LSJ Presentation Guidelines

Presentation Length

  1. Oral presentations are 30 minutes long (20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion).
  2. Poster presentations are about one to two hours long.
  3. Workshops are two hours long. The format of the workshop will be determined by workshop organizers.

Languages

  1. Presentations must be conducted in Japanese or English. The language used for the title and abstract of presentations must be the same as the language used during the presentation.
  2. Presentations in workshops may be conducted in languages other than Japanese or English. Workshop organizers are responsible for bringing an interpreter or interpreters to translate the presentation into Japanese or English. Presentation titles and manuscripts in the LSJ Meeting Handbook must be written in Japanese or English.

Presentation Devices

  1. Authors are responsible for preparing presentation tools to be used in their presentations unless otherwise announced by the meeting organizers.

Number of Papers to be Submitted by an Author

  1. Each author can only submit up to two papers: one as the first author in an oral or poster presentation, and another in a workshop.
  2. If an author does not fulfill the requirement in 7, the organizer will reject all the papers submitted by the author.

Submission Procedures

  1. Submissions for oral and poster presentations should be made by the first author. Submissions for workshops should be made by the organizer. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the first author for oral and poster presentations, and to the organizer for workshops.
  2. The deadline for submission for the Spring Meeting is March 20; for the Autumn Meeting, August 20.

Submission Guidelines for Presentation Abstract (for application)

  1. The abstract for oral and poster presentations for the application should contain the following information on one page of A4-size paper. The abstract should be anonymous.
    1. Title (which should reflect the content concisely and cealrly)
    2. Keywords (at least one for each of the following items)
      1. Target language(s) (names of language families or regions, if necessary)
      2. Field/method (e.g., formal semantics, experimental phonetics, comparative linguistics)
      3. Other (a brief description of the content)
    3. Body of the abstract (Briefly describe where the issue lies, the flow of the discussion, conclusions, data of essential importance, and points of appeal)
    4. References (be sure to mention in the body of the abstract those that are essential to the discussion)
  2. The abstract of workshop should contain the following information within two pages of A4-size paper. Do not write the organizer’s name, chair’s name, or authors’ names.
    1. Workshop title
    2. Purpose of the workshop
    3. Structure of the workshop
    4. Titles and abstracts of each presentation (The language used should be consistent with that of the presentation)
  3. The abstract should adopt the following format:
    1. Leave margins of 35 mm at the top, 30 mm at the bottom, and 20 mm on the left and right sides.
    2. Write the title on the first line and keywords on the next line, leaving one blank line between the keywords and the body of the abstract.
    3. The title should use 11 point BOLD formatting. Do not italicize the entire title.
    4. Use a font of 10 points or more for the abstract. The 10 point or more rule does not apply to characters in tables, figures, and example sentences. Leave appropriate line spacing and make the abstract easy to read.
    5. Avoid the use of special characters, abbreviations, and annotations
    6. If references are listed along with the abstract on the first page, leave one blank line between the body of the abstract and the references.
    7. Headers or footers should not be used.
    8. Do not include page numbers.
  1. Applications should be made from the LSJ website.
  2. For submissions, fill out the application form on the LSJ website. Abstracts for the application should be formatted as PDF. See Application in English on the LSJ website for more details.

Acceptance for the Program

  1. Upon acceptance for the program, first authors of oral and poster presentations and organizers of workshops will be notified of the following information: (1)Allotted time and sessions (2)Presentation title and the name(s) of author(s), as listed in the program (3)Presentation tools to be used (4)Deadline for submission of manuscript in the LSJ Meeting Handbook (5)Other instructions about presentation
  2. Once a paper is accepted, the language, presentation title, author(s), devices to be used, and the organization of workshops cannot be changed.
  3. First authors of oral and poster presentations and workshop organizers will be requested to submit manuscripts of the LSJ Meeting Handbook to the LSJ Office by a specified deadline.
  4. Presentations or posters that do not conform to the abstracts submitted to the conference and to the papers in the conference abstract book will not be accepted.
  5. The presenter retains the copyright of the abstracts published in the abstract book. However, the presenter agrees to release the abstracts under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License to promote the free distribution of information for the advancement of academic research.

(Revised November 24, 2010)
(Revised June 19, 2010)
(Revised June 20, 2015)
(Revised December 3, 2016)
(Revised July 3, 2017)
(Revised November 17, 2018)
(Revised November 11, 2023)
(Revised June 29, 2024)
(Revised November 9, 2024)