Public Interest Incorporated Foundation The Japan Society of Information
and Communication Research“The Japan Society of Information and Communication Research Journal”
Submission Guideline
1 Handled Fields
Unreleased works possessing details that contribute to thedevelopment of industries and academics relating to the fields of informationand communication, and are divided into papers and notes as in thefollowing:“Paper”- its value is recognized from the aspects of originality, novelty, andutility, and is a useful academic research for members of the society“Note”- works with the purpose of quickly reporting the latest trends ofgovernment policies and industries
2 Outline of Writing(1) The written language shall be Japanese or English.
(2) Papers shall be within 20,000 characters (7,500 words in the case ofEnglish) including the text, diagrams, annotations, and bibliography. Notes
shall be within 12,000 characters (4,500 words in the case of English)
including the text, diagrams, annotations, and bibliography. Works thatexceed the character/ word limit may not be accepted for submission.
Diagrams will be calculated into the character count of the work with theimage of the completed print.
(3) The first page shall be the cover, and a “title” (Japanese/ English),distinction of paper or note, and “points that need to be emphasized” shall besummarized within around 200 characters (75 words in the case of English)
and printed.
(4) The second pace shall print an outline (Japanese/ English) of around 400characters (150 words in the case of English), and also keywords (around 3 to5) in the final line.
(5) Annotations shall be summarized at the end of the document, andenumerated in the order of the annotation numbers.
(6) For references, its name (title of the document), author name (name ofthe writer), number of volumes, printed page, publisher, published year, andpublished country for foreign documents shall be mentioned at the end.
(7) In the case of a co-written submission, the main writer must be a memberof this society.
(8) Duplicate submissions are not accepted. Refer to “Examples of duplicatesubmissions” in the Appendix.
3 Outline of Submission(1) When submitting, the title (Japanese/ English), name, member number,and contact of home or workplace must be specified (name, where the writerbelongs to will not be mentioned within the paper or note) on the submission
form (separate sheet).
(2) Number of copies to be submitted
Paper/ note1 copySend by attaching a word file or PDF file to an email. Digital data must be
enclosed in the case of sending by mail.
4 Submission Deadline
Publication on the June issue

By March 1 of the same year

Publication on the September issue

By June 1 of the same year

Publication on the December issue

By September 1 of the same year

Publication of the March issue

By December 1 of the same year

Works may not be published on the desired issue even if submitted within
the submission deadline.
5 Place To Be Submitted
JSICR Office
Nittochi Building 11th floor, 1-4-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo,
100-0013
office@jsicr.jp

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Submitted papers/ notes shall be reviewed by members of the paper review
committee, and a decision will be made by the editorial committee.
7 CopyrightAs a general rule, the published papers/ notes shall belong to this society.
Moral rights belong to the writer.
8 Others
Papers/ notes that do not meet with the guidelines for writing, submission,or papers/ notes of members that have not paid their annual dues in the yearof application, shall not be accepted.
Additional Guideline
This guideline shall take effect from the day of the establishment of
the Public Interest Incorporated Foundation of The Japan Society ofInformation and Communication Research (April 1, 2011).

Additional Guideline
This guideline shall take effect from the day of the establishment of
the Public Interest Incorporated Foundation of The Japan Society ofInformation and Communication Research (September 16, 2016).

Appendix
Examples of duplicate submissions
The examples listed in 1) and 2) are duplicate submissions.
1)Material that has been or will be published in domestic orinternational academic journals, institutional publications (including
university bulletins), or commercial magazines or material that has been orwill be submitted to the same2)

Material presented as a paper at an international conference thathas been or will be published as a peer-reviewed special issue after theconference, or material that has been or will be submitted to the same
The examples listed in 3) and 4) are not duplicate submissions.
3)

When material partially falls under 1) or 2) above but contains afurther analysis or new findings, then the section of the material that has
been published or is about to be published in another venue by the sameauthor or a third party should be included in the reference section, and therelation and variation between the two pieces should be clearly explained.
4)

Material that does not fall under 1), 2), or 3) above but which has

been published as (a), (b), or (c) below, or as a translated or revised version of
the same, should be included in the reference section, and the relation
between the two pieces should be clearly explained.
(a)Collected papers distributed at meetings of this association or otheracademic associations, academic lectures, international conferences, etc.
(b)

Grant reports, etc.

(c)

Final papers, master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, etc.

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characterswords* Please submit together with the document. Please do not include yourname or affiliation in the paper.
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