Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a Garamond 11-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Recommended guidelines include bibliographic and formatting standards alongside examples of common citation formats for submissions available here.

Template of NAWA: Journal of Japanese Studies can be downloaded here.

Articles

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Copyright Notice

If accepted for publication:

  1. The copyright of the article belongs to the author. Copyright includes the exclusive right to reproduce or transmit manuscripts in any form and media: reprint, produce photographs, microfilm, or translated versions of the manuscript. Increasing parts of this journal, storage, and transmission of databases of any form or media, such as electronic copies, electrostatic and mechanical copies, photocopies, recordings, magnetic media, and so on, are permitted without permission.
  2. NAWA: Journal of Japanese Studies allows the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions.
  3. NAWA: Journal of Japanese Studies allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link the full text of its articles and allows readers to use them for any other lawful purpose. However, it can not be used for commercial purposes.
 

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