Meijo International Education and Research Center「Meijo International Research Journal (tentative)」―Instructions to Authors■Length of paper
The length of the paper or short note, including the main text, notes, figures and tables, and the list ofreferences, should be 20,000 characters or less in Japanese, and 10,000 words or less in English.
However, these limits shall not apply to cases approved by the Editorial Board. *In principal, the main
text will be in double column format.
■Manuscript arrangement (invited papers, papers submitted for publication, short notes)
The title (and last) pages(s) of the manuscript should contain the following items in the order below:(1) Japanese manuscript
Title page: Title, name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s), abstract (approx. 400 characters), and 3 to
5 keywords, all in Japanese
Last page: Title, name(s) and affiliation(s) of authors(s), abstract (approx. 300~500 words), and 3
to 5 keywords, all in English(2) English manuscript
Title page: Title, name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s), abstract (approx. 150 words), and 3 to 5keywords, all in English■Required styles in manuscript-Punctuation marks in Japanese manuscripts are limited to the comma “,” and period “。”.
-In principal, SI units must be used for units of measurement. Abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, etc.
of technical terms should follow customary practices in the relevant academic society.
-Author’s names in English should be written in given name-family name (in capital letters) order (e.g.,Taro MEIJO). If there are more than three authors, use a comma (“,”) after each author’s name, butuse “and” between last two names.
-For authors’ affiliations in Japanese, write the names of the university and faculty as “名城大学○○学部”. In English, write as “Faculty of XXX, Meijo University”.
-In both Japanese and English manuscripts, references in the main text and notes should be identified

bysuperscripted Arabic numerals followed by a right parenthesis (e.g., “1), 2)”, “1-4)”).
-In both Japanese and English manuscripts, footnotes in the text should be identified by superscripted
Arabic numerals in parentheses (e.g., “(1)”).
-References should be written as described below:
・Japanese journal articles: Author(s) name(s) (Year of publication):「Title of article」,『Title ofjournal』, Volume/issue number, Page numbers
・Japanese book (single author): Author name (Year of publication):『Title of book』Page numbers,Publisher
・Japanese book (multiple authors): Authors’ names (Year of publication):「Title of chapter」,
Editor(s) name(s) followed by “（編著）”,『Title of book』, Page numbers, Publisher
The above styles for references also apply to journals and books written in English and European
languages. Please note, however, that titles of articles should be put in quotation marks, and titles ofjournals and books should be italicized. For four or more co-authors, list the names of three authors,
followed by “他” in Japanese texts, and “et al.” in English texts.
■Insertion of figures, photos, chemical formulas, etc.
●Figures, photos, etc.
In principal, figures, photos etc. inserted in the text will be in black and white. When you submit yourmanuscript electronically, also submit figures, photos, etc. embedded in the manuscript file as separatefiles.
●Mathematical equations, chemical formulas, etc. in TeX or ChemDraw format
Mathematical equations, chemical formulas, etc. inserted in the text should be submitted in TeX or otheroriginal format. Authors are also requested to submit a PDF version of such data, which will be used tofacilitate layout.