1995 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 207-221
Researchers prepare their papers according to contribution rules of journals they are to write for. Such rules are not common among such academic journals. The author collected 170 journals (123 Japanese-text journals and 47 foreign language-text journals) of 132 domestic academic societies, and analyzed them. He extracted an average image of those contribution rules, which can be some help for making standard contribution rules in future. In detail he chose 20 items described in contribution rules such as qualification of contributors, length of a paper and showed the principal concept or tendency of individual items. In (I), he descirbes outlines of contribution rules and results of the survey on the 10 items among the above 20 items.
