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The KONA journal (currently called “KONA Powder and Particle Journal”) was first published in 1983 by the Council of Powder Technology, Japan (CPT), which had been established in 1969 by Hosokawa Micron Corporation as a nonprofit organization to promote powder technology, in order to introduce excellent Japanese papers to the world. From the issue of No.8, the CPT changed its editorial policy to internationalize the KONA journal and to incorporate papers by authors throughout the world. In response to this change, three editorial blocks have been organized in the world: Asian-Oceanian, American and European. The issues from No.1 (1983) to No.12 (1994) of the KONA were published by the CPT and the issues from No.13 (1995) by the Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation. The policy and system have not changed even after the Hosokawa Foundation has taken over the publication from the CPT. From the issue of No.27 (2009), publication of translated papers has been terminated and only original papers have been published.
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.
Review papers and feature articles invited by the KONA Editorial Committees.
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.
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.
KONA is published annually. The publication date is around January 10th.
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.
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) Data Repository InformationIn order to promote open data discoverability and use of research outputs, this journal encourages authors to submit the data files supporting your manuscript work, which can be deposited in the journal’s J-STAGE Data site <https://jstagedata.jst.go.jp/kona> after acceptance of the paper through the peer-review process.
These data may describe observations, experiments, modeling or analyses and may take the form of databases, simulations, movies, large figures or as otherwise appropriate.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact the KONA Editorial Office (contact_zainq@hmc.hosokawa.com).
(3) Manuscript formatExamples:
Strunk Jr. W., White E.B., The Elements of Style, fourth ed., Longman, New York, 2000.
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.
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
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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 ....”