Journal of Oral Biosciences

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There are no handling or page charges for publication in the Journal of Oral Biosciences.

Scope

The Journal of Oral Biosciences is the official journal of the Japanese Association for Oral Biology, and is published quarterly in addition to a supplementary issue for the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Oral Biology.

The original name of the Journal until 2003 was Shika Kiso Igakkai Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Oral Biology) and was founded in 1959. The Journal is devoted to the advancement and dissemination of fundamental knowledge concerning every aspect of oral biosciences including cariology research, craniofacial biology, dental materials, implant biology, geriatric oral biology, microbiology/immunology and infection control, mineralized tissue, neuroscience, oral oncology, periodontal research, pharmacology, pulp biology, and salivary research (signaling, and other fields). The Journal also publishes reviews, lectures and articles concerning progress related to methodologies. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts from any country.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
- Hayato Ohshima (Niigata, Japan)
Vice Editor-in-Chief
- Kiyoshi Konishi (Tokyo, Japan)
Editors
- Makoto Funahashi (Sapporo, Japan), Hidenori Ichijo (Tokyo, Japan),
  Keitaro Isokawa (Tokyo, Japan), Noriaki Koshikawa (Tokyo, Japan),
  Koji Okabe (Fukuoka, Japan), Takashi Takata (Hiroshima, Japan),
  Masaharu Takigawa (Okayama, Japan), Satoru Toyosawa (Suita, Japan)
Editorial Board
- Norio Amizuka (Sapporo, Japan), Takaaki Aoba (Tokyo, Japan),
  Akira Fujimura (Morioka, Japan), Satoshi Fukumoto (Sendai, Japan),
  Nobushiro Hamada (Yokosuka, Japan), Hidemitsu Harada (Morioka, Japan),
  Noboru Horiuchi (Koriyama, Japan), Takeshi Igarashi (Tokyo, Japan),
  Kiyotoshi Inenaga (Kitakyushu, Japan), Takashi Inoue (Chiba, Japan),
  Tomio Inoue (Tokyo, Japan), Naozumi Ishimaru (Tokushima, Japan),
  Akira Ishisaki (Morioka, Japan), Hiroshi Izumi (Tobetsu, Japan),
  Yosuke Kaifu (Tokyo, Japan), Yoshinori Kamisaki (Suita, Japan),
  Kenji Kitamura (Fukuoka, Japan), Seiichiro Kitamura (Tokushima, Japan),
  Hitoshi Komatsuzawa (Kagoshima, Japan), Toshihisa Komori (Nagasaki, Japan),
  Shintaro Kondo (Nagoya, Japan), Yukishige Kozawa (Matsudo, Japan),
  Yasusei Kudo (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuko Maeda (Yokohama, Japan),
  Kenji Mishima (Yokohama, Japan), Koji Nakayama (Nagasaki, Japan),
  Takayuki Nemoto (Nagasaki, Japan), Akira Nifuji (Yokohama, Japan),
  Shinichiro Oida (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshinori Sahara (Morioka, Japan),
  Hiroshi Sakagami (Sakado, Japan), Hidetaka Sakai (Fukuoka, Japan),
  Noritaka Sako (Mizuho, Japan), Yoshihiko Sawa (Fukuoka, Japan),
  Ken-ichiro Shibata (Sapporo, Japan), Shunichi Shibata (Tobetsu, Japan),
  Kazuyuki Shimada (Kagoshima, Japan), Hidetoshi Shimauchi (Sendai, Japan),
  Masanobu Shindo (Sapporo, Japan), Satoru Shintani (Tokyo, Japan),
  Motoyuki Sugai (Hiroshima, Japan), Kuniaki Suzuki (Sapporo, Japan),
  Nobuhiro Takahashi (Sendai, Japan), Kohsuke Takeda (Tokyo, Japan),
  Masato Tamura (Sapporo, Japan), Akifumi Togari (Nagoya, Japan),
  Takashi Tsuji (Noda, Japan), Takashi Uchida (Hiroshima, Japan),
  Nobuyuki Udagawa (Shiojiri, Japan), Minoru Wakamori (Sendai, Japan),
  Minoru Wakita (Sapporo, Japan), Kensuke Yamamura (Niigata, Japan),
  Takashi Yamashiro (Okayama, Japan), Fuminobu Yoshimura (Nagoya, Japan),
  Masahiro Yoshiyama (Okayama, Japan)
- Sam-Pyo Hong (Seoul, Kore), Han-Sung Jung (Seoul, Korea),
  Sittichai Koontongkaew (Pathumtani, Thailand), Jin-Yong Lee (Seoul, Korea),
  Wen-Sen Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Byung-Moo Min (Seoul, Korea)
Advisory Board
- Seiji Ban (Editor-in-Chief, Dental Materials Journal; Kagoshima, Japan)
International Advisory Board
- Margaret R Byers(Seattle, WA, USA), Donald Maxwell Brunette (Vancouver, Canada),
  George Hajishengallis (Louisville, KY ,USA), Sebastian Joyce (Nashville, TN, USA),
  Henry Magloire (Lyon, France), Marc D. McKee (Montreal, Canada),
  Lakshman Samaranayake (Hong Kong, China), Barry J. Sessle (Toronto, Canada),
  Paul T. Sharpe (London, UK), Paul M. Speight (Sheffield, UK),
  Irma Thesleff (Helsinki, Finland)

Publisher

Japanese Association for Oral Biology
c/o Kokuhokenkyokai, 1-43-9, Komagome, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-0003, Japan

Ethics

Investigations on human subjects and experiments should conform to accepted ethical standards formulated in the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 (revised in 2000, cf. http://www.med.or.jp/wma/helsinki02_j.html). Fully informed consent should be obtained and noted in the manuscripts. Similarly, the protocol for animal experiments should also comply with the provisions of the Helsinki Declaration and should be approved by an institutional review board.

Instructions for authors

Instructions for authors ( PDF File 34KB )

Submission fee and page charge

There are no handling or page charges for publication in the Journal of Oral Biosciences.

Submission of manuscripts

Articles for the Journal of Oral Biosciences should be submitted electronically via online submission (http://ess.jstage.jst.go.jp/contrib/JORALBIOSCI/initialsubmission)

Check List

Check List ( PDF File 48KB )

Galley proofs and reprint orders

The Journal provides authors with galley and illustration proofs for their examination. The authors should proofread these carefully, but no new items may be inserted in the text at the time of proofreading.

Reprint order forms will be sent to authors along with their proofs. Reprint orders should be placed when the galley proofs are returned. Fifty reprints without covers will be supplied free of charge for members of the Japanese Association for Oral Biology. Orders cannot be cancelled after printing of the Journal has been finalized.

Charge for Separate Printing of Journal of Oral Biosciences (PDF File 4.4KB)

Copyright transfer

Copyrights of papers accepted for publication shall be reserved by the Japanese Association for Oral Biology and the corresponding author will be asked to sign a Transfer of Copyright form which will be sent to the author.
Submission of a manuscript means that the authors automatically agree to assign exclusive copyright license to the Journal of Oral Biosciences if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication.

Permission to reprint materials published in the Journal of Oral Biology

Permission must be obtained before reproducing or republishing a paper in another article or on personal or institutional websites, whether in whole or in part. Fill out the permission sheet
Request for Permission to Reprint.doc ( Word File 28KB )
and mail it to the office.

All communications should be sent to:

Editorial Office of Journal Oral Biosciences,
e-mail: hensyu1@kokuhoken.or.jp