How to Submit Manuscripts (as of September 4, 2012)
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The language of manuscripts is English or Japanese. If the author is not a nativespeaker of the language in which the manuscript is written, the submitted article
must have been proofread by an appropriate native speaker.
Articles should not exceed 20 pages, double-spaced (12-point Times or Minchotaifont) on US letter-size format, leaving 1" margins, excluding figures, tables,endnotes, references and appendices. However, figures and tables shall be in thetext.
Submit each manuscript in two files, MS-Word and PDF, as (two) attachments viae-mail.
Footnotes should be avoided. Endnotes are preferred, i.e., essential notes should
be numbered in the text and grouped together at the end of the manuscript.
Include a separate title page listing the title, the author(s) and the institution(s),email address, an abstract (up to 200 words in English and 450 characters inJapanese), and a short biographical note in both English and Japanese, such as
recent examples of scholarship, teaching/grant experience, service related to thisarea of study.
Also indicate whether the submission is a research article or a report. If the article
has been read at a conference, the title of the conference, the location and the dateshould be provided.
References should be set out in alphabetical order by author's name in a list at theend of the article. Manuscripts in English should conform to the requirements of
the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (most recentthedition, 6 ). The sample of references in Japanese should follow the following
samples:
岡崎敏雄（1991）「コミュニカティブ・アプローチ—多様化における可能性—」『日本語教育』73 号, pp.1-11.
中島和子	 （1998）『バイリンガル教育の方法』東京：アルク	 Cummins, J. (1993). Bilingualism and second language learning. Annual Reviewof Applied Linguistics 13, 51-70.
Cummins, J. (2000). Putting language proficiency in its place: Responding tocritiques of the conversational/academic language distinction. In J. Cenoz andU. Jessner (Eds.) English in Europe: The Acquisition of a Third Language (pp.
54-83). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
McDonough, J. & McDonough, S. (2001). Composing in a foreign language: An
insider-outsider perspective. Language Awareness 10 (4), 233-247.
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It is the responsibility of the authors to obtain written permission for quotations
from unpublished materials, and for all quotations from any work still in
copyright, and for reproducing unpublished and/or copyrighted materials in theirarticles.
Articles submitted simultaneously to other journals will not be accepted.
Submission of manuscripts is restricted to AATJ members with membership paidin full at time of submission.

If a member of the editorial committee submits a manuscript, the editorialcommittee will find an alternate reviewer or review the submission without theparticipation of the submitter.

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After a submitted article is reviewed by the editors, it is forwarded for
double-blind peer-review by external experts. The review takes 2-3 months.
Upon acceptance of articles, authors will transfer copyright of the articles to theJapanese Heritage Language Special Interest Group. This will ensure the widest
possible dissemination of information under copyright laws.
The editor reserves the right to edit all manuscripts for style, length and format;
substantive editing will be done in consultation with the author.
Authors should submit articles via electronic mail to the Chair of the EditorialBoard. For further inquiry, please contact the Chair at hoketani@emich.edu.