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Author Guidelines
Feature Articles
A. Manuscripts should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words, including endnotes.
B. The cover page should include a title, the author's name, position, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number, along with a bio of less than 50 words.
C. The second page should include the title and an abstract no longer than 150 words.
D. The third page should include the title followed by the text. This and subsequent pages should not include the author's name or identifying information.
E. The manuscript should have one-inch margins on all sides, use 12-point Times New Roman font, and be double-spaced (including tables, endnotes, quotations, and figures).
F. The Asia Journal of Global Studies follows the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA)—5th Edition.
Asian Perspectives
In this section, which is by invitation only, scholars from Asia express their personal views on regional and global issues. The length of such commentary should be between 1,000 and 1,500 words. Specifications are the same as for feature articles.
Readers’ Forum
Readers are encouraged to submit their reactions to a specific article published in a recent issue. Submissions should be between 1,500 and 2,000 words. Participants should include their name, position, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number, along with a bio of less than 50 words.
Book Reviews
Single book reviews should be no more than 700 words in length. Double book reviews can be up to 1,200 words. At the top of the review, please include the following information: Author’s name, Book Title, place of publication: publisher, date of publication, total number of pages, ISBN number, price ($US dollars).
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca).
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
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