Articles should not exceed 8,000 words and book reviews should not exceed 2,500 words. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two specialists. Please send all submissions to japanesephilosophy@gmail.com. Please follow the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html) and note details in the style guide below.
Style Guide for the Journal of Japanese Philosophy (last updated May 18, 2015)

References: Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition; Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition

All manuscripts will be formatted as follows:
  • 1-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font
  • ALL text justified left and double-spaced
  • Please make sure pages are set up for “US Letter”

Japanese text
  • Japanese text should be in 12-point MS Mincho (MS 明朝) font.
  • Enclose Japanese characters in parentheses immediately following romanization; for example, zazen (坐禅). Or, enclose both romanization and characters in parentheses, following the English term, no comma needed; i.e., seated meditation (zazen 坐禅). Use commas if anything follows the Japanese, i.e., kyō (教, “teaching”) or Dōgen (道元, 1200–1253).
  • When romanized, titles of books are sentence style, italicized; titles of articles and essays are sentence style, enclosed in quotes. See Chicago, 16th ed., 11.109. For example: Hon no taitoru; “Ronbun no taitoru.” English translations of titles can follow standard capitalization.

Titles
  • The title of the manuscript, the author’s name, and institutional affiliation may be justified to the left, since the press will finalize this formatting. Place title first, then a space; then author’s name and affiliation on separate lines, then a space; then the abstract and text. See an example here.

Subheadings
  • A-level subheads: bold, headline style, preceded by and followed by a space.
  • B-level subheads: italics, sentence style, preceded by but not followed by a space. See examples of A- and B-level subhead here.
  • Bibliographies will follow the text and be preceded by the A-level subhead: References
  • Endnotes will follow the bibliographies and preceded by the A-level subhead: Notes
  • We will avoid beginning articles with subheadings that only say “Introduction” or the like.

Quotations
  • Periods and commas go inside quotation marks, whether single or double; semi-colons, colons, and question marks go outside.
  • All quotes over 4 lines will go in block quotations. They should be formatted like normal text, but indented one tab. No extra spaces before or after.

Spelling
  • In English-language works by non-U.S. authors, spelling should be changed from British/Canadian to American: center (centre), analyze (analyse), behavior (behaviour), focuses (focusses), labor (labour), and so forth. Spelling in quoted material is left unchanged (CMS 7.3)

Citations and References
  • All citations will be provided in endnotes. Since articles are accompanied by full bibliographies, we can use the short form: author’s last name, title, and page number. For example: Tanabe, Philosophy as Metanoetics, 127.
  • Bibliographical entries should adhere to Chicago style, 16th ed. (see esp. ch. 14).

En Dashes and Em Dashes
  • En dashes are used to separate inclusive numbers.
  • An en dash is used instead of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of the elements of the adjective is an open compound (post–Cold War diplomacy, Hong Kong–based bank).
  • If an em dash is used where a comma would otherwise separate two clauses, the comma is omitted.
  • A two-em dash is used to indicate a missing letter or letters; a three-em dash is used to indicate a missing word or words.

Hyphenation
  • For capitalization of hyphenated words in a title or level subheading, capitalize both elements in a compound.
  • Adjective-noun compounds are hyphenated before the noun they modify, but are open after the noun: a low-class woman; the black market was very low class.
  • Adjective compounds with –ly are open (e.g., historically based decisions).
  • Compounds formed with adverbs ending in “ly” and participles or adjectives are not hyphenated: critically minded.
  • Compound forms with -like are written solid (not hyphenated): -like (ghostlike, dancelike).
  • Compounds formed with prefixes are normally closed, whether they are nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs: anti-, co-, counter-, inter-, mid- (except mid-nineteenth century).
  • multi-, neo-, non-, over-, post-, pre-, pro-, re-, socio, sub-, and super-.
  • An en dash is used be an open compound (pre−Civil War).

Italics
  • Foreign words and phrases familiar to most readers and listed in Webster’s are not italicized (e.g., vis-à-vis).
  • Isolated foreign words or terms in an English context are set in italics.
  • Complete sentences, quotations, and proper nouns in a foreign language are not set in italics.
  • Quotation marks are used for English terms rather than italics.

Miscellaneous
  • Numbered lists, in general: (1) then, (2) etc.

Book Reviews
  • Open with the following information from the book being reviewed: Author, Title, City, Press, Year. 
  • Following the text of the review, include the em-dash and authors name, with affiliation on the following line, all right justified. Then notes, with full citations of any external sources.  NO reference section for the book reviews. See formatting example here.
  • All citations of the book being reviewed should be in-text.