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Author Guidelines
Manuscripts and inquiries of an editorial nature should be mailed to the Managing Editor, Critical Asian Studies, 3693 South Bay Bluffs Drive, Cedar, MI 49621-9434, USA, or email tfenton@igc.org. Please do not send manuscripts via fax or email without prior approval from the managing editor.

Focus
Critical Asian Studies covers the Asia and Pacific regions, with an emphasis on exposing injustices and exploring processes of social change. Dissident and controversial views and the perspective of indigenous Asians are particularly welcome.

Type of Material
Regular (i.e., non-thematic) issues of Critical Asian Studies are about 160 pages long and typically consist of four or five illustrated articles, one or two review essays, and one or two short other pieces on critical issues or events (e.g., Notes from the Field, photo essays, translations). Critical Asian Studies primarily publishes documented research and analysis, but the journal also contains short reports (not necessarily with footnotes), interviews, photo essays, bibliographies, and translations of literary or other works that are of social, political, economic, ideological, or historical significance. Although material in Critical Asian Studiess is sometimes technical and specialized, it should always be accessible and of value to the intelligent general reader as well as to the area specialist. For this reason we ask authors to strive for clarity and economy in writing. Feature-length articles should be between 8,000 and 11,000 words, inclusive of references, appendices, tables and figures.

Reviews and Review Essays
We prefer to publish review essays that compare two or more books and discuss problems of approach or analysis, although we also publish shorter reviews of individual works of particular significance. Both types of reviews should be about books that appeared within three years of the publication of the review and generally should:

• 1. describe the main ideas of the book under review;
• 2. evaluate the author's purpose and whether or not it was achieved;
• 3. critique the approach, execution, and use of sources;
• 4. evaluate the book's contribution in the context of related works of significance;
• 5. distinguish the reviewer's opinions from the author's, when appropriate indicating their respective experience and expertise.

Reviews of single books should be between 1,500 and 2,000 words in length; review essays are longer, usually between 3,500 and 6,000 words. We also review documentary and feature films, videos, television series, and museum presentations.

Contact the managing editor before beginning work on a review to see whether the book is eligible and free to be reviewed.

Publication Protocols
We seek to publish new material, and manuscripts submitted should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. (We ask authors to consult with us if a submitted manuscript is posted in pre-publication form on a website, e.g., as a working paper on a university website.) There is occasionally some leeway in this regard if there is little overlap in readership. We will request the submission of a "publication status" sheet and copyright form prior to the acceptance of any manuscript. Of course this form is no longer binding if a manuscript is withdrawn or rejected, and we always grant authors permission to publish their works elsewhere after they have appeared in Critical Asian Studies. Moreover, we do not ourselves give permission for re-publication of articles published in the journal without the approval of authors.

Submission Format
Manuscripts submitted for publication consideration should be sent in printed form (one copy) and digital form (on a 3.5-inch diskette or a CD). The printed copy should be double-spaced on either 8.5 x 11-inch or A4 paper (printed on one side only), and references and formatting should follow the style guidelines specified below. Please insure that the digital version of the submission is virus-free and indicate on the label which word processing program was used to create the file. (We prefer to receive PC-formatted diskettes created in Word, but we can accept other formats when necessary.)

Do not send the digital version of the manuscript via email (as an attached file) unless specifically requested to do so. Make sure that the package and diskette are wrapped safely and securely, especially if they are coming from some distance.

Material submitted should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words summarizing the basic thought of the submission. Use clearly marked subheadings to divide the text into sections.

Style Guidelines
The digital files should be formatted with one type font and one type size for all the elements (headings, body of text, etc.). And everything in the manuscript should be presented flush left (not justified). Use italics - not underlining - for material that requires such formatting (e.g., book titles).

Style, footnoting, and spelling should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (fifteenth edition, 2003) and the tenth edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. (Authors may submit manuscripts that follow other styles and spellings, but they will be asked to reformat the text in keeping with CAS house style once the manuscript has been accepted for publication.) Beginning with volume 38 (2006), Critical Asian Studies is implementing a new referencing system, a modified version of the author-date, plus Reference List style. We are doing so in order to make our material more easily accessible through the CrossRef system (www.crossref.org).

Note: The new referencing system has three elements. Please follow these instructions carefully.

1. References in the body of the text should carry a "superior" (superscripted) footnote number. Do not insert author and date information in the text itself (e.g., author-date citations).
2. Supply footnotes (when called for) at the bottom of each page in the manuscript (do not use endnotes). Use the "Footnotes" function in Word, and embed the footnotes directly in the word-processed digital file (i.e., do not create a separate file for the footnotes). Footnotes should be numbered consecutively throughout the text (i.e., do not begin new footnote numbers on each page).

Please observe the following form in presenting footnoted material:

• 2a. Simple citations: supply one author surname, the date of publication, and page references (e.g., Smith 2005, 45). Use a date plus letter (e.g., Smith 2005a, 45) if the author has more than one entry in the Reference List (see below).
• 2b. Discursive material: the footnotes may also be used for discursive material, although we ask authors to bear in mind the space limitations at the bottom of journal pages. When references are included within the discursive material use the author-date system specified above in 2a.

3. A Reference List of works cited in the body of the text should appear at the end of the manuscript. See the Chicago Manual, p. 639, figure 16-15, for an illustration of how the Reference List should be presented.

In short,

Books: Author (last name, first name). Date. Title: Subtitle. Place of publication: Name of publisher. [Note: the title is italicized, not underlined.] For example: Dower, John W. 1999. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton/The New Press.

Articles:

With volume/issue numbers: Author (last name, first name). Year of publication. "Article title: Subtitle." Title of publication volume number, issue number. For example: Chan, Elaine. 1999. "Sacredness and the Ritual Process in Collective Action: The 1989 Chinese Student Movement," Critical Asian Studies 31, no. 1.

With volume number but no issue number: Author (last name, first name). Year of publication. "Article title: Subtitle." Title of publication and volume number. For example: Freidman, Edward. 1985. "After Mao: Maoism and Post-Mao China," Telos 65.

With no volume or issue numbers: Author (last name, first name). Year of publication. "Article title: Subtitle." Title of publication, date (day and month) of publication. For example: Albert Lo. 1999. "The Future of Hong Kong." South China Morning Post, 23 January.

In an edited collection: Author (last name, first name). Date. "Article title: Subtitle," in title of book, ed. Name(s) of editor(s). Place of publication: Name of publisher. For example: Friedman, Edward. 1983. "The Societal Obstacles to China's Socialist Tradition: State Capitalism or Feudal Fascism," in State and Society in Contemporary China, ed. Victor Nee and David Mozingo. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. [Note: "ed." stands for "edited by" so it is not given as "eds." when there is more than one editor, as in this example. Note also that the book title follows immediately after the article title, with the name(s) of the editor(s) coming next in sequence.]

Translated Title

Author (last name, first name). Year of publication. Example: Su Shaozhi and Liaoyi. 1988. "Lu shengchan biaoshun" [On standards of productive forces], Guangzhou Yenjiu (Canton Research). [Note all lowercase for translated title of the article but upper and lowercase for title of the publication.)

Also of note:

Give the place of publication (in parentheses) of comparatively obscure periodicals.

In accordance with East and Northeast Asian practice, we generally place the family name first in people's names. In the few instances where this policy is not followed, we underline the family name to avoid confusion.

Authors are responsible for checking all quotations against the original source and for acquiring any and all permissions that may be needed to reproduce textual material from another source.

Peer Review Process
Except for reviews of single books, manuscripts accepted by the managing editor for consideration are sent to three referees who have expertise in the particular region of Asia being discussed, and also to a referee specializing in another area of Asia. The decision on whether or not to publish a given piece of work is based on the recommendations of these referees. During this review process, the names of both authors and referees are kept anonymous to facilitate an objective assessment. A manuscript may be accepted as is, accepted pending revision, rejected as is but with an invitation to rewrite and resubmit, or rejected outright. In any event, relevant comments by referees will be sent to authors to be used as guidelines for revision.

We normally allow four months for the peer review process. Summer schedules and other factors may affect the timing of this process, however.

Editing and Publication Process
The managing editor will work through the copy-editing process with authors whose manuscripts have been accepted for publication. The effort here is to fashion the manuscript so that the author's argument is clearly, logically, and cogently presented, and that the documentation is complete and consistently arranged. Having an article accepted for publication does not imply that the manuscript is in a ready-to-publish form. The copy-editing process may take several rounds of work by the author and managing editor.

Illustrations
We encourage authors to submit photos (color, black-and-white, or slide transparencies), sketches, maps, cartoons, or other illustrations to accompany their articles or review essays. All materials will be scanned and returned safely and promptly in their original condition. Photocopies of line drawings will often work, but photocopies of photos are rarely usable as is, although they may still be useful as samples of originals that can be found elsewhere. Graphic materials downloaded from the internet are in most cases unusable because the resolution (measured in dots per inch, or dpi) isn't high enough. (We need at least 300 dpi for good print quality.)

We prefer graphics that have not been published before but we will use illustrations from other publications if we can get permission and the reprint fee is modest. If permission to reprint is required, we ask that this be sought by the authors, although we will supply a cover letter with the necessary details. Authors are invited to suggest where in their article the illustrations might best be placed, and to write captions that relate the picture to their material. We return all graphic material, and send contributors of graphics one or two complimentary copies of the issue in which their graphics appear.

Note: please do not embed graphics into the word-processed digital file. Supply digital versions of the illustrations separately (in TIFF form, if possible) and indicate where in the text of the article the illustrations should be placed.

Benefits
Authors receive fifty off-prints of their article along with one complimentary copy of the issue of Critical Asian Studies in which their work is published. Our publisher, Routledge, mails these materials to the author as soon after publication as possible.