Information for Contributors(For English papers)
Last revised on 30th October 2023
1. “Japanese Journal of Evaluation Studies” is the publication for reviews, articles, research notes,
and reports relating to evaluation.
2. “Japanese Journal of Evaluation Studies” is primary published to provide opportunities formembers of the Japan Evaluation Society (hereinafter referred to as “members”) to exchange
findings, and to contribute to further development of the study of evaluation both domesticallyand internationally. As a principle, this journal publishes the contributions submitted by themembers. With the exception of requested papers, the first author must be a member. Asubmission (as the first author) is limited to one manuscript that has not been published orsubmitted in any form for another journal of academic association etcetera.
3. Adoption judgments of the manuscript are made at the discretion of the editorial board. Commentsfrom two referee readers who are appointed for every manuscript are referred to in the screening
process (the editorial board requests referee readers without notifying the author of manuscript).
4. Payment for the manuscript is not provided.
5. Papers published in “Japanese Journal of Evaluation Studies” are released on the Internet at
homepage of this academic society.
6. Regarding submission, manuscripts must be identified as one of the following categories: 1)
article, 2) review, 3) research note, 4) report, and 5) others. However, the final decision of thecategory is made by the editorial board.
“Article” is considered as a significant academic contribution to the theoretical development ofevaluation or understanding of evaluation practice.
“Review” is a paper which provides an overview of evaluation theory or practice.
“Research note” is a discussion equivalent to the intermediate outputs of a theoretical or empirical
study in the process of producing an “article”.
“Report” is the study report related to a practical evaluation project or evaluation.
“Others” are manuscripts for special editions requested by the editing committee.
7. Manuscript Submission(1) Manuscripts may be written in either Japanese or English.
(2) Correction by the author is only for the first correction.
(3) English manuscripts should be submitted only after the English has been checked by a nativespeaker.
(4) Submit manuscripts via email. Contact information including mailing address,
telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address, and the category of themanuscript should be clearly stated.
For approved manuscripts, after necessary rewriting, the author needs to submit the final
paper via email. Original figures, charts, and maps should be provided.
(5) Total printed pages should not exceed 14 pages. Any cost incurred by printing more than 14pages must be covered by the author.
(6) The layout for English papers should be 30 mm of margin at left and right side, 10pt for fontsize, 43 lines on A4 paper (about 500 words per page). An abstract of 150 words should be
attached to the front. 14 pages are equivalent to 7,000 words but the body should not exceed
6,000 words to allow for the title, header, figure, chart, footnotes, and references. Please notethat the number of pages may be more than expected depending on the number of figures
included.
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