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Author Guidelines

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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.

Author Guidelines

All submissions to the Journal are blind-reviewed. At least two specialists, in addition to the editor, will read and evaluate each submission. Normally authors may expect to hear from the editor about the suitability of their submissions for publication in the Journal within two to three months. The publisher holds the copyright of the articles published in the Journal. All submissions should be sent to the Committee of the journal by email:  ijofsws@gmail.com. 

 

Submissions投稿方式

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Editorial Committee   

International Journal of Sino-Western Studies, 

《国学与西学：国际学刊》编辑委员会

Vellikellontie 3 A 4, 00410 Helsinki, Finland

Email： ijofsws@gmail.com, Tel. + 358-40-836-0793

or email: sub@sinowesternstudies.com

 

Call for papers

The Nordic Forum of Sino-Western Studies is a university-related research platform based in Helsinki. We aim at encouraging Sino-Western dialogue, research, and enhancement of scholarly activities, e.g., conferences, student & scholar exchange, academic essay prizes, and publication. As part of its publication programs, the Forum publishes a new Chinese-English bilingual journal to promote Sino-Western Studies internationally.

Our journal is published twice a year in June and December simultaneously in both printed and online versions. We follow international editorial conventions, which include informative journal titles, fully descriptive article titles and abstracts, key words, complete bibliographic information for all cited references, and full address information for every author. We publish full text either in English or in Chinese, and in the later case the bibliographic information is also offered in English. Our journal is peer-reviewed, and cited references are in the Roman alphabet. We emphasize international diversity among the journal’s contributing authors, editors, and editorial advisory board members.

One of the most unique features of our journal is its obvious aim in developing the Sino-Western Studies (especially related to sinology and theology) as an academic discipline. The five columns of the journal offer an interdisciplinary forum/scope to give the greatest encouragement for the study of humanities, theology, Chinese national studies, and practical theology. The focus also covers Sino-Western views on church and society, the relation between Chinese and Western classics and the Bible, church history, and comparative religious and cultural studies.  

Since theology has not to this day been an academic discipline in the official Chinese system of education, the experienced know-how of international scholars will be able through this journal to contribute an important input to Chinese academia. Meanwhile, a reflection on China and a dialogue with Chinese scholars will so enrich international humanistic and theological researches so as to yield a global influence.

In the digital and internet age, our journal is different from others especially in providing scholars in the field to publish their scholarly findings in both printed and online versions, voluntarily to let readers to view and quote the abstracts of articles free of charge. And we also offer readers access to the full text of articles either in PDF online format or in printed version with a reasonable payment. More details can be found in the Copyright and Full texts sections.

In addition to the five columns, submissions on book reviews and academic reports are also welcome.

For further information please contact ijofsws@gmail.com

Notes for Contributors

International Journal of Sino-Western Studies

1. International Journal of Sino-Western Studies（IJS）is published semi-annually every June and December by the Nordic Forum of Sino-Western Studies (members from Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark) and sponsored by the University of Helsinki, Peking University, and Jilin University.  It covers areas in

Humanities, Theology, and Chinese guoxue (National Studies),

Practical Theology and Sino-Western Views on Church and Society,

Chinese and Western Classics and the Bible,

History of the Church and State in the West and in China,

Comparative Religious and Cultural Studies,

Reviews and Reports on Academic Conferences.

2. The types of work we prefer to publish:

a. Research Articles: Original articles related to the topics mentioned above.

b. Book Reviews: Reviews on books or articles that are related to our themes.

c. Academic News: In-depth reports on conferences or other academic news related to our themes.

3. IJS welcomes the submission of texts throughout the year; it is required that the text is original and has not been previously published.

4. The text can be written in Chinese or in English. An English article should have a Chinese abstract, and vice versa. The length of a Chinese article should be between 8,000 and 12,000 Chinese characters, including footnotes. An English article should have no more than 12,000 words, including footnotes. A book review or a report on academic news is usually limited to 3,000 words. Exceptions will be decided separately.

5. Articles should follow the following format:

a. Both a Chinese and an English title, the author’s occupation, position, and contact information; see the Article Submission Cover Page.

b. A 200-700-word abstract and a maximum of 5 keywords in English and Chinese should be included.

c. Full information on publications should be included in the footnotes.

Footnotes must follow the style stated in our Footnote Format and Requirements. For the purpose of an anonymous review, please refrain from revealing the author’s identity in the article; when citing the author’s own work, please refrain from using the first-person pronoun.

6. Please submit two paper copies of the article by mail and one in an electronic form through email. The electronic file should take the Microsoft Word format.

7. Article submitted to IJS will be peer-reviewed first by the editorial committee, then by two scholars of a relevant field, and if necessary a third scholar will be invited to review. The author will receive the decision within three months after submitting the article. The editorial committee has the right to ask for a revision of an article and will thereafter decide whether the article will be published.

 8. The author shall agree to authorize IJS the right to the reproduction of the article either electronically or in print.

 9. The author is solely responsible for the content of the article, and any views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinion of IJS. After publication, IJS reserves the copyright of the article.

10. The author will receive two copies of the IJS in which the article is published, no fees or royalties are paid to the author.

Please send your article or suggestion to:

Editorial Committee  

International Journal of Sino-Western Studies,

Vellikellontie 3 A 4, 00410 Helsinki, Finland

Email with attachment to: ijofsws@gmail.fi

Tel. + 358-40-836-0793

www.SinoWesternStudies.com

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
  • All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
  • Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.

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Copyright Notice

Copyright Notice

Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to the International Journal of Sino-Western Studies the right to publish the text both electronically and in any other format and to make it available permanently in an electronic archive. 

This journal is fully open access, but once any part of this journal is reprinted, reproduced, or utilized in any form or by any means, presently known or hereafter invented, our journal's name should be mentioned, including quotations in academic works or book reviews.

We neither charge APCs nor authors to publish articles in our journal, and the only license term for quoting or downloading our articles is to mention our journal's name as the source of origin. Users can use, reuse and build upon the material published in our journal but only for non-commercial purposes.

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