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Notes on MN Book Review Style
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Please note that MN does not accept unsolicited reviews. The following
information is provided as a convenience for those who have accepted
a request from MN to write a review.
MN follows the Chicago Manual of Style for most style questions.
Issues specific to the journal include:
Guidelines for sending reviews
Deadlines
Italics/Japanese terms
Italicize Japanese terms except for those that have entered the English language (as indicated by their inclusion in standard English-language dictionaries). In addition to such fully anglicized Japanese words, MN does not italicize the following words familiar to those in the field of Japanese studies. Note that whereas macrons are dropped for fully anglicized words, they are retained for these provisionally anglicized terms.
anime, bakufu, bakumatsu, buke, bunraku, bushi, chônin, haikai, han, hiragana, jôruri, kami, kana, kanji, kanpaku, katakana, kanbun, kyôgen, manga, monogatari, Nihonjinron, renga, ritsuryô, rônin, sunyata, samsara, sesshô, shôen, tanka, tennô, waka. Note: noh.
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Macrons
To prevent garbling, please input macrons from the keyboard as ASCII
character circumflex vowels (on a Mac, option i and the vowel). The
circumflexes will automatically convert to the MN font during typesetting.
Kanji/characters
Kanji are not needed for names, titles of works, and terms in MN book reviews, but may be included if desired for the purposes of discussion.
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Punctuation
Punctuation following a quotation identified by a page number goes outside the parentheses (except in the case of indented quotations).
Punctuation (except for colons and semicolons) is placed inside quotation marks: e.g., "Seeing is believing," said the teacher; but, "Seeing is believing"; but it was not what I expected.
In a series of three or more elements, the elements are separated
by commas (see CMS 6.19).
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Page number references
- Please use a "p." when providing a parenthetical reference page
number.
- E.g., "She makes the tradition [of women's speech] work for her" (p. 40).
- . . . despite her intent to encompass a "multiplicity" of feminisms (p. xv).
- Please spell out "page" when the reference is not parenthetical.
- E.g., ". . . the discussion from page 34 to page 55 pertains to . . ."
Footnotes
- Footnotes may be used in moderation, especially when citing works
referred to in the text. Please provide full bibliographic information
using the note (not bibliography) format presented in CMS 17.3. E.g.:
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- 1 Ellen Gardner Nakamura, Practical Pursuits:
Takano Chôei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century
Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2005), p. 15.
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Capitalization
Parts of a book (preface, introduction, chapter, part, section) are
lowercased.
Numbers
Numerals identifying parts of a book are arabic (e.g. chapter 1)
Inclusive dates are given in full: 1868–1887
Page numbers:
| Under 100 |
give full digits: pp. 69–70; pp. 65–67; pp. 6–17;
pp. 17–25. |
| Over 100 |
drop duplicated one-hundreds digit: e.g. pp. 185–95 (but
101–109). |
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Copyright
Please be aware that the copyright to your review belongs to Monumenta Nipponica. Until it is published in the journal, the review may not be released to any other publication, posted on the Internet, or otherwise circulated publicly without the express permission of the journal. After publication, reprintings, distribution in electronic form, or other duplication of the review should be accompanied by the credit line: First published in Monumenta Nipponica, vol. xx, no. x.
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- Check the length: 1,500 words is the usual length, 2,700 maximum.
- Please submit your review as an attachment to email. Please save
the file in one of these formats: MS Word, RTF (Rich Text Format)
or Text, or paste it into the email message.
- Attach a PDF version as well, or submit a hard copy of the completed
review by either post or fax.
Special characters and fonts (italics, etc.) that may be garbled in
transmission will be restored at MN, referring to your PDF file or
hard copy.
Spring issue: February 15 (Publication May 1–15)
Autumn issue: August 15 (Publication November 1–15)
(Updated April 1, 2010)
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