Journal of Irish Studies: Notes for contributors

Submission of manuscripts Contributors must be members of IASIL-Japan. Please send articles (of no more than 4000 words) for consideration together with a short biographical note to Beverley Curran, Editor, Journal of Irish Studies (IASIL JAPAN) as electronic submissions (MS Word attachment) to bcurran@gol.com or by post to the address below. Besides the article itself, please send details of the author’s affiliation, full postal and e-mail addresses and telephone and fax numbers.

The paper and the biographical note should be separate documents, saved both in MS Word and Rich Text Format [rtf] and named according to the formula: JIS year author surname.doc - e.g., ‘JIS 2006 Tanaka.doc’ and the biographical note similarly ‘JIS 2006 Biog Tanaka’. The Editor will acknowledge receipt of all submissions by return e-mail. Please do not use the Century font as it distorts punctuation; Times Roman will be fine.

English-language books for review and reviews of English language books should be sent to:

Professor Beverley Curran, Editor
Aichi Shukutoku University, Hoshigaoka Campus
23 Sakuragaoka, Chikusa-ku
Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken 464-8671 Japan

Japanese-language books for review and reviews of Japanese-language books should be sent to:

Professor Seishi Matsuda
4-4-24 Suzurandai-minami-machi
Kita-ku, kobe-shi 651-1113

Annual Bibliography: Yoko Kubo

Deadline To be considered for publication in the Journal of Irish Studies, all submissions must reach the Editor by 25 April of the publication year.

Presentation of articles
All submissions should be clearly written in English and typed on A4 paper, with double spacing and using one side of the paper only. An electronic copy of the submission must be available. Contributors whose first language is not English are strongly encouraged to have their paper checked by a literate native speaker of English before submission. Please note that the work of the editorial board is to help the author organise his or her ideas and correct points regarding formatting, citation and so on: the editorial board does not provide a rewriting service. The use of Irish-English spelling is preferred, and should be used consistently. Notes should be formatted as endnotes, not as footnotes.

Title
In the title of a paper, only the first word and proper names or other titles should employ a capital letter. This also applies to the first word after a colon - e.g., ‘Yeats and Synge: myopia in the Celtic twilight’, not ‘Yeats and Synge: Myopia in the Celtic Twilight’.

References
The Journal of Irish Studies follows the Harvard reference system. In citing a text in the body of a paper, quoted material should be followed by parentheses in which are given: the name of the author, the date of publication and the page reference, e.g., ‘It has been said of O’Flaherty that he was a comet; he was not a planet (Pipesucker 2001: 121)’.

Bibliographic details
All books and papers referred to in the text should be set out in a list headed References at the end of the paper, following the conventions adopted by both IASIL and IASIL JAPAN. In a jointly produced work, please give all authors’ names, but use et al. when there are three or more authors. For models of bibliographical conventions, see the References pages at the end of papers or A Bibliography of Irish Studies in Japan, 1984-2003, in the 2003 issue of the Journal of Irish Studies (Volume XVIII).