JAAL in JACET Proceedings, Vol. 2
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Manuscripts for the JAAL in JACET Proceedings, Vol. 2 will only be accepted by online submission.
Please read the following guidelines carefully.

Important Dates:
Submission Form Open: December 1, 2019
Submission Deadline: 11:59 PM Japan Standard Time, January 10, 2020

Submission Form:
https://jaal.site/2018/proc_form/

A. Requirements
A paper must be based on an oral presentation given at the JAAL in JACET 2019 and the firstcontributor must be a member of JACET. All other contributors must have also presented the work atJAAL in JACET 2019.

B. Editorial Policy
1. Proceedings of JAAL in JACET, a refereed, open-access electronic journal, encourages
submission of the following:- Research Articles on topics related to the applied linguistics and language education- Practitioner Reports to share findings and insights
2. Manuscripts submitted to the JAAL in JACET Proceedings must not have been previously
published, nor should they be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
3. Manuscripts which do not conform to the guidelines will not be considered for review.
4. The Editorial Board of the JAAL in JACET Proceedings reserves the right to make editorialchanges in any manuscript accepted for publication to enhance clarity or style. The corresponding
author will be consulted if the changes are substantial.
5. Paper offprints will not be provided.

C. Guidelines
1. Manuscripts on A4 paper, including abstract, references, figures, tables, and appendix, should bewritten within 4 to 8 pages for Research Articles and Practitioner Reports.
2. Manuscripts (except for the title, author name(s), abstract and keywords) need to be written in atwo-column format.

3. All manuscripts must be in English or Japanese.
4. All submissions to the JAAL in JACET Proceedings must conform to the requirements of thePublication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition.
4.1 Prepare manuscripts using Microsoft Word (2003 or later).
4.2 Follow the font sizes specified in Table 1. Use Times New Roman.

Table 1. Fonts for Papers
Font Size

Style

16pt

bold

Text
paper title (max 3 lines) centeredauthors’ names

12pt
10pt

italics

authors’ affiliations, email addresses

10pt

bold

section titles

10pt

abstract, main text, subheadings

9pt

table/figure names and captions, notes,
acknowledgements, references, appendices4.3 In formatting your A4-size paper, set top and bottom margins to 30mm, left and right margins
to 15mm, and left- and right-justify your columns. Do not put page numbers in your paper.
4.4 Include the title, an abstract (no more than 200 words), and keywords (no more than fivekeywords; a multiple-word key phrase can be counted as one keyword).
4.5 Submit your paper in the form of MS-Word (2003 or later) and PDF, saving them under theauthor’s full name as in the following examples: suzukikaoru or smithkerry.
E. Contributor’s Responsibility
1. Contributors are responsible for the content of their manuscripts.
2. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material such as figures
and tables for which they do not own the copyright, and for ensuring that the appropriate
acknowledgements are included in their manuscript.

F. Copyright
1. JACET holds the copyright of the articles published in the JAAL in JACET Proceedings.
2. Anyone, including the author(s), who wishes to reproduce or republish an article, must obtainpermission from JACET. Also, it should be clearly stated that JACET holds the copyright.