China Perspectives Style Guide

The following guidelines are provided to help contributors in presenting and formatting original articles or translations for China Perspectives. Please follow these rules as closely as possible. In case of doubt, you may refer to the Chicago Manual of Style (please note that China Perspectives uses the humanities style for quotations rather than the author date system). In all cases, it is strongly advised to proofread your manuscript several times before submitting it, and to use word-processing tools to eliminate double spaces, etc.

I. Type of articles

1. China Perspectives is a blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal advised by an editorial board, published by the CEFC (French Centre for Research on Contemporary China). In accordance with the CEFC ’s mission, it publishes articles relating to the political, economic, social and cultural developments of the contemporary Chinese world (PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Overseas Chinese).

2. Articles should reflect the results of original research, and not have been previously published in any form.

3. General submissions (other than for special theme issues) should be no longer than 8000 words, footnotes included.

4. All submissions are first reviewed internally by the editor. If appropriate, they are then sent to two anonymous external reviewers for evaluation.

II. Article Format

1. Articles should be sent by e-mail exclusively, as an attachment in Word format (or RTF/ Rich Text Format).

2. The text should be in Times 12 font, 1.5 line spacing, on A4 format pages.

3. The text should be preceded by

• a title in bold type, size 14;
• the author’s name, position, and institutional affiliation (no other information)
• a 5-line abstract of the article.

4. Chinese characters can be inserted into the article if appropriate (non-simplified characters only), but should not be incorporated directly by the authors. To have the characters of a Chinese name or word inserted, authors should use pinyin transcription, followed by and the abbreviation CHI followed by # and a number (CHI# 1, CHI# 2, etc.). Chinese characters should appear in a separate word document as a list of numbered references, as they appear in the text (CHI# 1, CHI# 2…).

Ex.: - in the text of the article: … the Communist Party (gongchandang CHI# 1 ) remains in power…

- in the separate document: 共產黨 CHI# 1

5. Graphs and tables should also be sent in a separate Word file (all graphs and tables in one file); photographs should be sent as a separate file in JPG or equivalent format (TIF, etc.), minimum definition is 300 dpi (dots per inch). By submitting the file, the author certifies that all images are free of copyright.

III. Titles and subtitles

1. The title of the article should be as short as possible. It may be a followed by an explanatory subtitle.

2. It is advisable to divide the article into subsections, using subtitles (do not number these). First-level sub-headings should appear in bold type, size 14, lower case letters, and aligned on the left. If the text uses second-level subdivisions, they should appear in italics (non bold), size 12.

3. Blank lines between paragraphs should be avoided, except before a sub-heading.

4. Authors should not use any type of automatic formatting, bullets, or multiple spaces for indenting.

IV. Quotations, quotations marks, foreign words and phrases

1. Quotation marks should be standard double inverted commas with no space inserted (e.g. “the CCP”); quotation marks within quotations marks are single inverted commas (e.g. “Andrew Nathan believes these ‘reforms’ are a sign”).

2. Quotations of more than one sentence shall appear as an independent paragraph, in italics, preceded by a colon, without inverted commas.

3. Ellipses in quotations should be materialized by ellipsis points in parentheses, e.g. (…).

4. Romanization of Chinese words shall be made using pinyin, except for proper nouns that are usually transcribed in a different fashion (Sun Yat-sen), in particular Taiwanese names (Lee Teng-hui, Taipei), or transcriptions habitually made from other Chinese dialects than Mandarin (Wong Kar-wai). If a Chinese word or concept is translated, the translation should appear first, followed by, in parentheses, pinyin and possibly Chinese characters.

5. Foreign words (i.e. that do not appear in a standard dictionary) should be italicized. Names of foreign institution and companies remain in roman style.

V. Punctuation, dates and numbers

1. Punctuation marks directly follow the word preceding them; no space should be inserted before any punctuation mark.

2. Dates are given in day-month-year style: 27 July 1997. When referring to decades, use “the 1990s” rather than “the 1990’s” (do not use “the nineties”).

3. References to centuries should be spelled out: the twentieth century”.

4. Use figures for numerals from 11 upward, all numbers including a decimal point, percentages, ratios, etc. Thousands should be indicated by commas (e.g. 12,000 rather than 12 000). There should be no space between the figure and the percentage sign, e.g. 27%.

VI. Capitalization

1. All words in titles of English books, magazines and articles, as well as in names of English or American companies or institutions should be capitalized.

2. Names of foreign titles, companies and institutions should follow the use in the respective language: in French and Chinese pinyin, only the first word (and the first noun in French) is capitalized.

VII. Footnotes

1. All notes should be footnotes (not end notes), and should appear in Times 10 font, with single spacing.

2. Note identifiers (superscripted numbers inserted in the main text) should follow all punctuation marks except dashes, in particular they should appear after quotation marks and after final periods.

VIII. Bibliographic references

1. References are directly inserted into the text and footnotes. Bibliographies and lists of references will be avoided. The name of the author and, if desired, the title of the work cited, may appear in the running text of the article; all other references should appear in a footnote.

2. References shall be in the following format (footnotes should follow usual punctuation rules, beginning with a capital, and ending with a full stop).

a. Titles of books, journals, newspapers should be italicized.

b. Titles of articles, book chapters, poems, etc. should be in roman characters, in quotation marks.

c. References to books should appear as follows: author, followed by (ed) or (eds) in case of an edited volume, title of book in italics, place of publication, publisher, year of publication. If there are more than two authors, only the first name shall appear, followed by the abbreviation et al. All items should be separated by commas.

Ex.: Greg O’Leary (ed), Adjusting to Capitalism: Chinese Workers and the State, London, Routledge, 1998.

d. References to articles should appear as follows: : author, title of article in quotation marks, title of journal in italics, volume and issue number, year, page numbers. All items should be separated by commas.

Ex: Richard Baum, “ ‘Modernization,’ and Legal Reform in Post-Mao China: the Rebirth of Socialist Legality,” Studies in Comparative Communism, vol. XIX, n° 2, 1986, pp. 69-113.

e. References to chapters in edited volumes should appear as follows: author, title of chapter in quotation marks, followed by in and the reference to the volume as in point (c) above, followed by the page numbers of the chapter. All items should be separated by commas.

Ex: Franz Michael, “Law: A Tool of Power,” in Yuan-li Wu et al., Human Rights in the People’s Republic of China, Boulder, Westview Press, 1988, pp. 33-55.

3. Page numbers are preceded by the abbreviation p. (for one page) or pp. (for more than one page. Following pages are indicated by the abbreviation ff in italics.

4. A reference to a previously quoted work should be abbreviated as follows: author, title in italics, the abbreviation op. cit. in italics, and the relevant page number. Reference to a previously quoted article should appear as follows: author, title of article in quotation marks, the abbreviation art. cit., and the relevant page number. Use Ibid., followed by the page number, only for the immediately preceding reference.

5. References to books and articles in Chinese

a. All author names, place names, and titles (articles, chapters, books) shall be Romanized in pinyin, except for the proper nouns mentioned above in point IV.4, using the same style (roman, italics, quotation marks) as in English. For Chinese names, the family name will normally appear first.

b. Only the first words of titles and names are capitalized. Other uses of capitals are similar to English.

c. Chinese titles in pinyin (articles, chapters, books, journals) shall be followed by an English translation in parentheses. No Chinese characters shall appear in bibliographical references.

Ex: Wang Yongfei and Zhang Guicheng (eds), Zhongguo falüxue yanjiu zongshu yu pingjia (Catalogue and Evaluation of Studies on Legal theories in China), Beijing, Zhongguo zhengfa daxue chubanshe, 1992.

6. References to a website should include at least the URL and date of consultation.

IX. Tables and Graphs

1. Tables and graphs should be submitted in separate word files. they should be numbered from 1 to n; each table or graph should include a title and a reference to its source and date.

2. In the text of the article, a “call-out” for the graphs or images should appear as follows: …(see table 1)…

In addition to this reference in the text, the positioning of the graph or image in the layout should be materialized by an insert, preferably highlighted in yellow.

Ex: Position table 1