Information for Readers and Contributors
- Information for Readers and Contributors
Monumenta Nipponica is published semiannually. A yearly subscription is ¥4,600 in Japan and USUS$40.00 or €42.00 overseas. Payment may be made in the following ways: (1) by credit card (Visa, Master Card; charged at the yen price); (2) bank transfer (Mizuho Bank, Yotsuya Branch, Swift Code MHBKJPJT; acct. no. 203909, payable to Sophia University 上智学院); (3) check or money order (US dollars or euros; please do not send yen-denominated checks); and (4) Japanese postal deposit (acct. no. 00160-2-27419; forms may be obtained at the post office; available within Japan only). For details and order form, see the MN Web site (http://monumenta.cc.sophia.ac.jp) or write to Monumenta Nipponica, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioi-chō, Chiyoda-ku, T okyo 102-8554 Japan; fax: 81-3-3238-3835; e-mail: mnoffice@sophia.ac.jp.
From volume 60, a full-text online version of Monumenta Nipponica may be obtained through Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu). A comprehensive digital version of the journal, with a five-year moving wall, is available through institutions participating in JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org). For microform versions of volumes 28 onward, contact National Archive Publishing Company, P.O. Box 998, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-0998, U.S.A. Copies of individual articles, with a five-year moving wall, may be obtained through JSTOR (see www.jstor.org/publisher-portal/pub.sales.html). For further details, see the MN Web site.
MN is indexed by Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Bibliography of A sian Studies, Historical Abstracts, Index to the Study of Religions Online, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, and MLA International Bibliography. A complete index of articles from volume 1 to the present may be found on the MN Web site.
Citations and Abbreviations
All Japanese books mentioned in the footnotes of the journal were published in Tokyo, unless stated otherwise.
Monumenta Nipponica uses the following abbreviations for frequently cited journals and multivolume series:
Contributions
Articles submitted for publication should be printed double-spaced (on only one side of the page) with the right-hand margin unjustified; this applies also to indented quotations and notes. As manuscripts under consideration for publication are reviewed anonymously, the author's name should not appear on the title page or in the headers or footers. Only one printed copy need be supplied. In addition to the hard copy, authors should also send a digital version of the text as an email attachment saved as a Word file (1997 or later). Send manuscripts and books for review to the address above.
For style and format, refer to The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition, and to the MN style sheet, available in printed form on request and in digital form on the MNMN Web site. Kanji for Japanese and other East Asian names and terms should be included at the time of initial submission, and if the piece to be considered is a translation, a...
