AJI Style Sheet for Journal and Bulletin (for Authors)
1. Paper Format(1) General Formatting
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5)Microsoft Word.
A4
English (United States). (Set proofing language)
Use the template file “Template_Journal and Bulletin.docx”

Do not use automatic formatting(2) Order and Content
1) Title Page: Title, author, affiliation, and contact Email. This will be removed for ablind review of the paper. (No page number)2) First page (Page 1),a) Title (No reference to the author)b) Abstractc) Keywordsd) 1. Introduction3) Subsequent sections4) Conclusion
5) Acknowledgments
6) Appendixes (if any)7) References
8) Tables, Figures(3) Headings
All headings should be numbered consecutively. Do NOT use automatic numbering in MSWORD for headings.
[Example]

1. Main/Section Headings (Level 1 Heading)Centered; Use Headline Style Capitalization: Capitalize the first letter of all important words(Nouns, verbs (including linking verbs), adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and all words of four
1letters or more); One line space before and after[Example contd.](1) Sub-Headings for Section (Level 2 Heading)
Align left; Use Headline Style Capitalization; One line space before and after[Example contd.]1) Sub-Sub-headings for Sub-Sections (Level 3 Heading)
Align left; Use Headline Style Capitalization; One line space before[Example contd.]a) Lesser Headings (Level 4 Heading)
Align left; Lettered as shown above, e.g., a), b)[End of example]

2. Mechanics of Style(4) Spelling and Hyphenation
1) In general, spelling and hyphenation follow the American style. (See MerriamWebster.com Dictionary)2) If the dictionary offers a choice of spellings, select one and use it consistently
throughout your paper.

(5) Numbers
1) General (Cases in which to always use numerals for numbers)
Percentages: 20 percent (or 20% in natural science, Economics, Statistics, andtables); Large numbers: 4,508 (use commas); Round numbers: 20 million;
Decimal fractions: 3.14, 0.02; Numbered items: Chapter 5, Section 2, Page 35,Volume 4; Quantities: 9g., 10km, etc.
2) Write numbers in full (Do NOT use numerals) if: (Not for Natural Science papers
and statistical data)
One and two-digit numbers, i.e., three, twenty-four; Approximate: “About one
hundred times;” First word of a sentence. “Three hundred and fifty companies….”
2(6) Italics and Quotation Marks
1) Italics are for:a) Published titles.
b) Non-English words (Excluding proper nouns such as place names andpersonal names).
2) Use double quotation marks for:a) “direct quotations”b) “title of a periodical article” or “book chapter” when the title is used in thetext.
c) emphasis or highlight a “key term or phrase” (In principle, do not use bold or
underline for emphasis)
3) Place all commas and periods inside quotation marks; all other punctuation marks(e.g., : ; - ? !) that do not belong to the quotation are placed outside quotation marks.

(7) Quotations
1) Short direct quotes are in “double quotation marks” within a paragraph. (“You mayonly use ‘single quotation marks’ inside the double quotation marks.”)
2) Block quotes:
Block quotes are used for direct quotations that are longer than three lines.
Indent the whole block 10mm from the left margin.
First line indent 10mm (first paragraph no indentation).
3) Do not use quotation marks to enclose a block quotation.

(8) Abbreviations
Write the name of an organization, institution, treaty, etc. in full the first time, followedby the initials in brackets: Asia-Japan Institute (AJI). Thereafter, use the initials AJI.

3. Tables and Figures(9) Tables
See [Example] for table layout.
[Example]
Table 1. Place the title above the table body in bold, Headline Style Capitalization.
CaseHeight h (m)3Width w(m)

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1.45

0.25

2

1.75

0.40

3

1.90

0.65

Note: * Notes appear below the figure as needed.
[End of example](10) Figures
1) All types of visual displays other than tables are considered figures (including charts,graphs, diagrams, maps, and images).
2) See [Example] for figure layout[Example]
10Case 1
Case 2Height (cm)

864200123456Width (cm)Figure 1. Place the figure title below the figure in bold, Headline Style Capitalization.
Source: Describe from where the figure was taken.
Note: * Notes appear below the figure as needed.
[End of example]
3) Location of Tables and Figures: Before Peer Review, all tables and figures areplaced at the end of the manuscript.
Indicate where in the text like this:____________________
Insert Table 1 about here
4) Referring to Figures and Tables in the text: Do NOT describe a table as “above” or“below”: write “see Figure 1”; Table 1 shows…; or (see Table 1).

4. In-Text Citations and References(11) Citations
AJI Style uses the author–date citation system, in which a brief in-text citation directs readers4

to a full reference list entry.
1) Place (Author year, page), or (Author year), after closing quote marks before theperiod or comma.
2) Each work cited must appear in the reference list.
3) If no date, write (Author n.d., page) or (Author n.d.)4) If there are two or more citations, separate them with a semicolon as (Author year,page; Author year, page) or (Author year; Author year).
5) Do not use “ibid.” or “op. cit.”6) Do NOT use footnotes for citations. Footnotes are intended for additional
explanations and notes.

(12) References
References provide the information necessary for readers to identify and retrieve each workcited in the text.
1) Use a hanging indent (10 mm).
2) List by author(s) in alphabetical order.
3) Reference list entries include the four elements of the author, date, title, and source.
4) the author elementa) Invert names so that the family name or surname or last name comes first,
followed by a comma and first name and middle name (Do not initialize firstname).
b) If there are two or more authors, the second and subsequent authors will bewritten in the order of first name and last name.
c) Do not use “&” ampersand.
d) For two or more works by the same author use a 3 — (long dash) line insteadof the name.
5) the date elementa) In general, write the year of publication in the Western calendar.
b) List works by the same author in order of publication year.
c) If there are multiple works with the same author and the same publication
year, add a., b., c... to the publication year to distinguish them. (e.g., 2007 a.,
2007b., 2007 c.)6) the title elementa) Titles fall into two broad categories: works that stand alone (e.g., whole books,reports, gray literature, dissertations, and theses); works that are part of agreater whole (e.g., periodical articles, edited book chapters)b) Use italics for titles of works that stand alone (e.g., whole books, reports,
gray literature, dissertations, and theses).
5c) Do not use italics or quotation marks for titles of works that are part of agreater whole.
d) Use Headline Style Capitalization.
7) the source elementa) The source for a work that stands alone is information of publisher (place ofpublication and name of publisher), plus URL or DOI (for electronicpublication).
b) The source for a work that is part of a greater whole is that greater whole (i.e.,
the journal or edited book), plus any applicable DOI or URL.
c) For periodical articles, write “Periodical title (in italics), volume and issue,
page range, and <DOI or URL>.”d) For edited book chapter, write “In Editor’s name (ed.) or (eds.) (in the orderof first name and last name), Book Title (in italics), Place of publication:
Name of publisher (If the publisher’s name contains an ampersand, use &),page range.”8) If the reference is in Japanese, write the title of the book, journal, article, and chapter
in “Romanization title (English translation title).”[Example]

References1) Books and Articles
Books (In this example, references are separated into “Books,” “Edited Book Chapters,”and “Journal Articles” for readability, but in practice they are not actually separated andare arranged in alphabetical order by author name.):Arkoudis, Sophie. 2006. Teaching International Students: Strategies to Enhance Learning.
Melbourne: Centre for the Study of Higher Education.
Findlay, Christopher. 2015. ASEAN and Regional Free Trade Agreements. New York:Routledge.
al-Omar, Fuad and Mohammed Abdel-Haq. 1986. Islamic Banking: Theory, Practice andChallenges. Karachi: Oxford University Press; London: Zed Books.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1999. The End of the World as We Know It: Social Science for theTwenty-first Century. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Watanabe, Kozo. 2009. Tatakau Levi-Strauss (Levi-Strauss who Fights). Tokyo: Heibonsha.
(In Japanese)
Edited Book Chapters:Hinton, Alexander Laban 2011. “Night Fell on a Different World”: Dangerous Visions and the6War on Terror, a Lesson from Cambodia. In Antonius C. G. M. Robben (ed.), Iraq at aDistance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War. Philadelphia: Universityof Pennsylvania Press, 25–56.
Mayanagi, Makoto. 1997. Edo-ki Torai no Chugoku Isho to sono Wakoku (Chinese MedicalBooks Introduced to Japan in the Edo Period and Their Japanese Engravings). In Keiji
Yamada and Shigehisa Kuriyama (eds.), Rekishi no Naka no Yamai to Igaku (Diseaseand Medicine in History). Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 301–340. (In Japanese)
Meckelburg, Rebecca, and Charanpal S. Bal. 2021. Indonesia and COVID-19: Decentralizationand Social Conflict. In Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Haeran Lim, and Habibul Khondker(eds.), COVID-19 and Governance: Crisis Reveals. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 74–87.
Rosenfeld, Michel. 2012. Hate Speech in Constitutional Jurisprudence: A ComparativeAnalysis. In Michael Herz, and Peter Molnar (eds.), The Content and Context of Hate
Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
242–289. <https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139042871.018>
Zint, Michaela. 2013. Chapter 30. Advancing Environmental Education Program Evaluation:
Insights from a Review of Behavioral Outcome Evaluations. In Robert B. Stevenson,Michael Brody, Justin Dillon, and Arjen E. J. Wals (eds). International Handbook of
Research on Environmental Education, New York: Routledge, 298–309.
Journal Articles:
Ashardiono, Fitrio, and Monte Cassim. 2014. Climate Change Adaptation for Agro-Forestry
Industries: Sustainability Challenges in Uji Tea Cultivation. Procedia EnvironmentalSciences, 20, 823–831.
———. 2015. Adapting to Climate Change: Challenges for Uji Tea Cultivation. International
Journal Sustainable Future for Human Security (J-SustaiN), 3(1), 32–36.
Biswas, Asit K. 2004. Integrated Water Resources Management: A Reassessment: A Water
Forum Contribution. Water International, 29(2), 248–256.
Van Ommeren, Jos. 2000. Job Mobility, Residential Mobility and Commuting: A TheoreticalAnalysis Using Search Theory. The Annals of Regional Science, 34(2), 213–232.
Varady, David P., and Xinhao Wang. 2001. Can Public Housing Authorities Attract and Hold
Upwardly Mobile Households? A Report from Cincinnati. Journal of Urban Affairs,23(3-4), 431–450.
2) Statistics, Reports and Websites
Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM). Unpublished Reports from MoDM,
Department of Information, Statistics Section.
United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR). 2011 UNHCR Country
Operations
Profile-Iraq
Working
Environment.
<http://www.unhcr.org/cgibin/texis/vix/page?page=49e486426> (accessed December 24, 2009).
73) Other Sources
Interview with Professor Khurshid Ahmad held at IPS Islamabad, January 30–31, 2009.
Ghaliya, Ghina. (2020, June 2). Intimidation of Government Critics Raises Concerns aboutFreedom of Speech. The Jakarta Post. <https://www.thejakartapost.com/
news/2020/06/02/intimidation-of-government-critics-raises-concerns-aboutfreedom-of-speech.html>
Al Jazeera Indonesia. (2020, April 22). Indonesia’s Coronavirus Response Revealed: Too
Little, too Late. Al Jazeera Indonesia. <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/
4/22/indonesias-coronavirus-response-revealed-too-little-too-late>8