Instructions for Authors
The Journal of Gender Studies – Ochanomizu University
1. Submitted manuscripts should contribute to scholarly research concerning women’s studies or gender studies.
2. Authors submitting manuscripts should be engaged in interdisciplinary research concerning women’s studies or gender studies in Japan orother countries.
3. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously.
4. In principle, submitted manuscripts should be written in Japanese or English. Manuscripts written in other languages may also be consideredby the editorial board.
5. In principle, manuscripts should not exceed 20,000 characters (submission in Japanese) or 8,000 words (submission in English), including
footnotes, tables and figures, and references.
6. At the time of submission, the following should be included with the main text, tables and figures, and references:6-1. A title page, with the manuscript title (including a subtitle), the name(s) of submitting author(s), and author affiliation(s), all written inboth Japanese and English. Please note that the English title, etc. may be modified by the editorial office.
6-2. An abstract in Japanese not exceeding 400 characters.
6-3. An abstract in English not exceeding 200 words that has been checked by a native English speaker.
6-4. Keywords (maximum of five), in both Japanese and English, with the Japanese keywords placed immediately after the Japanese abstract
and the English keywords placed immediately after the English abstract.
7. Manuscripts should be submitted by email, before which the required items should be input by using either of the submission forms
available at the Institute of Gender Studies website:
Japanese submission form – https://form.jotform.me/72482244933459
English submission form – https://form.jotform.me/72488720633461

8. Text data, such as the main body of the text and the abstracts, should be submitted in both MS Word and PDF files, along with tables andfigures in MS Word / MS Excel and PDF files, and photographs in JPEG and PDF files.
9. If figures, tables, or photographs reproduced from published literature are included in a submitted manuscript, the authors are responsible
for following the necessary procedures to obtain permission for publication and the relevant expenses are borne by the authors themselves.
10. The main text, quotations, references, and footnotes should conform to the separate Author Guideline of the Journal of Gender Studies. For
English papers, the Harvard Referencing System should also be consulted.
11. The editorial board will decide whether a submitted manuscript will be accepted for publication after review by journal referees.
12. The editorial board may ask the authors to revise a submitted manuscript after review by referees. In this case, the submitting authors areencouraged to revise the manuscript promptly and submit the revised version by email.
13. Authors are entitled to check galley proofs twice at most.
14. If the authors wish to withdraw a submitted manuscript, the editorial board should be notified immediately.
15. There are normally no manuscript fees or page charges for submitted manuscripts. However, the authors may be required to pay costs for amanuscript that contains numerous figures, tables, photographs, etc.
16. The copyright of manuscripts published in the Journal belongs to the Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University. Permission fromthe editorial board is necessary before reproducing any article published in the journal.