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International Journal of Current Chinese Studies
SPECIFICATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS

Authors must only supply by postal mail to the Editorial Office:

• A Copyright Transfer Agreement with original signature(s) - without this we are unable to accept the submission, and

• Permission grants - if the manuscript contains extracts, including illustrations, from other copyright works (including material from on-line or intranet sources) it is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission from the owners of the publishing rights to reproduce such extracts using the Permission Request Form.

Editorial Office: Centro de Estudios Chinos Lu Xun, C/Hurtado de Amézaga, 3 – 1º izq. 48008 Bilbao (Bizkaia) Spain. e-mail: editor@estudioschinos.com

Submission of a manuscript will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere at the same time. Submitted material will not be returned to the author, unless specifically requested.

IMPORTANT: This journal operates a double blind reviewing process whereby the Reviewer is not aware of the Author's identity. In order to facilitate this please follow the instructions below very carefully. Ensure your manuscript text does not contain any direct reference to you or your co-Authors. Send the main text of your manuscript with the file designation Main Document. The title page should contain just the title and keywords. The secondary title page should contain the article title and full names and address of all authors.

Manuscript style: The language of the journal is English. 12-point type in one of the standard fonts: Times, Helvetica, or Courier is preferred. It is not necessary to doubleline space your manuscript. Tables must be on separate pages after the reference list, and not be incorporated into the main text. Figures should be uploaded as separate figure files.

• The secondary title page must list the full title, short title of up to 70 characters and names and affiliations of all authors. Give the full address, including e-mail, telephone and fax, of the author who is to check the proofs.
     
     • Include the name(s) of any sponsor(s) of the research contained in the paper, along with grant number(s) .

• Full length papers should be between 3500 and 6000 words long (recommended).
     
     • Supply an abstract of up to 150 words for all articles. An abstract is a concise summary of the whole paper, not just the conclusions, and is understandable SPECIFICATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS withoutreference to the rest of the paper. It should contain no citation to other published work.

• Include up to six keywords that describe your paper for indexing purposes.

8. For a correct text organization, if necessary, classificate the text levels in different titles and sub-titles using only arabic numeration, in consecutively numerated levels 1. (Capitals-bold), 1.1. (small letters-bold), 1.1.1. (small letters), 1.1.1.1. (small letters-italic). Do not mix with romanic numbers o letters.

Reference style . References should be cited in the text as name and year and listed at the end of the paper alphabetically. Where reference is made to more than one work by the same author published in the same year, identify each citation in the text as follows: (Wu, 1998a), (Wu, 1998b). Where three or more authors are listed in the reference list, please cite in the text as (Wu et al ., 1998).

All references must be complete and accurate. Where possible the DOI* for the reference should be included at the end of the reference. Online citations should include date of access. If necessary, cite unpublished or personal work in the text but do not include it in the reference list. References should be listed in the following style:

Rutheford P, Waynparb N. 2004. Immigration trends in Europe. Annals of History 12 : 223-237. DOI: 10.1302/sd.235.

Smith JM, Corlett RT, Peele D, Marvis DS, Tang SM. 1993. Sichuan Fauna: Computing Conservation-Sichuan Ecological Database . World Wide Fund for Nature: Chengdu.

Moreno G, Oscoz H. 1992. China’s Ethnic Minorities. In International Journal of Current Chinese Studies , Pin A, Rajivi J (eds). Solokoetxe: New York; 24-35.

The Western Studies Database. 1999. http://www.socialsciences.com/oerp/ [1 April 2009]

*The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is an identification system for intellectual property in the digital environment. Developed by the International DOI Foundation on behalf of the publishing industry, its goals are to provide a framework for managing intellectual content, link customers with publishers, facilitate electronic commerce, and enable automated copyright management.

Illustrations: Send each figure as a separate page in either .tiff or .eps format, the figure number and the top of the figure indicated. Compound figures e.g. 1a, b, c should be uploaded as one figure. Tints are not acceptable. Lettering must be of a reasonable size that would still be clearly legible upon reduction, and consistent within each figure and set of figures. Where a key to symbols is required, please include this in the artwork itself, not in the figure legend. All illustrations must be supplied at the correct resolution:

• Black and white and colour photos - 300 dpi
     • Graphs, drawings, etc - 800 dpi preferred; 600 dpi minimum
     • Combinations of photos and drawings (black and white and colour) - 500 dpi

Tables should be part of the main document and should be placed after the references. If the table is created in excel the file should be uploaded separately.

Copyright. To enable the publisher to disseminate the author’s work to the fullest extent, the author must sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement, transferring copyright in the article from the author to the publisher, and submit the original signed agreement with the article presented for publication.

Further Information . Proofs will be sent by email to the author for checking. This stage is to be used only to correct errors that may have been introduced during the production process. Prompt return of the corrected proofs, preferably within two days of receipt, will minimise the risk of the paper being held over to a later issue. Five complimentary offprints will be provided to the author who checked the proofs, unless otherwise indicated. Further offprints and copies of the journal may be ordered. There is no page charge to authors.

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