J-STAGE, an electronic journal platform operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), has been working on developing Recommended Practices for society publishers who use J-STAGE. The first version of the Practices that was published in the fall, 2006, included how to publish errata and retraction notices, how to print volumes, issues, pages and publication years in their publication, how to assign journal title names in Latin characters, and how to cite references. This article discusses the purposes and details of the above Practices.
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