Asian Journal of Occupational Therapy
Author’s GuidePurposes
The Asian Journal of Occupational Therapy (Asian JOT) which is published by Japanese
Association of Occupational Therapists (hereinafter referred to as “JAOT”) publishes
articles to promote occupational therapy in Japan and Asian countries. It is accessible to thepublic through an internet. This journal is particularly aimed at disseminating the aspects ofclinical, research and education of occupational therapy in Asian region as well as Japan tothe rest of the world.
URL: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/asiajot (The front page of J-STAGE website)
Submission
All manuscripts must be unreleased without being duplicate submission or previously
published paper. All manuscript (including the copyright transfer form) must be submitted
to the Editorial Board in a Microsoft Word Format file (MS Word file) through website.
Please attach one figure (or one table) per file, which means that you must upload four MS
Word files in the case that you have four charts in total. Submitted manuscripts will not be
returned to the authors.
Please submit the manuscript online through the website below;
https://www.editorialmanager.com/asjot/default.aspx
If you have any questions, please contact us at; asianjot@jaot.or.jp.
Language
Only English articles can be accepted. Authors with non-English-speaking backgroundshould ask for help from colleagues who are familiar with scientific English.
Please write your text in clear and grammatically correct English (Both American andBritish usage can be accepted, but not a mixture of both). Authors should conform to thestyle of APA Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition
and the specific instructions listed below.
Author with non-English-speaking background should undergo the proofreading by native
speaker of English and submit the certificate of proofreading with manuscripts through anelectronic contribution system.

Ethics
The authors must indicate and record whether the procedures follow the ethical standardsof the Declaration of Helsinki exactly or not. Also, the design of special scientific researchin human diseases or animal experiments should be approved by the ethics committee of
the institution or comply with guidelines on animal protection and the ethical code
currently applied in the country of origin. This must be stated at an appropriate point in thearticle.
Patient details
Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing by the patients, authors should remove thepersonal information of patients (or close relatives if applicable) from any part in the article
including every illustration and supplement material before submission.
Conflict of Interest
All authors are responsible for the disclosure of any actual or potential conflict of interest
which might have influenced their researches including any financial, personal and otherrelationships with individuals or organizations within three years from the time to submit
their works. Authors are required to mention about the conflict of interest at the end of theirpaper, before the acknowledgement or references. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Article Types
The manuscripts include Original Articles, Reviews, Rapid Communications, Case
Reports, Miscellaneous, which are important to the occupational therapy profession for
their originality, timeliness, effectiveness and readability.
Original Articles
Original Article contains the original clinical or laboratory research. The body of originalarticles needs to be in the general format consisting of: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction,
Materials/Subjects, Methods, Results and Discussion. Authors need to make articles clear
and concise and avoid non-standard abbreviations. Please provide abstract in 200-250
words and 3-5 keywords before the body. The total length should be approximately 5,000
words in general including main body, references, tables, figures, and illustrations. One
figure (or table and illustration) is calculated as 200 words.
Reviews
Reviews can deal with scientific topics either clinical or laboratory. Relatively brief
reviews between 2,500 to 3,000 words are particularly welcomed. Longer reviews can beaccepted when they were justified by topic and comprehensiveness. It needs to havesufficient discussion supported by more than 30 references.
Rapid Communications
They should deal with scientific material which deserves a rapid publication as the top
priority. They should be 2,000 words or less with a total of no more than 4 tables andfigures (uncountable) and up to 15 references.
Case Reports
A case report need to describe a new disease, confirmation of a rare or new disease, a new
insight into pathogenesis, etiology, diagnosis, or treatment, a new finding associated with acurrently known disease. A report on special scientific investigation will be regarded as an
original article even with a single case. The length should be 1,000 words or less in generalwith 3 tables and figures (uncountable) in total with up to 10 references. They can beexceeded only when justified by extensive special studies.
Miscellaneous
It includes the article which the editing committee judged as useful including; a committee
report, news from international conference, an introduction of the association and aresearch institute, an introduction of new technology and new products.
Manuscript format
The manuscript needs to be set to start a new page with the beginning of each section as
the followings:(i) Structured abstract and key words(ii) Main body(iii) References(iv) Figure with caption(v) Table with caption

1. Structured abstract and key words: Please attach an abstract of your paper in 200-250
words which enables the readers to grasp the essence of the paper immediately. Thepaper must give the reader quick recap on the statement of the problem or issues,

methodology, results and conclusions. Please include three to five key words after theabstract.
2. Main body: The main body should be divided into sections which includes
sub-headings. The main text should include the followings: an introduction, materialand subject, method, results, discussion, summary and conclusions.
Acknowledgements must be brief and listed before the reference page. The main bodymust be numbered consecutively starting with the introduction. The manuscript must
be written in Times New Roman with the font size of 12-points.
3. References: Reference literature must be indicated consecutively in Arabic numerals insquare brackets through the paper. In case that the same reference is cited more thanonce in the main body, the same number should be used for each time. Reference styleshould follow the "Vancouver" style. If the cited paper is written in a language otherthan English, please translate it into English and identify the original language inparenthesis in the end (e.g. in Japanese).
Exceptions:(1) List all authors or editors. Please list six people from the top if there are more than six authors andeditors and put the word “et al” in the end.
(2) The page number on the first page must be listed in full letters, but the page number on the last pagecan be listed in abbreviated form (e.g. 51-9). Unpublished data and personal communications should
be given in round brackets in the text but not in references.
The title of Japanese journals should be listed in Japanese in Roman letters. For example, if you want
to write “occupational therapy” in Japanese, please write “sagyouryouhou”. To quote a paper from abook or journal written in Japanese, the phrase ‘‘(in Japanese)’’ should be added after the title of thebook or journal.
Examples of items listed:Author. Title. Journal. Year; Volume(Issue):Pages.
[1] Radford KA, Lincoln NB. Concurrent validity of the stroke drivers screening assessment. Arch Phys
Med Rehabil. 2004;85(2):324-8.
[2] Akinwuntan AE, De Weerdt W, Feys H, Pauwels J, Baten G, Arno P, et al. Effect of simulator training
on driving after stroke: a randomized controlled trial. Neurology. 2005;65(6):843-50.
Electronic publication ahead of print[3] Ohyanagi T, Sengoku Y. A solution for measuring accurate reaction time to visual stimuli realizedwith a programmable microcontroller. Behav Res Methods. 2010, in press.

Journal article in Japanese[4] Sengoku Y, Nakajima S, Nakamura Y. Effects of occupational therapy on identical twin children
with hydrocephalus based on variations in static and dynamic equilibrium reaction (in Japanese). The
Japanese Occupational Therapy research (sagyouryouhou). 2009;28(5):555-64.

Examples of books and other monographs
Personal author(s)、Editor(s), compiler(s)Author. Title, Edition ed. Place Published: Publisher; Year.
[5] Kane RL, Ouslander JG, Abrass IB, Resnick B. Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics. 7th ed. New York:
McGraw-Hill; 2013.
Author, editors. Book Title, Edition ed. Place Published: Publisher; Year
[6] Cicchetti D, Cohen DJ, editors. Developmental psychopathology. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc;
1995.

Chapter in a bookAuthor. Title. In: Editor, editors. Book Title, Edition ed. Place Published: Publisher; Year; Pages.
[7] Tangarorang GL, Kerins GJ, Besdine RW. Clinical Approach to the Older Patient: An Overview. In:Cassel CK, Leipzig RM, Cohen HJ, Larson EB, Meier DE, editors. Geriatric Medicine: An
Evidence-based Approach, 4th ed. New York: Springer Science+Business Media; 2006; 149–62.
Japanese book[8] Nakamura R, Saito H, Nagasaki H. Fundamental Kinesiology, 6th ed (in Japanese). Tokyo: Ishiyaku
Publishers Inc; 2013.
[9] Shimomura T. Stroke. In: Eto F, Takeda K, Hara H, Bando M, Watanabe S, editors. Rehabilitation ofhigher cortical dysfunction Ver.2 (in Japanese). Tokyo: Ishiyaku Publishers Inc; 2011; 95-101.
Web (literature)
Author. HP name [online]. Place [cited Access Date]. Available from: URL.
[10] Hooper JF. Psychiatry & the Law: Forensic Psychiatric Resource Page [online]. University ofAlabama, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology [cited 2015 June 30]. Available from:http://bama.ua.edu/~jhooper/.
Web (web page, etc.)
HP name [online]. Place: Web site name [cited Access Date]. Available from: URL.
[11] The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc [online]. Montgomery: Health & Wellness[cited 2015 June 30]. Available from: http://www.aota.org/Practice/Health-Wellness.aspx

4. Figures and Photographs: Figures and photographs of good quality should be submitted
online as a separate file. Please use a lettering to make them clear and readable evenafter reducing the size to about 66%. An explanatory note must be provided for every
figure or photograph. All the authors who wish to use illustrations which were alreadypublished must obtain the permission of the first author, publisher and/or copyrightholders to give precise reference to the original work. This permission must include theright to publish in electronic media.
Photographs of identifiable subjects must be attached with permission with thesignature of patient or legal representative who gives permission to publish.
Photographs which the faces or eyes of the subjects can be identified should cover theirfaces or eyes with black bars if necessary.
5. Tables: Tables should be numbered in order in Arabic numerals and must be listed in
the order corresponding to the reference cited in the text. Each table must be attachedwith an appropriate brief explanatory note which is comprehensible enough without
referring to the text. They should begin with a separate page and uploaded online. They
should be kept as simple as possible and as a graphical representation. Table titles
should be brief and complete. Information other than the definition of the data should
be presented as footnotes.
Copyright
The copyright of the paper published (including the moral rights and property rights of
the author) belong to an author. The author shall assign JAOT the right to copy, reproduce,translate, adapt and summarize the published article and/or the right to give permission for
the third party to reprint the article to make use of them for JAOT’s public services.
Linking to the J-STAGE’s website (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/asiajot) isadvisable in the case of publishing your own paper to an individual website of the author or
the website of the corporate or association which the author belongs, the website of the
granting agency funding research fund, an archive of non-commercial electronic thesis, andthe repository of association. Please contact JAOT if you want to post the PDF file itself.
Stipulating the sources (including the journal title, the number of the volume and thepage which the article was posted) is necessary for publication.