Information for Contributors (revised on April 10, 2011)

1. QUALIFICATION

Only members of the Phonetic Society of Japan are qualified to contribute. With regard to coauthored articles, at least the first author must be a member of the Society.

2. THE MANUSCRIPT

Articles are restricted to work not published in other academic or commercial journals, books, or monographs. Articles based on orally-presented versions or revisions of articles appearing in working papers, etc. must contain information on the previous versions.
All manuscripts should be prepared, in principle, using word processing software, and typed double-spaced throughout on either A4 or letter size paper. Tables and figures should be in grayscale, not in color, and included in the text at appropriate places (for initial submissions only).
Manuscripts should be in one of the following four categories: (a) research articles, (b) research notes, (c) reviews or review articles, or (d) remarks and replies.
All manuscripts should be accompanied with five to eight keywords. All manuscripts except those of reviews and remarks/replies should also be accompanied with a Japanese summary of approximately 400 letters for English manuscripts, or an English summary of approximately 100 words for Japanese manuscripts.

3. LENGTH

Manuscripts of research articles and review articles should not exceed 12 printed pages of the journal (about 20,000 Japanese letters or 8,000 English words), including summary, notes, tables, figures and references. If the article exceeds the maximal length, the printing expense of the exceeding pages (10,000 yen per page) will be charged to the author. As for other types of manuscripts, the shorter, the better.

4. NOTES

Endnotes should be used instead of footnotes.

5. REFERENCES

A full bibliography should be given at the end of the manuscript with the heading References. Examples of reference style are given below. Citation in the text should be given as: Kiritani, Itoh and Fujimura (1975) , (S. Haraguchi 1991, p. 107, M. Sugito and H. Hirose 1978, pp. 35-36). The first names of the authors may be given in full, or can be indicated by initials.

6. LANGUAGE

Manuscripts should be written in Japanese or English. Authors whose native language is different from the one used in the manuscript are advised to have their manuscripts or summaries corrected and edited prior to submission by a qualified native speaker. Authors unfamiliar with Japanese can submit English summaries, which will be translated into Japanese by the Editorial Board.

7. SUBMISSION

Manuscripts may be submitted as an attached PDF file of an e-mail. Authors’ names and their affiliations should not appear in the manuscript itself for initial submissions. All fonts should be embedded in the PDF file to avoid font substitution. Manuscripts may also be submitted in printed form by regular mail. Send three copies of the manuscript. One copy should contain authors’ names, affiliations, and status (student or faculty), while the other two should be entirely anonymous. Retain one copy, since manuscripts will not be returned. Authors are requested to fill in the article submission form downloadable from our website or attached to each issue of the journal, and send it together with the manuscript to the editor at the address given at the end of this document.

8. ACCEPTANCE

In principle, contributions are subject to review by two anonymous reviewers. Acceptance or rejection is decided by the Editorial Board after suitable revisions have been made. After acceptance, authors should submit the final version of their article in hard copy as well as in electronic files. Tables and figures should be on separate pages/files.

9. PROOFREADING

Authors are responsible for the first proofreading only. Corrections should be restricted to typographical errors. Changes in the text are not permitted.

10. CHARGES

Extra printing costs due to the use of special characters, symbols, or figures may be charged to the author.

11. COMPLIMENTARY COPIES

First author will receive three copies of the issue in which the article appears plus twenty copies of offprints.

12. ADDITIONAL OFFPRINTS AND PDF FILE

Additional offprints and a PDF file may be ordered at the author’s expenses at the time of proofreading. The PDF file should not be posted on websites for one year after publication.

13. COPYRIGHT

The copyright of the published articles belongs to the Phonetic Society of Japan.

Shiro KORI, Editor
Graduate School of Language and Culture,
Osaka University
1-8 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka,
Osaka 560-0043
edinch.jphonsoc@gmail.com