Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Authors, who wish to submit manuscripts for consideration to publish it in Journal of Chinese Linguistics, should mail in the following contents to (Email electronic files are unacceptable)

Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Centre for East Asian Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong

Phone or Fax:  (852) 2696-1273
Email:     jcl2008@cuhk.edu.hk

1.  A cover letter to the chief editor, Professor William S-Y. Wang, that provides the title of the given paper,  name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), complete mailing address(es), email contact information, and acknowledgement. Please clearly and briefly discribe the contribution of your research paper upon submitting the paper to Journal of Chinese Linguistics for publication.

2.  Three hard copies of the manuscript, which should not exceed 25 typewritten pages, with notes, references, tables, and figures on separate pages.  It is recommended to follow the guidelines of The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) to format your manuscript. JCL uses endnotes rather than footnotes and simplified Chinese characters in Song font. IPA characters are based on the SIL TrueType fonts. If special fonts are used, please send them along with your manscript in electronic format. Authors will be specifically guided by JCL format guidelines if the manuscript is accepted.

3.  Chinese and English abstracts   

4.  Chinese and English subject keywords or keyword strings, no more than six

5.  A short biographical paragraph

6.  A computer CD or diskette, containing both the contents of your paper and its abstract, prepared in both WORD and PDF for PC computer

1. Authors who wish to refine the use of English in their manuscripts may look up SPi, a professional editing service, at http://www.prof-editing.com for help.

Manuscripts cannot be returned to authors. It is assumed that the manuscript has not been submitted to elsewhere but for the consideration of JCL only.