Guidelines for contributors

The Journal of Chinese Australia (JCA) aims to provide a forum for the exchange of information and discussion among those with an interest in Chinese Australian history. Submissions on contemporary and cultural matters which touch on related themes are also welcome.

We welcome contributions from community, family, academic researchers and anyone with an interesting story to tell. We are interested in submissions in each of the following broad categories:

• Articles: (2000-3000 words, excluding endnotes)
  Submissions might include: detailed family histories; conference and workshop presentations; extracts from theses; oral histories.
  
  
• In brief: (250-1000 words)
  Submissions might include: profiles/short biographies of people; profiles of researchers; short pieces on single or collections of documents, objects, photographs, paintings or drawings held in private or public collections.
  
  
• Work in progress: (250-2000 words)
  Submissions might include: work in progress; personal research stories; appeals for information or assistance; questions.
  
  
• Research aids and collections: (500-2000 words)
  Submissions might include: how-to research guides; short articles about libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, organisations or personal collections.
  
  
• Notes on books, exhibitions etc: (250-1000 words)
  Submissions might include: book notes; brief descriptions of exhibitions, conferences, seminars, websites, recent events.

Note that the JCA editorial committee are happy to consider submissions outside these categories and word limits.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please provide one digital copy (email or disk) of your paper in MS Word. Maps, illustrations and photographs should be supplied as separate files in jpeg or gif format. Don't insert images into the article; simply indicate clearly where each image should be inserted in the text. Our email and postal addresses are on the Contact us page.

GUIDELINES ON STYLE

Style

Formatting

Spelling

Chinese text and translations

Translations are to be included for non-English words, phrases, book titles and journal names. Non-English words are italicized except for article titles and publishing companies.

For Chinese terms, words are lower case except for the first word of a title and proper names and places. The first letter of each word for translated titles and names of publishers are capitalized. Mandarin Pinyin is generally used, but in some instances the use of Cantonese or other dialects is more appropriate. Other forms of romanization are also used for well-known names and titles such as Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Kuomintang. Please contact the editors with any queries.

Currently JCA can only include Chinese characters in a pdf (portable document format) glossary rather than in the body of an article. If you wish to include Chinese characters with your submission, please provide the characters, their pinyin or other romanisation and translation in a separate MS Word document.

Abbreviations

Use full titles of states, organisations etc, subsequent references may be abbreviated. Don't use full stops within abbreviations (eg. For Chinese Nationalist Party use CNP not C.N.P.)

References

Use endnotes only. The first reference to a work should be given in full, subsequent references should give the author's name, a short title and a page number. Refer to the Commonwealth of Australia Style Manual (latest edition) for further information about referencing.

For example:

Books

C.F. Yong, The New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1921, Raphael Arts, Richmond, South Australia, 1977, pp.21-35.

Wu Wei, Zhongguo xin xieshizhuyi wenxue [New Realism Literature from China], Renminchubanshe, Beijing, 1988, p.11.

Journals

Winsome Chan, 'The two-Chinas problem and Australian foreign policy', Pacific Affairs, vol.18, no.3, Fall 1985, p.475.

Zhou Gu, 'Kong Xiangxi Fei Qihe fumei liuxue beju rujing jingguo' [How Kong Xiangxi and Fei Zihe were refused entry to the United States], Zhuanji wenxue, vol.47, no.6, December 1985, pp.72-79.

Newspapers

If the newspaper article has an obvious author and title then follow journal guidelines, otherwise:
Argus, 17 May 1916, p.5.
Sydney Morning Herald, 13 October 1924, 8 November 1924.

Subsequent citations

Yong, pp.21-35.

Chan, Pacific Affairs, p.475.

Archives and manuscript collections

Follow instructions suggested by archive for short citations.
NAA: B13, 1936/28727.
SRNSW: NRS 4354, H.4037/1.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright in a work submitted is retained by the author. However by submitting to JCA an author agrees to the following conditions:

• that the work is original and does not infringe any copyrights owned by other parties (this includes illustrative material)
  
  
• JCA will have the right to authorize readers to reproduce entire issues of JCA for dissemination provided each copy contains the JCA copyright statement, no changes are made to the contents and no charge is made.

Authors are advised that readers will be permitted to print out copies of specific articles for their own research and study. Further information and commonly asked questions about Australian copyright law can be found through the Australian Copyright Council (http://www.copyright.org.au).

All contributors need to clear the copyright permissions on any images, illustrations, maps that they provide with the article. The editors will not undertake this work, nor can be payment be made for permissions or copying of items.