Author Guidelines
Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.
Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.
An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.
We recognize that AI might be used in the preparation of a submission to our Journal. In the interest of full transparency and to inform our reviewers, we would like to ask you to indicate the way you used such tools in a separate document accompanying your submission. In this document, please state clearly, at what stage and for what purpose you used AI tools, including the prompts you used, where applicable. This information will only be used internally for the review and publication process. This document is only necessary if applicable.
In addition, while preparing your submission, please pay attention to the following:
(1) Submissions should be between 10 and 18 pages in length (4,000 to 8,000 words) A4 or letter, double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman.
(2) We would like to have your submission, written in English, in MS-Word or Libre Office (we can of course render other formats for web publication, but copy editors will generally only work with this file format).
(3) The journal will be published online, so you can include hyperlinks, graphics, and so forth, as necessary.
(4) For your references/bibliography, please follow the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) guidelines (readily available online). A brief sample is provided here:
Behdad, Ali, and Dominic Richard David Thomas. 2011. _A Companion to Comparative Literature_. Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Flanders, Julia. 2002. “Learning, Reading, and the Problem of Scale: Using Women Writers Online.” _Pedagogy_ 2 (1): 49–59.
Pierazzo, Elena. 2011. “A Rationale of Digital Documentary Editions.” _Literary and Linguistic Computing_ 26 (4): 463–77.
Presner, Todd Samuel. 2014. _Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities_. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
Schreibman, Susan, Raymond George Siemens, and John Unsworth. 2004. _A Companion to Digital Humanities_. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub.
Shimoda, Masahiro, and Kiyonori Nagasaki. 2009. “Daizōkyō and Databases for Humanities.” _IPSJ SIG Notes_ 2009 (8): 1–6.
(5) Please also follow CMS guidelines for other aspects of prose styling, such as italicization of foreign words, monograph titles, and so forth.
(6) If you are not a native speaker of English, please have your paper proofread by a scholar who is a native speaker before submission.
(7) The J-STAGE platform we use for publication requires sections in the submission to be numbered.
(8) Data that has been created and analyzed in a submission can be published as accomanying data on J-STAGE. Please indicate if you are interested in using this service.
(9) Please provide a Data Availabiliy Statement for your submission. It should indicate whether data has been created, and if this is the case, whether they are available. In the latter case, the modes for access should be indicated.
