Preparation of Manuscripts

General Guidelines

1. The Journal of Northeast Asian History follows the “author–date” system of the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

2. Submitted manuscripts, including an abstract, keywords, footnotes, references, and illustrations, should be approximately 7,000–9,000 words in length. The manuscript should be double–spaced in 12–point type, use standard fonts, and be submitted as an electronic file in Microsoft Word format only.

3. The first page of the manuscript should provide the article title and the names(s) and affiliations(s) of the author(s).

4. The second page should provide an abstract of no more than 150 words and at least five keywords that are placed following the abstract.

5. Romanization systems for East Asian languages are as follows: Revised Romanization, by the Republic of Korea government, for Korean, Pinyin for Chinese, and Hepburn for Japanese. For Inner Asian languages, Manchu and Mongolian, please follow the systems used in the Cambridge History of China, volume 6. Exceptions to these are proper names that are internationally recognized, such as Koguryo.

6. Diacritics in East Asian language romanization systems (e.g., macrons in Japanese) must be given consistently.

7. East Asian (Korean, Chinese, and Japanese) scripts should appear wherever necessary in the body of the text or in the footnotes, following the appropriate romanization. Korean scripts should be in standard PC or Macintosh encoding, Chinese characters in standard Big5 encoding (please use the traditional form, or fantizi 繁體字), and Japanese kanji and kana in Shift–JIS.