General Information

History of the Journal

In the history of KONA Powder and Particle Journal, two organizations have been playing an important role. The one is the Council of Powder Technology, Japan (CPT) and the other is the Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation (Hosokawa Foundation). The CPT was established in 1969 by Hosokawa Micron Corporation as a nonprofit organization to enhance the activities of research and development on powder science and technology. The Hosokawa Foundation was established in 1991 as a public-service corporation approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology of Japan. The issues from No.1 (1983) to No.12 (1994) of KONA were published by CPT and the issues from No.13 (1995) by the Hosokawa Foundation.

The aim of KONA in the early days was to introduce excellent Japanese papers to the world and thus KONA consisted of papers recommended by some Japanese academic societies and translated from Japanese to English. From the issue of No.8, the CPT changed its editorial policy to internationalize the KONA and to incorporate papers by authors throughout the world in addition to translated papers. In response to this change, three editorial blocks have been organized in the world; Asian-Oceanian, American, and European. The policy and system have not changed even after the Hosokawa Foundation has taken over from the CPT. From the issue of No.27 (2009), publication of translated papers has been terminated and only original papers have been published. The CPT is still active today and is collaborating with the Hosokawa Foundation.

Aims and Scope

KONA publishes review and original research papers in a broad field of powder & particle science and technology, ranging from fundamental principles to practical applications. The papers on critical reviews of existing knowledge in special areas are very welcome.

The submitted papers are published only when they are judged by the Editor to contribute to the progress of powder science and technology, and approved by any of the three Editorial Committees.

The paper submitted to the Editorial Secretariat should not have been previously published.

Category of Papers

• • Invited articles

  Review papers and feature articles invited by the KONA Editorial Committees.

• • Contributed papers

  Original review papers and some limited number of original research papers of high quality submitted to the KONA Editorial Committees, and refereed by the reviewers and editors.

Submission of Papers

It is now possible to submit your paper online via Editorial Manager^® for KONA Online Paper Submission and Peer Review System. For all further information, please go to the journal’s homepage on http://www.kona.or.jp/jp/journal/info.html.

Publication in KONA is free of charge.

Publication Schedule

KONA is published annually. The publication date is around January 10^th.

Subscription

KONA is distributed free of charge to senior researchers at universities and laboratories as well as to institutions and libraries in the field throughout the world. The publisher is always glad to consider the addition of names of those, who want to obtain this journal regularly, to the mailing list.

Instructions to Authors

• (1) Language

  All submissions should be written in good English. Authors may choose either British or American English, provided that the chosen style is used consistently. Authors from non-English-speaking countries are encouraged to use a professional English editing service to proofread their manuscript.

• (2) Manuscript format
  • • Electric files should be submitted to the Editorial Secretariat by online. Authors’ short biography with less than 100 words per person and color photographs of all the authors should be attached to the final version.
  • • The structure of manuscripts should follow the following order; title, authors, affiliations, abstract, graphical abstract, keywords, main text, (acknowledgement), (appendix), (nomenclature), references. The items with parentheses are not mandatory.
  • • Full postal addresses must be given for all the authors. Indicate the corresponding author by the asterisk mark“*” after the name. Telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address should be provided for the corresponding author.
  • • Abstract should not exceed 200 words.
  • • Graphical abstract should be a concise, visual summary of the article which will be displayed in the contents list both online and print.
  • • The appropriate number of keywords is 5 or 6.
  • • The maximum pages printed in KONA are supposed to be:

    15 for an original paper and 25 for a review paper.

  • • Symbols and units should be listed in alphabetical order with their definition and dimensions in SI units.
  • • The color figures will appear in color both on the KONA Website (http://www.kona.or.jp) and also in the paper version.
  • • Concerning references, the alphabetical system should be adopted. Please use reference management software such as Endnote to manage references as far as possible.

    List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters “a”, “b”, “c”, etc., placed after the year of publication.

    Examples:

    • - Reference to a book:

      Strunk Jr. W., White E.B., The Elements of Style, fourth ed., Longman, New York, 2000.

    • - Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

      Mettam G.R., Adams L.B., How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones B.S., Smith R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 2009, pp.281–304.

    • - Reference to a journal publication:

      Tsuji Y., Tanaka T., Ishida T., Lagrangian numerical simulation of plug flow of cohesionless particles in a horizontal pipe, Powder Technology, 71 (1992) 239–250. DOI: 10.1016/0032-5910(92)88030-L

      Text: All citations in the text should refer to:

      • 1. Single author: the author’s name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
      • 2. Two authors: both authors’ names and the year of publication;
      • 3. Three or more authors: first author’s name followed by “et al.” and the year of publication.

        Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.

        Examples:

        “as demonstrated (Hidaka J. et al., 1995; Tsuji Y., 1992a, 1992b, 1993). Mori Y. and Fukumoto Y. (2002) have recently shown ….”

• (3) Copyright and permission
  • • The original paper to be submitted to KONA has not been published before in any language or in any journals or media; it is not submitted and not under consideration for publication in whole or in part elsewhere.
  • • Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright holders to reproduce any figures, tables and photos for which copyright exists.
  • • The KONA Journal applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) to all works published by the Journal. Copyright stays with the agreed copyright owner, and the Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation is granted the exclusive right to publish and distribute the work, and to provide the work in all forms and media.
  • • Users of the journal will be able to reuse the contents in any way they like, provided they are accurately attributed. No permission is required from either the authors or the publisher.