Guidelines for submitting announcements

Common Guidelines
Publication Announcements
Short Book Reviews
Conference Reports
Research Reports
Tomorrow’s Researchers Today
Other Content

Common Guidelines

Formatting	Times New Roman 12pt font Double-spaced Avoid footnotes and endnotes
Style	Any spelling style is acceptable so long as it is consistent within the manuscript. Japanese terms should be written in the Hepburn style of romanization.
References	Citations and Reference Lists should use Harvard referencing style (author date system) https://www.mendeley.com/guides/harvard-citation-guide
Author Details	Please include your full name, affiliation, and email in the heading of your submission.
Submission method	Submit as an email attachment (Microsoft Word) to the editors at jaws.editors[@]gmail.com. Please make sure to indicate your surname* and the type of content being submitted in the subject line of your email. (e.g. Suzuki_Tomorrow’s Researchers Today; Smith_Research Report).

Publication Announcements

These include monographs, single or co-edited volumes.

Please include:

Full title of publication
Name(s) of authors or editors
Image of book cover
Abstract
Table of contents
Short biographies of authors/editors
Link to publisher’s website and any additional information you would like to include such as discount codes

Short Book Reviews

Short book reviews of recent publications in the general field of anthropology of Japan.

Word limit: 500 – 750 words

Conference Reports

Please give details on the panels, presentations and other social events you attended, your own presentation/s, researchers you were able to meet and how your research may benefit from your participation.

Word limit: 1,000 words

Research Reports

Ph.D. students (at advanced stages of their research) and other researchers can submit a research report in order to share the results of their fieldwork and/or some reflections on their own research. Research reports should include in-text citations and a list of references.

Word limit: 1,000 words

Tomorrow’s Researchers Today

Ph.D. (or exceptional M.A. and M.Phil.) students in the initial stages of their research are invited to submit a paper for this section. These papers are primarily meant to inform the community about new researchers and developing projects, rather than to provide research results. Therefore, references are not necessarily required.

Word limit: 500 words