Style Sheet

Format for Article and Book Review Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout, including block quotations and endnotes (these will ultimately appear in print as footnotes). Authors are responsible for providing professional-quality, camera-ready copy as well as copyright permissions (where appropriate) for images. Manuscripts should be paginated with no other header or footer information.

Citation Style (note use of underlining to indicate what will ultimately be printed in italics)

JJS footnote citations mostly follow The Chicago Manual of Style as shown in the examples below. Do not use the author-date system of social science style. In reviews, page numbers of the book under review may be cited in parentheses in the text.

• Books: John Whitney Hall, Government and Local Power in Japan, 500–1700 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966), pp. 129–54.
   
• Articles in Periodicals: Chalmers Johnson, “Japan: Who Governs? An Essay on Official Bureaucracy,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1975), pp. 22–27; Noguchi Yukio, “Nihon de Keynes seisaku wa okonawareta ka—kyoto datta Keynes no jidai,” Kikan gendai keizai, No. 52 (1983), pp. 163–83.
   
• Essays from Edited Works: Shumpei Okamoto, “The Emperor and the Crowd: The Historical Significance of the Hibiya Riot,” in Tetsuo Najita and J. Victor Koschmann, eds., Conflict in Modern Japanese History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), pp. 258–75.
   
• Websites: Democratic Party of Japan, “DPJ Manifesto for the 2005 House of Representatives Election,” August 30, 2005, http://www.dpj.or.jp/english/manifesto5/pdf/manifesto_05.pdf, p. 9 (accessed July 7, 2010).

Provide sufficient information for readers to look up your citations. Use a short title for repeated citations of the same work: Noguchi, “Keynes seisaku.” Ibid. may be used, but loc. cit., op cit., and passim may not.
 

Use of Japanese

Japanese names and terms should follow Hepburn romanization (chi, sho, etc.). Use the macron (ō) to indicate all long vowels except ii (except in familiar place names and recent reign names). Only if your software cannot produce macrons is an alternative diacritic (such as ô or õ) acceptable. Use n rather than m before syllables beginning with m, b, and p (such as shinbun).

Japanese names should be written with the family name first, unless the person usually uses Western name order in Western-language publications. Quotations and poetry cited in Japanese should appear in quotation marks and not be italicized. Treat as for any foreign language.


Spelling/Punctuation

Please consult Webster’s Dictionary for preferred spellings. Centuries are spelled out: sixteenth, seventeenth, etc. Whole numbers of ten or less should be spelled out. Use figures when citing many numbers or numbers larger than ten. “Periods and commas should be placed within quotations marks.” Per cent is two words. Dates follow U.S. convention: April 15, 2008. Names of Japanese organizations and titles of Japanese works should appear in romanized Japanese (with English translations provided in parentheses).