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Instruction for Authors
1. Core Ethics is a bulletin published by the Graduate School of Core Ethics andFrontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University (GSCEFS). In the following, theinstructions for preparing and submitting the manuscript to this journal areexplained. These include the peer-review policy.
2. This journal is published once a year by the Core Ethics Editorial Board, the entity
responsible for all the content published in the journal.
3. The Editorial Board consists of faculty members of the GSCEFS, and the dean of theGSCEFS who presides and serves it as the Chief Editor.
4. The Core Ethics Editorial Office is established for the Editorial Board as the entity
in charge of editorial work.
5. Authors who wish to submit a manuscript to the journal should fulfill the following
eligibility criteria:(1) Current and past faculty members of the GSCEFS.
(2) Doctoral students and graduates of the GSCEFS. Excluding the research guidanceassistants serving as project managers for the editorial board of the annual
bulletin for that year.
(3) Someone who has been specially approved by the Editorial Board(4) A co-authored manuscript of the journal could be approved as long as one of thesubmitting authors applies to the above-mentioned points (1) (2) (3).
6. The manuscript must not be under peer-review, or accepted for publication, in pressor published elsewhere. Core Ethics accepts the following types of manuscripts:(1) Article: It is a high-quality research paper of empirical and/or logical study in aspecific field. It can be written in Japanese or English.
(2) Research Note: It is a manuscript not published as an article but contains newsuggestions, issues, or meaningful information for a specific field. It can bewritten in Japanese or English.
(3) Review: It is a critique of published academic books, articles published inacademic journals, art exhibitions, academic conferences, research sessions,research projects and so on. It can be written in Japanese or English.
7. The Editorial Board decides whether the submitted manuscript [in any of themodalities (1) (2) (3)] is suitable to get published or not. The Chief Editor notifies theauthor of the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript via the Editorial Office. In12024 年 4 月 16 日
the case of manuscript to be published as an article (1), the Editorial Board
determines the result based on the internal examination by each member of theEditorial Board, and the review made by an external and non-affiliated referee.
8. Authors interested on submitting a manuscript should obtain and fill out theprescribed application form within the application period determined by theEditorial Board. However, this rule does not apply to those who were speciallyapproved by the Editorial Board (point 5; incise 3 of this instruction guideline). Eachauthor's submission is officially approved on the date when their manuscript issubmitted, not when their application is accepted.
9. Authors interested on submitting a review manuscript (Point 6, incise 3 of thisguideline) must specify the subject of their critique (e.g. academic book, journalarticles, etc.). The Editorial Board will not accept the application if the subject is not
specified. In addition, no changes will be allowed after the application form issubmitted.
10. Once the Editorial Board accepts an application for submitting a manuscript,
authors must submit by the specified deadline, the necessary items detailed in“Guidelines for Authors,” which include the complete manuscript, abstract, tables,figures, photographs, and so on.
11. Authorship fees may be paid exclusively to external researchers writing amanuscript requested by the Editorial Board (Point 5, incise 3 of this instruction
guideline). The Chief Editor will decide on the authorship fee between 1,000 to
2,000 yen per printed page (approximately 1,500 words in Japanese characters). It
might be taken into consideration the researcher credentials and academic status.
12. The table of contents and the published articles of this journal will be available onthe GSCEFS website. However, articles might not be published without theauthor’s permission or under special approvals made by the Editorial Board.
13. The acceptance of manuscripts will be revoked when it is found to be a duplicate
submission. In the same manner, a published manuscript will be withdrawn when it
is found to be submitted to other journal. Any manuscript submitted to Core Ethics
may be treated as a duplicate submission if the main findings of the paper has been
published or will be published in any other academic journal, institutional
publications (including university bulletins), commercial magazines, and others,
both at domestic or international levels. However, a manuscript might not be
considered as a duplicate if it overlaps with the content of a collection of papers (e.g.
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abstracts, proceedings, conference reports, presentations, etc.) or a research report(e.g. Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research reports) distributed at academic lectures,
research meetings, annual conferences, annual meetings of academic societies, andinternational conferences.
14. The faculty meeting of the GSCEFS has the rights to improve or eliminate anycontent of the preceding paragraphs. Those are based on regular discussions
meetings at the Editorial Board.

Supplement(1) These instructions came into effect on November 9, 2004 and are applicable fromNovember 10, 2004.
(2) In accordance with these rules, “Instruction for Authors of Core Ethics vol.1, 2004”(July 13, 2004) is hereby abolished.
1st Revision: May 31, 2005
2nd Revision: May 30, 2006
3rd Revision: May 31, 2007
4th Revision: May 30, 2008
5th Revision: December 2, 2008
6th Revision: May 29, 2009
7th Revision: April 30, 2010
8th Revision: April 12, 2011
9th Revision: April 24, 2012
10th Revision: April 16, 2013
11th Revision: April 15, 2014
12th Revision: April 28, 2015
13th Revision: March 15, 2016
14th Revision: April 26, 2016
15th Revision: March 14, 2017
16th Revision: March 25, 2020
17th Revision: January 17, 2022
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18th Revision: April 16, 20244