Journal of Sonic ArtsThe Official Journal of the Japanese Society for Sonic Arts (JSSA)
Submission guidelines

General information

Scope:The Journal of Sonic Arts, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Japanese Society of Sonic
Arts (JSSA), features articles in Japanese and English on original research and translations ofexisting articles pertaining to (but not limited to) the following areas:

Music Theory
Music Analysis
Sound Analysis, Synthesis, and Processing
Interactive Sound and Music
Music and Sound Perception/Cognition
3D Audio
Generative and Algorithmic Composition
Artificial Intelligence and MusicSound Art
SoundscapeCompositional Theory
Music Creation TechnologiesImprovisation and PerformanceMusic Emotion
Sonification
Multimedia and Multimodality
Software Development for Music
Hardware Development for Music
Music Databases
Music Information Retrieval
Music Preservation
Sonic Arts History and Aesthetics

Manuscript, Copyright, and Access:
The journal publishes two types of documents: research articles (original research article andreview article) and their translations. The articles are published online, with open access. The
copyright of the published documents belongs to the authors. The Creative Commons license“CC-BY-NC-ND” is applied by default.

Duplicate submission and secondary use:
We do not prevent the re-publication of the published articles on other publishing media suchas books, program notes, artistic productions, and other journals. (However, the author needs toacquire the permission from the other medium.)If the author wishes to submit a previously published work to our journal, an appropriate
degree of novelty will be expected by the JSSA publication committee. Furthermore, thepreviously published work needs to be cited properly by the author.

Authors can publish the translation of an original article previously published in our journal. In
the case of the publication of a translation, the JSSA publication committee will focus primarilyon the quality of the translation (proper language and style, and identical content).

Fees:
There is no submission or publication fee.

Eligibility:
First author or corresponding author needs to be JSSA member.

Research ethics:

Conflict of interest: It is the author’s responsibility to indicate information about conflict of
profit in terms of receiving funds, or professional responsibility.
Privacy: In the articles, privacy needs to be respected. If any personal information is included,that has to be upon the person’s permission. Any permissions obtained by institutional review
boards should be noted in the article.

Research with human and animal subjects: When the research includes experiments or surveys
with humans as subjects, the author has to follow the ethical guideline of his/her affiliatedinstitution, and Declaration of Helsinki. Any research with the approval of the institutional
review board should be specifically noted in the article. Research with animals as subjects needs
to be conducted following the ethical standard of the affiliated institution.

Multimedia contents:
Authors can cite the URL of multimedia contents on the web. It is the author’s responsibility tomaintain and manage the contents.

Copyright issues:
Others’ copyright should be respected in the article. The author will take the responsibility inproper citation and permission. The JSSA assumes no responsibility in this regard.

Reviews:
We will conduct a single-blind peer review, and decide the publication of an article based on
more than two reviewers.

Preparing the manuscript

Basics:The Journal will be typeset with LaTeX using JSSA’s original style file.
At publication, the JSSA publication committee will edit and typeset a LaTeX source
file (.tex), a text file (.rtf), or Markdown style document (.md) submitted by the author.
A Microsoft Word file (.doc) will not be considered as a formal submission, but as asupplementary material.
Before the publication, the author has to proof read the galley version.
The text part of the manuscript will be typeset in double-column.

Submission:
Draft and submission of the manuscript should follow the guidelines below:

Body text: Submit a file in one of the following formats: LaTeX source file (.tex), text
file (.rtf), and Markdown style document (.md). A Microsoft Word file (.doc) can besubmitted as a supplementary material to specify the layout.
Figures: Prepare the figures in .pdf separately from the text file(s). We recommend .pdf
for both bitmap and vector figures.
Create a .zip file which contains the text file(s) and figure files. Send the .zip file to theeditor of the journal by email to the following address: journal@jssa.info

Length of the manuscript:
Approximately 6-8 pages in double-column format in the above-mentioned JSSA style file arefavored, but this is not a strict limitation.

Structure and style:
The manuscript consists of title, author’s information (name, affiliation, contactinformation), abstract, text, references, acknowledgments, and author’s profile.
References should be cited in Chicago style. Please refer to the latest edition of The
Chicago Manual of Style. (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html)

Citation examples:Book titles are cited in italics:
Quine, W. V. 2013. Word and Object. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Kramer, Jonathan D. 1988. The Time of Music. New York: Schirmer Books.
Lerdahl, Fred and Ray Jackendoff. 1983. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge,Mass.: MIT Press.

Journal article titles are cited with double quotation marks, and the journal titles are cited initalics.
Quine, W. V. 1969. “Natural Kinds.” Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, 114–38. New
York: Columbia University Press.

Butler, David. 1989. “Describing the Perception of Tonality in Music: A Critique of the Tonal
Hierarchy Theory and a Proposal for a Theory of Intervallic Rivalry.” Music Perception, 6 (3):219–42.
Carey, Norman, and David Clampitt. 1989. “Aspects of Well-Formed Scales.” Music Theory
Spectrum, 11 (2): 187–206.

In-text citation follows the author-date format: (Author Date): (Quine 1969)

Quotation follows this format: (Author Date, Pages): (Quine 1969, 136ff)

Footnotes are indicated with superscript numbers.

At submission, prepare the manuscript using a template package distributed on the JSSA journal
website ( http://jssa.info/journal ), and follow the instructions in the Readme file in thepackage.