Submission Information (Soils and Foundations)


 1. Authors must indicate one of the following 3 categories into which manuscripts should be classified:

 

(1)  Technical Paper (complete paper: papers in a series, such as Part I and Part II, are not acceptable),

 

(2)  Technical Report (report on design, construction, in-situ measurement etc.),

 

(3)  Technical Note (short paper etc.).

 

2. The manuscript of a Technical Paper, Technical Report or Technical Note must be accompanied by a signed statement that its content has not been published previously and that it is not being reviewed for publication by another organization.

 

3. Manuscripts must be in English, and must be type-written, double-spaced, on A4-size paper (21.5 cm by 28 cm). Each typed page is considered to contain around 250 words (=10 words x 25 rows) and is roughly equivalent to one third of a printed page.

 

4. The maximum number of printed pages including tables and illustrations are listed below:

Category

Standard pages

Max. extra pages

Cost per extra page

Technical Paper

10 or less

8

25,000 Japanese Yen

Technical Report

10 or less

8

25,000 Japanese Yen

Technical Note

10 or less

4

25,000 Japanese Yen

 

5. The full name, address and description of the present employment of each author must appear on the first page of the paper.

 

6. The author must employ symbols and terminology which are widely accepted in current soil mechanics literature as recommended by the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.

 

7. The SI units will be used as a rule. If conventional units are used, then they must be accompanied by the SI units in parentheses.

 

8. A list of references must be arranged in alphabetical order based on the first author's last name. In the text, the authors' last names and the year of publication must be given in parentheses.

 

9. All figures and photographs must be completely prepared for printing on a separate sheet. The authors must specify the size of each figure and photograph in the final printed page, selecting either single-column or double-column size in width.

 

10. Each Technical Paper, Technical Report or Technical Note should be accompanied by an abstract of approximately 200 words with 5 to 10 key words and 1 to 3 International Geotechnical Classification Numbers.

 

11. By submitting a manuscript the authors agree that the copyright for their work is transferred to the Japanese Geotechnical Society, if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication.

 

12. The author must submit two sets of files for each manuscript as follows:

 

(1) A pdf file for paper category (Technical Paper, Technical Report, or Technical Note), paper title, authors' name, affiliation, contact address, a signed statement that its content has not been published previously and that it is not being reviewed for publication by another organization.

 

(2) A pdf file for paper title, authors name, abstract (200 words), 5-10 key-words and 1-3 IGC numbers, text, tables and figures

 

(Common name should be put in 2 files, for example, kimds1.pdf and kimds2pdf.)

 

13. Maximum size of file is limited to 30MB.

 

14. The deadline will be strictly enforced because of time constraint. Only successfully submitted manuscripts shall be reviewed through the regular review process of the S&F Journal.

  - Full Paper Due : June 15, 2010