USJWJ Style Sheet
U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal follows The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition, with some
exceptions because so many essays discuss work in translation. For easy reference, please
consult the examples below.
Manuscript Format
Manuscripts generally should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words, including Works Cited andendnotes. Please submit your file in Word (not as a PDF file). Use American spellings andpunctuation. Don’t include kana and kanji unless essential to your argument. Double spacing ispreferred. Authors are responsible for providing high-quality PDF or JPG files of any images andtables they would like to include and for securing all reproduction rights. Permissions from rights
holders must be given in the form of letters or emails.
Manuscript Components
1. Author’s biographical sketch (around 100 words), providing (1) academic affiliation and(2) research interests and/or (3) recent publications
2. Japanese title of your article in kana and kanji
3. Mailing address for receiving a copy of the issue in which the article, if accepted, willappear
4. English title and the body of the manuscript with citations in author-date style (see below)
5. Acknowledgments (if any)
6. Alphabetical list of Works Cited
7. Endnotes (not footnotes). Notes should be kept to a minimum.
8. Any illustrations and tables as separate files, and letters or emails from rights holders that
permissions have been secured
9. Captions for any tables or illustrations
Basic Conventions
1. Please ensure that all works are cited properly in author-date format (see below) and includedin full in the alphabetical list of Works Cited at the end, formatted according to The Chicago
Manual of Style, 16th Edition.
2. Please be sure to check that the years of publication, pages numbers, and other elements foreach item in the Works Cited exactly match those in the author-date citations in the text.
3. Write Japanese names with the surname first, except when Japanese authors are writing in alanguage other than Japanese.
4. Only capitalize the first word in Japanese book, film, anime, and other titles of works.
5. Use the Hepburn romanization system. Italicize Japanese words and provide a gloss inparentheses without quote marks.
junbungaku (pure literature)keitai shōsetsu (cellphone novels)

6. Don’t italicize Japanese words found in global dictionaries (e.g., kabuki, manga, anime, sushi,otaku). Japanese words not found in global dictionaries should be italicized (e.g., rakugo,zuihitsu, kyōgen).
7. Give English translations for all Japanese titles. List the English translation first with theJapanese title in parentheses. Italicize book titles but not titles of articles and shorter works.
Train Man (Densha otoko)
Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai)“Actresses and Sex Appeal” (Iroke to joyū)
8. Be sure to use macrons (overbars) instead of circumflexes:
Use: Ō, ā, ō, ū,...
Do not use: Ô, â, ê, ô, û,…
9. Follow the English convention of writing names of major cities without macrons (Kobe notKōbe, Tokyo instead of Tōkyo).
10. Sample romanizations for publishers are as follows: Heibonsha, Hōmusha, Shōbunsha,
Chūōkoronsha, PHP Kenkyūjo, Fusōsha, Shinchōsha, Shūeisha shinsho, Takarajimasha, Shinchōbunko, Chikuma shobo, Seibido shobo, Shūeisha shinsho
No space or dash before ~sha, ~shobo, etc. (Asahi shinbunsha; shuppanbu, shinbunsha(not shuppan-bu and shinbun-sha), etc.)
Exceptions: Shufu no tomo-sha, Handbook-sha
Use lowercase after the first word in names of publishers (Shinchō bunko, Chikumashobo, Shueisha shinsho)
11. Write dates in the order of “month day, year”: e.g., November 12, 2016
12. Use a single space (not two spaces) after periods, question marks, commas, semicolons,colons, and other punctuation.
13. Numbers smaller than one hundred should be written as words. Use numerals for numbers
above 101, percentages (10 percent), and measurements (2 meters).
Example Citation Formats
Please consult The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition for more information and additional
examples.
BOOKS
One or two authors:
In Works Cited: Bardsley, Jan. 2014. Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan. London:
Bloomsbury.
In text: As Bardsley (2014, 155) analyzed …

For Japanese authors writing in English, use a comma between surname and given name:
In Works Cited: Iwabuchi, Kōichi. 2002. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture andJapanese Transnationalism. Durham: Duke University Press.
In text: (Iwabuchi 2002, 100)For Japanese authors writing in Japanese, no comma between surname and given name:Works Cited: Kajiwara Ikki and Chiba Tetsuya. 2010. Gekigagurashi (Gekiga Life). Tokyo:Honno zasshisha.
In text: (Kajiwara and Chiba 2010, 10)
Three or more authors or editors: list all authors in the Works Cited but use only the firstauthor’s surname followed by “et al.” in author-date citations in the text:
In Works Cited: Freedman, Alisa, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano, eds. 2013. Modern
Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press.
In text: (Freedman et al. 2013, 85)
Editor or translator in addition to the author: list translator/editor after the title:
In Works Cited: Murakami, Haruki. 2015. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years ofPilgrimage. Translated by Philip Gabriel. New York: Knopf.
In text: (Murakami 2015, 20)
Corporate books with no author:
In Works Cited: Kinema Junpōsha. 1993. Kinejun eiga bideo iyābukku 1993 (Film and VideoYearbook 1993). Tokyo: Kinema Junpōsha.
In text: (Kinema Junpōsha 1993, 221).
Books in more than one edition: list edition after the title, not after the year of publication:
In Works Cited: Mullins, Mark R., ed. 2003. Handbook of Christianity in Japan. 2nd ed.
Leiden: Brill, 2003.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES
Chapters of an edited volume:
In Works Cited: Hastings, Sally. 2013. “Japanese Women as American College Students, 19001941.” In Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, edited by
Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano, 85–106. Stanford: Stanford
University Press.
In text: (Hastings 2013, 86)
Introduction, foreword, or preface of an edited book:
In Works Cited: McLelland, Mark. 2016. “Introduction: Negotiating ‘Cool Japan’ in Researchand Teaching.” In End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges toJapanese Popular Culture, edited by Mark McLelland, 1–30. Oxford: Routledge.
In text: (McLelland 2016, 29)
Journal articles;

In Works Cited: Iwasawa Miho and Mita Fusami. 2007. “Bansan ka to kyoshi kibō no kōrei ka”(Increase of later Childbirth and Aging of Women Wanting Children). Jinkō mondai kenkyū(Journal of Population Problems) 63, no. 3: 24–41.
In text: (Iwasawa and Mita, 35).
In Works Cited when there is no volume number: Mayo, Marlene. 2016. “A Friend in Need:
Esther B. Rhoads, Quakers, and Humanitarian Relief in Allied Occupied Japan, 1946–52.” U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal, no. 50: 54–92.
In text: (Mayo 2016, 62)
Articles with no author:
In Works Cited: Nishi Nihon Shinbun. 1995. “Meiji omoshiro hakurankai” (Exhibition of Meiji
Amusements). Nishi Nihon Shinbun, September 10, 1995: 15.
In text: (Nishi Nihon Shinbun 1995)
Electronic journal or online magazine or newspaper articles: include the URL—or, if
available, DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
Electronic journal in Works Cited: Dasgupta, Romit. 2010. “Globalisation and the Bodily
Performance of ‘Cool’ and ‘Un-Cool’ Masculinities in Corporate Japan.” Intersections:
Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 23, January 2010.
http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue23/dasgupta.htm (accessed October 10, 2016).
In text: (Dasgupta 2010)
Online magazine or newspaper article in Works Cited: Windolf, Jim. 2009. “Addicted toCute.” Vanity Fair, December 2009.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/12/cuteness-200912 (accessedSeptember 25, 2016).
In text: (Windolf 2009)
FILMS, ETC.
In Works Cited: Kore’eda Hirokazu, director. 2004. Dare mo shiranai (Nobody Knows).
Tokyo: IFC Film. DVD.
In text: (Kore’eda 2004).
Songs, music videos, television programs, and Youtube videos: cite the same way films arecited:
In Works Cited: Artist/Director/Producer/or Video Host (e.g., Youtube). Upload date. Title (orshort description of item). City: Company/ producer (studio, record label, NHK, etc.).
Website link if online (if not, provide format); date accessed if online.
In text: (Director’s surname + upload year)
For all materials found online: Make sure all websites have accessed dates. The word
“accessed” should be used (e.g., “accessed May 10, 2014”).

Images and Tables
Authors are responsible for securing the rights to any images and tables they would like toinclude and for submitting proof from the rights holder in the form of a letter or email. Because
this process can be time-consuming, please plan ahead.
For information about using images from Japanese sources: http://guides.nccjapan.org/imageuse
For guidelines on “fair use” or “public domain”: http://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/moreinfo.html