The Journal of Philosophy and Ethics in Health Care and Medicine.
The Submission Guidelines(1) Qualifications:
1. Contributors need to be members of the Association. (* In principle, not only thefirst author but also co-authors must be JSME members when submitting papers.
Submissions will not be accepted if the authors, including co-authors, are not
JSME members at the time of submission.) However, this does not apply tomanuscripts submitted on request (hereinafter referred to as “RequestedManuscripts”).
2. Contributors need to complete payment of the annual membership fee by thetime of submission.
3. In principle, a person whose manuscript has been published in the previous issuesof the International Journal of the Association cannot submit manuscripts for thefollowing issue. (However, publishing manuscripts in two consecutive issues may
be permitted, depending on the content and nature of the submitted manuscripts,
in exceptional cases. In such cases, contributors must inform the Association inadvance that they are submitting manuscripts for publication in consecutive
issues and obtain the approval of the Editorial Board before their manuscripts arepeer-reviewed with other submitted manuscripts.

(2) Contributors need to submit the following documents as separate, attached files
addressed to the Chair of the Editorial Board indicated at the bottom.
1. The first-phase review: A document file containing the title of the manuscript(English), the summary (approximately 1,600 characters in Japanese or 600
words in English), the contributor’s name, affiliation, and contact information(e-mail address and postal address), together with a file of an already publishedJapanese or English paper related to the theme of the intended contribution(hereinafter referred to as a “published paper”). Email the above as separate
attachments to the Board of the International Journal (the Email address of theBoard is shown at the bottom of these guidelines). The “published paper” need not
to be a contribution in the Journals of the Association. Submission of a “publishedpaper” is not compulsory, but desirable. Further, contributions must comply withthe guidelines for “Acceptable Secondary Publication” of the Association.

*Note: In the first-phase review, the “published paper” and “summary” of theintended contribution will be peer-reviewed; in the second-phase review, thesubmitted English manuscript will be peer-reviewed.
2. The second-phase review: Those who are allowed to submit an English manuscriptin the first-phase review may submit an English manuscript with an Abstract
after reading the “the Guidelines for Authors.” Since the English manuscript
submitted for the second-phase review may include developments from thecontent in the “published paper”, contributors are advised to refer to theguidelines for “Acceptable Secondary Publication” for details. Also, the authors’affiliations (in English and Japanese) and contact information (e-mail address
and postal address) should be included at the end of the manuscript.
The submission for the second-phase review should be done in the same
way as the initial submission for the first-phase review. “Requested manuscripts”
are peer-reviewed equally with other submitted manuscripts. Every manuscript
must be proofread by a native speaker of the English language, except when thecontributor is a native speaker of the language.
* Ask a contractor or a researcher whose native language is English to proofread
the manuscript and attach a document certifying that the manuscript is proofread(an invoice, or a document, etc. signed by the proofreader).
3. The final review: Contributors whose manuscripts have been found to require
revision and further peer review in the second-phase review must revise theirmanuscripts for resubmission.
(3) Copyright:
The copyright of the published manuscripts shall, in principle, belong to theAssociation, based on the Japanese Association for Philosophical and EthicalResearches in Medicine Copyright Guidelines. However, as a general rule, theAssociation will not challenge the use of the published manuscripts by the authors
themselves.
(4) The publication fee:
The publication fee for the submitted manuscript (the published paper) is 10,000Japanese Yen. Ten hard copies of the International Journal and ten hard copies of the
published paper (offprint) will be presented to the contributor.
Email the manuscript to harima@buffalo.edu (The Chair of the Board of theInternational Journal).