Rules for Manuscript Submission to the Journal of the Japan Society forTechnology of Plasticity(Revised: 10th May 2024)
The Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity (JSTP)

This document specifies the rules for manuscript
submission to the Journal of the Japan Society forTechnology of Plasticity (JSTP) (hereafter, the Journal).

1.

Qualification of submission

The first author of all types of papers other than lettersmust be a regular, student, or honorary member of theJSTP.
Note 1) Co-authors can be nonmembers.

However, the firstauthor must be a member of the JSTP.
Note 2) Nonmembers can submit discussions.

2. Responsibility of authors and copyright ofmanuscripts
2.1 The responsibility for the contents of published articles
rests solely with the authors and not with the JSTP.
Note 3) When authors cite figures, tables, and materials in
already published articles, they are responsible for obtaining
permission from the author or publisher who owns thecopyright.

2.2 The copyright of articles published in the Journal
belongs to the JSTP. Note that the authors themselves
can use materials in their articles previously publishedin the Journal without the need to obtain permission.
2.3 Articles published in this journal are released as open
access under the terms of the Creative Commonslicense (CC license) "CC BY-NC-ND (Credit must be
given to the creator- Only noncommercial uses - Noderivatives)". Authors and co-authors must agree togrant the CC license.

3.

Contents and types of manuscript

3.1 Manuscripts should include theoretical, experimental,and/or speculative contents on plasticity and plastic
working. The language of the manuscripts should beJapanese or English.
3.2 The contents of the submitted manuscripts must be
original and have not been published elsewhere nor beunder consideration for publication elsewhere.
Note 4) Reports published as rapid reports (e.g., articles inproceedings) and reports published in publications ofaffiliated organizations can be submitted to the Journal after
supplementing the contents.

3.3 Authors must strictly follow the “Ethical Policy
Regarding Submission and Review of Papers of theJSTP” when preparing manuscripts.
3.4 Types of manuscript include (1) regular paper, (2)review paper, (3) short paper, and (4) discussion.
Regular and review papers are further categorized asfollows.
(a) Those focusing on engineering significance.
(b) Those focusing on practical importance from industrial
and technical viewpoints.
(c) Those focusing on novelty and future possibilities.
The five types of manuscript should satisfy the following
relevant conditions:(1) Regular papers: Regular papers are original papers
explaining research achievements and should include
significant results. Regular papers should satisfy
category (a), (b), or (c) above.
(2) Review papers: Review papers should present
significant conclusions that cannot be obtained from theresearch achievements of only individual researchgroups by comprehensively organizing andsummarizing research achievements through theclarification of the progress of research on the basis of
the research and survey achievements of the authors aswell as of other researchers. Review papers should
satisfy category (a) or (b) explained above.
(3) Short papers: This category includes papers that areoriginal research/technical results of the author(s) andthat are highly preliminary (including papers presented
at the Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity Spring
Conference and the Japan Society for Technology ofPlasticity Joint Conference with summaries,
discussions, references, etc. added).
(4) Discussions: Discussions are questions and answers
regarding the contents of articles published previously
in the Journal.
Note 5) The target articles of discussions should be articles
published in the Journal no more than 6 months previously. In
principle, a discussion can be submitted only once per target
article.

4. Submission method and format of manuscript
4.1 All the underlined documents can be downloaded fromthe website of the Journal of the JSTP.
4.2 Manuscripts should be submitted through the websubmission system.
4.3 Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with theRules for Manuscript Submission, Rules for Manuscript
Preparation. The following two types of manuscript
may be selected:(1) Manuscripts prepared according to the manuscript
sample in the format used at the time of publication. The
latest Word version of the manuscript template formanuscript submission should be used to prepare themanuscript, and the layout of the manuscript should bedone by the author(s) before publication.
(2) Free-format manuscripts. The text and figures should
be submitted electronically as a Word file, and CAD
and other data should be pasted in graphic form. The
layout of the manuscript will be done by the Editorial
Board of the Journal in accordance with the finalmanuscript.
4.4 The number of pages of the manuscript (see 4.3)
should be within the standard number of printed pages
shown in Table 1 after layout. For regular papers andreview papers, the number of pages exceeding thestandard number of printed pages is permitted.
However, an excess charge (see "6. Publication Fee")will be required.
Table 1 Standard number of printed pages
Type of manuscript Standard number of printed
pages in the Journal
Regular paper
6 note6)
Review paper
8 note6)
Short paper
4Discussion
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5. Submission and review process
5.1 Authors should submit documents listed in Table 2 at
the time of submission of their manuscript.
5.2 The date of receipt of the manuscript is the date on
which the manuscript was submitted through the web
submission system.
Table 2 Documents to be submitted upon submissionof manuscript
Document
FormatContact address
Input on the Web
PDF file of scanned
Copyright transfer
form with signature andformNote 7)
sealChecklistNote 7)
MS WORD or PDF fileDeclaration of the contents
MS WORD or PDF fileof manuscriptNote 7)
Note 8)Manuscript
MS WORD file
Japanese Abstract
Input on the Web(applicable only forJapanese manuscripts)
Materials used in review
PDF/Zip file, etc.
processNote 9)
Note 6) Download the document from the Japanese website of

the Journal of the JSTP.
Note 7) Prepare in accordance with 4.3 and 4.4.
Note 8) For the submission of the second or later manuscript ofsuccessive manuscripts, the previous manuscripts must beattached.

Also attach materials considered to be required inthe review process, such as the details of the derivation ofequations.

5.3 The acceptance/rejection of the manuscript isdetermined by the Editorial Committee of the Journalof the Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity(hereafter, the Editorial Committee) on the basis of theresults of review. The corresponding author of arejected manuscript will be informed of the rejection as
well as the reason.
5.4 The Editorial Committee may request thecorresponding author to confirm the contents of themanuscript, revise, shorten or add sentences, andsubmit related materials.
5.5 The corresponding author should submit the revisedmanuscript with the red-colored text revised inaccordance with all the requests from the Editorial
Committee, along with a letter of response. For
unresponded requests, authors should state the reasons
behind the lack of action in the letter of response.
5.6 The Editorial Committee may request authors tochange the type of manuscript and to accordingly
change the contents of the manuscript. Manuscriptsthat are resubmitted more than two months after thereturn of review comments are treated as new
submissions.
5.7 In principle, the contents of the manuscript should not
be changed except when the Editorial Committee
requests the change or approves a request from theauthor to change the contents.
5.8 The author should submit the manuscript to theEditorial Committee in accordance with the instructionsin Appendix 1 of the Rules for Manuscript Preparation(in Japanese) upon request from the EditorialCommittee. Should the Editorial Committee find any
violation of 5.7 in the manuscript after acceptance, themanuscript may be rejected.
5.9 Figure 1 in the Appendix of the Rules for Manuscript
Preparation (in Japanese) shows the flowchart from thesubmission of articles to their publication.
5.10 The printed version should be in black and white(grayscale). If the authors wish, the electronic version(Web (J-STAGE) published version) may have all
pages in color. However, the figures and tables should
be designed so that they can be recognized even ingrayscale.
Supplement 1) For color printing, authors should indicate thepage numbers on which color printing is required to theEditorial Committee upon manuscript submission.

Theauthors must bear an additional charge for color printing (JPY
80000 excluding tax per color page).

This additional charge

will be billed with the paper charge explained later.

6.

Paper charge (including tax)

6.1 Authors must bear a paper charge of JPY 66000 for
regular and review papers with the number of pages
within the standard number of printed pages. For shortpapers, authors must bear a paper charge of JPY 27500.
Authors will be charged a mandatory excess-page
charge of JPY 11000 per page for every page beyond
the standard number of printed pages. For free-format
manuscripts, an additional JPY 1980/printed page will
be charged as a layout editing fee.
6.2 For discussion, authors need not bear any charge.
6.3 As a special benefit for the winners of the Best Paper
Presentation Award at a conference (the Japan Society
for Technology of Plasticity Spring Conference and theJapan Society for Technology of Plasticity JointConference), the publication fee for regular papers andshort papers submitted within six months of theconference will be reduced to half the original price.
However, for free-format manuscripts, an additionalcharge of JPY 1980 per printed page will be added as alayout editing fee.

7. Reprints
To order reprints, authors should submit a reprint orderform in accordance with the “Instruction on the Order ofReprints of Articles” (in Japanese).

8. Errata and correction
8.1 When errors are found in the published articles, errata
will be published when (1) there is a request from theauthors and (2) the Editorial Committee approves thisrequest.
8.2 Authors should request the publication of errata within
one month of the publication of the relevant article.

9. Publication of papers
Papers will be published in the Journal of the JSTP
and will also be made publicly available on J-STAGE.
All papers will be published on J-STAGE in openaccess.

10. Submission of articles published in Materials
Transactions (MT) to the Journal
10.1 For articles published in MT, for which the JSTP has
the copyright, authors can submit manuscripts ofJapanese translations to the Journal within 2 years ofpublication in MT in accordance with the Rules for
Manuscript Submission.
10.2 The Editorial Committee follows the same review
process for these translated manuscripts. Note that thereviewers, in principle, are the same as those whoreviewed the articles published in MT. The reviewers
mainly review the manuscripts with a focus on whether
the contents are properly translated from English toJapanese.
10.3 The authors should submit the original article
published in MT as reference material upon thesubmission of the translated manuscript (refer to Table2).

11. Reproduction of articles published inMaterials Transactions (MT)Papers published in the Journal of the JSTP may besubmitted to MT for English translation within twoyears after publication. However, short papers cannot
be submitted to MT in translation. For details, pleaserefer to the MT submission rules.

12. Recommendation to Journal of Materials
Processing Technology
12.1 A Japanese-language paper that has been publishedin the Journal of the JSTP within the last two years may
be submitted to the Journal of Materials Processing
Technology. In this case, the Editorial Board of theJournal will issue a letter of recommendation.
12.2 The authors are responsible for the preparation of the
English manuscript and for making additions to theEnglish manuscript as necessary. The data presented inthe original Japanese paper and the arguments andinterpretations throughout the paper must be faithfullyreflected in the English manuscript. Following therecommendation of the Editorial Board of the Journalof the JSTP, the final acceptance or rejection of themanuscript will be determined on the basis of theresults of peer review in the Journal of Materials
Processing Technology.
12.3 Please refer to the following notes when preparing
and submitting manuscripts to the Journal of Materials
Processing Technology.
 The content of the manuscript should be the same asthat of the paper published in the Journal of the JSTP.
Authors should try to write a clear andunderstandable English text without being restrictedby the order of the Japanese text in the Journal of theJSTP.
All English text (including English text and captions
in figures and tables) should be proofread by a third
party who is a native speaker of English and has
knowledge of science and engineering.
The manuscript must conform to the rules andregulations of the Journal of Materials Processing
Technology.

13. Penal provisions
When fraud is found, the authors will be subject topunishment dependent on the type and extent of fraud.
When (1) the authors do not follow the Rules for
Manuscript Submission and the Rules for Manuscript
Preparation, (2) when the authors do not revise
manuscripts accordingly upon request, or (3) when theauthors repeatedly cause inconvenience to the affairs of
the Editorial Committee and the secretariat, resulting inadverse effect to the JSTP, the review of the manuscript ofsuch authors will be stopped or the JSTP will refuse
submission from these authors for a certain period. The
Editorial Committee will inform these authors of this fact.
The punishment will take effect upon serving the notice.