Journal of cross-disciplinary research

ISSN:2434-9828

CALL FOR PAPERS

        The Journal of cross-disciplinary Research (JCODR 2020) invites academicians, researchers, social workers, policy makers and other stakeholders to send your original research papers to the given format. The Issue will be published around the end of 2020 in Tokyo, Japan under the theme “Empowered Humanity: Making Knowledge, Innovation and Progress Accessible to All”.

        In a world where inequality and injustice are rife, the need to empower people through sharing of resources, knowledge and capacity is imperative for progress. Empowering people to effectively respond to the emerging challenges of globalization, marginalization, conflict, discrimination, poverty and inequality through accessibility of knowledge, innovation and progress is one of the greatest challenges today. The increasing gap between the poor and rich countries, the rise of racism, the increase in global political tension, to name a few, have challenged social scientists to think more critically about how their research can contribute in an innovative way to making knowledge, innovation and progress accessible to all, not just to the privileged few.

        The theme is interdisciplinary in nature and broad enough to cover a range of disciplinary areas such as education, tour-guiding, culture, languages, sociology, international relations, economics, technology, philosophy, development studies and gender studies, to name a few. Writers may provide theoretical discourses or empirical case studies revolving around the theme. Auto ethnography as a critical research methodology will be the main theme for the first issue, and it is encouraged to contribute as well.

Format:

Please read these instructions thoroughly before you begin the typesetting of your paper.

A. Formatting instructions:

1. Paper size: A4

2. Typeface:

Times New Roman throughout; 14-point and Boldface for thetitle, 12-point for the text, and 10-point for the notes.

3. Margins: 2.54cm. all around; no headers or footers.

4. Tab: 0.85 cm.

B. Abstract:

Each abstract should not exceed 200 words. For papers written in Japannese, please provide both Japannese and English abstracts; for papers written in English, please provide English abstract.

C. Text:

1. Length: 10 pages max.

2. Text: indent one tab (0.85 cm) for each paragraph; justify the right side.

3. Line spacing: 16 pt

4. Block quotations: Indent the block quotations two tabs (1.7 cm) on the left side and justify them.

5. No blank lines between paragraphs within a section.

6. Pagination: put the page number at the center/bottom of each page.

D. Footnotes:

Please use footnotes only to provide further information or discussion, not merely bibliographic information. Place the note at the bottom of the page from which it is cited.

E. References:

The following are sample formats for individual references:

1. Books-- Ellis, R. (1985). Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2. Article in a journal-- Buck, R.A. (1999). Marginalizing Grammar. English Today, 15(4), 31–35.

F. Others:

If any lack of clarity about the format occurs, please follow the specifications provided by APA or MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. (2003).

Basically, your format of the paper should look like that of these instructions.

Thank you very much for the cooperation in typesetting the paper and your help in preparing the proceedings of this conference.

Wish you a happy writing and we look forward to receiving your final draft.