The Rule for Submission to the Journal Acta Slavica Iaponica
1. Acta Slavica Iaponica (hereafter, ASI) is an international and interdisciplinary journal devoted tothe study of Russia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, as well as the relations orcomparison of these regions with other regions of the world.

2. ASI accepts manuscripts written in English or Russian. If the manuscript is written in English, inprinciple, ASI requests to Latinize source names of the languages using non-Latin letters, but thefinal decision of letter choice is trusted to the author within the technical limits for publication. The
Latinization should be done according to the Library of Congress style.

3. ASI accepts manuscripts categorized as “article,” “source study,” “review article,” and “bookreview.” The expected volumes for these categories are: 6000-9000 words for an article, 3000-6000
words for a source study, 2000-4000 words for a review article, and 500-1000 words for a bookreview. The body text of articles should be divided into sections with subtitles.

4. The authors may submit manuscripts in a hardcopy or by e-mail. If the author sends a hardcopy,s/he should send three copies to the address:

The Editorial Commission of Acta Slavica Iaponica
The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
9-7 Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan 060-0809
If s/he sends the manuscript by e-mail, it should be addressed to: actaslavicaiaponica@gmail.com
The nearest deadline of submission is made public on the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center’swebsite.
5. The author is obliged to attach to the submission a Statement of Intention to clarify that themanuscript has not been published anywhere and s/he will not submit it to other journals untils/he receives the editorial commission’s decision of its status, and that the manuscript is notpart of a book-length publication planned to be published within a year.

6. The editorial commission passes submitted articles and review articles to two or three peer readers
and, considering their opinions, decides the status of the manuscript (whether to accept thesubmission for publication). If the manuscript obviously fails to meet the standards regarding
sources, citation, and arguments for a scholarly journal, the commission rejects it in its own right.
In principle, the commission notifies the author on the status of his/her manuscript within threemonths

1since the deadline, but if the commission fails to do so, it contacts the author to make him/her know theprogress of the peer reading.

7. The editorial commission organizes book reviews, but also accepts reviews written by thereviewers’ initiative.
8. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author resubmits the final manuscript, revised withthe consideration of the peer readers’ and the editorial commission’s remarks. The commission
notifies the author the deadline for this resubmission.

9. The copyright of the essays published in ASI belongs to Hokkaido University, the Slavic-Eurasian
Research Center, which uploads them on its website. The editorial commission requests the author
to ask for its confirmation if s/he tries to republish the essay in other media or to include it in his/herown book-length publication.

10. The author of published essay will receive 50 copies of offprint for free.
The Editorial Commission of Acta Slavica Iaponica
The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
9-7 Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan 060-0809
Phone:（011）706-2385
Fax: (011) 706-4952
E-mail: actaslavicaiaponica@gmail.com

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