FORMA is an official scientific periodical of Society for Science on Form, Japan, and accepts scientific papers concerning Form from researchers of the world as well as the members of the society.
The objective of FORMA is to provide an interdisciplinary medium for the publication of scientific papers to describe, to understand or to analyse Form, and FORMA includes original papers, review articles and letters. Please refer to the instructions at the end of each volume when preparing manuscripts.
A member (Japanese) of the Society is entitled to receive regular issues of FORMA in exchange for his or her membership fee. Subscriptions by non-members and institutions should be made directly to SCIPRESS, 804 Gyosai Estate, 5-27-5 Okusawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0083, Japan. The subscription price (not including Supplement issue) per volume (Vol. 20, 4 issues) is US$150.00 for non-members and institutions and US$80.00 for members (except Japanese members) of Society for Science on Form, Japan.
Editor-in-chief: | Hiroki Takada (Mathematical Physics, Japan) |
Secretary: | Yoshiki Hidaka (Physics, Japan) |
Yasuyuki Matsuura (Biomedical Engineering, Japan) | |
Editors: | about 30 scientists in Japan and about 10 scientists from overseas (see Call for Papers) |
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Figure in the title page: The asteroid grains are skeletons of Baculogypsina from The Star-Sand Beach at Taketomi in Okinawa. This photograph was used for the cover pages of volume 1-3.
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