Korean Journal of
Veterinary Service

The Korean Socitety of Veterinary Service is the official publication of The Korean Socitety of Veterinary Service. The instruction to authors does not described thereafter follows the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication” prepared by International Committee of Me-dical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org/index.html).

1. Content and Publication Type

It accepts original papers of research articles, short communications, reviews, editorial, opinion, book reviews, teaching tips and other invited papers on the undergraduate, graduate and continuing Veterinary Service in the field of veterinary sciences in general, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, microbiology, pathology, public health, parasitology, infectious diseases, clinical sciences, alternative veterinary medicine, animal welfare, food science of animal resources and other biomedical fields. Letter to editor is always welcomed on the published articles. Total or a part of the articles in this Journal are abstracted in Korea Citation index and DOI/Korea DOI Center.

2. Qualification as Authors

The first author and corresponding author should be a member of The Korean Socitety of Veterinary Service. If they are not members, they should apply to membership before submission. However, there is an exception if editorial board admits. Please contact the Society office to become a member.

The Korean Socitety of Veterinary Service
18-4, Nohasup-gil, Jangsu-gun, Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea
Tel: +82-63-290-5406, Fax : +82-63-290-5411,
E-mail: kenya@korea.kr

3. Research and Publication Ethics

Duplicate Publication : The papers a lready published to other scientific journals or periodicals are not considered for publication. The published paper to this journal should not be submitted to other scientific journal. Secondary publication is only possible when it is compatible to the “Acceptable Secondary Publication” policy suggested in the “uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/): Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication updated February 2006”

Authorship : Authors who meets all offollowing conditions can be listed: 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published.

Conflict-of-Interest Statement : If there are any conflicts of interest related to individual author’s commitments or project support, it should be clarified and described in the manuscript.

Informed Consent : The manuscripts related to the veterinary subjects or samples drawn from animal should receive the informed consent according to the rule of Institutional Review Board of author’s institute.

Statement of Human and Animal Rights : Authors should keep the ethical and standard of Institutional Review Board of author’s institute and the Helsinki Declaration in 1975 (revised in 2000). In case of animal experiment, authors should keep the institutional or national guideline for the care and the use of laboratory animals.
For the policies on the research and publication ethics not stated in this instructions, International standards for editors and authors (http://publicationethics.org/international-standards-editors-and-authors) can be applied.
If there are any ethical issues from the manuscripts, it should be first reviewed by Editorial Board and the recommendations should be processed by the Society. If anyone does not agree or accept the decision by Society in the process of ethical issues, those may be referred to The Korean Socitety of Veterinary Service Editors (http://kosves.re.kr) or appropriate Committee of the corresponding institutes.

4. Submission of Manuscript

Manuscript should be submitted to the online submission system (https://kojvs.org/submission/) with copyright transfer greement, author’s checklist, and brief C.V. of corresponding author.
Copyright transfer agreement should be signed by all co-authors. File for accompanying letters can be downloaded from the homepage of the Society(http://kjves.org).

The address for submission
D.V.M. Jong-Sik Park
Editorial office of the Korean Journal of Veterinary Service, Kyoungnam Animal Health Institute, 104 Chojeonbuk-ro, Jinju 52733, Korea
Tel: +82-63-290-5406, Fax : +82-63-290-5411,
E-mail: kenya@korea.kr

5. Publication Interval and Receipt of Manuscript

It is published quarterly in March 30, June 30, September 30 and December 30. Manuscript can be received at any time. The manuscript that does not keep the instruction to authors may be rejected before review. Certificate of receipt of manuscript is issued to the corresponding author via email.

6. Peer Review

Every manuscript received is circulated to at least two peer reviewers. The author’s name and affiliation is not disclosed during review process to reviewers. The review process can be repeated till three times if the request of revision is suggested by reviewers. If the re-review is repeated more than three times, it may not be considered for publication. If two reviewers do not agree to accept the journal, it may not be also considered for publication. Usually the first review process ends within one month.
Statistical Review : If there are any complicated statistical analyses in the manuscript, it may be reviewed by statistical editor.
Manuscript Editing : The finally accepted manuscript will be reviewed by manuscript editor for the consistency of the format and the completeness of references. The manuscript may be revised according to the opinion of the manuscript editor.

7. Fee for Peer Review and Page Charge

If the manuscript is accepted for publication, publication processing fee of Korean Won 100,000 (up to 6 pages) should be paid by the corresponding author before printing. Page charges will be assessed at Korean Won 30,000 per page for any additional page over the 6 pages. In the case of color printing, a separate charge of 50,000 won per page is collected. Authors may order reprints prior to publication at the same cost and also after publication, but at a higher cost. First or corresponding author who belongs to the 17 national laboratories for veterinary service or editors of the korean society of veterinary service is exempted from paying the processing fee.

The bank account for payment
Bank account No. : 351-1209-5730-63
Name of Bank : NH BANK (http://www.nonghyup.com)
Account owner : HanKukDongMulWiSangHakHoe (Korean Journal of Veterinary Service)

8. Role of the Editorial Board

The decision on the editing of the journal is made by the Editorial Board. The manuscript may be revised for the consistency of the editorial work as far as the content is not affected. Every manuscript submitted is not returned.

9. Copyright

The copyright and the transfer right of the digital content of the published paper and journal is owned by the Korean Journal of Veterinary Service.

1. Writing Manuscripts

Manuscript should be prepared in A4 paper with space of 10 mm from top, bottom, right side and left side. Font size should be 10.0 points, row space 200%. The format for word process program accepted is HWP and MS word DOC files. The language of the text can be not only Korean but also English. Full name or English name can be written in the parenthesis in the Korean text. English can be written if there is no available Korean translation, such as proper noun, geography, or name. The capital letter should be used for proper noun. Medical terminology should be followed by the recent terminology book published by the Korean Medical Association (http://kamje.or.kr/term/).
Numeric characters should be written as Arabic letter. Metric system of weights and measures and SI unit should be used. Page number should be typed in the center of the bottom of page.

2. List of Content

The list of content is as followings: Cover page, title page, English abstract, Introduction, Subjects and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgement, References, Tables and Figures in separate page. If the number is required following order is suggested.

• 1., 2., 3.
  • 1), 2), 3)
    • a., b., c.,
      • i), ii), iii)

3. Cover Page and Title Page

In cover page, title, authors’full name and affiliation should be written not only in Korean but also in English. If the authors are more than or equal to two, there should be comma between authors. If the affiliation of authors is not identical, the superscript number should be marked to the name and corresponding affiliation. DVM and PhD should not be written. Bottom of cover page, the address of corresponding author including name, telephone, fax and email address should be described. In the title page, the title in Korean as well as in English should be written. Addi-tionally, the abbreviated title should be added. If necessary, presentation in the meeting may be described.

4. Title and Abstract

Title, authors’ name and affiliation are centered. Title should be simple and lucid so that the content of the manuscript is easily disclosed. There should not be abbreviation or the title beginning with “he study on, or The discussion on” should be avoided. Abstract should be written in English with lucid expression. The subtitle should be constructed as one paragraph. The description should be sentences. The length of the abstract should be less than 250 words. In the next line of abstract, less than or equal to five keywords should be written. The keywords should be selected from MeSH (Medical Subject Heading). The first word of the keywords should be capital letter.

5. Main Text

For Introduction, the purpose and the background should be written simply and lucidly. In Subjects and Methods section, the methodology should be written precisely so that others can get same results with repeated experiment. In the Results, objective fact should be disclosed. In the Discussion, author’s interpretation of the results, author’s opinion and process of inducing conclusion should be written simply.

6. Acknowledgements

The contributors who helped administrative work, assisted in the research process or participated in proof-reading etc. can be described. The financial support and its contents would be described.

7. References

• 1) It should be written in English
• 2) If there is no English description from textbooks or papers in Korean, it should be written by author’s translation or Romanization of the Korean characters provided by the National Institute of Korean Language available at http://www.korean.go.kr/.
• 3) Online references must provide essentially the same information that print references do. For online journal articles, posting or revision dates may replace the year of publication; a DOI (preferred) or URL is required for articles with nontraditional page numbers or electronic article identifiers.
  
  
  • Example
    • 1. Yun YW, Han HJ, Gang CW. 2004. Endocrinology. pp. 603-673. In: Yang IS(ed.). Veterinary physio-logy. 4th. Gwang-il munhwasa. Seoul.
    • 2. QIA. 2011. chugsanmul-ui gagonggijun mich seongbun gyugyeog, QIA Notification 2011-105.
    • 3. Seoul. 2006. Chuksanmul Wisaeng Eommu Pyeol-lam pp. 100-104.
    • 4. Bina XR, Taylor DL, Vikram A, Ante VM, Bina JE. 2013. Vibrio cholerae ToxR downregulates virulence factor production in response to cyclo(Phe-Pro). mBio 4(5): e00366-13. doi:10.1128/mBio.00366-13.
• 4) Maximum number of references should be about 30 except in case of Review article. The periodicals should be described in the order of author, publication year, title, journal name, volume and page. For textbook, author, publication year, title, place of publication, and publisher should be described in the order named. The journal name should be written according to the abbreviation of Index Medicus or KoreaMed. If not indexed in Index Medicus and KoreaMed, the official abbreviation of the journal should be used. If there is no official abbreviation, the full name of journal may be written.
• 5) The citation should be in the text are typed as follows: Kim (2008) or (Kim, 2008); Song et al. (2000) or (Song et al., 2000); Song and Chung (2009) or (Song and Chung, 2009).
  
  
  • Example: Citation in the text
    • Chronic FC may follow an acute stage of the disease or result from infection with organisms of low virulence (Christensen et al., 2008; Gilsson et al., 2003; Timoney et al., 1992).
• 6) The reference in the end of the manuscript should be in alphabet order. Title of textbook or paper should be written capital letter only for the first word. All authors should be described. Below examples are referenced:
  
  
  • Example: Periodicals
    • Shil NK, Rahman MS, Hossain M, Islam MT, Rahman MM, Islam KBMS, Cha SY, Jang HK, Song HJ. 2007. Immune response and efficacy of pigeon pox virus vaccine and fowl pox virus vaccine in chickens. Korean J Vet Serv 30: 497-503.
  • Example: Textbook
    • Easterday BC, van Reeth K. 1999. Swine influenza, pp. 277–290. In: Straw BE, D’Allaire S, Mengeling WL, Taylor DI(ed.). Diseases of swine. 8th ed. Iowa State University Press. Ames, Iowa.
  • Example: PhD Thesis
    • Kim YH. 2002. Multiplex PCR and in situ hybridization for deifferential diagnosis of Mycobac-terium species from bovine clinical samples. Ph.D. Thesis, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea.
    • * In case of master’ thesis, [dissertation] should be displaced as [master’s thesis].
  • Example: Website
    • FDA. 2006. Code of Federal Regulation, Food and Drug, Part 110 CGMP and Part 120 HACCP. http://www.michigan.gov/documents/ MDA_cfr110_ 10316_7.pdf.
    • FSIS. 2005. Laboratory guidebook. Identification of animal species in meat and poultry products. http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Ophs/ Microlab/Mlg17. 02.pdf.
    • ICH. 1996. Q2B validation of analytical procedures: Methodogy http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Regu-lator%20y-Information/Guidances/UCM128049.pdf.
• 7) If the journal reference cited is not indexed in KoreaMed or PubMed, its pdf file should be sent to the editorial office simultaneously when the manuscript is submitted. This is for minimizing the errors that may occur in REFERENCES section.

8. Tables and Figures

• 1) Tables and Figures should be lucid and simple and should be cited in the text. Title and the explanation of Tables and Figures should be written in English. The abbreviation used should be described as full name in the bottom of Tables or Figures. Although same words or numbers appear, they should be written repeatedly.
• 2) Photos or figures should be marked as Figures meanwhile tables should be marked as Tables. Tables and Figures should be printed in black and white although they are originally in color except that authors request color printing. The fee for color printing should be invoiced to authors.
• 3) Explanation for Figures should be in English. Number of Figures should be in a form of Fig. 1, Fig. 2. The first word of the title and explanationshould be in capital letter. If there is more thanor equal to two figures in same Figure number, it is written as Fig. 1A, Fig. 1B.
• 4) Table number is written in the form of Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3. Title should be in paragraph or phrase. The first letter of noun and adjective should be written in capital letter in title. There should be no vertical line in the Table. Abbreviation in the Table should be re-described in its full name. The mark should be used in the order of *, †, ‡, §, ∥, ** and explained in the bottom line.
• 5) Figure files should be in jpg or TIF or GIF format. However, after the acceptance author should send the tif files with contrast degree equal to or greater than 300 dpi.

9. Guidelines for Editorial

Editorials are written by editor or editorial board members. The title, author and affiliation should be written in Korean as well as in English. Length of manuscript is less than 1,500 words.

10. Guidelines for Opinion

Opinions are usually invited. It deals with the present issues of the Veterinary Service. The title, author and affiliation should be written in Korean as well as in English. Length of manuscript is less than 1,500 words.

11. Guidelines for Review

Title, author, and affiliation should be in Korean as well as in English. Length of manuscript is less than 4,500 words. Length of English abstract should be less than 250 words. There is no limitation to number of references.

12. Guidelines for Short Communication

Title, author, and affiliation should be in Korean as well as in English. Length of manuscript is less than 1,500 words. Length of English abstract should be less than 250 words. A total number of Tables and Figures should be restricted to two.

13. Guidelines for Teaching Tips

Title, author, and affiliation should be in Korean as well as in English. Length of manuscript is less than 1,500 letters. Reference should be added.

14. Guidelines for Book Review

Book Review should be invited. The author and affiliation should be written in both Korean and English. Title of book review is the book title. If the book title is in Korean, English book title should be described. If the book title is translated one, the original book title should be also described. At the front of the text, the authors and the bibliographic information should be described. If it is translated one, the authors and the bibliographic information of the original book should be described. Length of manuscript is less than 1,000 words.

15. Undescribed Matters

Any items, issues or cases not described in the Introduction to Authors should be decided by the Editorial Board.