Authors’ guideline

The International Journal of Buddhist Social Work aims high-quality research and engaged
scholarship and committing to diversity and inclusion in academic publishing. We encourage
submissions from a diverse range of authors from across the world, with various backgrounds.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Buddhist Social
Work will be reviewed and included in this journal.
The scope of Buddhist Social Work: Buddhist social work might be considered as an extensionof the Buddhist social welfare services. The Buddhist social welfare service dates back to thetime of the Buddha in 6 BC India, and it has a very long history and tradition. The Buddhistsocial work was derived from it very recently, which makes it a new and challenging area,
however, the core part remains the same. The foundation of Buddhist social welfare andBuddhist social work is the Buddhist philosophy. Buddha encouraged philanthropy, charity,
helping each other, supporting each other, and other virtues broadly shared across the Buddhist
culture. The systematization of the Buddhist social work concept is not finished yet, however,the Asian Buddhist Social Work Research Network supported by ARIISW has developed theworking definition as follows: “Buddhist social work is human activities to help other people
solve or alleviate life difficulties and problems based on the Buddha nature. Buddhist Social
Work always finds causes to work on in both the material, and social arena, as well as in human,or inner arena, working on both arenas in tandem. Its fundamental principles include
compassion, loving kindness, mutual help, interdependency and self-reliance. The central value
is the Five Precepts. The ultimate goal is to achieve the wellbeing of all sentient beings andpeace.”
Ven. Dr. Omalpe Somananda, editor(For more details see: Akimoto, T., Hattori, M. (eds.) (2018). Working Definition and Current Curricula ofBuddhist Social Work. Faculty of Sociology VNU University of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vietnam, andAsian Research Institute for International Social Work, Shukutoku University, Japan.)As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting youroriginal work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for firstpublication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has
not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary
permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.

Article Types:❶

Academic Article (6,000 – 8,000 words)❷

Research Notes (3,000 - 5,000 word)❸Book Review❹

Case Study, Case Report

Request Articles/ Request Post (No review):❶ Special Feature (on selected topic)❷ Essay❸ Interview

The approximate length for an article is 6,000–8,000 words, excluding notes. However, articles
should not exceed 10,000 words including footnotes. If your article is longer than this, pleasecontact us.
> Submit your paper as a MS word file (A4).
> Please follow the APA (6th version) style in your references.
> Please submit a short (200–250 words) abstract.
> Please submit 5 keywords.
> Language: English

*In the future, the journal will encourage authors to publish in their national languages toshare more about the local context in the local context.
> Please use the following template to prepare your manuscript.
> We accept the manuscript anytime during the year.

Review:
All academic articles, research notes and other manuscripts are reviewed (Double anonymous peerreview). All manuscripts must meet the strict academic criteria, research, and ethical standards.

Send your full papers to: asiainst@soc.shukutoku.ac.jp
Contact us for more information.

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Template: The template is available in the electronic form. Download from the website orcontact us at asiainst@soc.shukutoku.ac.jp

Author Namea* and A. N. Authorb
aDepartment, University, City, Country; bDepartment, University, City, Country

Provide full correspondence details here including e-mail for the *corresponding author
Provide short biographical notes on all contributors here if the journal requires them.

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References: all references should be in the APA style:
Nameaa, X. X., Namebb, Y., Namecc, Z., & Namedd, X. (20XX). Problems in aaaaaa: Acomparison of aaaa and bbbbb in the cccc. Journal name, 1(1), 111–999.
https://doi.org/11.1111/ppm11111

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Nameww, E. R. (20YY). The something of something: From one point to the another (3rd ed.).
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Namess, D. F. (20ZZ). Title: The problem of someone. Publisher.
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