Instructions for Contributors
to Journal of the Science of Design
The publishing committee of JSSD

1. Purpose

6. Text

Journal of the Science of Design accepts any qualified article

Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Authors,

motivated by general interests in "Design". The paper should be

Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main text (Introduction, Method,written with enough care to be understood by readers of design

Results and Discussions, and then Conclusions), Acknowledgment,

practice fields.

Appendix, References. Concretely, manuscripts should in general beorganized as follows:1) Page margins: The margins of the top, the bottom, the left and the2. Submission of Manuscripts
Manuscripts must be submitted via online paper submission andreview system:

right are 20, 25, 17, and 15mm, respectively, and the column
interval will be to be 8mm.
2) Font: All letters should be written with Times Roman or Times

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New Roman font.
3) First page: Title should be written with capital letter, 18 point size,

The first author of the manuscript must be a regular member, student

in single column and aligned in center. The first line of the title

member, or honorary member.

should be placed below the 35 mm top margin of the first page.
Subtitle, if necessary, should be written with normal letters, 12
point size, and should be centered in the single column. Name(s) of

3. Types of Contributions
There are three types of contributions to Journal of the Science ofauthor(s) should be written in the same way as the subtitle.

Design: original papers (less than 10 printed pages); reviews (lessAffiliation(s) and mailing address(es) should be written with italic

than 10 printed pages); research reports (rapid report, proposal ofletters which are 9 point size, and should be centered in the single

new idea, etc., less than 10 printed pages). The manuscripts of thecolumn. Abstract should be written with normal letters which arecontributions should be written in even pages. Submission of a

10 point size, and should be aligned with both left and rightmanuscript will be held to imply that it contains original unpublishedmargins. The margins of the top, bottom, left and right are 100,work. Greater length will be unacceptable unless reduced by the150, 30, and 30mm, respectively.

author.

Key words should be written with italic letters which are 10 point
size and are aligned with the left margin. The number of key words
are limited from 3 to 5 words.

4. General
Article should be written in clear and concise English and printed4) Body text: All letters in the body text, except section andin good quality in A4 size. The corresponding author should besubsection titles, should be written with normal letters, 10 point

identified (include an E-mail address) in the contribution from in thesize, in double column. Authors should make generous use of

online paper submission and review system.

section and subsection titles, numbered consecutively (1., 1.1., 1.2.,2., etc.), to enable the reader to readily identify portions of interest.
The section and subsection titles should be written with bold letters

5. Abstract
A self contained abstract should be a concise summary of thewhich are 10 point size and should be aligned with the left side ofwhole paper. Do not write just the conclusion as the abstract. Abstract

each column. The titles and paragraphs in the body text should beshould be written in approximately 150 words understandable

single-spaced. In the first page, the margins of the top, bottom, left,without reference to the body article.

It should contain no citation

and right are 167, 25, 17, and 15 mm, respectively. In theto other published work. Further, please include from 3 to 5 keywords

following pages, the margins of the top, bottom, left and right arethat describe your paper for indexing purposes.

20, 25, 17, and 15 mm, respectively.

17. References
References should be cited in the text by number within square
brackets (e.g. Since Jerrams[1]) and listed at the end of the paper inthe order in which they appear in the text. All references must becomplete and accurate. References should be listed as a paper format(http://jssd.jp/en/papers-and-works/submission-of-papers/).
8. Illustrations
All illustrations should be provided in camera-ready form.
Photographs, charts and diagrams are all to be referred to as“Figure(s)” and should be numbered consecutively in the order towhich they are referred. All figures are to have a caption with bold
letters which are 9 point size. They should accompany the manuscript,
and should be adequately included within the text. They should keep
the above-mentioned margins. Authors will be additionally charged atcurrent printing costs for color illustrations.
9. Tables
Tables should be numbered consecutively and given a suitablecaption and should be adequately included within the text. Tables
should keep within the margins. Large tables should be avoided. If
there is a large volume of data to be presented, an attempt should bemade to divide these over two or more tables. Each table should havea brief and self-explanatory title with bold letters which are 9pointsize. Column headings should be brief, but sufficiently explanatory.
Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave someextra space between the columns instead.
10. Publication Fee
Submission Fee : Free
Publication Fee : 40,000 Japanese Yen (flat rate regardlessof the number of pages)
Enactment date: January 1, 20172