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Bulletin of Chinese
Article Contribution Guidelines
                                                                       (Revised on October 20th 2020)
 
  1. This bulletin is only for academic publication. We sincerely call for papers from domestic and overseas scholars of related fields.
  2. Contributions should be unpublished or unprinted (degree dissertations, web articles and conference/symposium proceedings are considered as published works). Each article should be within length of 10,000 to 30,000 words (including Chinese and English abstracts, key words, citations, footnotes and endnotes) except for special contributions.
  3. The Bulletin of Chinese will reject any further contribution of authors who contributed the same article to another publication.
  4. Articles should be contributed in either Chinese or English. All articles should be processed with Microsoft Word. Contributions should include Chinese and English versions of the followings: the title, the author’s name, the abstract (up to 300 words for each language), along with no more than 10 Chinese and 10 English keywords. Authors are strongly advised to follow the attached Guidance on Style and Contents of Articles specified by the Bulletin of Chinese to facilitate editing.
  5. Articles will be reviewed and assessed by two experts anonymously. Only articles passing the assessment will be published. The Bulletin of Chinese will notify authors of the acceptance or rejection of their works in writing. Authors should keep a copy of their contributed works, for no article would not be returned after contribution. It is the policy of this bulletin that articles of the same author will not be published consecutively. The Editors Committee reserves the right to determine the quantity of articles published in one volume.
  6. All articles which required emendation have to be submitted before the deadline given by this bulletin, after which it will be regarded as withdrawn.
  7. We do not offer an honorarium. Authors of published articles will receive two free copies of the Bulletin of Chinese.
  8. To authors of serious violations on the regulations of assessment, causing disorders to the administrative procedure and affect the Bulletin’s academic credit, we reserve the right to refuse their submissions for 3 years under the Editors Committee’s decision.
  9. The Bulletin of Chinese assumes no responsibility for the copyright issues relating to or in connection with the contributed articles, such as figures, tables and quotations. Authors should apply for permissions to the copyright holders in advance, ensuring that their articles are free from infringement on rights of the third parties. Authors are fully liable for any legal consequences arising from or in connection with plagiarism, re-production and/or infringement.
  10. Authors agree and authorize the Bulletin of Chinese to re-authorize this Department and University and/or other database owners to re-produce; provide via the internet services; and license subscriber to download, print and browse their works accepted by the Bulletin, including format modifications to meet the demands of website services.
  11. The Bulletin of Chinese is a biannual journal with issues published in June and December. The closing date of contributions is January 10 and July 10 of each year (postmark serves as proof).
  12. The Bulletin of Chinese includes the following fields: classics and history, philosophy, literature, language and philology, Chinese teaching, and interdisciplinary studies. Authors should specify their field of contribution.
  13. Authors should include a Personal Datasheet on a separate sheet of paper. The form could be downloaded from the website at (http://ch.ntnu.edu.tw/downs/archive.php?class=101) and confirm the receipt by calling.
  14. Contributions should be addressed to:
Editors Committee
Bulletin of Chinese
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Bulletin of Chinese
Guidance on Style and Contents of Articles
 
The Bulletin of Chinese is typeset by computer. To facilitate editing work, authors should prepare their articles according to the following regulations (editors may make minor adjustments for overall format agreement).
 
  1. Please type horizontally in Chinese with font size of 12 for the body and 10 for the footnotes.
  2. Sections should be numbered consecutively in Chinese characters: 一、; (一); 1., (1) etc. Examples should be numbered in parenthesized Roman numbers: (1), (2), (3) etc.
  3. New punctuation marks should be used; except for book titles that should be bracketed with 《Book Title》 and articles with 〈Article Title〉. Skip the article title when both the article and book titles are indicated in the body; e.g. 《莊子·天下篇》. In articles contributed in English, italicize all book titles and put the title of articles in double quotation marks. The rules for Chinese articles should apply to the Chinese translation of Japanese text.
  4. Leave three spaces for the indention of citations, including quotations in any non-Chinese language.
  5. Footnotes should appear in the same page of their referents and numbered in Roman numbers; e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc.
  6. Please specify the references in the end of the article.
  7. Style for annotations and references:
(1) Book:
Mark Edward Lewis, Writing and Authority in Early China, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 5-10.
(2) Paper:
A. Journal paper
Joshua A. Fogel. ‘Shanghai-Japan’: The Japanese Residents’ Association of Shanghai. Journal of Asian Studies, Nov. 2000, 59,4:927-950.
B. Paper in a proceeding, anthology etc.
John C. Y. Wang. Early Chinese Narrative: The Tso-chuan as Example, In Andrew H. Plaks, ed., Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays. Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1977, pp. 3-20.
(3) Please specify the edition of quotations used in annotations.
(4) Annotations for terms should be indicated after the corresponding terms. Annotations for sentences should be indicated at the end of the sentence in front of the punctuation mark; except for citations where the annotation number should be indicated after the punctuation mark.
(5) Annotation of materials quoted from the same book in different parts of the article may be omitted. Please specify the volume, chapter heading or section heading in parentheses.
  1. Please specify the URL of materials quoted from the Internet.
  2. Please specify the References in the end of the article in two sections: Classical Works and Contemporary Works. Classical Works should be listed by the dynasty and stroke count of the author’s last name. Contemporary Works should be listed by the stroke count of the author’s last name or alphabetical order of non-Chinese authors. The format is as follow:
e.g.
References：
(1) Hanan Patrick, The Missionary Novels of Nineteenth-Century China. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 2000, 60.2: 413-443.
(2) Hymes Robert P. and Conrad Shirokauer, Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China. Berkeley: University of California Press,1993.
(3) Jia Jinhua, The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism and the Tang Literati. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999.
(4) Wang John C.Y.  Early Chinese Narrative: The Tso-chuan as Example. In Andrew H. Plaks, ed., Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays. Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1977, pp. 3-20.
  1. Citation Bibliography: Please translate all the references into the Citation Bibliography and list them in alphabetical order by authors' family name. (To be submitted after acceptance.)