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KEIO SFC JOURNALInvitation to Submit Your Manuscript
KEIO SFC JOURNAL is published twice a year to present achievements in academic research at SFC. A special theme is selected for every issue, in addition to that, we accept general papers as well.
Accepting papers on the featured theme
There is no special theme. We only accept previously unposted manuscripts. Submitting to SFC Journal implies that the manuscript is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
| Volume | Submission Deadline | Theme & Overview |
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| Vol. 25 No. 1 | 16:00 on November 29 (Fri), 2024 | There is no special theme. After peer review, we will publish the manuscript in time for printing due to printing reasons. Please understand the date on the left as a guide that is likely to be in time. If the publication is not in time for this issue, it will be published in the next and subsequent issues. |
- Furthermore, we welcome submissions regarding any topic on a continual basis in accordance with the guidelines described below.
Application guidelines and submission rules
1. Categories of manuscripts
Please select the most suitable manuscript type from the following a to e.
For the number of characters and details of each manuscript, refer to the writing procedure section below.
| a | Research articles: | Research Articles should comprise reports of original work of empirical or theoretical nature. The articles should include clear research objectives, methods, findings, and discussion of possible implications. |
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| b | Review articles: | Articles comprehensively evaluate or analyze information collected from relevant literature on the specified topic, discuss issues based on the literature, and present the author's original ideas and viewpoints. |
| c | Practical reports: | Practice reports should focus on innovative activities and field experiences. Ideally, the content of the reports should include implications for wider areas of practice, for scaled-up research, or for providing improvement to the policy in the given field. |
| d | Progress reports: | Progress reports summarize the status, preliminary findings and likely future direction of the research in progress. |
| e | Books or media reviews: Academic trend reports: |
This category comprises critiques or introductions of books and other content. Academic trend reports include analysis of trends and perspectives in a specific research field, etc. |
2. Preparing your manuscript
Manuscript deadline
| Vol. 25 No. 1 | Submission deadline: 16:00 on November 29 (Fri), 2024 |
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| Vol. 25 No. 2 | Submission deadline: 16:00 on May 30 (Fri), 2025 |
- Furthermore, we welcome submissions regarding any topic on a continual basis in accordance with the guidelines described below.
Submissions
Please prepare your manuscript in MS-Word so that it includes the cover page (including abstract), text, and all figures and tables. Please prepare two sets of documents: 1) MS-Word file of the manuscript, 2) PDF file of the manuscript. Please download "Writing Procedure", and "Model MS (manuscript)" from the bottom of this page. Please use "Model MS" as a template when preparing your manuscript.
How to Submit
Using your own keio.jp account, log in to Google, and then please enter information using the Google formbelow and submit.
https://forms.gle/53tRJFDCppAi9gGcA
If the files are heavy (e.g., more than 10 MB in total), we recommend that you save the set in a single zip file in Dropbox or Box and provide us with a URL where a third party can download it. If we are unable to download the files, we will contact you, but please be sure to confirm in advance that a third party can download the files.
3. Submission eligibility
Those eligible to make submissions are as follows.
| A full member of the Keio SFC Academic Society | All undergraduate and graduate students, who are currently enrolled at Keio SFC. ※1 |
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| Undergraduate and graduate students in SFC | Graduates of Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) in Keio University are also accepted as the first author if the paper includes results from their time at SFC. |
| Others | Those who paid the academic society fee or were requested to write by the editorial board, etc |
- All assistant professors in the Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care are enrolled in Keio SFC Academic Society.
- Fixed-term contract faculty members of the Faculty of Policy Management, the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, and the Graduate School of Media and Governance can become members by paying the academic society fee for Keio SFC Academic Society.
- In either case you do not have to pay a posting fee.
4. List of recommended reviewers
Author(s) can suggest two experts whom they consider particularly suited to review a submitted manuscript. This recommendation would be very helpful to the editor to speed up the reviewing process, particularly when the work is in an interdisciplinary research area. The editor is, of course, not constrained to select a reviewer from that list. In recommending reviewers, please avoid faculty members belonging to SFC and soliciting candidates from those people who have a close relationship with the author (s): for instance, members affiliated with the same research group and/or unit with the authors.
When you make a list of recommended reviewers, please be sure to enter the following information on the "Submission Form":
- Name
- Affiliation
- Position
- Contact email address
- The reason why you suggest
- All assistant professors in the Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care are enrolled in Keio SFC Academic Society.
- Fixed-term contract faculty members of the Faculty of Policy Management, the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, and the Graduate School of Media and Governance can become members by paying the academic society fee for Keio SFC Academic Society.
- In either case you do not have to pay a posting fee.
5. Review process
"KEIO SFC JOURNAL" is a peer-reviewed journal. This journal uses double-blind review, which means that the identities of both the reviewer and the author are concealed from each other throughout the review process. The number of reviewers in each manuscript category is as follows:
| a | Research Articles | In principle, three people will review submissions, comprising an internal reviewer (the primary reviewer) and two external reviewers. A "Research Articles," which is accepted for publication in the SFC Journal, can be considered as partially fulling the requirement of the Doctoral Program of Keio SFC's Graduate School of Media and Governance. |
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| b | Review Articles | |
| c | Practical Reports | |
| d | Progress Reports | In principle, submissions will be reviewed by two people, one internal reviewer (the primary reviewer) and one external reviewer. |
| e | Books or Media Reviews/Academic Trend Reports | Submissions will be reviewed by a single reviewer. |
6. Notification of review result
Preliminary feedback will be provided to the author in 1-3 months from the date of submission. The review result is either "A: Accept", "B: Accept with minor revision", "C: Revise and resubmit," or "D: Reject" Results will be returned with the comments of the reviewer(s).
Manuscripts re-submitted with appropriate modifications will be re-reviewed, and we will inform the author of the result of the second review.
7. Copyright policy (excerpt from "KEIO SFC JOURNAL" Publication Rules [Copyright] Article 5)
The author will entrust the copyright of the paper and other materials published in KEIO SFC JOURNAL to Keio SFC Academic Society. The Society will retain the compilation copyright and publication right.
Based on 1, Keio SFC Academic Society will have the right to re-publish and re-distribute the prints and electronic media versions of the original papers and other materials submitted by the author.
In the event the submitted material is to be reproduced in other printed matters or electronic media, the author shall notify the Keio SFC Academic Society in advance.
As a general rule, the Keio SFC Academic Society shall obtain the prior consent from the author in case the submitted material will be summarized and re-published or re-distributed in printed matters or electronic media.
- In accordance with Article 5 of the Publishing Rules, the selected manuscripts will be registered and posted on the Keio SFC Academic Society website as well as websites and databases operated by Keio University.
8. Research Ethics
For research involving human subjects, it is necessary to ensure necessary ethical considerations in terms of bioethics, privacy protection, human rights protection, etc. When publishing such research papers, in principle, you need to obtain approval from the Ethics Committee of the institution (i.e. Institutional Review Board) to which the first author belongs. However, this does not apply to “Practical Reports”.
〈reference〉
SFC Experiment/Ethics Committee (only available in Japanese)
https://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/faculty/personnel_general/ethical_committee.html
About the research ethics review of the Graduate School of Health Management (only available in Japanese)
https://www.students.keio.ac.jp/
9. Other notices
In the submitted manuscript, please avoid making reference to the author's name (Note. Be sure to obtain the approval of all co-authors before submitting.), affiliation, or other personal information such as acknowledgment, grant information including Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research.
KEIO SFC JOURNAL is in A4 size and color figures and tables are available (until FY2023, it was in A5 size and monochrome). Figures and tables should be prepared on the assumption that they will fit on a single A4 page at most, including the title and explanatory text (i.e., within 25 cm in height and 17 cm in width).