Aims and Scope

The Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science (KJMCS) is the official publication of the Korean Society of Medicinal Crop Science. It was launched in 1993. It contains original articles on all fields related the cultivation, physiology, and environments, genetics and breeding, biotechnology, quality and evaluation of physiological activity (in vitro, in vivo, etc.), chemical analysis of medicinal crops and others related to medicinal crops. It is published bimonthly in February, April, June, August, October and December in per year. Supplement numbers are published on symposium or academic meetings. All of the manuscripts are judged and peer-reviewed.

The articles published in this journal are indexed and/or abstracted in DOI/crossref, KCI Circulation number of print copies is 500. Full text is freely available from:http://www.medicinalcrop.org. This journal was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST) funded by the Korean Government (MEST).

Subscription of the Journal is only through membership. Foreign membership fee per annual is US $20 or equivalent in your currency. Payment of the membership fee to the society entitles members to receive the journal, to vote, and to contribute scientific papers in the meeting and to the journal.

Open Access is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Subscription Inquiry

Secretary Treasurer
General Affairs and Copyright Transfer Agreement Submission
the Korean Society of Medicinal Crop Science
Department of Herbal Crop Research,
National Institute of Horticulture and Herbal Science(NIHHS),
Rural Development Administration(RDA)
92, Bisan-ro, Soi-myeon, Eumseong 27709, Republic of Korea
Tel : 043-871-5598, Fax : 043-871-5599, E-mail : medcrop@hanmail.net

Editor : Manuscript Affairs
Department of Herbal Crop Research, Kangwon National University
346 Hwangjo-gil, Dogye-eup, Sancheok 25949, Gangwon, Republic of Korea
Tel : 033-540-3323, Fax : 033-540-3329, E-mail : ijdae@kangwon.ac.kr

Guidelines for Framing of Manuscript

1. Standard and Order
   1. (1) The manuscript shall be framed in Korean or in English and so on, and the Korean papers may use Chinese characters or English letters together. The manuscript shall be framed Area-A Hangul Version 3.0 or higher in A4 papers with the font of Shinmyoungjo, striation spacing of 200%, and size of letters of 12 points.
   2. (2) The manuscript shall have only the title of paper in Korean and English in the first page, with the English title at the bottom in the Korean and Englishmanuscript.

      <Example>

      사철쑥의 항산화성과 항균성

      Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Artemisia capillaris Thunberg

   3. (3) The manuscript in Korean shall have the descriptive English ABSTRACT is required within 200 words.

      ABSTRACT

      consists of three main sections:

      Background

      should state briefly the main purpose of the work.

      Methods and Results

      should describe briefly experimental methods explaining to reach main results.

      Conclusions

      should major conclusions and significant of the articles based on experimental results.

      The authors may provide a maximum of 10 Key Words immediately after the abstract. Key Words should be typed in scientific name(s) followed alphabetical order by spacing with 'comma' between each. The first letter of each key word must be capital.
   4. (4) The order of manuscript shall be written bold in the ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS(or RESULTS AND DISCUSSION), and REFERENCE in the manuscript in Korean, and in the ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS(or RESULTS AND DISCUSSION), and REFERENCE in the manuscript in English.When ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are needed, they shall be added as a separate paragraph after the discussion.
   5. (5) The scientific name of the publicly announced crop name shall be written only when it is mentioned for the first time.In the scientific name, the generic name and the specific name shall be written in italics, and the author, var., and so on shall be written in Roman.

      <Example>

      Angelica gigas Nakai

   6. (6) When indicating the reference in the text, put "과 (and)" in between the authors in case a paper in Korean of two authors, and put "등 (et al.,)" in case of a paper in Korean of three or more authors. In addition, put "and" in between the author names in case of a paper in English of two authors, and indicate as "Lee et al.," in case of a paper in English of three or more authors. {Kim과 Lee (2008); Kim 등 (2008); Lee and Kim (2008); Lee et al., (2008a, b)}.

      <Example>

      The studies on biological activity of Korean angelica root that have been reported include the skin aging (Chung, 2012), antidiabetic (Kim and Lee, 1996), antioxidant (Bang et al., 2007), and anti-inflammatory (Kim et al., 2012; Park and Kong, 2012).

      <Example>

      Park and Kim (2012), and Park et al., (1990) said that the time of cuttage is very important following the kind in the examination on rooting percentage by time of cuttage.

      <Example>

      The examination on the rooting percentage by time of cuttage said that the time of cuttage is very important by kind (Park and Kim, 2012; Park et al., 2011).

   7. (7) When the text cites a Table or a Figure, indicate it as follows.

      <Example>

      As in the Table 1 or Fig. 1, in view of the impacts on the time of cuttage and the number of uprooting by treatment of growth regulator......

      <Example>

      Table 1 or Fig. 1 shows the rooting percentage by treatment of growth regulator following the time of cuttage.

      <Example>

      On the rooting percentage by treatment of growth regulator following the time of cuttage, it seems......
      (Table 1 or Fig. 1).

2. Units and Abbreviations
   1. (1) Proper nouns such as a person's name and the name of a place shall be in the original language, the year shall be in A.D., and the weights and measures shall be in the unit of C.G.S.
   2. (2) The full name of what appears for the first time shall be written along with the abbreviations or short designation, and then the abbreviations shall be used from the next time.

      <Example>

      Leaf Area Index (LAI)

3. Tables, Figures, and Photographs
   1. (1) The title and explanation shall be written in English briefly so that the readers can grasp the contents even though they do not refer to the text.

      <Example>

      Table 1. Effect of cutting dates and shading ratio on root length in Acanthopanax sp.

      <Example>

      Fig. 1. Change of chlorophyll fluorescence of S. deltoides grown under four different shading treatments.

   2. (2) Make each of the tables, figures, and photographs as an annexed paper, and give the serial number as Table 1., Fig. 1., and Photo. 1. In addition, make the first letter of title shall be in capitals, and put a period (.) at the end.
   3. (3) The title of a Table shall be on the top, and the title of a Figure or a Photograph shall be on the bottom.
   4. (4) The Tables and Figures shall be clearly framed keeping in mind that the width shall be 8.2 cm or 17.3 cm at the time of printing, and the location of insertion of Tables and Figures in the text shall be indicated in red.
   5. (5) The additional explanation symbol of Tables, Figures, and so on shall be indicated in the order with a superscript, and in particular, the indication of statistical significance test (*) shall be indicated with a superscript (*) on the right top of the Table or Figure.
4. Reference
   1. (1) Every literature shall be limited to what has been cited in the text, and shall be framed in English.
   2. (2) The author name of reference shall be listed in the order of alphabet with no number.In addition, when there are two or more literatures of the same author, they shall be listed in the order of year.
   3. (3) In case of an academic journal, write in the order of author name, year, title, name of academic journal, volume, and page, and the name of academic journal shall be in full name.In case of books, the author name (or the name of translator), year, title of book, name of publishing company, name of city, name of state (in case of the U.S.), name of country, and the first page and the last page (or the Chapters) shall be written in order along with the example sentence. When the authors are two or more persons, follow the method of indication of academic journal.In case of patents, write the name of patent applicant (or the patent holder), year, name of patent, country of patent application, and application number (or the registration number) in order as the example sentence.When the owners of a patent right are two or more persons, follow the method of indication of academic journal.

   <Example>

   1. ① Method of indication of academic journal

      In case of a single author

      Bradford KJ. (1994). Water stress and the water relations of seed development. Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science. 34:1-11.

      In case of two authors

      Bradford KJ and Bradford KJ. (1994). Water stress and the water relations of seed development. Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science. 34:1-11.

      In case of three or more authors

      Nasr C, HaagBerruier M, LobsteinGuth A and Anton R. (1986). Kaempferol coumaryl glucorhamnoside from Ginkgo biloba. Phytochemistry. 25:770-771.

   2. ② Method of indication of books

      In case of a single author

      Dewick PM. (2002). Medicinal natural products. Wiley & Sons. Chichester, England. p.149-151.

      Bergmeyer HU, Bergmeyer J and Grassl M. (1974). Methods of enzymatic analysis(Vol. 3). Verlag Chemie International. Deerfield Beach. Florida, USA. p.1499-1502.

      In case of books : (in case of citing the reference with chapters composed by several authors together)

      Lee KY, Ko KC, Lee JC, Ryu YS and Kim SK. (1985). The use of plant growth regulators. In Viticulture infuture. Daehan Textbook Co. Seoul, Korea. p.274-283.

      Gershenzon J and Croteau RB. (1993). Terpenoid biosynthesis: the basic pathway and formation of monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes and diterpenes. In Moore TS. (ed.)., In Mizrahi A and Wezel AL. (eds.)., In Moore TS. et al. (eds.).

      Lipid metabolism in plants. CRC Press (name of publishing company). Boca Raton (name of city). Florida (name of state), USA. p.340-388.

      In case of a thesis

      Lee HY. (2003). Chemical consitituents from the roots of Synurus deltoides(Aiton) Nakai. Master Thesis or Ph.D. Thesis. Name of college. p.1-67.

      Keatha KK. (1948). Vitamin and amino acid requirements of certain lactic acid bacteria. University of Wisconsin. Madison, USA. p.1-86.

      reference published by an institution

      Rural Development Administration(RDA). (2009). Standard cultivation guidebook for good agricultural practice. Rural Development Administration. Suwon, Korea. p.47-117.

      Han JS, Choi KJ and Kang AS. (1999). Development of propagation technology of Eleutherococcus senticosus. Gangwondo Agricultural Research and Extension Services. Cheorwon, Korea. p.371-378.

   3. ③ In case of books with no English indication: In principle, English indication is required.
   4. ④ In case of patents

      Chung IM. (2007). The manufacturing process of Gingsang extracts. U.S. Patent 8,777,345.

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