Guidelines for Authors(1) Manuscripts should be written in English.
(2) Research article, Review article, Research report, Commentary, and Material must
contain a title, the name(s) of the author(s), and author affiliation(s) with postal and email
addresses.
(3) In the case of Research article and Review article, the author must attach an abstract (ofnot more than 200 words) and keywords (up to five, in alphabetical order). In the case of an
Invited Paper, the contributor will be expected to comply with requests from the Editorial
Committee.
(4) Manuscripts should be submitted as an MS Word file or PDF format. An MS Word
template is provided for author use. Use Times New Roman font with a font size of 12.
Under the page settings, select A4 paper (210 mm × 297 mm, instead of Letter size) anduse 2.5 cm margins for all sides (left, right, above and below). The number of lines should
be set to 41 lines per page. Symbol fonts can be used for special characters. When writing
the main body of the manuscript, please use one-column format with single line spacing.
For ease of review, add line numbers (in settings) and page numbers.
(5) For chapter headings, please use Roman numerals I, II, III, etc. For sections, please use
Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3, etc. For sub-sections, please use numbers followed by closing
parentheses, 1), 2), 3), etc. Use Arial font with a font size of 12 for chapter headings andsection or sub-section titles. Please add a period '.' after the number in the heading. (e.g., 'I.
Introduction')(6) Please use only one space after a full stop.
(7) Italics should be used for Latin expressions.
(8) The author's name appearing in the main text, figures and tables (including names fordigital files) will be changed to "XXXX" for the review process.
(9) For citations, references should be written as 'author name (publication year)' or with'(name year)' at the end of the sentence. In the latter case, a single space only should beinserted between the author name and year (i.e., Yamada 2015).
For citations, if there are more than 2 authors, please use 'et al.' after the lead author. (i.e.,for 2 authors, 'Yamada and Sato 2015', and for 3 or more authors, 'Yamada et al. 2015')(10) Notes (footnotes) should be indicated by superscript numbers at the right shoulder ofthe words (such as example 1)), and must be listed at the end of the main body of the paper
before the list of references.
(11) A reference list should be created at the end of the manuscript.
1‘Personal communications’ should not be listed in the reference section, but should bementioned in the text as (unpublished data) or (Initials + Family name, pers. comm.).
Unpublished manuscripts and raw data should be listed in the reference section
Work accepted for publication, but not yet published, should be referred to as ‘in press’.
The list in the reference section must appear in alphabetical order of author's last (family)
name.
• If a reference is made to a specific page, use 'p.' followed by the page number (i.e. Yamda
et al. 2011, p.10). Use ‘and’, not ‘&’, for two authors.
• If the author of a reference is unknown (e.g. newspaper or magazine article), please use'Anonymous' as the author name. • If multiple references are used at one location, theyshould be arranged first chronologically, then alphabetically by name of author. Eachreference should be separated by comma (e.g., (Yamada et al. 2012, Aoki 2015, Sato2015)). • All publications cited in the text should be presented in an alphabetical list ofreferences at the end of the manuscript (no numbering needed). • The list of references
should be arranged alphabetically by (lead) authors' name and then chronologically perauthor if the same author is listed for two or more articles. • All authors of each article
should be mentioned in the reference list. Institutional authors, like World HealthOrganization (WHO) or United Nations (UN), should be written out in the reference list. •Use full journal names for the references. • For internet resources, use the direct link to thewebsite of the paper, if possible. If a paper is undated, use the date (year) of access.
• DOIs should be completed with internet addresses starting with http://dx.doi.org/ andfollowed by the specific DOI-number.
In the reference section, use the following format for a book: Author Name. Published year.
Title of the book. Published city: Publisher.
(Example) Yamada, T. 2008. History of Environmental Education Tokyo: Kankyou
Publisher. (in Japanese).
If the citation is from a section of a multi-author book, use: Author Name. Published year.
Title of the section/chapter. In Title of the book, edited by (name of editors), Cited pages.
Published city: Publisher.
(Example) Yamada, T. 2008. Environmental Education and Human Development Stages.
In Development of Research on Environmental Education in Japan, edited by Suzuki, H.
and Tanaka, J., 129-156. Tokyo: Kankyou Publisher. (in Japanese).
In the case of an article published in a journal, use: Author Name. Published year. Title ofarticle. Name of journal. Volume(number): pages. For the author's name, please use the fulllast (family) name and initials of middle and given names. Use a comma (,) after the last(family) name.
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(Example) Yamada, T., and Suzuki, H. 2008. Change in the Knowledge about Environmentfor Participants of Environment Protection Activities. Japanese Journal of EnvironmentalEducation. 34(2):129-138. (in Japanese with English abstract).
Name of Books and Journals should be in Italic font.
(12) If the same author has published multiple papers in the same year, please use 'a', 'b', 'c',etc. after the year of publication to distinguish between individual papers. (i.e, 'Yamada
2008a, 2008b')(13) If the reference is not in English, add an English translation in parentheses ifnecessary.
(14) If a journal uses its own page numbers for different numbered issues (i.e., vol.2 No.1
and vol.2 No.2), use both volume and number (i.e., 2(2)) in the reference list. If page
numbers are continuous between different numbered issues (i.e., if 2(1) ends at page 150
and 2(2) starts with page 151), it is permissible to omit the 'number' and simply use thevolume only.
(15) When using 'in press' in the reference list, the article must be already accepted (but notpublished) and a PDF version must be attached when submitting the manuscript.
(16) When using a URL (Internet web address) as a reference, please use an endnote toindicate when you accessed that web page along with the name of the author and/ororganization of the web page. The contributor is required to store data from this URL for 4years after the date of publication.
(17) Figures (including photographs or other graphic images) must be embedded in the text
where they should appear. Captions (Figure 1 ...description of figure...) must be placed
below the figure and written in Arial font (i.e. the font differs from that in the main text).
Explanatory notes should be written directly on the figure. Please bear in mind that thelocations and sizes of figures may be adjusted by the Editorial Committee if necessary.
Contributors should ensure that high resolution figures and images are stored on their ownlocal digital storage media for timely submission if requested by the Editorial Committee.
(18) Tables should be placed in the text where they should appear. The titles of tables(Table 1 ...Name of Title...) should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript
and placed above the table using Arial font. Explanatory notes should be written below thetable. Please bear in mind that the locations and sizes of tables may be adjusted by theEditorial Committee if necessary.

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Tables should be created using only simple vertical and horizontal lines with numbers,
words and symbols written inside the table cells. Various widths of lines, or dotted ordashed lines may be used, but the use of any curved lines or figures inside cells will resultin classification and labeling as a "Figure" (rather than a “Table”) and will follow theconventions stated in (16) above.
(19) A questionnaire that must be shown for correct understanding of the paper can bepresented as an appendix. However, we request that authors do not include an excessively
large number of pages in the appendix or appendices.
(20) Authors should comply with the submission process explained in the submission
guidelines.
(21) Subscripts and superscripts should be clearly visible and legible.
(22) The meaning of all symbols should be clearly stated immediately after the equation inwhich they are first used.
(23) Equations should be numbered in Arabic numbers serially and in parentheses at theright-hand side of the page.
(24) When referring to equations in the text use “Equation” followed by the number, not“Eq.” (e.g., 'using Equation (3), we calculated. . . ')(25) Upon acceptance of the manuscript (completion of the review process), author must
submit the full paper with full name of all authors as well as their affiliation inserted after
the Title of the paper.
(Example) Taro Yamada*, Jiro Sato **Japan Environment University*, Japan Education University**4