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INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS
Sections
1. Aims and Scope
2. Manuscript Types
3. Ethics Policies
4. Copyright and Fees
5. Manuscript Submission
6. Manuscript Preparation
7. Accepted Manuscripts
8. Contact

1. Aims and Scope
JOURNAL OF HUMAN ERGOLOGY (JHE) is an international medium for thepresentation of scientific research on human behaviour in daily work and life. Thejournal publishes a wide variety of research. Published studies include fundamental
research on ordinary human behavior in daily work and life, examinations of factors
affecting the human body and nature in evolution, and practical work in other fields,such as ergonomics, applying the knowledge acquired to real-life to enhance well- being
and improve the quality of daily work and life in all human environments. This journal,
which appears as one volume annually, is issued twice a year.

2. Manuscript Types
The journal welcomes four types of manuscripts, all subject to peer review.
i. Original papers: Unpublished papers that present new findings and creative work on
human ergology based on straightforward logic.
ii. Communications: Unpublished papers that contain novel information that needs tobe published quickly. Such papers should briefly describe the main points ofinformation to be published. The details can then be reported again within a full paper.
iii. Reviews: Papers that integrate research results from multiple sources and develop a
consistent discussion of recent trends and developments on a particular subject.
iv. Practical case studies: Papers that present new practical findings and methods. Thesepapers accurately describe on-site activities and events and comprehensively
analyse and discuss on-site improvement interventions or highly rare cases.

3. Ethics PoliciesMany countries have adopted strict guidelines with respect to using human subjects
in experimental work. The World Medical Association put forth broad guidelines
for medical research in the Declaration of Helsinki. JHE adopts the spirit of this and otherdeclarations of this kind and requires that authors who report on experimental work

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involving human subjects declare in the article’s text that their experiments were carriedout according to the ethical guidelines laid down by the appropriate committee. The
following ethical guidelines must be strictly observed in submissions to JHE:
Conflict of Interest
JHE’s conflict of interest guidelines are based on those of the American
Psychological Association (APA Manual, 7th Edition), that is, limiting the involvement of
those researchers with ‘personal, scientific, professional, legal, financial, or other interests
or relationships’ that could be considered by a third party to have the potential to affecttheir actions adversely or harm other parties involved. At the time of submission to JHE,
the existence of conflicts of interest for all article authors must be explicitly declared after
careful consideration. The presence or absence of conflicts of interest will not affect thedecision to accept the article for publication.
Authors should declare any conflicts of interest in the ‘Conflict of Interest’ section
before the Reference section as described in the ‘Manuscript Preparation’ section below.
Authorship
The authorship guidelines for JHE are as follows: All of the following four criteria
must be satisfied for each author, and all qualified authors must be listed as authors for themanuscript. In addition, authorship must be assigned according to the guidelines provided
by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
1. Substantial contribution to the conception or design of the study or the acquisition,analysis, or interpretation of the study data.
2. Drafting or critical elaboration of the manuscript concerning significant intellectualcontent.
3. Final approval of the manuscript and agreement to accept responsibility for its content.
4. Agreement that any questions regarding the accuracy or fairness of any part of theresearch are appropriately investigated and resolved. The authors agree to beaccountable for all aspects of the research.
Each manuscript must contain a ‘Contributions’ section before the References
section as described in the ‘Manuscript Preparation’ section below.
Ethics
JHE’s guidelines for research ethics in the submission of papers. Additional
requirements follow the APA’s guidelines.
1. Obtain permission in writing from a third party to use unpublished equipment,
procedures, or data that may belong to that third party.
2. Appropriately cite all publications, unpublished works and third-party ideas or creationsin the manuscript.
3. The ethical review procedure and approval should be reported in the text for researchrequiring ethical review.
4. Informed consent, assent and debriefing procedures should be fully presented in the text.
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Involving Human Subjects, should be observed for research involving humanparticipants.
6. If the research involves non-human animal subjects, the animals must be treatedhumanely.
7. The confidentiality of the test subjects, clients/patients, organisations and third parties,
must be appropriately observed.
8. Subject data can only be released upon informed consent.
9. A trial summary should be appropriately reported if the research stems from a clinical
trial and is registered with a public authority.

4. Copyright and Fees
Copyright
All copyright for the articles published in the journal belong to and are transferredto the Human Ergology Society. Each author takes responsibility for any statement in theirarticle.
Article Publication Charge
All articles published by the Journal of Human Ergology are fully open access: andare freely available to read, download and share upon publication. To cover the cost ofpublication, the Journal of Human Ergology charges a publication charge (termed thearticle publication charge, APC). The APC will be charged to the corresponding author on
acceptance of the paper. The APC can be paid by PayPal or credit card through the PayPalsystem. The cost of the APC is 350 USD, regardless of manuscript type and length.
Page and Colour Charges
There is no submission fee and no page charges.

5. Manuscripts Submission
Membership in the Human Ergology Society is not a prerequisite for publication inthe journal.
The journal strongly encourages all the authors to deliver the manuscripts (text,tables and illustrations) by e-mail (e-Submission). In addition, an electronic version of
the manuscript should be sent to JHE Editorial Board [ jhe@humanergology.com].

6. Manuscript Preparation
Style
Manuscripts should be formatted for A4 size pages, with wide margins anddouble spacing. The manuscript should be subdivided into title page, abstract, keywords,
main text, Conflicts of Interest, author contributions and references, in that order. Everypage should be numbered.

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English Standards
Only manuscripts written in clear and concise English will be considered for peer
review. The journal uses British English form. If English is not the authors’ first language,
the Editorial Board strongly encourages the authors to have the manuscript checked by anative English speaker or an editing service before submission. A certificate of English
editing should accompany the submission. If the manuscript is unclear due to inadequate
English, it may be rejected before peer review.
Title page, Abstract, keywords and other elements
Manuscripts should be presented in the following order:
1. Title page includes (i) type of manuscript (Original paper, Review, Communications,practical case study), (ii) title, (iii) the names and complete affiliations of theauthor(s), (iv) postal and E-mail address of the corresponding author, (v) an
abbreviated title (running head) not exceeding 48 characters including spaces. The
corresponding author’s e-mail address should be included on the title page. An
asterisk (*) should be added to the right of the corresponding author’s name.
2. Abstract of up to 200 words, outlining the paper’s objectives, research design,observations and conclusions.
3. Up to five keywords, which should not repeat terms from the article title.
4. The main text should be suitably divided into Introduction, Methods, Results andDiscussion. For Reviews, the results can be replaced with the paper’s central argument.
The presentation of the practical case study can likewise be substituted in a practicalcase study, as appropriate.
5. Acknowledgements (if any)
6. Conflicts of Interest
7. Author Contributions
8. References
9. All figure captions
The use of footnotes should be avoided. SI units and their accepted abbreviations
should be used.
References
1. JHE’s reference style follows the APA Manual. For more examples of citing otherdocuments and general questions regarding reference style, please refer to(https://apastyle.apa.org/).
2. Reference should be made only to articles that have been published or are in press.
Unpublished results and personal communications should be cited parenthetically inthe text and should not be included in the Reference list. Authors are responsible forthe accuracy of the references.
3. In the text, references to the literature should be cited using the author’s surname
followed by the year of publication. If there are more than two authors, use only thefirst author and add ‘et al.’

2024/06/24… studies by Matsumura (2015)… studies by Sudo and Ohtuka (2011)… studies by Nanthavanij et al. (2008)… an earlier report (Al-Haboubi, 1998)… earlier reports (Harada & Inoue, 1999; Kouch et al., 1990)...
4. When multiple papers by the same author and published in the same year are cited,
they should be designated in the text using letters in this manner:… Kawahara et al. (1998a)… (Kawahara et al., 1998b)
5. The Reference list must be arranged alphabetically, not chronologically, bysurname(s) of the author(s). Each reference must indicate Author’s name(s), year ofpublication, complete title, name of periodical, volume, and inclusive pages in thefollowing styles:
1) Journal Article:
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Journal
Title, Vol. (No.), xx-xx. https://doi.org/xxx
2) Book:
Author, D. D. (Year). Title of Book. Publisher.
3) Book Chapter:
Author, E. E. (Year). Title of Chapter. In F. F. Editor (Ed.), Title of Book (xxthed., Vol. xx, pp. xx- xx.). Publisher.
Presenting DOI as hyperlinks will be recommended.
e.g.)Kawahara, M., Namihara, E., & Sato, H. (1998a). How is a Seita fitted to thebody? Journal of Human Ergology, 27(1), 39–46.
https:/doi.org/10.11183/jhe1972.27.39
Kawahara, M., Sako, H., and Sato, H. (1998b) Experimental study of Seita-fitting.
Journal of Human Ergology, 27(1), 47–54.
https://doi.org/10.11183/jhe1972.27.47
Kivimäki, M., & Lindström, K. (2006). Psychosocial Approach in Occupational
Health. In G. Salvendy (Ed), Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics(pp.1059-1084). John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York.
Maeda, A., Ebashi, H., Nishizono, H., Shibayama, H., & Tanaka, M. (1998).
Influence of landing on the supination and pronation in the foot joint. Journalof Human Ergology, 27(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.11183/jhe1972.27.1
Ulijaszek, S. J. (1995). Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology.
Cambridge University Press (1st ed.), Cambridge.
6. As far as possible, avoid using information solely available on the internet as areference.

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Tables
1. Tables should be prepared separately from the main text.
2. Indicate the location where the tables appear in the text with a note in the form****Table 1 near here ****, separated by at least one line space from the main text.
3. Tables, cited in the text as Table 1, Table 2…Table n should be numbered in theorder in which they are cited.

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Authors should take notice of the limitations set by the size and layout of the journal.
Large tables should be avoided. If significant amounts of data are to be presented,
they should be divided into multiple tables.
Avoid the use of vertical lines in tables. Horizontal lines should be put only between
the table caption and column headings, between the column headings and the main
body of the table, and after the table’s main body.
Tables should not duplicate any results also presented in the figures.

Figures
1. All figures (line drawings and photographs) should be prepared separately fromthe main text.
2. Indicate the location of figures in the text with a note in the form ****Figure 1 near
here****, separated by at least one line space from the main text.
3. Figures, which are to be cited in the text as Figure 1, Figure 2…Figure n should benumbered in the order in which they are cited.
4. Figures must be submitted in an electronic file form. All figures should be designed,taking the format of the page of the journal in mind, and cannot exceed 140 (width)× 180 (height) mm.
5. Authors should take notice of the appropriate size of fonts and line thickness. A sansserif typeface (e.g., Arial) is recommended for legibility. The desired type size is8-12 points.
6. The captions to figures should be grouped on the last page of the main text.
7. Photographs are only acceptable if they show good contrast and intensity.
Movies
1. Movies should be submitted separately from the text and figures, numberedappropriately.
2. A note should indicate the movie’s location in the form ****Movie 1 near here****in the text. Please indicate the insertion location using at least one line above andbelow the text.
3. The movies should be numbered in the order of their citation, e.g., Movie 1, Movie 2,Movie 3…Movie n.
4. All movies should be submitted in a standard format, such as mp4.
5. They should have good contrast and clarity of image.
6. Good image quality is preferred, but the editorial committee may adjust the image
quality and length of the movie depending on data volume.
7. The length of the movie should be the minimum necessary.

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Movies should be appropriately captioned on the last page of the main text.

7. Accepted Manuscript
Proofreading
Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author, who should check and return themwithin seven days. Only essential corrections to typesetting errors or omissions areaccepted; significant alterations are not permitted at the proofing stage.
Access and Sharing
All articles published in this journal(https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jhe/-char/en).

8. Contact
JHE Editorial Board: jhe@humanergology.com

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