Author Guidelines

Submissions should comply with the bibliographic standards set out in the Chicago Manual of Style, as detailed by Kate Turabian (Chicago/Turabian, 16th edition); the Notes and Bibliography style is preferred, although the Author–Date convention is also acceptable where this is appropriate to the subject matter or the author's way of working. Other conventions will be accepted if a case can be made on the basis of the distinctiveness of the subject matter.

Example citations in the Chicago style can be found on their web-site: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

The use of bibliographic software (BibTex, Endnote) and hyper-referencing is encouraged, e.g. through the use of DOI locators. (Please submit a separate file with your references if you have used bibliographic software.)

Authors should submit their work in a commonly recognized word-processing or mark-up format (e.g. .rtf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .tex), along with a PDF version of their work that can serve as a guide to the editors. Please begin the file name with your surname, followed by your initial(s), then a keyword or two from your title and the date (YYYY-MM-DD), leaving no spaces:

JonesM_BuddhismJapan_2013-07-16.docx

Additional files in your submission should expand on this format, e.g.:

JonesM_BuddhismJapan_2013-07-16.pdf

JonesM_BuddhismJapan_2013-07-16_image01.jpg

JonesM_BuddhismJapan_2013-07-16_soundtrack01.mp3

JonesM_BuddhismJapan_2013-07-16_video01.aiff

The use of images and other media is encouraged: these may be embedded in the initial submission but authors will also be asked to provide the pertinent files separately when the final version is submitted.

Formatting should be kept to the bare minimum necessary for clarity of expression. Use footnotes, not endnotes; quotations longer than four or five lines should be displayed (block-indented); use italics for emphasis, not bold (unless you really want to shout!); the use of “smart quotes” is fine (if the quote marks here are not displaying properly, then your system is not set to Unicode), but avoid superscript abbreviations such as 1st, 2nd, etc. Separate paragraphs with a blank line ("two returns"); it is not necessary to indent the first line of a new paragraph.

CJK characters should be given only on the first mention of a term, unless it is necessary to avoid ambiguity. Because of the complexity of encoding standards, it is essential that authors ensure that their text is saved in Unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-16; please avoid JIS and ShiftJIS, etc.). Information on Unicode may be consulted at the Unicode Consortium's web site. Unicode is the default encoding on Apple Mac and Linux computers and if not already implemented as standard on a Microsoft Windows system, can easily be set as the system-wide default.

CJK names should be given in the traditional order, i.e. family name first, followed by the given name and the CJK characters. However, when citing CJK authors and works, it is only necessary to give the CJK characters in the Bibliography/List of References. Please note that the University of Tokyo library database now places a comma between Japanese surnames and given names, in line with the Western convention.