Instructions for Authors
Journal of Gender Studies – Ochanomizu University
1. Submitted manuscripts should contribute to scholarly research concerning women’sstudies or gender studies.
2. Authors submitting manuscripts should be engaged in interdisciplinary researchconcerning women’s studies or gender studies in Japan or other countries.
3. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously. Should plagiarism or
duplicate submission be identified, the editorial board will apply the sanctions according to
the severity of the infraction.
4. In principle, submitted manuscripts should be written in Japanese or English. Manuscripts
written in other languages may also be considered by the editorial board.
5. In principle, manuscripts should not exceed 20,000 characters (submission in Japanese) or
8,500 words (submission in English), including footnotes, tables and figures, and references.
The Journal editor will reject submitted manuscripts which do not follow the instructions forauthors.
6. At the time of submission, the following should be included with the main text, tables andfigures, and references:6-1. A title page, with the manuscript title (including a subtitle), the name(s) of submittingauthor(s), and author affiliation(s), all written in both Japanese and English. Please notethat the English title, etc. may be modified by the editorial office.
6-2. An abstract in English not exceeding 200 words.
6-3. Keywords (maximum of five), in both Japanese and English, with the Japanese
keywords placed immediately after the Japanese abstract and the English keywords placed
immediately after the English abstract.
7. Manuscripts should be submitted by email, before which the required items should beinput by using either of the submission forms available at the Institute of Gender Studies
website:Japanese submission form – https://form.jotform.me/72482244933459
English submission form – https://form.jotform.me/72488720633461
8. Text data, such as the main body of the text and the abstracts, should be submitted inboth MS Word and PDF files, along with tables and figures in MS Word / MS Excel and PDF
files, and photographs in JPEG and PDF files.
9. If figures, tables, or photographs reproduced from published literature are included in a
submitted manuscript, the authors are responsible for following the necessary procedures toobtain permission for publication and the relevant expenses are borne by the authors
themselves.
10. The main text, quotations, references, and footnotes should conform to the separate

Author Guideline of the Journal of Gender Studies. For English papers, Style Sheet for
Journal of Gender Studies should also be consulted.
11. The editorial board will decide whether a submitted manuscript will be accepted for
publication after review by journal referees. However, the editorial board will reject asubmitted manuscript which does not match the purpose or the academic standard of thejournal.
12. The editorial board may ask the authors to revise a submitted manuscript after review byreferees. In this case, the submitting authors are encouraged to revise the manuscript
promptly and submit the revised version with a review comments table by email.
13. Authors are entitled to check galley proofs twice at most.
14. If the authors wish to withdraw a submitted manuscript at any point in the process, theeditorial board should be notified immediately.
15. There are normally no manuscript fees or page charges for submitted manuscripts.
However, the authors may be required to pay costs for a manuscript that contains numerous
figures, tables, photographs, etc.
16. The copyright of manuscripts published in the Journal belongs to the Institute for GenderStudies, Ochanomizu University. Permission from the editorial board is necessary before
reproducing any article published in the journal.