Updated on 2 April 2024
The SJRA reviews and publishes Online Blog Submissions. The area of legal issue is not limited, but the submissions should be relevant to Swiss and/or Japanese law. Authors cannot remunerate through any publications on the SJRA website.
1. Paper Formats
All submissions should address legal issues of Swiss and/or Japanese law.
- Article should discuss and evaluate a legal issue under Swiss and/or Japanese law.
- Review should give a short remark on Swiss and/or Japanese law, provide information of Swiss and/or Japanese law with the author’s opinion or remarks, and give commentary on recent court cases (i.e. case note).
- Student Note should discuss and evaluate a legal issue under Swiss and/or Japanese law (only open for law students, see eligibility criteria).
The translation of legislation and jurisprudence is also acceptable. If it is accepted, it will be published on the webpage of ‘Legal Instrument’ and ‘Jurisprudence’.
2. Eligibility
Authors for Article and Review can be scholars, legal practitioners or law students.
Law students until the graduation of Master of Law (LLM, MLaw or other equivalent legal degree) may also submit Student Note.
If you have any questions on your eligibility, please contact us directly by email info@swissjapanresearch.com.
3. Length Limitations
We strongly prefer submissions within the following length limitations, including text, footnotes and appendices (without abstract).
- Article: 3000 – 5000 words (with single-peer review process).
- Review: 1000 – 3000 words (with single-peer review process).
- Student Note: 1000 – 5000 words (with single-peer review process).
All submissions should contain an abstract of about 200 words.
All submissions should also contain a short description of submissions (maximum three sentences).
The article title should be concise, with a maximum of 70 characters.
Shorter submissions will be considered. If the submissions are over the length limitations, please contact us directly by email: info@swissjapanresearch.com
4. Figures and Tables
In exceptional case, we accept Figures and/or Tables in the submissions of Article. In doing so, authors must justify why they need to put Figures and/or Tables in their submissions.
In this case, Figures and/or Tables should be submitted by a separate PDF Format with a concise titles. They must also be included in the submissions file to understand where SJRA put Figures and/or Tables in your submissions.
5. Language
We mainly accept submissions in English and Japanese. However, we also accept the submissions in French and German.
Manuscripts will be returned to the author if the Japanese, English, German, or French language level is below standard of our criteria. In case of doubt about the correct use of the used language, authors are advised to have their text checked by a native speaker before submitting it.
6. Citation Format
All references should be cited.
We strongly prefer submissions in English that use footnotes (not endnotes) and that comply with APA Format Citation.[1]
For manuscripts in Japanese, Japanese publications should be referred to Japanese citation format.[2]
Submissions in French and German should be discussed individually with authors.
Special attention should be paid to quotations, footnotes, and references. All citations and quotations must be verified before submission of the manuscript. The accuracy of the contribution is the responsibility of the author.
7. Instructions
Submissions should be emailed as attachment to info@swissjapanresearch.com with “SJRA Blog Submission – [Name]” in the subject line, along with a CV or resume.
Submitted manuscripts are understood to be final versions. They must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
8. Review Process
Submissions are reviewed and accepted year-round on a rolling basis. Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to accommodate requests to confirm receipt or respond to inquiries about the status of a submission.
We kindly ask that authors not send emails inquiring into the status of their submissions. If a submission is selected for publication, we will contact the author directly.
9. Plagiarism Policy
Authors must not plagiarize in their submissions to SJRA. We request that authors give credit to the original sources of text, ideas, and pictures. If we spot plagiarised content during our editorial review, we may reject the submission. In case plagiarism becomes apparent only after publication on SJRA, we will either publish a correction or remove the contribution.
10. Copyright
SJRA’s content is open access and published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (the CC BY-SA licence). This licence allows everyone to share (copy and redistribute in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) content for any purpose, even commercially, under the following terms:
- Authors give appropriate credit;
- Authors provide a link to the license;
- Authors indicate if changes were made. This may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests we endorse the person or use;
- If Authors remix, transform or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original, and
- Authors make no additional restrictions, that means you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Authors retain the copyright to their publications on SJRA, giving SJRA the permission to publish them and to disseminate the publication on social media platforms. If Authors prefer to have your content on SJRA published under a more restrictive licence (e.g. restricting the use for commercial purpose) or under a less restrictive licence, please contact us.
[1] Please do not write an abbreviation of publisher and journal’s name.
[2] See https://www.houkyouikushien.or.jp/katsudo/pdf/houritubunken2014a.pdf.