Submission of manuscript

Japanese Studies is published three times a year and welcomes original articles on any area of the study of Japan and Japanese language. All submissions should be made online at the Japanese Studies Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

- et al. & ibid is roman, not italics 

- ed. and eds are separated by commas, not parentheses

- page numbers appear without p. or pp.

- circumflex indicates where a macron is needed

- program (not programme)

- single quotation marks rather than double

- punctuation outside quotation marks

- shimbun appears in lower case

Please ensure that abbreviations, punctuation and dashes remain consistent throughout the paper.

Use of Japanese Words

Japanese words used in articles should be written in italics. Where this is not possible, underline them. It is not necessary to italicise those words, such as kabuki or samurai, that are commonly used in English. Long vowels should be indicated with circumflexes.

References in the text

Reference should be set as footnotes, not in-text citations, set out as: the author's surname, short title, and page numbers. Use first names where there are two authors with the same surname. Ibid. (non-italics) may be used, but not op. cit.

E.g:
Dower, Embracing Defeat, 206-210.
Creighton, 'The depato', 47.

Reference list should be ordered alphabetically, then chronologically.

Tables and captions in illustrations

Tables should be typed on separate sheets and not included as part of the text. Tables and figures should be numbered. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and printed on a separate sheet. The approximate position of tables, figures and illustrations should be indicated in the manuscript.

Figures

Please upload one set of artwork in finished form, suitable for reproduction. Photographs and other visual materials should be high-contrast black and white print. Permission to reproduce them must be obtained by the author(s) and acknowledgements included in the paper.

Figures should be centred.  Below the figure, Figure 1. (small caps) followed by the caption.  Text is centred.

Citation style

Books

Mann, Michael, Incoherent Empire. London: Verso, 2005.

Edited book

Tobin, Joseph J., ed., Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Translations

Ihara, Saikaku, The Life of an Amorous Woman, Ivan Morris, trans. New York: New Directions, 1969.

Journal article

Tsunoda, Waka, 'The Influx of English in Japanese Language and Literature', World Literature Today, 62:3 (1988): 425-428.

Chapter in book

Creighton, Millie, 'The depato: Merchandising the West while Selling Japaneseness', in J. Tobin, ed., Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, 42-57.

Miller, Laura, 'Wasei eigo: English “Loanwords” Coined in Japan', in Jane H. Hill, P. J Mistry and Lyle Campbell, eds, The Life of Language:Papers in Linguistics in Honour of William Blight. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, 123-139.

Beard, Grace Yayoi, Bates L. Hoffer and Nobuyuki Honna, 'Japanese Use of English Loans', in Chisato Kitagawa and Shigeru Miyagawa, eds, Studies in Social Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978, 56-311.

Online article

Jain, Purnendra, 'Abe's New Roadmap for Japan - India Ties', Japan Focus, 4 September 2007, www.japanfocus.org/products/topdf/2514.

 'Japan Courts India to Counter China: Analysts', http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/defence/Japan_courts_India_to_counter_China_analysts30013080.php (accessed 17 November 2007).

Newspaper article

Alford, Peter, 'Bowing to No One', The Australian, 1 September 2006, 15

Japanese language sources

Titles of Japanese books, journals, and articles should be written in lower case except where proper nouns are used.  Translations must be given for all Japanese titles, followed by an English language translation capitalised as below.

Book:
Fujioka Nobukatsu, Kyokasho ga oshienai rekishi [The History that Textbooks Don't Teach]. Sankei shinbun nyu su sabisu, 1996.

Chapter in book:
Suehiro Akira, 'Keizai saishinshutsu e no michi: Nihon no tai-tonan Ajia seisaku to kaihatsu taisei' [The Road to a Second Economic Advance], in Nakamura Masanori, ed., Sengo Nihon: senryo to sengo kaikaku, dai-6 kan: sengo kaikaku to sono isan [Postwar Japan: Occupation and Postwar Reform: 6, Postwar Reform and its Legacy]. Iwanami Shoten, 1995.

Journal article:
Yamamuro Shinnichi, '“Ajia” no jigazoo ika ni egaku ka' [How Can We Draw A Self-Portrait of 'Asia'?], Sekai, October 1995, 139.

Newspaper article:
'Kono kuni no "chisha" wa dare ka', Asahi shimbun, 4 January 1997, p. 5.

Quotations

Short quotations should be included in the text of the article using 'single quotation marks'. Where quotation marks within the quote are required, "double quotation marks" should be used. Longer quotes should be commenced on a new line, indented and without quotation marks.

Numbers

Numbers below ten should be written in full. Higher numbers should be written in figures except where they occur at the beginning of a sentence. Large numbers such as 34,000,000 should be written 34 million. Dates should be written 21 August 1997. Use nineteenth century rather than 19th century; use 1990s (no apostrophe) not nineties or 90s.

Acknowledgements

Any acknowledgements should be set out as a footnote, if required.

Style for Book Reviews

Title Book Reviews

Book Title

Book Author Name

Place of Publication: Publisher, year

Number of pages numbered with roman numerals, number of pages in the main body of the text, usually finishing with the last page of the conclusion + types of material after that point and to the back cover ; other features of interest back in the body of the text
E.G. "xiii, 213 pp. + appendices, notes, bibliography, index;
figures, maps, tables"

ISBN XXX-X-XXX-XXXXX-X xx

Author of book, name of book, publisher, year, pages pp.
Book review is fully justified; first paragraph flush left, subsequent paragraphs indented. Quotations indented.

Reviewer Name right aligned
Affiliation right aligned

©200X Author Name

Page numbers referred to in-text should be (123), or (134- 35) - no 'p' or punctuation.

Offprints

Corresponding authors will receive their article by e-mail as a complete PDF. This allows the author to print up to 50 copies, free of charge, and disseminate them to colleagues. Alternatively, corresponding authors can, if requested, receive 50 offprints. A copy of the journal will be sent by post to all corresponding authors after publication. Additional copies of the journal can be purchased at the author's preferential rate of 15.00 per copy.

Copyright

It is a condition of publication that authors vest copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in Japanese Studies Association of Australia. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and the journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication providing that prior permission is obtained from Taylor & Francis Ltd. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.