for Students

PhD Program

Journal

To support our PhD students in their research work and in completing their dissertations, GSAPS publishes a collection of essays twice every year. This collection is distributed to the various departments in Waseda University and research institutes. All essays are also available on the web of the Waseda Repository DSpace. In order for the essay to be considered for print, students must follow the stipulated guidelines. A panel of examiners will review it and only essays that meet the requirements will be published. Many students contribute actively to each publication.

1. Calls for Papers (-No.21)

※Change of Date and Time for Submission (NO.22-)

Conditions for contributors Students presently in GSAPS PhD Program
Conditions for the paper
  1. Recommendation from your supervisor.
  2. Original research article by one author. It could be developed from your Masters thesis
  3. About 5,000 - 7,000 words for English articles.
    [About 20,000 - 28,000 letters for Japanese articles.]
    Should be word-processed on A4 size paper (height longer than width).
  4. The format should follow the instructions for the manuscript (Format not specified in the instructions should be based on your best judgment. There may be additional instructions to change the format in the process of editing, for unifying the format throughout the journal.) The paper should take the style of a research article.
Date and time of submission(-NO.21) Twice a year. Articles for the 1st issue of the year should be submitted by the last weekday (excluding weekends and national holidays) of May, and for the 2nd issue should be submitted by the last weekday (excluding weekends and national holidays) of November, 5:00 pm.

※Change of Date and Time for Submission (NO.22-)
Place of submission GSAPS Office.
Things to be submitted 3 hard copies (1 original and 2 copies) of the paper including text (with indications where the tables and graphs should be inserted if applicable), and graph(s) and table(s).
  • Electronic File including files for the text, graph(s) and table(s).
  • Recommendation (1 original and 1 copy)
Selection The editorial committee for the Journal of the GSAPS will send the article along with the recommendation to a referee (1 referee by principle). After obtaining the evaluation of the referee, the editorial committee will make the final decision on the acceptance. Information regarding the process (including notification that the results are available) will be send to you through your e-mail address provided by Waseda University (e.g. student ID@akane.waseda.jp).
Waseda
University
Repository		 Information regarding permission to release manuscripts to the Waseda University Library:
The Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies has received approval to release manuscripts to the Waseda University Repository ( know as D-Space ). Contributors should submit their papers with a full understanding that accepted manuscripts will be released to the repository.

For more information see :
Waseda University Repository

http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/db/dspace/naiki.pdf
http://dspace.wul.waseda.ac.jp/dspace/
E-mail: dspace@wul.waseda.ac.jp
Contact Journal of GSAPS Editorial Committee (Ms.Fujii, Mr. Nomura)

2. Instructions for the Manuscript

  1. Font:
    Century 10.5 point for English articles [MS Mincho 10.5 for Japanese articles]
  2. English article should clearly state the title(s) and name(s) in the subsequent order:
    English Title: Subtitle, Name in English, Japanese title-Subtitle-, Name in Japanese
    [Japanese article should clearly state the following in the subsequent order:
    Japanese title-Subtitle-, Name in Japanese, English Title: Subtitle, Name in English]
  3. Your affiliation should be stated as a footnote with an asterisk (*) on your name. (See footnote for an example).
  4. Both English and Japanese articles should have an English summary. The summary should be around one A4-size page. 8 English letter spaces should be indented on the left and the right.
  5. Quotations should be indicated using one of the following styles throughout the article.
    1. Footnote using Arabic numbers1
    2. Within the text [Author, year: page(s)]
  6. The bibliography should use one of the following formats throughout the article, according to the style you chose for the quotations.
    For quotations case (a), footnotes with the following information are sufficient:
    - Author, Title, Publisher, Place, year, pages (pp.) or page (p.)
    - Author, ‘Title of article’, Name of Journal, Vol., No., Month year, pages
    For quotations case (b), bibliography at the end of the article is necessary:
    - Author (year) Title, Publisher, Place, pages
    - Author (year) “Title of article”, Name of Journal, Vol., No., pages
    In either cases, if one document explanation goes beyond the second line, the second line should be indented 4 letter spaces (hanging). When more than one author has written the document, "&", ";" or "and" should be used.
  7. In English articles, each paragraph should be indented by 5 English-letter spaces, without a line space between paragraphs. No paragraph should be constructed with one sentence. There should be one letter space between sentences. [In Japanese articles, each paragraph should be indented by 1 Japanese-letter space.]
  8. An article should be constructed with sections. Each section should be numbered with roman numbers (I, II, III...).
  9. Graph(s) and table(s) should have subsequent numbers on the left top of each table and graph.

* Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Doctoral Degree Program
1 Author, Title, year, page(s)

3. Process in the GSAPS Journal

chart:Process in the GSAPS Journal

4. Title of Back number

Please click below, you can check the title of back number.

No.1 No.2 No.3 No.4 No.5
No.6 No.7 No.8 No.9 No.10
No.11 No.12 No.13 No.14 No.15
No.16 No.17 No.18 No.19  

* All files are PDF format.

5. Reviewer

Faculty of Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies

6. GSAPS/WIAPS Editorial Committee

GSAPS/WIAPS Editorial Committee
Professor MURASHIMA, Eiji

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