英文投稿規定
AUTHOR GUIDELINES for Journal of End-of-Life Care
The aim of the Journal of End-of-life Care is related to end-of-life care, and the Journal was established by the Japan
Society of End-of-Life Care.
1. QUALIFICATION OF AUTHORSAs a general rule, both authors and co-authors should be members of the Japan Society of End-of-Life Care. However,submission papers which include non-members’ co-authors can be accepted if a submission fee (8,000 yen) is paid
per paper.2. CONTENTS AND TYPES OF THE MANUSCRIPT1) The manuscript must be unpublished, but a presentation paper is considered as an unpublished paper.
2) The types of the manuscripts are Review Articles, Original Articles, and Others.
3) English manuscript must be required to be edited by an English native specialist prior to submission. The author
must submit the verification of English correction.
4) The author indicates the type of the manuscript to hope at the time of submission. The final decision of the typewill be made by a reviewer and the Editorial Board.
5) Type of the manuscript
Original Article: Original research report with unique and innovative findings in order to contribute to academicdevelopment and substantial advancement in end-of-life care.
Review Article: Comprehensive review of a specific theme in end-of-life care with multi-aspect and systematicallysurvey of knowledge from literatures, etc.
Others: Significant report in end-of-life care beyond the Original Article, practical report recognized the academic
usefulness with contribution to education and practice in end-of-life care, and research or non-research article withpotential contribution to end-of-life care other than the above recognized to be published by the Editorial Board.
3. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Authors must follow the ethical standards for human experimentation established in the Declaration of Helsinki in1995 (as revised in Seoul 2008), and indicates the ethical considerations in the text. When you obtained an approval
from local institutional review board, you must indicate in text of the submitting manuscript.
4. CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT
Author must declare any financial support or relationship that may pose conflict of interest in text. Author may also
disclose the absence of any interest.
5. RECEIVING AND ACCEPTANCE OF MANUSCRIPT
1) The arrival date of manuscript through the contribution procedure is the received date. Author is informed thereceived date and manuscript number in order of receiving.
2) Final decision of acceptance and type of the manuscript is made by the Editorial Board after referee reading.
6. STYLE OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Manuscripts should follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition (2009) .
1) Manuscripts should be in a 12-point front (Times New Roman), double-spaced, and with peripheral right and left
upper and lower margin width (30mm).
2) Text in manuscripts must not exceed below. It is not counting abstract, references, tables and figures. Manuscripts
is not received if it exceed.
Original Article: Less than 5,000 words.

Review Article: Less than 5,000 words.
Others: Less than 5,000 words.
3) Original Article should have English abstract (less than 250 words). Abstract denotes [Purpose], [Methods],[Results], and [Conclusions]. Less than 5 key words in English are listed in the bottom line of abstract.
4) Manuscript should be presented in the following order:(i) title page, (ii) abstract and keywords, (iii) text, (iv) acknowledgements, (v) references, (vi) figure legends, (vii)
tables and (viii) figures. Tables and Figures are written on each different page in another file and must indicated intext.
5) Style of References
Style of References should follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition(2009) .
7. SUBMISSION
An original set of title page, text, table(s), figure(s), photo(s) and 3 sets of their photocopies (delete authors' name,affiliation, member ID, and contact information from the photocopies) should be submitted along with a declarationsheet via postal registered mail. Digital data will be submitted after acceptance for publication.
8. COPYRIGHTThe copyright of all papers published on the Journal of End-of-Life Care belongs to Japan Society of End-of-Life
Care. When author uses any materials belonged to other articles and books, etc., authors must obtain the permission
to use and reproduce it. Author must also notify the publication on repository of the affiliated institution to the officeof our society.
9. AUTHOR PROOFREADINGThe final manuscript accepted can read proof two times.
10. PUBLICATION FEES
1) The publication fee is 5,000 yen.
2) Author also must cover a color print of tables and figures.
3) Offprints upon author’s request must be the author’s expense.
Supplementary Provisions
This rules shall come into force as from Aug 19th, 2023.
CONTACT US
The Editorial Board, the Japan Society of End-of-Life Caree-mail: jseolc-edit@bunken.co.jp