided into the following sections: Title, Abstract, Key Words, Running Title, Introduction, Materials, Methods, Results, Discussion, Appendix, References and Acknowledgements. Manuscripts must be submitted in electronic form. Texts should be prepared using a recent version of Microsoft WORD (Windows or Macintosh versions). Times or Times New Roman and Greek symbols are the Journal's standard fonts.Submitting digital figures and tables: Acceptable formats for submitting Figures are GIF, JPEG files. Tables should be prepared using Excel 98 or CSV format.

Given names, middle initials and family names should be provided for complete identification. The addresses of all the authors should be written clearly including the country name. The corresponding author(s) should be identified using an asterisk along with E-mail address(es) and Fax number(s).

Each paper must include a short abstract (should not exceed 300 words) >that states the purpose of research, the principal results and major >conclusions. The abstract should not contain any references.

Up to ten keywords that best describe your work should be provided.

Footnotes should be indicated by superscript numbers consecutively.

In the text, references should be indicated using Arabic numerals in brackets that run consecutively through the paper. In the reference list, periodicals and books should be cited as follows:

1. Kawamura, K., Kameyama, N. and Matusmoto, O. Kinetics of hydrolysis of ribonuclease polymers, in aqueous solution at elevated temperatures, Viva Origino 27, 107-118 (1999)
2. Bock, G. R. and Goode Ed., Evolution of hydrothermal ecosystems on Earth, Ciba foundation symposium;202, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., England, 1996

Figures should benumbered with Arabic numerals according to their sequence in the text, where they are cited as "Figure 1," "Figure2," etc. Figure legends should follow the References section in the body of the manuscript. Each figure legend should have a title and caption. The text of a caption should be sufficient to explain the figure without referring to the body of the manuscript.

Tables should ve space or tab delimited text in the body of manuscript, Tables should not be submitted in a word processor format. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals according to their sequence of appearance in the text, where they are cited as "Table 1," "Table2," etc.

The full text of the accepted paper will immediately be posted on the journal's web page. All papers will be published every three months, i.e., there will be four volumes in one year. All visitors to the journal site will have free access to the table of contents of published issues and the titles and authors of the latest accepted papers. Subscribers will be able to download all articles in Adobe portable document format.

At least one of the authors, on behalf of the other authors, is requested to sign the copyright transfer form, which can be downloaded from the Viva Origino homepage. The completed form should be sent to the Editorial office by FAX (see above).

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