• Submission Guidelines
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Submission Guidelines

1. Manuscripts submitted should be sociology-related papers, research notes, book reviews, etc.
2. Submission of papers is limited to members of the Musashi Sociological Society and those designated by Board of Councilors
3. The basic condition for supporting members is that they have been approved as a supporting member and that their membership fees have been paid at the time of submitting their paper. If an application is made from a person who has been approved as a supporting member but whose membership fees have not been paid, the application will be treated as provisional and will be accepted upon payment of the membership fees. If the membership fees have not been paid by the deadline for submitting the paper, the paper will not be accepted.
4. The manuscript must be unpublished.
5. Manuscripts must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the supplementary rules and writing guidelines set out in the attached guidelines.
6. Manuscripts should be approximately 50 pages of 400-character manuscript paper (including figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and abstract), with a range of 30 to 80 pages being considered. Manuscripts should be prepared using a word processor, and abstracts should be no more than 600 characters in Japanese. Abstracts in English may be published.
7. Submitters should send their submissions to the secretariat via email as an attachment. If submission via email is not possible, they should check with the secretariat in advance.
8. After peer review, the manuscript may be asked to revise or amend, or the submitted paper may be rejected.
9. Submissions in foreign languages will be considered where appropriate.
10. In principle, published papers will be digitized and made publicly available.

Supplementary Provisions

1. On a separate sheet of A4 paper (use one sheet of paper, long and short, written from top to bottom), please clearly indicate the number of pages (based on 400 characters), the title (including the English title), your affiliation, your name, your name in Roman characters, contact information (postal code, address, phone number, etc.), the model of the word processor/computer used, and the name of the software used, and then submit the document.
2. Actual costs may be charged for making charts and diagrams.
3. Fifty offprints per title will be made available to submitters. If more than the number specified is required, the submitter should indicate the required number on the submission request form. However, the submitter will be responsible for the cost of making more than the number specified.
4. For the time being, the deadline for expressing a desire to submit a paper (submission of the form in Appendix 5) will be the end of June each year, and the deadline for submitting a manuscript for review will be September 20th. For other contributors, it will be October 20th. The peer review period will be in November, and resubmitted manuscripts will be checked in December. January and February of each fiscal year will be used for proofreading, with publication scheduled for March at the end of the fiscal year. Peer review will be conducted by current graduate students or Alumni who have been accepted as supporting members. Part-time lecturers will not be subject to peer review.
5. To express your desire to submit a paper, please write in portrait-to-landscape format on a single A4 sheet of paper, with the title (a tentative title is acceptable), the planned number of pages (400 characters per page), your affiliation, name, contact information (postal code, address, telephone number, etc.), and any special notes, if necessary. If you do not wish to have your paper published electronically, please clearly state that.
6. In principle, editing will be done in the order in which submitted manuscripts are received, unless a special editing policy is adopted.
7. All submissions should be sent to the following address:
   • 1-26-1 Toyotama-kami, Nerima-ku, Tokyo 176-8534 Tel: 03-5984-3735
   • Musashi University Research Support Division Society (Administrative staff)
   • E-mail: Please contact us using the inquiry form.

Authoring Guidelines

1. The manuscript should be 33 characters x 28 lines on A4 size paper.
2. The manuscript should be structured in the following order: title, English title, name (affiliation), Japanese abstract, main text, notes, and reference list.
3. Titles, abstracts, main text, notes, and reference lists all use full-width characters for Japanese text, while numbers, symbols, Western characters, and Roman letters should in principle be half-width characters.
4. Leave one blank line between the abstract and the main text (and between chapters), notes, and reference lists.
5. Figures and tables must be clearly drawn, and copies must be attached to the relevant locations on three copies of the printed manuscript. The figures and tables themselves must be attached to A4 identification paper on each sheet, and submitted with consecutive numbers.
6. For notes, enter the number in parentheses (e.g. 1) 2) ...) in the relevant place in the main text, and place the notes at the end of the main text.
7. For the time being, citations should in principle conform to the format set out in Section 3 of the "Guidelines for Writing" of the current edition of "Sociological Review" (Japan Sociological Association).

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